HOST. Whence come ye?
PROD. What skills that? open the gate.
HOST. Nay, soft a while, I am not wont so late
To take in guests. I like ye not: away.
PROD. Nay, stay awhile, mine host; I pray thee, stay,
Open the gate, I pray thee heartily,
And what we take we will pay thee royally.
HOST. And would ye have lodging then?
PROD. Yea, rather than my life.
HOST. Then stay a while; I'll first go ask my wife.
PROD. Nay, nay, send her rather to me:
If she be a pretty wench, we shall soon agree.
POST. Now a bots[381] on him and his wife both for me! [Aside.
HOST. Then you would have lodgings belike, sir?