£ University of Virginia Library PR;2411;.B3;1872 nn ‘ UX OOe 2PbY 219 Fn 1 ra ¢ Pa 5 rs i pee Weer i ( le =wee = ae a— = a i _oall “Es Ege a i s = ak ai Shect atc Ae Ls a, 3 wee oon a . ‘ By 3? | ; * ; ® 2 , * zi Speci nero te re ncn oe nT. LECT Ey ONES SPN EA Y Sa pins es TT SRR LEP RS ee ae = ad — caateceeeiemsas — — 7 x ae one Caer — . a — ; ot Re ee ees Ce ha A reac : — H “ :a Lo cumSe ooERO i I | | | | | | | | ce | |ooWf valsosa * 22 ob ee wt ee ee es4 et A it=e ae BatSin dedsi ls aa ee : a a Br i ee See fetheerantanaieer vie eee aA MEHRRIE DIALOGUE Betweene Band, Cuffe, and Ruffe. Done by an excellent Wit, and lately acted in a Shew in the Famous Universitie of Cambridge. London, printed*by W. Stansby for Miles Partrich, and are to be sold at his shop neere Saint Dunstone’s Church-yard, in Bidet. Street 1615.> a= 7 | : | | pee, s Reacar® ¥ % ; f , | | I | ) | | | | | | | | | . Ge") ¢ € | OU Go | C € e« © « ce ee « } Bi| | | | i | a ae a eat vada ae Se awe s a |eEts e Shr > teebhe Fee Be mee SS a SS ee seek a Ox A MERRY DIALOGUE BETWEEN BAND, CUPP, AND RUPE. Actors: Banpb, Curr, RUFF. Enter Band and Cuff. = Se where art thou ? Cuff. Here at hand. ee Enter Ruff. Ruff Wierd is this Cuff ? Cuff. Almost at your e/dow. Ruf. Oh, Band, art thou there? I thought thou hadst been worn out of date by this time, or shrunk in the washing at least. Band. What, do you think I am afraid of your greatness? No, you shall know that there are men of fashion in place as well as yourself. Cuff. Good Band, do not freé so. el4 | A Merry DIALOGUE BETWEEN Band. A scurvy shig-shag gentleman, new come out of the North; a puisne, a very freshman, come up hither to learn fashions; and seek to expel me? | Cuff. Nay, if you be so évcad with him, Band: we shall have a fray presently. fu, Sir, Vil pull down your collar for you (fe zostles B. and C. stays him. ) Cuff. It was time for me to stay you: for I am sure you were a falling Band. Fug Well, Band, for all you are so staff, Ul make you démder enough before I leave you. Band. No, hog-yonker, its more than thou canst do. Cuff, O let me come to him. Well, Band, let me catch you in another place, and I’ll make cut- work of you. Band. Cut-work of me! No, there’s ne’er .q Spanish Ruff of you all can do it. Cu. S'foot, if these two should go together by the ears, Cuff would be in a fine plight; would he not ? Fug, Well, Band, thou hadst need look to thysell: for il mect thee 1 will ye thee roundly. | Band. Laceme? Thou wouldst be /aced thy- self; for this is the very truth, Ruff, thou art but a plam knave.Bann, Curr, AND Rurfr. 5 Cuff. If they talk of lacing, I were best look about myself. fiuff, Darest thou meet me in the field ? Band. In the field? Why thou art but an effeminate fellow, Ruff, for all thou art so well sez, But at what weapon ? ftug, Nay, I will give thee that advantage. Bring thou what weapons thou wilt. I scorn to make anything of thee, Band, but xeedle-work. Band. S’foot, thou shalt know, a gentleman and a soldier scorns thy proffer. Rug. A soldier. Cuff. Did you not hear of the great Bands went over of late ? Ruf. Where didst thou serve? in the Low Countries ? Cay. kt may be.so.. for he is a. Holland Band. ; Band. Where served, it isno matter; but I am sure I have been often pressed. Cuff. Truly, his /azzdress will witness thereof. Rug. Press me no pressings: for Pll make you know that Ruff is s¢eeled to the back. If I had my stick here, you should feel it. Band. Nay, bragger, it is not you great words can carry itaway so. Give Band but a sem, and he will be for you at any time. Name, therefore, the place, the day, and the hour of our meeting. ieee ee6 A Merry DiIaALoGuE BETWEEN Ruff. The place, the papermills : where I will tear thee into rags, before I have done with thee: the time, to-morrow about one. But do you hear? We will fight szzgle: you shall not be double, Band. Cuy. Now | perceive the Spaniard and the Hollander will to it roundly. may Butt do you hear; Once more, do not say at our next meeting you forgot the time. Guy No: 1 dare warrant you, there is. no man more careful of the time than Band is: for I am sure he hath always a dozen clocks’ about him. Ruff. Farewell then. Band. Then farewell. Cuy. Nay, you Shall not part so. “You: two will go into the fields to fight, and know not what fighting means. A couple of whete-livered fellows! the laundress will make you both look as whzde as a clout, if she list. If you lack deateng, she'll beat you Ill warrant you. She'll so clap your szdes together, that she'll beat you all to pieces, in once or twice handling. Why, I have known her leave her marks behind her a whole week together. She'll quickly beat you d/ack and élue; for I am sure she'll scarce wash white before she starch. Band. Well, remember the time and _ place, Ruff. 1CLocK.—A kind of ornamental work worn of various parts of dress, now applied exclusively to that on each side of a stocking. —Clock-work. = > Wepre Rosi tea ae - ae oe bas ee) aie Se ae = ee 23 a me s be ee SAS a eae sae x BanD, Curr, AND RuerFr. 7 Cuff. Remember yourself, and Mistress Sze¢ch- well ; one that you have been both beholden to in your days. Band. \Who? Mistress Stitchwell. I know her not. Cuff. Nor thou neither. Ruff. No:—I swear by all the gum and dlue starch in Christendom. Cuff | thought so. Why its the sempster. One, that both you had been wxdone, had it not been for her. But what talk I of your uxdomg? I say Mistress Stitchwell, the sempstress, was the very maker of you: yet you regard her thus little. But itis the common fashion of youall. When you come to be so grvea¢ as you are, you forget from what house you came. Ruf, S’foot! Ruff careth not a fzx for her. Band. Nor Band a bution. Cuff. Well, well Band and Ruff, you had best take heed of her, you know she set you both in the stocks once before; and if she catch you again, it is a hundred to one, if she Zazg you not both up; for she hath got strings already. Ruff: Well, meet me a thou darst: Band. The place, the paper-mills, the hour, to- morrow at one. Cuff, If you go, go. But look well about you, do you hear me? As little a fellow as Iam, I will come Pa Se ee nein a 7 ne as —— =8 A Merry DIALoGuEe BETWEEN and cuff you both out of the field. If I do not, say Cuff is no man of his Lands. Luff, Alas! poor shrimp, thou art nothing in my hands. | Cuff. If you go, you shall never say Cuff came of a sleeveless errand. Il bind your hands, I warrant you, for striking. Gand. Say, and hold, Ruff, remember the paper-mills. Cuj. And if ye be so choleric, I’ll even pin you both in, as soon as I come home. Can you not decide the quarrel between yourselves, without a field? I thought, Ruff you had been a little more mild, Ruff. You were a horrible puritan the other day, a very precise Ruff. ‘tug. Hang him, base rascal! Would he not make any man mad, to see such a poor snake? J durst not scarce peep out of doors, before Col/ar came to town, and now to swagger thus. Cu. Come, you shall be friends, Band. Land. Friends with him? such a base rascal as he is! a ¢hread-bare fellow as he is! | scorn, but my man Collar should go better every day in the week than he, and be friends with him. Aug. Thy man, Collar ? Thy master, thou would’st have said. I am sure he is thy upholder. Cuff. Nay, surely, he is his master ; at least his maker. For Bands make rags, rags make paper,——e i - : a “a cae 5 e Banp, Curr, AND RuFr. 9 paper makes pasteboard, and pasteboard makes Collar : and is not this a séff argument, that he is his maker, and therefore master ? Ruff, Well, be he what he will, if I catch his collar P'll cut him in jags. Let me but clasp him, and [ll make him for stirring. Cuff. But ye shall not fight, Have ye not friends and neighbours enough to end this con- troversy, but you must go into the fields, and there cut the ¢hvead of your lives? No, we'll have no such doing. Come, choose you an umpire, Band, for it shall be so. Band. Since you will force me to it; if Ruff be content, I am willing. Cu. Ruff, you shall be content. Ruff. lf I shall, then I must : let me name him. Band. \f 1 may choose, I'll have Master Hand- kerchief. Cuj. Nay, stay theres he* is a, mutable snivelling fellow, and a notable lawyer. He will wipe your nose of all, if you put the case to him. But what say you to S#ert ? Kup. thoy tim, a vope on. him) We: iega filthy shzftzxg knave ; and one to whom Band a little before hath been much beholden. They were jozxed a long time together in friendship. Cuff. Why, then go to Master Cap the head- man of the town. EH 2 SS nesIO A Merry DIALOGUE BETWEEN Band. No; ) deem that he is a very bad justice. You may have him wrought on any sede for money. Auf. Vl tell you what : then we will go to my Lord Corpus himself. Band. Ye is not in town. Feuff-- He is: for to-day: I saw Sock, his chief Joot-man in town. Cuf. Here’s ado with you and my Lord Corpus. Indeed, I would you were both hanged about his neck for me; for then I think you would be both even. But I see, this strife will never be ended, till I be arbitrator myself. You know I am equally allied to you both : shall I be moderator between you? Band and Ruff. Content. Cuf. Well then, Ruff shall be most accounted of amongst the clergy, for he is the graver fellow: although I know the puritans will not greatly care for him ; he hath such a deal of sze¢tzmg, and they love standing better. As for you, Band, you shall be made most of amongst the young gallants : although sometimes they shall use Ruff for a fashion, but not otherwise. However, you need not regard the giddy-headed multitude. Let them do as they list; sometimes respecting one, sometimes the other. But when you come to the counsellors and men of law, which know right from wrong, judging your worths to be equal, they shall prefer neither, but use an | onBAND, CUFF, AND RUFF. II the kindness of both. How say you: are you both pleased ? Band and Ruf. We are. Cuff. Then go before me to the next town, and I'll follow after with a dazd of your friendship drawn, which I hope these gentleman will seal with their Lands. | Lxeunt Band and Ruff. Cuff. Claw me, and I'll claw thee,—the proverb goes: Let it be true, in this that freshman shows. 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