A TALE OF A TUB.
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Pre. Well mark'd!
You know not any of them?
You know not any of them?
Met. Here's one dwells
In Maribone.
In Maribone.
Pre. Have you acquaintance with him,
To borrow his coat an hour?
To borrow his coat an hour?
Hugh. Or but his badge,
'Twill serve; a little thing he wears on his breast.
'Twill serve; a little thing he wears on his breast.
Pre. His coat, I say, is of more authority:
Borrow his coat for an hour. I do love
To do all things completely, canon Hugh;
Borrow his coat, Miles Metaphor, or nothing.
Borrow his coat for an hour. I do love
To do all things completely, canon Hugh;
Borrow his coat, Miles Metaphor, or nothing.
Met. The taberd of his office I will call it,
Or the coat-armour of his place; and so
Insinuate with him by that trope.
Or the coat-armour of his place; and so
Insinuate with him by that trope.
Pre. I know
Your powers of rhetoric, Metaphor. Fetch him off
[Exit Metaphor.In a fine figure for his coat, I say.
Your powers of rhetoric, Metaphor. Fetch him off
[Exit Metaphor.In a fine figure for his coat, I say.
Hugh. I'll take my leave, sir, of your worship too,
Because I may expect the issue anon.
Because I may expect the issue anon.
Pre. Stay, my diviner counsel, take your fee:
We that take fees, allow them to our counsel;
And our prime learned counsel, double fees.
There are a brace of angels to support you
In your foot-walk this frost, for fear of falling,
Or spraying of a point of matrimony,
When you come at it
We that take fees, allow them to our counsel;
And our prime learned counsel, double fees.
There are a brace of angels to support you
In your foot-walk this frost, for fear of falling,
Or spraying of a point of matrimony,
When you come at it
Hugh. In your worship's service:
- ↑ ——— a dragon and a grey-hound, &c] "Henry VII, a prince of the house of Tudor, in memory of their descent from Cadwallader, gave from his first accession, the red or rouge dragon, (when he also constituted Rouge Dragon pursuivant,) for the dexter supporter of his arms, with the grey-hound of the house of York on the left."
