60 Cade. Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven half-penny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common; and in Cheapside 65 shall my palfry go to grass: and when I am king, as king I [♦] will be,—
All. God save your majesty!
Cade. I thank you, good people: there shall be no [♦] money; all shall eat and drink on my score; and I will 70 apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers and worship me their lord.
Dick. The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be [75] made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o’er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings: but I say, [♦] ’tis the bee’s wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I [♦] was never mine own man since. How now! who’s there?
Enter some, bringing forward the Clerk of Chatham.
[♦] Smith. The clerk of Chatham: he can write and read 80 and cast accompt.
Cade. O monstrous!
Smith. We took him setting of boys’ copies.
Cade. Here’s a villain!