AFTER THE SECOND SOUNDING.
ENTER THREE OF THE CHILDREN, STRUGGLING.
1 CHILD. Pray you away; why, fellows! Gods so, what do you mean?
2 CHILD. Marry, that you shall not speak the prologue sir.
3 CHILD. Why, do you hope to speak it?
2 CHILD. Ay, and I think I have most right to it: I am sure I studied it first.
3 CHILD. That's all one, if the author think I can speak it better.
1 CHILD. I plead possession of the cloak: gentles, your suffrages, I pray you.
[WITHIN.] Why children! are you not ashamed? come in there.
3 CHILD. Slid, I'll play nothing in the play: unless I speak it.
1 CHILD. Why, will you stand to most voices of the gentlemen? let that decide it.
3 CHILD. O, no, sir gallant; you presume to have the start of us there, and that
makes you offer so prodigally.
1 CHILD. No, would I were whipped if I had any such thought; try it by lots
either.
2 CHILD. Faith, I dare tempt my fortune in a greater venture than this.
3 CHILD. Well said, resolute Jack! I am content too; so we draw first. Make the
cuts.
1 CHILD. But will you not snatch my cloak while I am stooping?
3 CHILD. No, we scorn treachery.
2 CHILD. Which cut shall speak it?
