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rlot too! Why? why? hark you, hath she, hath she not a brother? A brother's house to keep, to look unto? But she must fling abroad, my wife hath spoil'd her, She takes right after her, she does, she does, Well, you goody bawd and -- [ENTER COB.] That make your husband such a hoddy-doddy; And you, young apple squire, and old cuckold-maker, I'll have you every one before the Doctor, Nay, you shall answer it, I charge you go. LOR. SE. Marry, with all my heart, I'll go willingly: how have I wrong'd myself in coming here. BIA. Go with thee? I'll go with thee to thy shame, I warrant thee. COB. Why, what's the matter? what's here to do? THO. What, Cob, art thou here? oh, I am abused, And in thy house, was never man so wrong'd. COB. 'Slid, in my house? who wrong'd you in my house? THO. Marry, young lust in old, and old in young here, Thy wife's their bawd, here have I taken them. COB. Do you hear? did I not charge you keep your doors shut here, and do you let them lie open for all comers, do you scratch? [COB BEATS HIS WIFE.] LOR. SE. Friend, have patience; if she have done wrong in this, let her answer it afore the Magistrate. COB. Ay, come, you shall go afore the Doctor. TIB. Nay, I will go, I'll see an you may be allowed to beat your poor wife thus at every cuckoldly knave's pleasure, the devil and the pox take you all for me: why do you not go now? THO. A bitter quean, come, we'll have you tamed. [EXEUNT.] [ENTER MUSCO ALONE.] MUS. Well, of all my disguises yet, now am I most like myself, being in this varlet's suit, a man of my present profession never counterfeits till he lay hold upon a debtor, and says he rests him, for then he brings him to all manner of unrest. A kind of little kings we are, bearing the diminutive of a mace, made like a young artichoke, that always carries pepper and salt in itself, well, I know not what danger I undergo by this exploit, pray God I come well off. [ENTER BOBADILLA AND MATHEO.] MAT. See, I think yonder is the varlet. BOB. Let's go in quest of him. MAT. God save you, friend, are not you here by the appointment of Doctor Clement's man? MUS. Yes, an't please you, sir; he told me two gentlemen had will'd him to procure an arrest upon one Signior Giuliano by a warrant from his ma
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