DEVIL. All these things, which thou hast done, My honour and laws hath maintained; But now, O alas! one thing is begun,[82] By the which my kingdom is greatly decayed; I shall lese all, I am sore afraid: Except thy help, I know right plain, I shall never be able to recover it again. God's Word is so greatly sprung up in youth, That he little regardeth my laws or me; He telleth his parents that is very truth, That they of long time have deceived be: He saith according to Christ's verity All his doings he will order and frame, Mortifying the flesh with the lusts of the same. HYPOCRISY. Ah, sirrah, there beginneth the game: What, is Juventus become so tame, To be a New Gospeller? DEVIL. As fast as I do make, he doth mar; He hath[83] followed so long the steps of Good Counsel, That Knowledge and he together doth dwell; For who is so busy in every place as youth, To read and declare the manifest truth? But, O Hypocrisy, if thou could stop his mouth, Thou shouldst win my heart for ever. HYPOCRISY. What would you have me to do in the matter? Show me therein your advisement. DEVIL. I would have thee go incontinent, And work some crafty[84] feat or policy, To set Knowledge and him at controversy; And his company thyself greatly use, That God's Word he may clean abuse. HYPOCRISY. At your request I will not refuse To do that thing, which in me doth lie: Doubt ye not, but I will excuse Those things, which he doth plainly deny; And I will handle my matters so craftily, That, ere he cometh to man's state, God's Word and his living shall be clean at the bate. DEVIL. Thou shalt have my blessing both early and late; And, because thou shalt all my counsel keep, Thou shalt call thy[85] name Friendship. HYPOCRISY. By the mass, it is a name full meet For my proper and amiable person. DEVIL. O, farewell, farewell, my son; Speed thy business, for I must be gone. [_Exit_.[86]