T. What matter is it for him then to be a he-goat, or a stumpbuck, or a kid, or a chamois, a stag, or a brill, a unicorn, or an elephant so he may be safe, but how may that be, I pray thee, tell me?
C. I will tell thee, do not you know that whosoever is made a cuckold by his wife, either he knows it, or he knows it not.
T. That I know, then what will you infer upon it?
C. If he knows it he must needs be patient, and therefore a martyr, if he knows it not, he is innocent, and you know that martyrs and innocents shall be saved, which if you grant, it followeth that all cuckolds shall obtain paradise.
T. Methinks then that women are not greatly to be blamed if they seek their husbands' eternal salvation, but are rather to be commended as causes of a noble and worthy effect."
He speaks with evident feeling of one who is imprisoned for debt.
"T. Take heed of debts; temper thy desires, and moderate thy tongue.
C. It is a devilish thing to owe money.
T. For all that he is so proud that though he have need of patience he calleth for revenge.
C. Could not he save himself out of the hands of those catchpoles, counter guardians, or sergeants?