Yet learned theologians have laid down

That he who has no food, offending no way,

May take his meat and bread from too-full larders.

FIRST PEASANT.

We come to make amends for robbery.

I stole five hundred apples from your trees,

And laid them in a hole; and my friend here

Last night stole two large mountain sheep of yours

And hung them on a beam under his thatch.

SECOND PEASANT.