Thomas Heywood

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THE ENGLISH TRAVELLER.

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FOOTNOTES TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.

Enter Clown and a Serving-man.

Clown.

Serving-man.

I wonder the prince would ha’ none of us stay in his chamber and help him to bed.

Clown.

Serving-man.

And what should we enter farther into his thoughts? Come, shall’s to bed? I am as drowsy as a dormouse, and my head is as heavy as though I had a night-cap of lead on.

Clown.

And my eyes begin to glue themselves together. I was till supper was done altogether for your repast, and now after supper I am only for your repose: I think, for the two virtues of eating and sleeping, there’s never a Roman spirit under the cope of Heaven can put me down.

Enter Mirable.

Mirable.

For shame! what a conjuring and caterwauling keep you here, that my lady cannot sleep! you shall have her call by and by, and send you all to bed with a witness.

Clown.

Sweet Mistress Mirable, we are going.

Mirable.

You are too loud; come, every man dispose him to his rest, and I’ll to mine.

Serving-man.

Out with your torches.

Clown.

Come, then, and every man sneak into his kennel.

[Exeunt.

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Note 1 · Soft, soft; not too loud; imagine we were now going on the ropes with eggs at our heels; he that hath but a creaking shoe I would he had a c Note 2 · What an ass art thou to wonder! there may be many causes: thou know’st the prince is a soldier, and soldiers many times want shift: who can