Therefore hap and be happy,[222] hap that hap may,

I will put it in hazard, I[’ll] give it assay.

All hail, Master Reward and righteous Justice:

I beseech you let me be recompensed too, according to my service;

For why all this long time I have lived in hope.

Reward. Then for thy reward, then, here is a rope.

Haphazard. Nay, soft, my masters: by Saint Thomas of Trunions,

I am not disposed to buy of your onions.

A rope? (quoth you) away with that showing!

It would grieve a man having two ploughs going.