title: The Beggar Maid
author:  Dilly Court 
description: DILLY COURT grew up in North-east London and began her career in television, writing scripts for commercials. She is married with two grown-up children and four grandchildren, and now lives in Dorset on the beautiful Jurassic Coast with her husband. She is the author of nineteen novels and also writes under the name of Lily Baxter.
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  A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
  
  
    
    
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  ](A%20Chaste%20Maid%20in%20Cheapside_split_002.html#filepos87467)[Act V
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
  
  
  ### Thomas Middleton
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Names of the Principal Persons
  
  
  Mr. YELLOWHAMMER, a goldsmith
  
  
  MAUDLIN, his wife
  
  
  TIM, their son
  
  
  MOLL, their daughter
  
  
  TUTOR to Tim
  
  
  SIR WALTER Whorehound, a suitor to Moll
  
  
  SIR OLIVER Kix, and his wife [LADY KIX], kin to Sir Walter
  
  
  Mr. [John] ALLWIT, and his wife [MISTRESS ALLWIT], whom Sir Walter keeps
  
  
  A WELSH GENTLEWOMAN, Sir Walter's whore
  
  
  WAT and NICK, his bastards [by Mistress Allwit]
  
  
  DAVY Dahumma, his man
  
  
  TOUCHWOOD SENIOR, and his wife [MISTRESS TOUCHWOOD], a deca