I think this be the most villainous house in all London road for fleas. I am stung like a tench.

1. CAR. Like a tench? by the mass, there is ne'er a king christen could be better bit than I have been since the first cock.

2. CAR. Why, they will allow us ne'er a jordan, and then we leak in your chimney, and your chamber- lye breeds fleas like a loach.

1. CAR. What, ostler! come away and be hang'd! come away.

2. CAR. I have a gammon of bacon and two razes of ginger, to be deliver'd as far as Charing-cross.

1. CAR. God's body, the turkeys in my pannier are quite starv'd. What, ostler! A plague on thee! hast thou never an eye in thy head? Canst not hear? And 'twere not as good deed as drink to break the pate on thee, I am a very villain. Come, and be hang'd! hast no faith in thee?

 

Enter Gadshill.

 

GADS. Good morrow, carriers, what's a' clock?

[1.] CAR. I think it be two a' clock.

GADS. I prithee lend me thy lantern, to see my gelding in the stable.

1. CAR. Nay, by God, soft, I know a trick worth two of that, i' faith.

GADS. I pray thee lend me thine.

2. CAR. Ay, when, canst tell? Lend me thy lantern, quoth he! Marry, I'll see thee hang'd first.

GADS. Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come to London?

2. CAR. Time enough to go to bed with a candle, I warrant thee. Come, neighbor Mugs, we'll call up the gentlemen. They will along with company, for they have great charge.

 

Exeunt [Carriers].

 

GADS. What ho! chamberlain!

 

Enter Chamberlain.

 

CHAM. At hand, quoth pick-purse.

GADS. That's even as fair as – at hand, quoth the chamberlain; for thou variest no more from picking of purses than giving direction doth from laboring: thou layest the plot how.

CHAM.