Ans. I’ll whip you, if you grow unruly thus.
1st Mad. Whip me? Out you toad! Whip me? What justice is this, to whip me because I am a beggar? Alas! I am a poor man: a very poor man! I am starved, and have had no meat by this light, ever since the great flood; I am a poor man.
Ans. Well, well, be quiet, and you shall have meat.
1st Mad. Ay, ay, pray do; for look you, here be my guts: these are my ribs—you may look through my ribs—see how my guts come out! These are my red guts, my very guts, oh, oh!
Ans. Take him in there. [Servants remove 1st Madman.
Flu., Pio., &c. A very piteous sight.
Cas. Father, I see you have a busy charge.
Ans. They must be used like children, pleased with toys,
And anon whipped for their unruliness:
I’ll show you now a pair quite different
From him that’s gone: he was all words; and these
Unless you urge ’em, seldom spend their speech,
But save their tongues.
[Opens another door, from which enter 2nd and 3rd Madmen.
La, you; this hithermost
Fell from the happy quietness of mind,
About a maiden that he loved, and died:
He followed her to church, being full of tears,
And as her body went into the ground,
He fell stark mad. This is a married man,
Was jealous of a fair, but, as some say,
A very virtuous wife; and that spoiled him.