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You are pleas'd to make your mirth of me. Un. By this Rubie, nay you shall weare it in the broad eye of the world, dost thinke I am in Jeast. Do. Sir Richard Un. And were he ten Sir Richards, I am out of my wardship. Do. How he flutters in the lime bush! it takes rarely. Un. What a necessary thing now were a household Chaplaine. Ri. So, so, the wench inclines.
Ha you an ambush, Lady? Ile cry out murder. Is two to one faire play? Cou. Let me cut one legg of, to marre his running. De. Hold, let me speake. Cou. What canst thou say for thy baseness? De. Some men loves wit, and can without dishonour Endure a jeast. Why, do you thinke I know not You were here, and but obscur'd to see my humour. I came to waite upon you with your sword, I. Cou.
He laughs! what has he to laugh at? what wooll did his father give for the bantling? Is he a Roman knight? I am the son of a king. How came I then, you'll say, to serve another? I did it of my self, and had rather be a citizen of Rome, than a tributary king, and now hope to live so, as to be no man's jeast.
Cotgrave , Ruade seiche, a drie bob, jeast or nip. Bailey has 'Dry Bob. a Taunt or Scoff'. p. 100 By Yea and Nay. 'Yea and Nay' was often derisively applied to the Puritans, and hence to their lineal descendants the Whigs, in allusion to the Scriptural injunction, S. Matthew v, 33-7, which they feigned exactly to follow. Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas, Act ii, III, where Thomas says:
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