Avar. Where no honest man could have gotten them but I.
In blind corners, where some would have hoarded them,
Had not I take them with the manner and burdened them.
Resp. And whither was it thine intent to convey them now?
Avar. I hid them that I might bring them safely to you.
I durst not bear them openly, to God I vow!
I wis ye have heard me blame pickpurses or now—
And this is all yours.
Ver. It is hers, in very deed!
Avar. With sufferance I could get mo to help her need.
Ver. How say ye, Respublica! now to Policy?
Resp. I ne'er suspect him nor had him in jealousy.
Ver. In such like counterfeits shall all the rest appear.
Sirs! do off your utmost robes, each one even here.
Now, what these are, ye see plain demonstration.
Resp. Insolence, Oppression, Adulation!
O Lord! how have I be used these five years past!
People. Nay, Is ne'er thought better of om, ich, by God's vast.
Vey! madame, my lady! such strussioners as these
Have oft made you believe the moon was a green cheese.