SIMPLICITY. There is divers pieces of work in that box: pray ye, give me some of my goods again, a ring, or something.
USURY.
Not an inch, and be glad to 'scape as ye do.
SIMPLICITY.
Alas! I am undone: there's all the wealth and stock I have.
FRAUD.
Do ye long to lose your ears? be gone, ye foolish knave.
SIMPLICITY. I thank ye, Master Fraud. I'll not go far, but I'll be near to hear and see what the meaning of these fellows in this canvas should be; for I know Fraud, Dissimulation, and Simony to be those three. Here, I think, I am unseen. [SIMPLICITY hides him near them.
FRAUD. Usury, thank me for this good booty, for it is I that holp ye to it, for I sold them to him for gold indeed, in the shape of an old French artificer; come, give me half, for I deserve it, for my part was the first beginning of this comedy. I was ever afraid lest the fool should have known me; for ye see now, though disguis'd, he called me by my name.
SIMPLICITY. Did I so? I am glad I have found the Frenchman. Now, I'll raise the street, but I'll have my wares again, and prove ye, as ye were ever, both false knaves, I believe. [Exit SIMPLICITY[269].
FRAUD.
Kill him, stab him! Out, villain! he will betray us all.
USURY. What a fool were you to speak before he was gone: now you have lost your part of this, too; for he will go complain, you will be sought for, and I made to restore these things again.
FRAUD. Not if thou be wise: thou wilt not tarry the reckoning, for seest thou not us three, Dissimulation, Simony, and myself?