INIQUITY. Ten mine—
ISMAEL (casteth dice). Six mine,
Have at it, and it were for all my father's kine.
It is lost by his wounds,[228] and ten to one!
INIQUITY. Take the dice, Dalilah, cast on—
[She casteth, and they set.
DALILAH. Come on; five!
Thrive at fairest—
ISMAEL. Gup, whore, and I at rest [he loseth].
By Gog's blood, I ween God and the devil be against me—
INIQUITY. If th' one forsake thee, th' other will take thee!
ISMAEL. Then is he a good fellow; I would not pass,[229]
So that I might bear a rule in hell, by the mass:
To toss firebrands at these pennyfathers'[230] pates;
I would be porter, and receive them at the gates.
In boiling lead and brimstone I would seeth them each one:
The knaves have all the money, good fellows have none.
DALILAH. Play, brother, have ye lost all your money now?
ISMAEL. Yea, I thank that knave and such a whore as thou.
'Tis no matter, I will have money, or I will sweat;
By Gog's blood, I will rob the next I meet—
Yea, and it be my father.
[He goeth out.
INIQUITY. Thou boy, by the mass, ye will climb the ladder,
Ah, sirrah, I love a wench that can be wily,
She perceived my mind with a twink of mine eye,
If we two play boody on any man,
We will make him as bare as Job anon,
Well, Dalilah, let see what ye have won.
[They tell.