HILDERSHAM.
The more I strive to know what you should mean,
The less I understand you.
SIR RAPH.
Did not you tell us still how Peter Fabell
At length would cross us, if we took not heed?
HILDERSHAM.
I have heard of one that is a great magician,
But he's about the University.
SIR RAPH.
Did not you send your novice Benedic
To persuade the girl to leave Mountchensey's love,
To cross that Peter Fabell in his art,
And to that purpose made him visitor?
HILDERSHAM.
I never sent my novice from the house,
Nor have we made our visitation yet.
SIR ARTHUR.
Never sent him? Nay, did he not go?
And did not I direct him to the house,
And confer with him by the way? and did he not
Tell me what charge he had received from you,
Word by word, as I requested at your hands?
HILDERSHAM.
That you shall know; he came along with me,
And stays without. Come hither, Benedic!
[Enter Benedic.]
Young Benedic, were you ere sent by me
To Chesson Nunnery for a visitor?
BENEDIC.
Never, sir, truly.