REASON.
Daughter, I fear all is not as it should be.
WIT.
Yes, yes, have ye no doubt, all is and shall be well.
REASON.
What one art thou? thereof how canst thou tell?
WIT.
Reason, most noble sir, and you, my lady dear:
How have you done in all this time, since first I saw you here?
SCIENCE.
The fool is mad, I ween; stand back, and touch me not.
WIT.
You speak not as you think, or have you me forgot?
SCIENCE.
I never saw thee in my life until this time, I wot;
Thou art some mad-brain or some fool, or some disguised sot.[422]
WIT.
God's fish-hooks?[423] and know you not me?
SCIENCE.
I had been well at ease indeed to be acquainted with thee!
WIT.
Hop haliday![424] marry, this is pretty cheer,
I have lost myself, I cannot tell where!
An old-said saw it is, and too true, I find,
Soon hot, soon cold: out of sight, out of mind.
What, madam, what meaneth this sudden change?
What means this scornful look, this countenance so strange?
Is it[425] your fashion so to use your lovers at the first:
Or have all women this delight to scold and to be curs'd?