New. It could not be like this.
Rose. Faith, I do grant
This is the strangest fish. Yon I have hung
His other picture in the fields, where some
Say 'tis an o'ergrown porpoise; others say
'Tis the fish caught in Cheshire; one, to whom
The rest agree, said 'twas a mermaid.
Plot. 'Slight!
Roseclap shall have a patent of him. The birds
Brought from Peru, the hairy wench,[223] the camel,
The elephant, dromedaries, or Windsor Castle,
The woman with dead flesh, or she that washes,
Threads needles, writes, dresses her children, plays
O' th' virginals with her feet, could never draw
People like this.
New. O, that his father were
At home to see him!
Plot. Or his mother come,
Who follows strange sights out of town, and went
To Brentford to a motion.
Bright. Bid the captain hasten,
Or he'll recover, and spoil all.
Rose. They're here!
SCENE II.
Enter Quartfield and Salewit, dressed like two trumpeters, keeping the door; Mistress Seathrift and Mistress Holland, with a 'prentice before 'em, as comers-in.
Quart. Bear back there!