MUCEDORUS. But tell me, lady, sith I set you free, What course of life do you intend to take? AMADINE. I will disguised wander through the world, Till I have found him out. MUCEDORUS. How, if you find your shepherd in these woods? AMADINE. Ah, none so happy then as Amadine. MUCEDORUS. In tract of time a man may alter much: Say, lady, do you know your shepherd well? [_He discloseth himself._] AMADINE. My Mucedorus, hath he set me free? MUCEDORUS. He hath set thee free. AMADINE. And lived so long unknown to Amadine? MUCEDORUS. Ay, that’s a question whereof you mayn’t be resolved. You know that I am banish’d from the court, I know likewise each passage is beset, So that we cannot long escape unknown, Therefore my will is this, that we return, Right through the thickets, to the wild man’s cave, And there a while live on’s provision, Until the search and narrow watch be past. This is my counsel, and I think it best. AMADINE. I think the very same. MUCEDORUS. Come, let’s be gone. Enter the Clown, who searches, and falls over the wild Man, and so carries him away. MOUSE. Nay, soft, sir, are you here? A bots on you! I was like to be hanged for not finding you; we would borrow a certain stray king’s-daughter of you; a wench, a wench, sir, we would have. MUCEDORUS. A wench of me? I’ll make thee eat my sword. MOUSE. Oh Lord, nay, an you are so lusty, I’ll call a cooling card for you. Ho, master, master, come away quickly! Enter Segasto. SEGASTO. What’s the matter? MOUSE. Look, master, Amadine and the shepherd! O brave! SEGASTO. What, minion, have I found you out? MOUSE. Nay, that’s a lie, I found her out myself. SEGASTO. Thou gadding huswife, What cause hadst thou to gad abroad, Whenas thou knowest our wedding-day so nigh? AMADINE. Not so, Segasto; no such thing in hand. Show your assurance, then I’ll answer you. SEGASTO. Thy father’s promise my assurance is. AMADINE. But what he promised, he hath not perform’d. SEGASTO. It rests in thee for to perform the same. AMADINE. Not I. SEGASTO. And why? AMADINE. So is my will, and therefore even so. MOUSE. Master, with a nonny, nonny, no! SEGASTO. Ah, wicked villain! art thou here? MUCEDORUS. What needs these words? We weigh them not. SEGASTO. We weigh them not! proud shepherd, I scorn thy company. MOUSE. We’ll not have a corner of thy company. MUCEDORUS. I scorn not thee, nor yet the least of thine. MOUSE. That’s a lie, a would have killed me with his pugsnando. SEGASTO. This stoutness, Amadine, contents me not. AMADINE. Then seek another, that may you better please. MUCEDORUS. Well, Amadine, it only rests in thee Without delay to make thy choice of three: There stands Segasto, here a shepherd stands, There stands the third: now make thy choice. MOUSE. A lord at the least I am. AMADINE. My choice is made, for I will none but thee. SEGASTO. A worthy mate, no doubt, for such a wife.