Yes, we had better be moving along. It's getting dark, and it's time to retire.
KING HEROD
Aha! You don't like to hear the truth. It isn't pleasant, is it?
FAT MONK
Hee-hee, brother, talk is cheap. A barking dog doesn't bite. Scold away, scold away. We are listening. God in heaven will decide who is to go to hell and who elsewhere. "The meek, shall inherit the earth," says the Gospel. Good-bye, young gentlemen.
GRAY MONK (to King Herod)
Let me give you a piece of advice, however. Talk, but don't talk too much. Don't go too far. We are only tolerating you because you are a pitiful creature and because you are foolish. But if you give your tongue too free a rein, we can stop it, you know. Yes, indeed.
KING HEROD
All right, try—try to stop me.