LAMBSKIN

Well Sir, I know by observation, as much as you do By experience; for I have known many Gentlemen Have taken up such beware as this is, but it has lyen On their hands as long as they lived; this I Have seen by observation. But shallow Sir? Your experience is a little wide; You shall find I will be as deep in this case as Your self; my observation has been, where your Experience must wait at door; yet I will Give you the before Horse place, and I will be in the Fill's, because you are the elder Tree, and I the Young Plant; put on your experience, and I will Observe. You observe very well, sweet Virgin; for his Nativity is his Doublet, which is the upper partly Of his suit; and his name is in's breeches, for That partly which is his name, he defiles many times. Nay, if names can do any good, I beseech you observe Mine; My name is Lambskin, a thing both hight and harmless. My Godfather seeing in my face some notes of dispo sition, In my Cradle did give me the title of Innocent, which I Have practised all my life time; and since my father's Decease, my wealth has purchased me in the vanguard Of my name, the paraphrase of gentility; So that I am called Master Innocent Lambskin. My father was of and Occupation before he was a Tradesman; for, as I have observed in my father's And mother's report, they set up together in Their youth; my father was a Starch-maker, and my Mother a Laundress; so being partners, they did Occupy long together before they were married; Then was I born. Truly a little after, I was the first fruits, as they say; Then did my father change his Copy, and set up A Brewhouse. Your observation's good; I have carried the Tallies At my girdle seven years together with much Delight and observation; for I did ever love to Deal honestly in the Neck. You may his slender observation; sweet Virgin, I do love your lower parts better than your face. I Sir, I am your Rival; and I will thwart your love For your love licks at the face, and my love Shall be Arsy-Versy to yours. He calls you Tooth drawer by way of experience. I love you too, fair Maid, double and Triple, If it please you. I will maintain you Like a Gentlewoman: And That may be better maintenance than a Ladies, As I have found by observation. I dare maintain it with my purse, Sir. If you dare corsse my purse with your sword Sir, I'llay and Actium of suspicion of felony to you; That's flat, Sir. Let him but shake his blade at me, and I'l Throw down my purse, and cry a rape; I Scorn to kill him, but I'l hang his knighthood, I warrant him, if he offer assault and battery on My purse If it please you to place one of us for your conduct, Otherwise this old Coxcomb and I shall quarrel. Right Sir; but I put the Gentlewoman before, and that Is the thing I desire And there your experience halts a little. Then when I look back, your nose stands here. And let observation follow you. Your father, Mistress Jane, I hope you have observa in you, And know our humours; we come not a wooing to your Father. Prithee do not stand troubling the Gentlewoman With thy musty sentences, but let her love be laid Down betwixt us Like a pair of Cudgels, and into Whose hands she thrusts the weapons first, let him Take up the Bucklers. We are both to run at the Ring of your setting Up, and you must tell us who deserves most favour. Else let me never stand but in a Pillory. Hand? Zounds by the four and twenty Elements. Speedewell, livewell, die well, and be hanged well. your copy well, your experience will not carry it else. A man of Gingerbread; y'faith I could find in My heart to eat him. That's l; intruth I'll be thy young Lambskin; thoushalt Find me as innocent as a sucking Dove: speak, Sweet , am I the youth in a basket? I'l have no words in private, unless I hear too. Lounds Sir knight, we have stood beating the Bush And the bird's flown away; this City Bowler has kissed the Mistress at first cast. You see Sir Speedwell, what Carded is turned Up for trump; I hold my life this spruce Citizen will forestall the market, O These brisk factors, are notable firkers. Zounds are you a striker? Draw, Sir knight. He's no Rival here Sir; has struck me, And we are Gentlemen. Yes, yes, has wone it betting at the bowling Alleys, Oh at the Pigeon-holes in the Garden Alleys. Our names are in the Heralds books I warrant you My name is Innocent Lambskin; and this Knight, Simply though he stands here, is known to be Sir Godfry Speedewell. No itch neither Sir, we have no scabs here, But your self and your Cozin. Knight, knight; 'Sfoot if and errand Knight Run away, I were and errand Ass to tarry, And be catched in the limebush: I love the Wench well; but if they have no hold to Place me in, but the hold in the Counter, I'l be gove and leave'm; that's flat I put my innocent case into your hands Mistress, as a simple country Client thrusts his money Into a Lawyers, who stands upon no great rmes to take it. No truly it makes me lose for I never smell it, though It be two streets off, but it gives me a stool presently, Had not your husband (when we went about fowling For the Alderman's daughter) driven away the Bird We might have bidden you to a better breakfast; But now you must take what we can set before you. Zounds Knight, if the Mayor come The shoulder clappers are not far off. And take up seven times as much if we knew Where to get it; but there's our lamentable ease: Mistress, if you strip us any nearer, you'll strip the Skin and all I'll assure you, No sheep forsooth, but a poor innocent Lambskin. He sails about the point Sir, but he cannot put in yet. 'Sfoot, let's show our selves Gallants, or Gallymaw. yes: Shall y'd by a Cockney. A word My ; Do you see Sir, here be those That have gone a fishing, and can give you a .