But grant my prayer, and well will you betide.
MARY
What is your prayer?
THE DEVIL
To lay your name aside.
And give yourself another therefor.
Mary’s a name I never learned to care for.
Along of one Mary I and my fellows into such mischief fell
That ’tis a name we like but indifferent well.
Were ye called Lisbeth or Lina or Gretchen, my dear,