ESAU. As pleaseth you, mother, I can be well content.
REBECCA. Then will I go call him hither incontinent.
And where he doth already love thee very well,
This will make him to love thee better a great deal.
RAGAN. Truly, sir, this is of you a right gentle part:
At least, if it come from the bottom of your heart.
ESAU. It must now be thus; but when I shall Jacob find,
I shall then do as God shall put into my mind.
__Enter_ ISAAC and MIDO with REBECCA.
REBECCA. He hath at my word remitted all his quarrel.
ISAAC. Forsooth! love him the better a great deal.
And if he be here, I would commend his doing.
ESAU.[289] All prest here, father, to tarry on your coming.
ISAAC. Son Esau, thou hast thyself well acquitted,
That all quarrel to Jacob thou hast remitted.
It was the Lord's pleasure that it should thus be,
Against whose ordinance to stand is not for thee:
But now, to the intent it may please the Lord,
To knit your hearts one day in a perfect concord,
We shall first in a song give laud unto His name,
And then with all gladness within confirm the same.
REBECCA. As ye think best, dear husband, I agree thereto.