ABHOMINABLE LIVING.
Hem! come away quickly,
The back door is open;[125] I dare not tarry:
Come, Fellowship, come on away!
HYPOCRISY.
What, Unknown Honesty? a word!
[Draws A. L. aside.[126]
You shall not go yet, by God I swear;
Here is none but your friends, you need not to fray,
Although, this strange young gentleman be here.
JUVENTUS.
I trust, in me she will think no danger;
For I love well the company of fair women.
ABHOMINABLE LIVING.
Who, you? nay, ye are such a holy man,
That to touch one ye dare not be bold;
I think,[127] you would not kiss a young woman,
If one would give you twenty pound in gold.
JUVENTUS.
Yes, by the mass, that I would;
I could find in my heart to kiss you in your smock.
ABHOMINABLE LIVING.
My back is broad enough to bear away that mock
For one hath told me many a time,
That you[128] have said you would use no such wanton company as mine.
JUVENTUS.
By dog's[129] precious wounds, that was some whoreson[130] villain;
I will never eat meat that shall do me good,
Till I have cut his flesh, by God's precious blood:
Tell me, I pray you, who it was,
And I will trim the knave, by the blessed mass.
ABHOMINABLE LIVING.
Tush! as for that, do not you pass;
That which I told you was but for love.
HYPOCRISY.
She did nothing else but prove,
Whether a little[131] thing would you move
To be angry and fret;
What, and if one had said so?
Let such trifling matters go,
And be good to men's flesh for all that.
JUVENTUS [He kisseth ABHOMINABLE LIVING.]
To kiss her since she came, I had clean forgot:
You are welcome to my company.