ESAU. Your will t'accomplish, most dear father Isaac, With all good haste and speed I shall not be found slack. ISAAC. Then help lead me home, in my tent that I were set, And then go, when thou wilt. ESAU. I shall withouten let. ACTUS TERTIJ, SCAENA SECUNDA. REBECCA. REBECCA. This talk of Isaac in secret have I heard, And what end it should come to, my heart is afeard, Ne'er had I so much ado to forbear to speak. But the Lord, I trust, will Isaac's purpose break. [_Here she kneeleth down, and prayeth_. O God of Abraham, make it of none effect: Let Jacob have the blessing, whom thou hast elect. I for my part shall work what may be wrought, That it may to Jacob from Esau be brought, And in will I go to see what I can devise, That Isaac's intent may fail in any wise. ACTUS TERTIJ, SCAENA TERTIA. RAGAN. ESAU. RAGAN. Nay, we must on hunting go yet once more again, [_Here he cometh forth with his hunting staff and other things, and a bag of victuals_. And never come home now, except we speed certain, But I trow for hunger I have provided here: That whatever befal, I, Ragan, shall have cheer. I have no time to tell what delicates here be, But (think this to be true) they're fit for better men than me. And what? shall Esau hereof have any part? Nay, I trust to convey it by such pretty art That, till the bag be clear, he shall it never see. I shall, and if he faint, feed him as he fed me: I shall requite his shutting me out of the door That, if he bid me run to get him meat afore, I shall run as fast as my feet were made of lead, And tell him there is none, though I may well be sped. I will be even with him for my fare last day, When he was with Jacob. [_Esau enters suddenly behind him_. ESAU. What is it that thou dost say? RAGAN. Sir, on your behalf I earnestly wish and pray That, if like need chance, ye may fare as last day, When ye were with Jacob. ESAU. Well, come on, let us go. RAGAN. Even when ye will, is there let in me or no? [_Exeunt ambo_. ACTUS QUARTI, SCAENA PRIMA. REBECCA. JACOB. REBECCA. Son Jacob, even now is come the very hour That, if thou have any grace, or heart, or power, To play thy part well, and stick unto it throughout Esau his blessing will be thine without doubt. JACOB. Mother, I know your good-will to be unfeigned; But I see not which way the thing may be attained. REBECCA. I have it contrived, how all things shall be done, Do thou as I shall bid thee, and it will be won. JACOB. Mother, in me shall be no fault or negligence.