CRUELTY. By the mass, that is true, for I dare not appear, Whosoever would give me twenty pounds lands by the year. AVARICE. Ha, ha, ha, by God's foot, and I was never in better case in my life, For covetousness with the clergy was never so rife. Wherefore I have no cause in such sort to be grieved, Yet I would I could tell, sirs, how you might be relieved. PERV. DOC. Now, sirrah, to mend up this matter withal: Precious God, it frets me to the very gall. For now of late that slave, that varlet, that heretic, Light of the Gospel, Is come over the sea, as some credibly tell, Whom New Custom doth use in all matters as a stay, The most enemy to us in the world alway; Whose rancour is such, and so great is his spite, That no doubt he will straightway banish us quite, Unless we provide some remedy for the contrary, And with speed; this is truth that I tell thee, Cruelty. CRUELTY. His wounds, heart and blood, is he come without any nay? IGNORANCE. Yea verily, for with these eyes I saw him to-day. CRUELTY. Now I would he were here, I would so dress the slave, That I warrant he should bear me a mark to his grave. First I would buffet him thus, then give him a fall; Afterward I would dash out his brains at the wall. AVARICE. Hold your hands, you rude knave, or by God's body I swear, I will quickly fetch my fist from your ear. PERV. DOC. Tush, tush, it avails nought to chafen, or to chide, It were more wisdom with speed some redress to provide. CRUELTY. Redress? now, by God's guts, I will never stay, Till I find means to rid the beast out of the way. I will cut him off the slampambs,[29] I hold him a crown, Wheresoever I meet him, in country or town. IGNORANCE. What order you will take, it were best make relation, For mo wits, as you know, may do better than one. CRUELTY. I will do then whatsoever shall come in my head, I force not, I,[30] so the villain were dead. IGNORANCE. And of my furtherance, whatsoever I may do, you be sure, Your good state again, if I can, to procure, With my uttermost help to suppress yonder rascal, For, by the mass, you papists I like best of all. PERV. DOC. Then can we not do amiss, I conjecture lightly, For where as all these come, Perverse Doctrine, Avarice, Ignorance and Cruelty: There goeth the hare,[31] except all good luck go away-- But, sirs, it is good, lest your names you descry, To transpose them after some other kind, Else be sure with the people much hatred to find. As for Perverse Doctrine, Sound Doctrine; for Ignorance, Simplicity: With there colours of late ourselves cloaked have we. CRUELTY. What then shall I, Cruelty, be called in your judgment? PERV. DOC. Marry, Justice with Severity, a virtue most excellent.