USURY.
Then, get you gone, and see at a day your rent be ready.
CONSCIENCE. We must have patience perforce, seeing there is no remedy. [Exit CONSCIENCE.
USURY.
What a fool was I! it repents me I have let it so reasonable.
I might so well have had after threescore as such a trifle;
For, seeing they were distressed, they would have given largely.
I was a right sot; but I'll be overseen no more, believe me.
Enter MERCATORE.
MERCATORE.
Ah, my good a friend Master Usury! by my trot', you be very well-met.
Me be much beholden unto you for your goodwill; me be in your debt.
But a me take a your part so much against a scald old churl, call'd
Hospitality,
Did speak against you, and says you bring good honest men to beggary.
USURY.
I thank you, sir. Did he speak such evil of me, as you now say?
I doubt not but to reward him for his treachery one day.
MERCATORE.
But, I pray, tell a me how fare a my lady all dis while?
USURY. Marry, very well,[185] sir; and here she comes, if myself I do not beguile.
Enter LUCRE.
LUCRE.
What, Signer Mercatore! I have not seen you many a day:
I marvel what is the cause you kept so long away.