Here we comen, and here we lonen,[214]
And here we will abide abide-a.
BARNABAS. Fye, brother, fye, and specially you, sister Dalilah,
Soberness becometh maids alway.
DALILAH. What, ye dolt, ye be ever in one song!
ISMAEL. Yea, sir, it shall cost you blows, ere it be long.
BARNABAS. Be ye not ashamed the truands to play,
Losing your time and learning, and that every day?
Learning bringeth knowledge of God and honest living to get.
DALILAH. Yea, marry, I warrant you, master hoddypeak.
BARNABAS. Learn apace, sister, and after to spin and sew,
And other honest housewifely points to know.
ISMAEL. Spin, quod-a? yea, by the mass, and with your heels up-wind,
For a good mouse-hunt is cat after Saint Kind.[215]
BARNABAS. Lewd speaking corrupteth good manners, Saint Paul doth say;
Come, let us go, if ye will, to school this day;
I shall be shent for tarrying so long,
[Barnabas goeth out.
ISMAEL. Go, get thee hence, thy mouth full of horse-dung!
Now, pretty sister, what sport shall we devise?
Thus palting[216] to school, I think us unwise:
In summer die for thrist,[217] in winter for cold,
And still to live in fear of a churl who would?