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ACT. III. SCENE. II.

PENI-BOY. IV. P. CANTER.

PECVNIA. STAT

VTE. BAND. Mortgage. WAX.

BROKER. CVstomers.

your leaue, Gentlemen, what newes? good, good still? I'your new Office? Princeffe, here's the Staple! This is the Gouernor, kiffe him, noble Princeffe, For my fake. Thom, how is it honeft Thom? How does thy place, and thou? my Creature, Princeffe?

Hee tells Pecunia of Thom.

This is my Creature, giue him your hand to kisse,

He was my Barber, now he writes Clericus!

I bought this place for him, and gaue it him.

P. CA. He should haue fpoke of that, Sir, and not you: Two doe not doe one Office well. P. Iv. 'Tis true,

But I am loth to lose my curtefies.

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P. CA. So are all they, that doe them, to vaine ends, And yet you do lofe, when you pay you felues.

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P. Iv. No more o' your sentences, Canter, they are stale,

We come for newes, remember where you are.

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I pray thee let my Princeffe heare fome newes,

Good Master Cymbal. CYм. What newes would she heare?
Or of what kind, Sir? P. Iv. Any, any kind.
So it be newes, the newest that thou hast,

Some newes of State, for a Princeffe. CYм. Read from
Rome, there

ACT. III. SCENE. II.] Om. G PENNYBOY, jun, and BROKER. G W, G 5 (SN.) Hee tells notes in this scene exc. those at 1692, 1716, W yourselves G

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Newes from Rome.

PENI-BOY
CUSTOMERS.] Om. G

BROKER.] Enter
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lines 223, 260.
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THO. They write, the King of Spaine is chofen Pope. P. IV.

How?

THо. And Emperor too, the thirtieth of February. P. Iv. Is the Emperor dead? CYм. No, but he has refign'd,

Newes of the Emperor, and Tilly. And trailes a pike now, vnder Tilly. FIT. For pennance. P. Iv. These will beget strange turnes in Chriftendome!

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THO. And Spinola is made Generall of the Iefuits. Newes of Spinola.

P. Iv. Stranger! FIT, Sir, all are alike true, and certaine.

CYM. All the pretence to the fifth Monarchy,

The fifth Monarchy, uniting the Ecclefiafticke and Secular power. Was held but vaine, vntill the ecclefiaftique,

And fecular powers, were vnited, thus,

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Both in one perfon. FIT. 'T has bin long the ayme
Of the house of Auftria. CYM. See but Maximilian.
A plot of the houfe of Auftria.

His letters to the Baron of Boutterfheim,

Or Scheiter-huyffen. FIT. No, of Liechtenstein,

Lord Paul, I thinke. P. Iv. I haue heard of fome fuch

thing.

Don Spinola made Generall of the Iefuits!

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More of Spinola.

A Prieft! CYM. O, no, he is difpenc'd with all,
And the whole fociety, who doe now appeare

The onely Enginers of Christendome.

P. IV. They haue bin thought so long, and rightly too. 40 FIT. Witneffe the Engine, that they haue presented him, To winde himselfe with, vp, into the Moone: And thence make all his discoueries!

CYM.

THO. And Vittellefco, he that was last Generall,

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Being now turn'd Cooke to the society,
Has dreft his excellence, fuch a difh of egges-

P. IV. What potch'd? THO. No, powder'd.
CYM. All the yolke is wilde fire,

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His Egges.

As he shall need beleaguer no more townes,
But throw his Egge in. FIT. It fhall cleare consume,
Palace, and place; demolish and beare downe,
All ftrengths before it. CYM. Neuer be extinguish'd!
Till all become one ruine! FI. And from Florence,
THO. They write was found in Galileos ftudy,

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Galilæo's ftudy.

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A burning Glaffe (which they haue sent him too)
To fire any Fleet that's out at Sea-
CYм. By Moone shine, is't not fo? THO. Yes, Sir, i'the

water.

The burning glaffe, by Moone-shine.

P. Iv. His strengths will be vnresistable, if this hold! Ha'you no Newes against him, on the contrary?

CLA. Yes, Sit, they write here, one Cornelius-Son, [40]

The Holanders Eele.

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Hath made the Hollanders an inuifible Eele,

To swimme the hauen at Dunkirke, and finke all

The shipping there. P. Iv. Why ha'not you this, Thom? CYM. Because he keeps the Pontificiall fide.

Peny-boy will haue him change fides:

P. Iv. How, change fides, Thom. 'Twas neuer in my

thought

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To put thee vp against our felues. Come downe,
Quickly. CYM. Why, Sir? P. Iv. I venter'd not my

mony

Vpon those termes: If he may change; why so.

I'll ha' him keepe his owne fide, fure.

'Tis but writing so much ouer againe.

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P. Iv. For that I'll beare the charge: There's two Pieces, FIT. Come, do not stick with the gentleman. CYм. I'l take none Sir.

And yet he fhall ha'the place. P. Iv. They fhall be ten, then,

though hee pay for it. Vp, Thom: and th' Office fhall take 'hem. Keep your fide, Thom.

Know your owne fide, doe not forsake your fide, Thom. 75 CYм. Read. THо. They write here one Cornelius-Son, Hath made the Hollanders an inuifible Eele,

To fwimme the Hauen at Dunkirke, and finke all

The shipping there. P. Iv. But how is't done? CYм. I'll fhew you Sit.

It is an Automa, runnes vnder water,

With a fnug nofe, and has a nimble taile

Made like an auger, with which taile fhe wrigles

Betwixt the coafts of a Ship, and finkes it ftreight.

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P. Iv. Whence ha'you this newes. FIT. From a right hand I affure you,

The Eele-boats here, that lye before Queen-Hyth,

Came out of Holland. P. Iv. A most braue deuice,

To murder their flat bottomes.

FIT. I doe grant you:

But what if Spinola haue a new Proiect:

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Spinola's new proiect: an army in cork-shooes.

To bring an army ouer in corke-fhooes,

And land them, here, at Harwich? all his horse

Are fhod with corke, and fourefcore pieces of ordinance,
Mounted vpon cork-carriages, with bladders,

In ftead of wheels to runne the passage ouer

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At a fpring-tide. P. Iv. Is't true? FIT. As true as the reft.

P. Iv. He'll neuer leaue his engines: I would heare

now

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Some curious newes. CYM. As what? P. Iv. Magick, or Alchimy

74 [Tho, changes his side. G

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Or flying i'the ayre, I care not what.

CLA. They write from Libtzig (reuerence to your eares) The Art of drawing farts out of dead bodies,

Is by the Brotherhood of the Rofie Croffe,
Produc'd vnto perfection, in so sweet

Extraction of farts

And rich a tincture- FIT. As there is no Princeffe,
But may perfume her chamber with th'extraction.

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P. Iv. There's for you, Princeffe. P. CA. What, a fart for her?

P. Iv. I meane the fpirit. P. CA. Beware how she resents it.

P. Iv. And what haft thou, Thom?

petuall Motion,

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THO. The per

The perpetuall Motion.

Is here found out by an Alewife in Saint Katherines, [41] At the figne o' the dancing Beares. P. Iv. What, from

her tap?

I'll goe fee that, or elfe I'll fend old Canter.

He can make that discouery. P. CA. Yes, in Ale.

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P. Iv. Let me haue all this Newes, made vp, and feal'd. REG. The people preffe vpon vs, please you, Sir, Withdraw with your faire Princeffe. There's a roome

The Register offers him a roome.

Within, Sir, to retyre too. P. Iv.

No, good Regifter,

We'll stand it out here, and obferue your Office;

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The Office call'd the houfe of fame.

What Newes it iffues. REG. 'Tis the houfe of fame, Sir,

Where both the curious, and the negligent;

The fcrupulous, and careleffe; wilde, and ftay'd;
The idle, and laborious; all doe meet,

To taft the Cornu copiæ of her rumors,

Which she, the mother of sport, pleaseth to scatter
Among the vulgar: Baites, Sir, for the people!
And they will bite like fishes. P. Iv.

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