CARE. What hast thou there? pearl![218] they're false, I hope. [_Here he pulls out the pearl._ JOLLY. Why do you hope so? CARE. Because I am thy friend, and would be loth to have thee hanged for stealing. JOLLY. I will not swear they are honestly come by: but I'll be sworn there's neither force nor theft in't. WILD. Prythee, speak out of riddles: here's none but your friends. JOLLY. Faith, take it. You have heard the captain brag of an old lady, which he thinks he keeps close in a box; but I know where hangs a key can let a friend in, or so. From her, my brace of worthies, whose wits are dulled with plenty this morning, with three good words and four good deeds I earned this toy. CARE. The mirth yet we will all share. I am in pain till we find him, that we may vex his wit, that he presumes so much on. WILD. Let's go, let's go. I will desire him to let me see his wench: I will not understand him if he says she's gone. CARE. I'll beg of him, for old acquaintance' sake, to let me see his old lady. JOLLY. Hark! I hear his voice.---- CAPT. [_Within._] Which way? CARE. The game plays itself. Begin with him, Ned, while we talk as if we were busy: we'll take our cue. WILD. When I put off my hat. _Enter_ CAPTAIN. CAPT. 'Sblood, I thought you had been sunk: I have been hunting you these four hours. Death! you might ha' left word where you went, and not put me to hunt like Tom Fool. 'Tis well you are at London, where you know the way home. WILD. Why in choler? We have been all this while searching you. Come, this is put on to divert me from claiming your promise. I must see the wench. CAPT. You cannot, adad: adad, you cannot. WILD. I did not think you would have refused such a kindness. CARE. What's that? WILD. Nothing, a toy. He refuses to show me his wench! CARE. The devil he does! What! have we been thus long comrades, and had all things in common, and must we now come to have common wenches particular? I say, thou shalt see her, and lie with her too, if thou wilt. JOLLY. What! in thy dumps, brother? Call to thy aid two-edged wit. The captain sad! 'tis prophetic: I'd as lieve[219] have dreamt of pearl, or the loss of my teeth: yet if he be musty, I'll warrant thee, Ned, I'll help thee to a bout. I know his cloak, his long cloak that hides her: I am acquainted with the parson: he shall befriend thee. CAPT. 'Tis very well, gentlemen; but none of you have seen her yet? WILD. Yes, but we have, by thyself--by thy anger, which is now bigger than thou. By chance we crossed her coming from church, leading in her hand the parson, to whom she swore she was this day married. JOLLY. And our friendships were now guiding us to find thee out, to comfort thee after the treachery of thy Levite. CARE. Come, bear it like a man; there are more wenches. What hast thou spied? [_He gives no answer, but peeps under_ Jolly's _hat_. WILD. His pearl, I believe.