The Draper. Chap. 4.
GEntleman, sir, signior, honest man, vvhat cloth vvill you see? vvant you any good sorts of cloaths?
Come hether, I will vse you vvell.
Of what colour will you haue?
Shew me a faire scarlet, a vvelch frise, a good Irish rug.
Haue you a faire French tawnie? Let me see a very fine London greene. Shew me a Crimsin very fine and large.
I haue the best in London for you.
There is one of a good breadth, looke vpon it vvell in the light. Handle it, the colour is in graine.
It will not loose colour.
How sell you the yard, the elle, the whole peece, the halfe yard, a gowne-cloth, a cloake-cloth?
At a vvord I vvould sell it, ten shillings six pence the yard, fifteene shillings the elle, sixteene shillings eight pence the elle and the halfe quarter.
Well measure out fiue elles and an halfe, make good measure I pray you.
One, two, three, foure, fiue, and a halfe, good measure.
What would you haue mistresse, a stammell to make you a petticote, or a purple for a kertle? Of vvhat colour vvill you haue, of white, blacke,