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hee all thou hast? _Enter_ JUSTICE WARMAN'S [_French_] WIFE _oddly attired_. WIFE. Who's that, husband? you, you! means he you? WAR. I, by'r Lady is it, I thank him. WIFE. Ah, ye knave you! God's pity, husband, why dis no your worship send the kneve to Newgate? LIT. JOHN. Well, Master Sheriff, shall I pass or no? SHER. Not without search. LIT. JOHN. Then here the casket stands: Any that dares unto it set their hands, Let him begin. WIFE. Do, hisband; You are a majesty: I warrant There's old knacks, chains, and other toys. LIT. JOHN. But not for you, good madam beetle-brows. WIFE. Out upon him! By my truly, Master Justice, and ye do not clap him up, I will sue a bill of remorse, and never come between a pair of sheets with ye. Such a kneve as this! down with him, I pray. [_Set upon him: he knocks some down_. WIFE. Ah, good Lord! come not near, good husband; only charge him, charge him! Ah, good God! help, help! _Enter_ PRINCE JOHN, _the_ BISHOP OF ELY, _the_ PRIOR OF YORK, _with others. All stay_. JOHN. What tumult have we here? who doth resist The king's writs with such obstinate contempt? WIFE. This kneve. WAR. This rebel. JOHN. How now, Little John, Have you no more discretion than you show? ELY. Lay hold, and clap the traitor by the heels. LIT. JOHN. I am no traitor, my good Lord of Ely First hear me, then commit me, if you please. JOHN. Speak, and be brief. LIT. JOHN. Here is a little box, Containing all my gettings twenty year, Which is mine own, and no man's but mine own: This they would rifle, this I do defend, And about this we only do contend. JOHN. You do the fellow wrong: his goods are his. You only must extend upon the Earl's. PRIOR. That was, my lord, but now is Robert Hood; A simple yeoman, as his servants were. WIFE. Back with that leg, my Lord Prior: there be some that were his servants think foul scorn to be called yeomen. PRIOR. I cry your worship mercy, Mistress Warman: The squire, your husband, was his servant once. LIT. JOHN. A scurvy squire, with reverence of these lords. WIFE. Does he not speak treason, pray? ELY. Sirrah, ye are too saucy: get you hence. WAR. But hear me first, my lords, with patience. This scoffing, careless fellow, Little John, Hath loaden hence a horse 'twixt him and Much, A silly, rude knave--Much, the miller's son. _Enter_ MUCH, _Clown_. MUCH. I am here to ans
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