WILL.
And how say you to Will?
SIMPLICITY.
Indeed, good Will is a great matter.
WILL.
Yea, between a maid and a bachelor.
SIMPLICITY.
Why, you are not in love, boy?
WILL.
Yes, but I am, and in charity too.
SIMPLICITY.
Charity! alas, poor child! thou in charity? ha, ha! now must I laugh.
WIT.
But you laugh a great while, and you laugh very loud.
SIMPLICITY.
Then, I owe you nothing for laughing, and you hear me the better.
WEALTH.
But now laugh not we.
SIMPLICITY. No, you may be maddle-coddle.[236] Well, here's three passing fine lads, if a man were able to keep them all. Let me see: Wealth! O, that's a sweet lad: then Wit! O, that's a fine lad: Will: O, that's a pretty lad. Will, Wit, and Wealth, God lend ye health. I would I could guile their masters of two of them. If I had Fraud here, that served Lady Lucre, he would teach me: he would teach me to 'tice one of them from his master. Which of them, now, if a man should steal one? Will? nay, I care not for Will, outsep[237] he be good-will. Wit? a pretty child, but a man cannot live by wit. Wealth? Yea, marry, sir, I would I could win that Wealth, for then I need neither Will nor Wit; nor I need sell no ballads, but live like a mouse in a mill, and have another to grind my meal for me. I'll have a fling at one of them anon.