Bar. Why, so; Then thus, thou told'st me they have turned my house Into a nunnery, and some nuns are there?
Abig. I did.
Bar. Then, Abigail, there must my girl Entreat the abbess to be entertained.280
Abig. How, as a nun?
Bar. I, daughter, for religion Hides many mischiefs from suspicion.
Abig. I, but, father, they will suspect me there.
Bar. Let 'em suspect; but be thou so precise As they may think it done of holiness. Entreat 'em fair, and give them friendly speech, And seem to them as if thy sins were great, Till thou hast gotten to be entertained.
Abig. Thus, father, shall I much dissemble.
Bar. Tush! As good dissemble that thou never mean'st,290 As first mean truth and then dissemble it,— A counterfeit profession is better Than unseen[31] hypocrisy.
Abig. Well, father, say [that] I be entertained, What then shall follow?