Let's try what London Prentices can do!
Eustace. For my Trades sake, if good success I have
The grocers arms shall in my ensign wave.
Guy. And if my valour bring me to command
The Goldsmiths' arms shall in my colours stand.
Godfrey. So of us all. Then let us in one fleet
Launch all together.'
These are brave words, and the coats of arms hung over the 'prentices' heads are in accordance with them. But there is a stage direction later on in the play: 'Alarum. The four brethren each of them kill a Pagan king, take off their crowns and exeunt, two one way and two another way'; and I cannot but regret that the artist did not choose this as the subject of his cut.
THE FOUR PRENTISES OF LONDON