I envy not your state, nor yet your great favour,

Then grudge not at all, if in my behaviour

I make the king merry with pleasant urbanity,

Whom I never abused to any man’s injury.

Carisophus. By Cock, sir, yet in the court you do[19] best thrive,

For you get more in one day than I do in five.

Aristippus. Why, man, in the court do you not see

Rewards given for virtue to every degree?

To reward the unworthy—that world is done:

The court is changed, a good thread hath been spun