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FIRST GENTLEMAN

O barbarous and bloody spectacle!
His body will I bear unto the king: [145]
If he revenge it not, yet will his friends;
So will the queen, that living held him dear.

[Exit with the body.]

Scene II IT

Enter [George] Bevis, and John Holland, [with long staves].

BEVIS

Come and get thee a sword, though made of a lath: they have been up
these two days.

HOLLAND

They have the more need to sleep now then.

BEVIS

I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth, and
turn it, and set a new nap upon [5] it.

HOLLAND

So he had need, for ’tis threadbare. Well, I say, it was never merry world in
England since gentlemen came up.

BEVIS

O miserable age! Virtue is not regarded in [10] handicraftsmen.

HOLLAND

The nobility think scorn to go in leather aprons.

BEVIS

Nay more, the king’s council are no good workmen. [15]

HOLLAND

True: and yet it is said, ‘Labour in thy vocation’: which is as much to say,
as let the magistrates be labouring men; and therefore should we be
magistrates.