To kepe thy face fayre and thy smocke beshytten.

Syr, howe lycke ye my reason in her case?

Mery-reporte. Such a raylynge hore, by the holy mas,

I never herde, in all my lyfe, tyll now.

In dede I love ryght well the ton of you, 940

But, or I wolde kepe you both, by goddes mother,

The devyll shall have the tone to fet[199] the tother.

Launder. Promyse me to speke that the sone may shyne bryght,

And I wyll be gone quyckly for all nyght.

Mery-reporte. Get you both hens, I pray you hartely; 945