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Come, and get thee a sword, though made of a lath;
they have been up these t...
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Come, and get thee a sword, though made of a lath;
they have been up these two days.
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First Gentleman. O barbarous and bloody spectacle!
His body will I bear unto the king:
If he revenge it not, yet will his friends;
So will the queen, that living held him dear.
George Bevis. Come, and get thee a sword, though made of a lath;
they have been up these two days.
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I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress
the commonwealth, and tur...
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I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress
the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.
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John Holland. They have the more need to sleep now, then.
George Bevis. I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress
the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.
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O miserable age! virtue is not regarded in handicrafts-men.
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O miserable age! virtue is not regarded in handicrafts-men.
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John Holland. So he had need, for 'tis threadbare. Well, I say it
was never merry world in England since gentlemen came up.
George Bevis. O miserable age! virtue is not regarded in handicrafts-men.
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Nay, more, the king's council are no good workmen.
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Nay, more, the king's council are no good workmen.
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John Holland. The nobility think scorn to go in leather aprons.
George Bevis. Nay, more, the king's council are no good workmen.
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Thou hast hit it; for there's no better sign of a
brave mind than a hard han...
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Thou hast hit it; for there's no better sign of a
brave mind than a hard hand.
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John Holland. True; and yet it is said, labour in thy vocation;
which is as much to say as, let the magistrates be
labouring men; and therefore should we be
magistrates.
George Bevis. Thou hast hit it; for there's no better sign of a
brave mind than a hard hand.
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He shall have the skin of our enemies, to make
dog's-leather of.
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He shall have the skin of our enemies, to make
dog's-leather of.
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John Holland. I see them! I see them! there's Best's son, the
tanner of Wingham,--
George Bevis. He shall have the skin of our enemies, to make
dog's-leather of.
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Then is sin struck down like an ox, and iniquity's
throat cut like a calf.
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Then is sin struck down like an ox, and iniquity's
throat cut like a calf.
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John Holland. And Dick the Butcher,--
George Bevis. Then is sin struck down like an ox, and iniquity's
throat cut like a calf.
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Argo, their thread of life is spun.
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Argo, their thread of life is spun.
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John Holland. And Smith the weaver,--
George Bevis. Argo, their thread of life is spun.
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O monstrous coward! what, to come behind folks?
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O monstrous coward! what, to come behind folks?
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Lord Say. Great men have reaching hands: oft have I struck
Those that I never saw and struck them dead.
George Bevis. O monstrous coward! what, to come behind folks?
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