Will ye believe this quean, before she hath tried it?
It is not the first deed she hath done, and afterward denied it.
Chat. What, man, will you say I broke your head?
Doctor Rat. How canst thou prove the contrary?
Chat. Nay, how provest thou that I did the deed.
Doctor Rat. Too plainly, by St Mary.
This proof, I trow, may serve, though I no word spoke. [Showing his broken head.
Chat. Because thy head is broken, was it I that broke?
I saw thee, Rat, I tell thee, not once within this fortnight.
Doctor Rat. No, marry, thou sawest me not; for why thou hadst no light;