Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... ACT SECOND Scene I Rochester. An inn yard. Enter a Carrier with a lantern in his hand. First Car. Heigh-ho! an it be not four by the day, I '11 be hanged: Charles' wain is over the new chimney, and yet our horse not packed. What, ostler! Ost. [Within] Anon, anon. First Car. I prithee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point; poor jade, is wrung in the withers out of all cess. Enter another Carrier. Sec. Car. Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that is the next way to give poor jades the bots: this house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died. First Car. Poor fellow, never joyed since the price of oats rose; it was the death of him. 1. "by the day"; in the morning.--C. H. H. 7. "poor jade, is wrung"; a rustic or uneducated omission of the pronoun. So at 1. 13 below.--C. H. H. 14. "price of oats"; the price of grain was very high in 1596; which may have put Shakespeare upon making poor Robin thus die of one idea.--H. N. H. 10 i Sec. Car. I think this be the most villainous house in all London road for fleas: I am stung like a tench. First 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. 20 Sec. Car. Why, they will allow us ne'er a Jordan, and then we leak in your chimney; and your chamber-lie breeds fleas like a loach. First Car. What, ostler! come away and be hanged! come away. Sec. Car. I have a gammon of bacon and two razes of ginger, to be delivered as far as Charingcross. First Car. God's body! the turkeys in my pannier are quite starved. What, ostler! A 30 plague on thee! hast thou never an eye in thy head? canst not hear? An 'twere not as good deed as drink, to break the pate on thee, I am a very villain. Come, and be hanged! hast...