orne.

_Pike_. Yes, at my heart I weare them--a wife & children (my poore
Lambes at home); there's a chaine of sighes and sobbes and sorrow,
harder then any Iron; and this chaine is so long it reaches from
_Sherrys_ to _Tavestock_ in _Devonshire_.

_Jay_. That's farre enough in Conscience.

_Pike_. Could I shake those Chaines off I would cutt Capers: poore
_Dick Pike_ would dance though Death pip'd to him; yes, and spitt in
your Hangman's face.

_Jay_. Not too much of that nayther: some 2 dayes hence he will give you
a choake peare[39] will spoyle your spitting.

_Pike_. Pheu!

_Jay_. For, let me see, to-day is Sunday; to-morrow the Lords sitt, and
then I must have a care--a cruell care--to have your leggs handsome and
a new cleane ruff band about your necke, of old rusty iron; 'twill purge
your choller.

_Pike_. I, I, let it, let it: Collers, halters, & hangmen are to me
bracelets and frendly companions.

[_Knocking-within_.

_Jay_. So hasty? stay my leasure.--(_Enter 2 fryers_)
Two fryers come to prepare you. [_Exit_.

I. Hayle, Countryman! for we, though fryers in _Spaine_,
Were born in _Ireland_.

_Pike_. Reverend sir, y'are welcome:
Too few such visitants, nay none at all,
Have I seen in this damnable Limbo.

2. Brother, take heed; doe not misuse that word
Of Limbo.[40]

1. Brother _Pike_, for so we heare,
Men call you, we are come in pure devotion
And charity to your soule, being thereto bound
By holy orders of our mother Church.

_Pike_. What to doe, pray, with me?[41]

1. To point with our fingers
Out all such rockes, shelves, quicksands, gulfes, & shallowes
Lying in the sea through which you are to passe
In the most dangerous voyage you ere made:
Eyther by our care to sett you safe on land,
Or, if you fly from us your heavenly pilotts,
Sure to be wrackt for ever.

_Pike_. What must I doe?

2. Confesse to one of us what rancke and foule impostumes
Have bred about your soule.

1. What Leprosies
Have run ore all your Conscience.

2. What hott feavers
Now shake your peace of mind.

1. For we are come
To cure your old Corruptions.

2. We are come
To be your true and free Physitians.

1. Without the hope of gold, to give you health.

2. To sett you on your feet