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DICK

If this fellow be wise, he’ll never call ye Jack Cade more: I think he hath a
very fair warning. [10]

                        [Dick takes a paper from the soldier’s body and reads it.]
My lord, there’s an army gathered together in Smithfield.

     CADE

Come, then, let’s go fight with them; but first, go and set London Bridge on
fire; and, if you can, burn down the Tower too. Come, let’s away. [15]

                                                                                           Exeunt.

                                  Scene VII IT

     Alarum. Matthew Gough is slain, and all the rest [of his followers with
                    him].Then enter Jack Cade with his company.

     CADE

So, sirs. Now go some and pull down the Savoy; others to th’Inns of Court;
down with them all!

     DICK

I have a suit unto your lordship.

     CADE

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

     DICK

Only that the laws of England may come out of [5] your mouth.

     HOLLAND

[aside]
Mass, ’twill be sore law then, for he was thrust in the mouth with a spear,
and ’tis not whole yet.

     SMITH [10]

[aside]
Nay, John, it will be stinking law, for his breath stinks with eating toasted
cheese.
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