PIPKIN

For fear of breaking Mistress. Can you blame me Mistress, I am cracked already. No Mistress, I thank God my crown is currant, but. The maid gave me not my supper yesternight, so that indeed my belly wambled; and standing near the great seacoal fire in the hall, and not being full, on the sudden I cracked, and you know Mistress a Pipkin is soon broken. But Lady Mistress, if I should tell him so, it may be he would not come, were it for no other cause but to save charges, I'll rather tell him, if he come not quickly, you will eat up all the meat in the house, and then if he be of my stomach he will run every foot, and make the more hast to dinner. Whither Mistress, to the Change? I will Mistress, hoping my M. will go so oft to the Change, that at length he will change his mind, and use you more kindly, o it were brave if my Master could meet with a Merchant of ill ventures to bargain with him for all his bade conditions, and he fell them out right, you should have a quieter heart, and we all a quie ter house: but hoping Mistress you will pass over all these Jar es and squabels in good health, as my Master was at the making the I commit you. Faith master she said little, but she thought more, For she was very melancholy. Magister, quomodo vales. Etiam certain, you ask me where I have been, and I say Quomodo vales, as much to say, come out of the alehouse. Queso preceptor, queso? for Gods sake do not whip me: Quidest gramatica? Gramatica est, that if I untrust, you must needs whip me upon them, quidest gramatica. Forsooth my mistress sent me of and errant to fetch my M. from the Exchange, we had strangers at home at dinner, and but for them I had not come tarde queso pre ceptor. That I will M. and if yowl give me leave. Counterfeit ̄ ster it M. I will, Dicas they say, Propriam the pro per man, que maribus, that loves mary-bones, mascula, miss called me. I warrant you M. if there be marry bones in my lesson, I am and old dog at them. How construe you this M. Rostra disertus amat? A good construction on and empty stomach, M. now I have consterd my lesson, my mistress would pray you to let me come home to go of and errand. Canis a hog, ra a a dog, Porcus a Frog, Abeundum est mihi. Faith Mistress when I last looked upon him. When I beheld him. Marry when he was in my sighed, and that was you sterday, since when I saw not my master, nor looked on my M. nor beheld my master, nor had any sighed of my M. Yes marry was he. How should I mistress, he came not there to day. True mistress he was there, but I did not tell you when ̄ , He hath been there diverse times, but not of late. I had rather play the trewant at home, then go seek my M. at school: let me see what age am I, some four & twenty, and how have I profited, I was five year learning to crish Cross from great A. and five year lon her coming to F. I there I stuck some three year be before I could come to Q. and so in process of time I came to e pierce e, and comperce, and tittle, then I God to a. e. I. oh. u. after to our Father, and in the sixteenth year of my age, and the fifteenth of my going to school, I am in good time got to a Noun, by the same token there my hose went down: then I God to a Verb, there I be gan first to have a beard: the ̄ I came to Iste, ista, istud, there my M. whipped me till he fetched the blood, and so forth: so that now I am come the greatest scholar in the school: for I am bigger then two or three of them. But I am gone, farewell mistress. This 'tis to have such a Master, I have sought him at the Change, at the school, at every place, but I cannot find him no where. Oh cry mercy, my Mistress would in treat you to come home. I believe my Mistress would con you as much thank to do that business at home as abroad. I warrant you Master I'll dispatch this business with more honesty, then yowl dispatch yours. But Mai ster will the gentlewoman be there? The gentlewoman of the old house, that is as well known by the colour she lays of her chees, as and Ale house by the painting is laid of his Lettice: she that is Like Homo, Common to all men: she that is beholding to no Trade, but lives of her self. I'll go, but by this hand I'll tell my Mistress as soon as I come home, that Mistress light-heals comes to dinner to morrow. I hope you will not take Pipkin from the fire Till the broth be enough. Mistress I can tell you one thing, my M. wench Will come home to day to dinner. I pray you ease your tail Sir. M. Hue as welcome as heart can tell, or tonge can think. According to the aunciet Courtesy you are well come: according to the time and place, you are heartily welcome: when they are busied at the board, we will find our selves busied in the Buttery: and so sweet Hugh accor ding to our scholars phrase, Gratulor adventum tuum. As much grace as you will, but as little of it as you can good Hugh. But here comes more guests. Who I forsooth, yes indeed forsooth I am his schol ler, I would you should well think I have profited under him too, you shall hear if he will pose me. Marry a great many: A Bow-case, a Capcase, a Comb-case, a Lute case, a Fiddle-case, and a Candle-case. I'll tell you as many as I know, if yowl give me leave to reckon them. The Parson of Fanchurch, the Parson of Pancridge, and the Parson of. Oh my mistress, my mistress, she's dead, she's gone, she's dead, she's gone. Out of my way, stand back I say, all joy from earth is fled, She is this day as cold as clay, my Mistress she is dead: Oh Lord, my mistress, my mistress. Oh Mistress, o Hugh, o Hugh, o Mistress, Hugh I must needs beat thee, I am mad, I am lunatic, I must fallen upon thee, my Mistress is dead. Oh Hue, o Mistress, o Mistress, o Hue. Oh Hue, I am mad, bear with me, I cannot choose, o death, o Mistress, o Mistress, o death. Who me? turn me out of doors? is this all the wages I shall have at the years end, to be turned outof doors? you Mistress, you are a. Marry a woman that is kin to the frost. And you are a kin to the Latin word, tounder stand. Subaudi, subaudi: and sir, do you not use to pink doublets? I took you for a cutter, you are of a great kindred; you are a common cozener, every body calls you cou sen: beside, they say you are a very good Warrener, you have been and old Coney catcher: but if I be turned a begging, as I know not what I am born too, and that you ever come to the said Trade, as nothing is unpossible, I'll set all the Commonwealth of beggars on your back, and all the Congregation of vermin shall be put to your keeping, and then if you be not more bitten then all the Company of beggars beside, I'll not have my will: zounds turned out of doors, I'll go and set up my Trade, a dish to drink in that I have within, a wallet that I'll make of and old shirt, then my speech for the Lords sake, I be seech your worship, then I must have a lame leg, I'll go to football and break my shins, and I am provided for that.