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- # The Play of
1. Because he should have swallowed mee too,
And when I had been in his belly,
I would have kept such a jangling of the Belles,
That he should never have left,
Till he cast Belles, Steeple, Church and Parish vp againe:
But if the good King Simonian were of my mind.
*Per. Simonian?*
3. We would purge the land of these Drones,
That robbe the Bee of her Hony.
*Per. How from the fenny subject of the Sea,
These Fishers tell the infirmities of men,
And from their watry empire recollect,
All that may men approve, or men detect.
Peace be at your labour, honest Fisher-men.*
2. Honest good fellow what’s that, if it be a day fits you
Search out of the Kalender, and no body looks after it?
*Per. May see the Sea hath cast vpon your coast:*
3. What a drunken Knaue was the Sea,
To cast thee in our way?
*Per. A man whom both the Waters and the Winde,
In that vast Tennis-court, hath made the Ball
For them to play vpon, intreates you pittie him:
Hee askes of you, that never vs’d to begge.*
1. No friend, cannot you begge?
Heer’s them in our country of *greece*,
Gets more with begging, then we can doe with working.
2. Canst thou catch any Fishes then?
*Per. I never practizde it.*
2. Nay then thou wilt starue sure: for heer’s nothing to
be got now-adayes, vnesse thou canst fish for’t.
*Per. What I have been, I have forgot to know;
But what I am, want teaches me to thinke on:
A man throng’d vp with cold, my Veines are chill,
And have’no more of life then may suffice,
To giue my tongue that heat to aske your helpe:
Which if you shall refuse, when I am dead,
For that I am a man, pray you see me buried.*
1. Die
II. i. 44—82
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