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  withstand them. The Lord Mayor craves aid of

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  your Honor from the Tower to defend the city

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  from the rebels.

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  SCALES

  Such aid as I can spare you shall command;

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  But I am troubled here with them myself:

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  The rebels have essayed to win the Tower.

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  But get you to Smithfield and gather head,

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  And thither I will send you Matthew Gough.

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  Fight for your king, your country, and your lives.

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  And so farewell, for I must hence again.

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  They exit.

 

  Enter Jack Cade and the rest, and strikes his staff on

  London Stone.

  CADE  Now is Mortimer lord of this city. And here, sit-

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  ting upon London Stone, I charge and command

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  that, of the city’s cost, the Pissing Conduit run

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  nothing but claret wine this first year of our reign.

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  And now henceforward it shall be treason for any

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  that calls me other than Lord Mortimer.

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  Enter a Soldier running.

  SOLDIER  Jack Cade, Jack Cade!

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  CADE  Knock him down there.

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  They kill him.

  DICK  If this fellow be wise, he’ll never call you Jack

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  Cade more. I think he hath a very fair warning.

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  My lord, there’s an army gathered together in

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  Smithfield.

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  CADE  Come, then, let’s go fight with them. But first, go

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  and set London Bridge on fire, and, if you can,

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  burn down the Tower too. Come, let’s away.

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  All exit.

 

  Alarums. Matthew Gough is slain, and all the rest.

  Then enter Jack Cade with his company.

  CADE  So, sirs. Now go some and pull down the Savoy;

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  others to th’ Inns of Court. Down with them all!

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  DICK  I have a suit unto your Lordship.

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  CADE  Be it a lordship, thou shalt have it for that word.

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  DICK  Only that the laws of England may come out of

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  your mouth.

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  HOLLAND,