SAP. Truth indeed, and therefore, your name being Just, With me and my documents must be associate; Where, contrary, such as are led by their lust, To incline evil are always appropriate: They have not, as you have, battle and combat Against the cogitations that inwardly spring, But rather are obedient unto the same thing: And this is the occasion that men are so ambitious And so foolish, led by the lust of their brain: Sometime to covet, sometime to be vicious; Sometime the counsel of the wise to disdain; Sometime to climb till they fall down again; Sometime to usurp the possessions of other; Sometime to disobey both father and mother. JUST. Alas, what availeth it riches to enjoy, Though as much in comparison as Croesus the king? What helpeth it to have Helen in Troy, If the conscience of man continually sting? Elation and Pride no commodity doth bring, But is often known the forerunner of shame, And the blot of immortal memory and fame. _Enter_ INCLINATION, _the Vice_. INC. Now, by my halidom, it is alone a: Better sport in my life I never saw, It is trim, I tell you, to dance with John and Jone a, We pass not a point for God nor his law: But Lust is lusty, and full of porridge: Cogitation and he in one bed doth lie. When here is Master Just, with his cank'red courage, What, and old doting Sapience! then I am dressed, I. So often already Just hath me restrained, That I dare not entice him any more, For through Sapience he hath me clearly disdained, That my courage is spent, and I have no more. [_Make as going back._ SAP. Nay, soft, sir, we must talk with you, ere ye go. INC. I cannot tarry at this time, the truth is so. JUST. Nay, there is no remedy; with you we must talk. INC. By the body of me, I hold best that I walk, Or else learn to speak language another while, And so I may happen the knaves to beguile. JUST. Turn back, ere you go, we have somewhat to say. INC. Non point parle françois, non, par ma foy. SAP. To deceive us now himself he doth prepare. INC. Ick en can ghene english spreken von waer. Body of me, let me go, or else I shall piss: I-wis, Master Just, you have loved me ere this; Therefore now be ruled after my counsel, And godly things for your commodity I shall you tell. SAP. Let him that is just not lightly ensue His vile inclination and carnal concupiscence, But let him rather contend the same to subdue; And chiefly those that have knowledge of Sapience: Therefore to bridle this lust do your diligence, His crafty provocations utterly to restrain, That Just may live, while life doth remain.