I will determine this before I stir.

[Enter a Servant.]

Serv. O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself!

My master and his man are both broke loose,

170 Beaten the maids a-row, and bound the doctor,

Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire;

And ever, as it blazed, they threw on him

Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair:

My master preaches patience [to him, and] the while

175 His man with scissors nicks him like a fool;