I care not a beanestalke for [the] best what lacke you of you all, noe not [the] next day after Simon and Jude; when you goe a feasting to Westminster [with] your gallifoist and your potgunns, to [the] very terror of [the] paper-whales, whan you land in sholes, and make [the] understanders in cheapeside, wonder to see shipes swimme upon mens shoulders, when [the]
By Clod, in Contention for Honour and Riches (1.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 75v

Fencers flourish, and make ye kings liege people fall downe and worship ye devil and
St Dunstan, when your whifflers are hangd in chaines, and hercules club spits fire
about ye pageants, though ye poore children catch cold, yt shew like painted cloth,
and are / onely kept alive wth sugar- plumms:
By Clod, in Contention for Honour and Riches (1.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 76r

I have seene your processions, and
heard your lions and camels make speaches, in stead of Grace before and after
dinner.
By Clod, in Contention for Honour and Riches (1.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 76r

thou, yt wert begot upon an hay=mow, bred in thy fathers stable,
and outdungd his cattel; yt at one ofand twenty, wert onely able to write a sheepes -
marke in tarre, and read thy owne capitall letter, like a gallous upon a cowes
buttocke; you yt allowe noe Scripture canonical, but an Almanacke.
By Gettings, in Contention for Honour and Riches (1.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 76r

xx my freind you must bee content to marry wth Malkin, shee can churme wel, and humble her selfe beehinde a hedge, for this lady is noe lettice for your lips.
By Gettings, in Contention for Honour and Riches (1.1), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 76r

There were soe many slaine [that] now [the] dead had buried [the] earth.
By Soldier, in Contention for Honour and Riches (1.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 76r

Thus lookt [the] moone, when [with] her virgin fires / Shee went in progresse to [the] mountaine Latmos, / to visit her Endimion, yet I injure your beauty, to compare it to her orbe / of silver light [the] sunne from [which] shee borrowes / [that] makes her by [the] nightly lampe of heaven, / hath in his stocke of beames not halfe your lustre, / Enrich [the] Earth still [with] your sacred presences / Upon each object throw a glorious starre, / created by your light, [that] when [the] learned / Astronomers comes forth to examine heaven, / hee may find 2, and bee himself devided, / [which] hee should first contemplate.
By Courtier, in Contention for Honour and Riches (1.2), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 76r

If hee give largely of his funeral, hee is a happy man onely by his dole: xx [the] blue-coates can but comfort thy kindred [with] singing and rejoicing at thy funderall.
By Clod, in Contention for Honour and Riches (1.3), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 76r

By my cart and by my plow, my dunne mare, and best red cow, by my barne and fattest weather, my grounds and all my state together, In thy love I overtake thee, else my whistling quite forsake mee. .
By Clod, in Contention for Honour and Riches (1.3), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 76r

My desires have the same ambition
By Soldier, in Contention for Honour and Riches (1.3), James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 76r