_Insol._ In faith! I will whip you for this, peasant lout! _Adul._ And twig you! _Insol._ Ere another year come about. _Adul._ But, see! where Avarice cometh, running very fast. [_Intrat_ AVARICE. _Avar._ I have trod and scud till my wind is almost past, Yet my mates are not where. _Insol. and Adul._ We be here come of late. _Avar._ Be there not, trow we, honester men in Newgate? _Insol._ No words of reproach, brother mine! I rede you. _Avar._ None but godigod eve, and godigod speed you. Fare ye well again, an ye be falling out now. _Insol., Adul._ We mind it not. _Avar._ 'Twere more need to look about you. _Insol._ How goeth all? tell us! _Avar._ My lady is waxed froward; Our names be all known, so there is array toward. _Insol., Oppr._ God speed us well! _Avar._ Once I am thrust out of service. _Adul._ Alas! what may I do? _Insol._, _Oppr._ Tell us thy best advice. _Avar._ Nay! I cannot have you, when I would none of you all; Therefore, shift for yourselves, each one, for me, you shall. _Adul._ Nay, for the pash of God! tell us what best to do; Ye know I was ne'er slack to restore you unto. _Avar._ These ladies that are come for commonweal's relief, Prepare to work us woe, and do us all mischief. _Insol._ Nay, by His precious populorum! I swear Not the proudest of them all can hurt me a hair. _Oppr._ If they offer, of us, to make them gauds or toys They shall [find], I trow! we are no babes nor boys. _Avar._ To prevail against them with force I do despair. _Insol._ Be that as be may. _Adul._ I will fall to speaking fair; But, of all this trouble, we may thank People, this wretch. _Oppr._ Faith, villain! if we scape, thou shalt an halter stretch. _Adul._ But what remedy therewhile? _Avar._ Faith! all will be nought. _Adul._ Tell us what to do. _Avar._ I will--they come--we are caught. _Adul._ Whither shall I run? _Avar._ Now sing a song, Honesty! _Adul._ I am past singing now. _Avar._ Yes, one song, Honesty! Hay! hay! hay! hay! I will be merry while I may. ACTUS QUINTI, SCENA NONA. VERITY. JUSTICE. AVARICE. RESPUBLICA. ADULATION. MISERICORDIA. PEACE. PEOPLE. INSOLENCE. OPPRESSION. _Ver._ Here they be, all four! this is a happy chance. _Avar._ Take each man a lady, sirs! and let us go dance! _Resp._ I left People here for a train, to hold them talk: Alas, that I could tell which way best hence to walk! _Avar._ What be these fair ladies? and whither will they, trow?