Sir Thomas More
Act II, Scene 1
Cheapside.
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Enter three or four Apprentices of trades, with a pair of
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cudgels.
Harry
1 - 2
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Come, lay down the cudgels. Ho, Robin, you met us well at
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Bunhill, to have you with us a Maying this morning.
Robin
3 - 6
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Faith, Harry, the head drawer at the Miter by the great
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Conduit called me up, and we went to breakfast into St.
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Anne’s Lane. But come, who begins? In good faith, I am clean
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out of practice. When wast at Garret’s school, Harry?
Harry
7 - 10
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Not this great while, never since I brake his usher’s head,
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when he played his scholar’s prize at the Star in Bread
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Street. I use all to George Philpot’s at Dowgate; he’s the
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best backswordman in England.
Kit
11
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“Bate me an ace of that,” quoth Bolton.
Harry
12 - 13
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I’ll not bate ye a pin on’t, sir; for, by this cudgel, ’tis
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true.
Kit
14 - 15
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I will cudgel that opinion out of ye. Did you break an
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usher’s head, sir?
Harry
16
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Aye, marry, did I, sir.
Kit
17
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I am very glad on ’t. You shall break mine too, and ye can.
Harry
18
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Sirrah, I prithee, what art thou?
Kit
19 - 23
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Why, I am a prentice as thou art; seest thou now? I’ll play
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with thee at blunt here in Cheapside, and when thou hast
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done, if thou beest angry, I’ll fight with thee at sharp in
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More fields. I have a sword to serve my turn in a favor.
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..come Julie, to serve...
