[Exit.]
1 GENTLEMAN.
O barbarous and bloody spectacle!
His body will I bear unto the King.
If he revenge it not, yet will his friends;
So will the Queen, that living held him dear.
[Exit with the body.]
SCENE II. Blackheath
Enter George Bevis and John Holland.
BEVIS.
Come, and get thee a sword, though made of a lath; they have been up these two days.
HOLLAND.
They have the more need to sleep now, then.
BEVIS.
I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.
HOLLAND.
So he had need, for ’tis threadbare. Well, I say it was never merry world in England since gentlemen came up.
BEVIS.
O miserable age! Virtue is not regarded in handicraftsmen.