By seeing our depart. Then, when we come,

And if that she and I do fall to words,

Set in thy foote and quarrell with her men,

Draw, fight, strike, hurt, but do not kill the slaves, 245

And make as though thou struckst at a man,

And hit her, and thou canst,—a plague upon her!—

She hath misusde me, Dicke: wilt thou do this?

Coom. Yes, mistresse, I will strike her men; but God forbid that ere Dicke Coomes should be seene to strike a woman! 250

Mi. Gour. Why, she is mankind,[1752] therefore thou maist strike her.

Coom. Mankinde! nay, and she have any part of a man, Ile strike her, I warrant.