Brew. Troth, sir, to honour me, I thank his highness,
Who with my lord the Cardinal comes along
To see the dedication of my house,
Built for the weary travellers to rest in;
Where stands three hundred beds for their relief,
With meat, drink, and some money, when they part;
Which I'll give freely with a willing heart.
Steph. A pious, worthy, and religious act.
Come, sir, to th' Guildhall. Wife, look to your kinsman;
Watch him near, but do not hinder him
If he relieve his father. Come, master alderman:
With such sweet incense up your offerings fly,
I'll build one altar more to charity. [Exeunt.
FOOTNOTES:
[93] i.e., Let him be declared victor. The expression is not uncommon in our old dramatic writers.
[94] This phrase is, I believe, still common among bowlers, with the exception that the mistress is now called the jack.
[95] [An apparent allusion to the then recent settlement of Newfoundland, an account of which is to be found in Vaughan's "Golden Fleece," 1626, and "Newlander's Cure," 1630, besides other works.]
[96] [The word began, even before this, to acquire a bad sense, and was used contemptuously, as we use chapman or chap now.]
[97] This word seems used here with no very definite meaning. Pistol, in the "Merry Wives of Windsor," ii. 1, applies it to Mrs Ford—
"He loves thy gally-mawfrey; Ford, perpend."