Volume Xi Part 72 (2/2)

STAINES. Gertrude! why, she'll put it up.

SCAT. Will she?

GERA. Ay, that she will, and so must you.

SCAT. Must I?

GERA. Yes, that you must.

SCAT. Well, if I must, I must; but I protest I would not, But that I must: so _vale, vale: et tu quoque_. [_Exit._

SIR LIONEL. Why, that's well said: Then I perceive we shall wind up all wrong.

Come, gentlemen, and all our other guests, Let our well-temper'd bloods taste Bacchus' feasts; But let us know first how these sports delight, And to these gentlemen each bid good night.[217]

W. RASH. Gentles, I hope, that well my labour ends; All that I did was but to please my friends.

GERA. A kind enamoret I did strive to prove, But now I leave that and pursue your love.

GERT. My part I have performed with the rest, And, though I have not, yet I would do best.

STAINES. That I have cheated through the play, 'tis true: But yet I hope I have not cheated you.

JOYCE. If with my clamours I have done you wrong, Ever hereafter I will hold my tongue.

SPEND. If through my riot I have offensive been, Henceforth I'll play the civil citizen.

WID. Faith, all that I say is, howe'er it hap, Widows, like maids, sometimes may catch a clap.

BUB. To mirth and laughter henceforth I'll provoke ye, If you but please to like of Green's _Tu quoque_.[218]

FOOTNOTES:

[153]: See note 76 to ”The Ordinary,” [vol. xii.]

[154] [_i.e._, s.h.i.+llings. See the next page.]

[155] At the time this play was written, the same endeavours were used, and the same lures thrown out, to tempt adventurers to migrate to each of these places.

[156] Pirates are always hanged at Execution Dock, Wapping; and at the moment when the tide is at the [ebb].--_Steevens_.

The following pa.s.sage is from Stow's ”Survey,” vol. ii. b. 4, p. 37, edit. 1720: ”From this Precinct of St Katharine to Wappin in the Wose, and Wappin it self, the usual Place of Execution for hanging of Pirates and Sea-Rovers _at the low-Water Mark_, there to remain till three Tides had overflowed them, was never a House standing within these Forty Years (_i.e._, from the year 1598), but (since the Gallows being after removed further off) is now a continual Street, or rather a filthy straight Pa.s.sage, with Lanes and Alleys of small Tenements or Cottages, inhabited by Saylors and Victuallers along by the River of Thames almost to Radcliff, a good Mile from the Tower.”

[157] The old copies give it--

”_We_ suck'd a white leaf from my black-lipp'd pen.”

--_Collier._

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