Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
Title: Search
Fal. stris, to carry mee in the name of foule Cloathes to
Fal. Datchet‑lane: they tooke me on their shoulders: met
Fal. the iealous knaue their Master in the doore; who
Fal. ask'd them once or twice what they had in their Bas
Fal. ket? I quak'd for feare least the Lunatique Knaue
Fal. would haue search'd it: but Fate (ordaining he should
Fal. be a Cuckold) held his hand: well, on went hee, for
Fal. a search, and away went I for foule Cloathes: But
Fal. marke the sequell (Master Broome) I suffered the pangs
Fal. of three seuerall deaths: First, an intollerable fright,
Fal. to be detected with a iealious rotten Bell‑weather:
Fal. Next to be compass'd like a good Bilbo in the circum
Fal. ference of a Pecke, hilt to point, heele to head. And
Fal. then to be stopt in like a strong distillation with stink
Fal. ing Cloathes, that fretted in their owne grease:
Fal. thinke of that, a man of my Kidney; thinke of that,
Fal. that am as subiect to heate as butter; a man of conti
Fal. nuall dissolution, and thaw: it was a miracle to scape
Fal. suffocation. And in the height of this Bath (when I
Fal. was more then halfe stew'd in grease (like a Dutch‑