Baily. Thou hast a knave within thy house, Hodge, a servant of thine.
They tell me that busy knave is such a filching one,
That hen, pig, goose, or capon, thy neighbour can have none.
Gammer. By God, cham much a-meved to hear any such report:
Hodge was not wont, ich trow, to have him in that sort.
Chat. A thievisher knave is not on-live, more filching nor more false;
Many a truer man than he has hanged up by the halse.[296]
And thou his dame of all his theft thou art the sole receiver;
For Hodge to catch, and thou to keep, I never new none better.