TOM. Stay yourself, sir, I pray you heartily. RALPH. I pray you, be content, and we will be more mannerly. NEW. Nay, I cannot put up such an injury; For, seeing I am in office, I will be known therefore: Fend your heads, sirs, for I will to it more once. [_He fighteth again._ RALPH. I pray you be content, good gentle Master Nichol: TOM. I never saw the like, by Gog's soul. NEW. Well, my masters, because you do intend To learn good manners, and your conditions to amend, I will have but one fit more, and so make an end. RALPH. I pray you, sir, let us no more contend. NEW. Marry, this hath breathed me very well: Now let me hear, how your tales ye can tell. And I (master judge) will so bring to pass, That I will judge who shall be knave of clubs at Christmas.[339] TOM. Gog's wounds, I am like Phalaris, that made a bull of brass-- NEW. Thou art like a false knave now, and evermore was. TOM. Nay, I am like Phalaris, that made a bull of brass, As a cruel torment for such as did offend, And he himself first therein put was: Even so are we brought now to this end, In ordaining him a judge, who will be honoured as a god, So for our own tails we have made a rod. RALPH. And I am served as Haman, that prepar'd-- NEW. How was he served, I pray thee, do me tell? RALPH. Who I speak of? thou knowest well. NEW. Thou art served as Harry Hangman, captain of the black guard. RALPH. Nay, I am served as Haman, that prepared A high pair of gallows for Mordecai the Jew, And was the first himself that thereon was hanged: So I feel the smart of mine own rod, this is true. But hereafter I will learn to be wise, And ere I leap once, I will look twice. NEW. Well, Tom Tosspot, first let me hear thee. How canst thou prove thyself a verier knave than he? TOM. You know that Tom Tosspot men do me call? NEW. A knave thou hast always been, and evermore shall. TOM. My conditions, I am sure, ye know as well as I. NEW. A knave thou was born, and so thou shalt die. TOM. But that you are a judge, I would say unto you, Knaves are Christian men, else you were a Jew. NEW. He calls me knave by craft, do you not see? Sirrah, I will remember it, when you think not on me. Well, say what thou canst for thine own behoof; If thou provest thyself the verier knave by good proof, Thou must be the elder brother, and have the patrimony; And when he hath said, then do thou reply. Even Thomas-a-Waterings or Tyburn Hill[340] To the falsest thief of you both, by my father's will! RALPH. I pray you, sir, what is that patrimony?