Fra. An odd phantasma—a beggar—a sir—a who, who, who—What You Will—a straggling go-go-go-gunds—f-f-f-f-fut——
And. Passing like him—passing like him. O ’twill strike all dead! 50
Ran. I am ravished! ’Twill be peerless exquisite
Let him go out instantly!
Jaco. O, not till twilight; meantime I’ll prop up
The tottering rumour of Albano’s scape,
And safe arrival; it begins to spread.
If this plot live, Frenchman, thy hopes are dead.
[Exeunt.
Bid. And if it live, strike off this little head.
[Exit.
[467] Ed. 1. “does.”
[468] A jakes. The joke (originated by Sir John Harrington) is very common. Concerning the jakes of Lincoln’s Inn, see the droll, though not very delicate, story in Gayton’s Festivous Notes on Don Quixote, 1654, p. 74.
[469] Old eds. “day” (which Dilke retains!).