Come, I have business, both of you, farewell!
[Exeunt all, but WILLIAM and HOST.]
Host. Confess now, I have done well in discovering these villanies.
Will. Ay, thou art an Eldorado of cunning.
Host. Herein you see the man of experience: I did not rush to tell it all directly.
Will. No, indeed, thou didst not, and had I not been there to extract the pearl of discovery from the jaw-bone of ignorance with the forceps of discernment, my Master by this time had been sped.
Host. Why, I was in the very nick of time. I am older than thou art.
Will. Thy experience did ever squint, and the obliquity of the mind grows worse with years. Yet I grant thee, as it hath happened, thou hast been equal to the occasion, which is true greatness, and that thou art great no one who looks at thee can deny. I am glad that Wyckoff hath at length paid his long reckoning.
Host. But he hath not, he hath not!
Will. Did you not see them take him?—