Page 575 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

DICK

They use to write it on the top of letters. - ’Twill go [95] hard with you.

CADE

Let me alone. - Dos thou use to write thy name? Or hast thou a mark to
thyself, like an honest plain-dealing man?

CLERK

Sir, I thank God, I have been so well brought up [100] that I can write my
name.

ALL

He hath confessed: away with him! He’s a villain and a traitor.

CADE

Away with him, I say! Hang him with his pen and inkhorn about his neck.
[105]

Exit one with the clerk.

Enter Michael.

MICHAEL

Where’s our general?

CADE

Here I am, thou particular fellow.

MICHAEL

Fly, fly, fly! Sir Humphrey Stafford and his brother are hard by, with the
king’s forces.

CADE

Stand, villain, stand, or I’ll fell thee down. He shall [110] be encountered
with a man as good as himself: he is but a knight, is ‘a?

MICHAEL

No.

CADE

To equal him, I will make myself a knight presently. [ Kneels.] Rise up, Sir