Thomas Dekker / Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys. Unexpurgated Edition

by Thomas Dekker

Bell. Out of my sight, thou ungodly puritanical creature.

Rog. For the t’other pottle? yes, forsooth.

Bell. Spill that too. [Exit Roger.] What gentleman is that, servant? your friend?

Mat. Gods so; a stool, a stool! If you love me mistress, entertain this gentleman respectively,[162] and bid him welcome.

Bell. He’s very welcome,—pray, sir, sit.

Hip. Thanks, lady.

Flu. Count Hippolito, is’t not? Cry you mercy signor; you walk here all this while, and we not heard you! Let me bestow a stool upon you, beseech you; you are a stranger here, we know the fashions a’th’ house.

Cas. Please you be here, my lord? [Offers tobacco.

Hip. No, good Castruchio.