_Resp._ O Lord! where hast thou dragged up all these purses? _Ver._ Where he hath had for them many thousand curses. _Resp._ Where hast thou gotten them? tell truth, and do not lie! _Avar._ Where no honest man could have gotten them but I. In blind corners, where some would have hoarded them, Had not I take them with the manner and burdened them. _Resp._ And whither was it thine intent to convey them now? _Avar._ I hid them that I might bring them safely to you. I durst not bear them openly, to God I vow! I wis ye have heard me blame pickpurses or now-- And this is all yours. _Ver._ It is hers, in very deed! _Avar._ With sufferance I could get mo to help her need. _Ver._ How say ye, Respublica! now to Policy? _Resp._ I ne'er suspect him nor had him in jealousy. _Ver._ In such like counterfeits shall all the rest appear. Sirs! do off your utmost robes, each one even here. Now, what these are, ye see plain demonstration. _Resp._ Insolence, Oppression, Adulation! O Lord! how have I be used these five years past! _People._ Nay, Is ne'er thought better of om, ich, by God's vast. Vey! madame, my lady! such strussioners as these Have oft made you believe the moon was a green cheese. _Ver._ Now ye see what they are; the punishment of this Must be referred to the goddess Nemesis: She is the most high goddess of correction; Clear of conscience, and void of affection; She hath power from above, and is newly sent down To redress all outrages, in city and in town; She hath power from God all practice to repeal Which might bring annoyance to lady Commonweal; To her office belongeth the proud to overthrow, And such to restore as injury hath brought low; 'Tis her power to forbid and punish in all estates All presumptuous immoderate attemptates. Her cognisance, therefore, is a wheel and wings to fly, In token her rule extendeth far and nigh; A rudder, eke, she beareth in her other hand, As directri[c]e of all things in every land; Then pranketh she her elbows out, under her side, To keep back the heady, and to temper their pride. To her, therefore, dear sisters! we must now resort, That she may give sentence upon this naughty sort; She knoweth what is fittest for their correction; Nemesis must, therefore, herein give direction. _Just._ Then, People! while we lady Nemesis do fet All these offenders in this custody we set; Them to apprehend and keep till we come again. _People._ An ye give me tority, chill keep om, that is plain. _Insol., Oppr._ Shall People keep us, of whom we have been lords? _People._ Stand still, or by Jis! [chill] bind you vast with cords. Nay, sirs! ich ha' you now in my custodity. _Avar._ Mass, I will be gone for my mine own commodity.