_Resp._ Yea, no doubt! ye would have done some great and fine act. _Avar._ I would have brought half Kent into Northumberland; And Somersetshire should have raught to Cumberland. Then would I have stretched the county of Warwick Upon tenter hooks, and made it reach to Berwick. A piece of the bishopric should have come southward-- Tut, tut! I tell you, I had wondrous feats toward. _Resp._ God hath placed me already in the best wise. _Avar._ Yea! but yet not half so well as I could devise-- But no force; well then, I see ye will none of me? _Resp._ No! _Avar._ Then ye can be content I depart from ye? _Resp._ Yea! _Avar._ Well! yet and ye pray me, I will tarry still. _Resp._ No! _Avar._ Well, speak me fair, and woo me yet, and I will. _Resp._ No; hence, avaunt! _Avar._ Have I had of you such a clog, And now [you] bid me avaunt and make me a dog? _Resp._ Hence, at once! _Avar._ Nay, tut! and ye will ha' us, ha' us. _Resp._ Out of my presence! _Avar._ Well then, ye will not ha' us? _Resp._ No, avoid, I charge thee! _Avar._ Then needs depart I must. Adieu! in faith, I would have served ye of trust! But, since Respublica hath put me to exile, Where may I go keep myself secret for a while? Is there never a good chaplain in all this town, That will, for a while, hide me under his gown? Never a good farmer? never a good merchantman? Well, I will go pick out some corner, if I can. But, first will I monish my fellows of this gear; And we stay this plunge, I care not for the next year. [_Exeat._ _Resp._ Now will I to Justice and th' other ladies three, And pray that these vices may all suppressed be. [_Intrat_ PEOPLE. But lo! here cometh People; I will now turn again, And first know of his good state by a word or twain. ACTUS QUINTI, SCENA SEPTIMA. RESPUBLICA. PEOPLE. _Resp._ What standeth he prying? dareth he not enter? _People._ Chould vain zee my lady: but I sdare not venter. _Resp._ Shrink not back from me, but draw to me, my dear friend! _People._ Chill virst know an ye be alone, zo God me mend! _Resp._ Come! here be none but thy friends, me believe. _People._ Well then, chill be zo bold to peak in, by your leave. _Resp._ How happeneth that thou hast so long been me fro?