ALISOUN

[While the Swains assist in adjusting her disguise.]

Good my squires and henchmen,

I thank you.— Roger, sweetheart, lace my boot there.—

Our journey hath been perilous and dark—

Bob, chuck, how sits my doublet?—but praise Mary,

I am preserved to greet my virgin sister;—

God send she like the flavour of my beard

Better than me.

FRIAR