ESAU. If each penny thereof might be worth twenty pound,
I willingly to thee surrender it this stound.
And if each cicle might be worth a whole talent,
I promise with this sale to hold me content.
JACOB. Come, let us set him on foot, that he may go sup.
RAGAN. Nay, first I will know a thing, ere I help him up,
Sirrah, will ye eat folk, when ye are long fasting?
ESAU. No, I pray thee help me up, and leave thy jesting.
RAGAN. No, trow, eat your brother Jacob now, if you lust;
For you shall not eat me, I tell you, that is just.
JACOB. Come, that with my pottage thou may'st refreshed be.
ESAU. There is no meat on earth, that so well liketh me.
RAGAN. Yet I may tell you, it is pottage dearly bought.
ESAU. No, not a whit, for my bargain take thou no thought.
I defy that birthright that should be of more price
Than helping of one's self: I am not so unwise.
RAGAN. And how then, sir, shall poor Ragan have no meat?