Scene Five
[The Same. The Tower]
Enter Lord Scales upon the Tower walking. Then enter two or three Citizens below.
Scales. How now! is Jack Cade slain?
1. Cit. No, my lord, nor likely to be slain;
for they have won the bridge, killing all those
that withstand them. The Lord Mayor craves 4
aid of your honour from the Tower, to defend
the city from the rebels.
Scales. Such aid as I can spare you shall command;
But I am troubled here with them myself; 8
The rebels have assay'd to win the Tower.
But get you to Smithfield and gather head,
And thither I will send you Matthew Goffe:
Fight for your king, your country, and your lives; 12
And so, farewell, for I must hence again. Exeunt.
Scene Six
[London. Cannon Street]
Enter Jack Cade and the rest, and strikes his staff on London-stone.
Cade. Now is Mortimer lord of this city. And
here, sitting upon London-stone, I charge and
command that, of the city's cost, the pissing-
conduit run nothing but claret wine this first 4
year of our reign. And now, henceforward, it
10 gather head: collect your forces
2 London-stone: a Roman milestone in Cannon Street
3, 4 pissing-conduit: a small water fountain
