The house of SCIENCE. WILL, WIT; also REASON and SCIENCE behind.
WIT.
What shall we do? Shall we stand lingering here?
WILL.
If you be a man, press in and go near.
WIT.
What, if there be some other suitor there?
WILL.
And if there be, yet need you not to fear;
Until I bring his head to you upon a spear.
I will not look you in the face, nor in your sight appear.
REASON.
Nay, Wit, advise yourself, and pause a while,
Or else this haste of yours will you beguile.
SCIENCE.
No haste but good, take time and learn to fight,
Learn to assault, learn to defend a right:
Your match[393] is monstrous to behold and full of might,
Whom you must vanquish, not by force, but by sleight.
WIT.
Madam, stand to your promise; if I win, I am sped,
Am I not?
SCIENCE.
Yea, truly.
WILL.
Good enough, if we fight not, I would we were dead,
No man shall stay us, that bears a head.