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2. CARRIER

Ay, when? canst tell? Lend me thy lantern, quoth he? Marry, I’ll see thee
hanged first!

GADSHILL
Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come to London? [40]

2. CARRIER
Time enough to go to bed with a candle, I warrant thee. Come, neighbour

Mugs, we’ll call up the gentlemen. They will along with company, for they
have great charge.
Exeunt [Carriers].

GADSHILL
What, ho! chamberlain! [45]

Enter Chamberlain.

CHAMBERLAIN
At hand, quoth pick-purse.

GADSHILL

That’s even as fair as ‘at hand, quoth the chamberlain’; for thou variest no
more from picking of purses than giving direction doth from labouring: thou
layest the plot how. [50]

CHAMBERLAIN
Good morrow, Master Gadshill. It holds current that I told you yesternight.
There’s a franklin in the Wild of Kent hath brought three hundred marks with

him in gold. I heard him tell it to one of his company last night at supper − a
kind of auditor, one that [55] hath abundance of charge too, God knows
what. They are up already and call for eggs and butter. They will away
presently.

GADSHILL

Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas’ clerks, I’ll give thee this neck.
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