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You loggerheaded and unpolish’d grooms!

What? no attendance? no regard? no duty?

Where is the foolish knave I sent before?

Gru.

Here, sir, as foolish as I was before.

Pet.

You peasant swain, you whoreson malt-horse drudge!

Did I not bid thee meet me in the park,

And bring along these rascal knaves with thee?

Gru.

Nathaniel’s coat, sir, was not fully made,

And Gabr’el’s pumps were all unpink’d i’ th’ heel;

There was no link to color Peter’s hat,

And Walter’s dagger was not come from sheathing;

There were none fine but Adam, Rafe, and Gregory;

The rest were ragged, old, and beggarly,

Yet, as they are, here are they come to meet you.

Pet.

Go, rascals, go, and fetch my supper in.

Exeunt Servants.

Sings.

“Where is the life that late I led?

Where are those”—

Sit down, Kate, and welcome. Soud, soud, soud, soud!

Enter Servants with supper.

Why, when, I say? Nay, good sweet Kate, be merry.

Off with my boots, you rogues! You villains, when?

Sings.

“It was the friar of orders grey,