Insol. Mark Policy's words, sirs! excellent in our case.
Avar. And time hath this one ungracious property:
To blab at length, and open all that he doth see.
Then, a daughter eke he hath, called Verity;
As unhappy a long-tongued girl as can be:
She bringeth all to light; some she bring[eth] to shame;
She careth not a groat what man hath thank or blame.
If men be praiseworthy, she doth so declare them;
And, if otherwise, in faith! she doth not spare them.
Oppr. We will feather our nests ere time may us espy;
Or Verity have power, our doings to descry.
Avar. Remember this verse: Ut sint omnia salva,
Fronte capillata, post hec occasio calva.
Oppr. Make me understand that fine rag of rhetoric!
Avar. Lo! here a fine fellow to have a bishopric!
A verse of Latin he cannot understand;
Yet, dareth he presume, boldly to take in hand,
Into a deanery or archideaconry to chop;
And to have the livelood away from a bishop!
Oppr. A mercy! show thy verse, and leave this persuasion!
Avar. Forsooth, sir! it was of the goddess Occasion!
She weareth a great long tuffet of hair before;
And, behind, hath not one hair, neither less nor more!
Whereby is taught you that, when Occasion is,
Ye must take it betime, or of your purpose miss.
Adul. Then, while Occasion doth now serve so well,
I pray you, give ear to one thing that I must tell.
Insol. and Oppr. What is that?