Dol.[Snatches Face's sword]. You'll bring your head within a cockscomb, will you?
And you, sir, with your menstrue—[Dashes Subtle's vial out of his hand.]—Gather it up.—
'Sdeath, you abominable pair of stinkards,
Leave off your barking, and grow one again,
Or, by the light that shines, I'll cut your throats.
I'll not be made a prey unto the marshal,
For ne'er a snarling dog-bolt of you both.
Have you together cozen'd all this while,
And all the world, and shall it now be said,
You've made most courteous shift to cozen yourselves?
You will accuse him! you will bring him in [to Face.
Within the statute! Who shall take your word?
A whoreson, upstart, apocrýphal captain,
Whom not a Puritan in Blackfriers will trust
So much as for a feather:[1] and you, too, [to Subtle.]
Will give the cause, forsooth! you will insult,
And claim a primacy in the divisions!
You must be chief! as if you only had
The powder to project with, and the work
Were not begun out of equality?
The venture tripartite? all things in common?
- ↑ Whom not a Puritan in Blackfriers will trust
So much as for a feather:] Blackfriers was celebrated for the residence of Puritans at this time; the principal dealers in feathers and other vanities of the age! This is noted by many of our old dramatists; but see vol. ii p. 466.
Laundring occurs in Shakspeare; or in "one deformed goes up and down under his name."
"Laundring the silken figures in the brine
That season'd woe had pelletted in tears!"
A Lover's Complaint.
Barbing is clipping. This is sufficiently obvious. This also was felony without benefit of clergy; so that Subtle was really in danger.
