Marchant

His wife (having invented a present shift) laughed on her husband, saying: What marchant I pray you have you brought home hither, to fetch away my tub for five pence, for which I poore woman that sit all day alone in my house have beene proffered so often seaven: […]

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By Jove, master marchant, by sea or by land Would get but smale argent if I did not stand His very good master, I may say to you, When he hazards in hope what hap will insue.

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Now by the chaunge of a vizard one man might play the king and the carter, the old nurse and the yong damsell, the marchant and the souldier or any other part he listed very conveniently.

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Faith Gentlemen now I play a marchants part, And venture madly on a deſperate Mart.

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