Page 572 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

DICK

Silence!

CADE

My father was a Mortimer -

DICK

[aside]
He was an honest man, and a good bricklayer.

CADE

My mother a Plantagenet - [40]

DICK

[aside]
I knew her well; she was a midwife.

CADE

My wife descended of the Lacies -

DICK

[aside]
She was indeed a pedlar’s daughter, and sold many laces.

SMITH [45]

[aside]
But now of late, not able to travel with her furred pack, she washes bucks
here at home.

CADE

Therefore am I of an honourable house.

DICK

[aside]
Ay, by my faith, the field is honourable; and there was he born under a
hedge, for his father had never a house but the cage. [50]

CADE

Valiant I am.