JUS. O, sir, I would have credited these words
Without this oath: but bring your daughter hither,
That I may give her counsel, ere you go.
O. LUS. Marry, God's blessing on your heart for that!
Daughter, give ear to Justice Reason's words.
JUS. Good woman, or good wife, or mistress, if you have done amiss, it should seem you have done a fault; and making a fault, there's no question but you have done amiss: but if you walk uprightly, and neither lead to the right hand nor the left, no question but you have neither led to the right hand nor the left; but, as a man should say, walked uprightly; but it should appear by these plaintiffs that you have had some wrong: if you love your spouse entirely, it should seem you affect him fervently; and if he hate you monstrously, it should seem he loathes you most exceedingly, and there's the point at which I will leave, for the time passes away: therefore, to conclude, this is my best counsel: look that thy husband so fall in, that hereafter you never fall out.
O. LUS. Good counsel, passing good instruction;
Follow it, daughter. Now, I promise you,
I have not heard such an oration
This many a day. What remains to do?
Y. LUS. Sir, I was call'd as witness to this matter,
I may be gone for aught that I can see.
JUS. Nay, stay, my friend, we must examine you.
What can you say concerning this debate
Betwixt young Master Arthur and his wife?
Y. LUS. Faith, just as much, I think, as you can say,
And that's just nothing.
JUS. How, nothing? Come, depose him; take his oath;
Swear him, I say; take his confession.
O. ART. What can you say, sir, in this doubtful case?
Y. LUS. Why, nothing, sir.