XANTIPPE. God thank you, mistress, I am well at ease:
Such a fool to teach me, preaching as she please!
Dame, ye belie them deadly, I know plain;
Because they go handsomely, ye disdain.[219]
EULALIA. Then on the other[220] as well would I complain,
But your other son is good, and no thanks to you!
These will ye make nought, by sweet Jesu.
XANTIPPE. Gup, liar,[221] my children nought ye lie:
By your malice they shall not set a fly;
I have but one mome in comparison of his brother:
Him the fool praiseth, and despiseth the other.
EULALIA. Well, Xantippe, better in time than too late, Seeing ye take it so, here my leave I take. [Exit.
XANTIPPE. Marry, good leave have ye, the great God be with you!
My children or I be cursed, I think;
They be complained on, wherever they go,
That for their pleasure they might drink.
Nay, by this the poor souls be come from school weary;
I will go get them meat to make them merry.
INIQUITY, ISMAEL, and DALILAH come in together.
INIQUITY. Lo, lo, here I bring-a.
ISMAEL. What is she, now ye have her?
DALILAH. A lusty minion loner.[222]
INIQUITY. For no gold will I give her—