_Mrs Brain._ Hark, a knocking! What shall we do? [_Knocking._ There's no dallying in this case: here you must not be found, that's certain; but Judith hath a chamber within mine; haste quickly thither; I'll secure the rest. _Jud._ Follow me, sir. [_Exeunt_ WOODALL, JUDITH. _Knocking again. She opens: Enter_ BRAINSICK. _Brain._ What's the matter, gentlewoman? Am I excluded from my own fortress; and by the way of barricado? Am I to dance attendance at the door, as if I were some base plebeian groom? I'll have you know, that, when my foot assaults, the lightning and the thunder are not so terrible as the strokes: brazen gates shall tremble, and bolts of adamant dismount from off their hinges, to admit me. _Mrs Brain._ Who would have thought, that 'nown dear would have come so soon? I was even lying down on my bed, and dreaming of him. Tum a' me, and buss, poor dear; piddee buss. _Brain._ I nauseate these foolish feats of love. _Mrs Brain._ Nay, but why should he be so fretful now? and knows I dote on him? to leave a poor dear so long without him, and then come home in an angry humour! indeed I'll ky. _Brain._ Pr'ythee, leave thy fulsome fondness; I have surfeited on conjugal embraces. _Mrs Brain._ I thought so: some light huswife has bewitched him from me: I was a little fool, so I was, to leave a dear behind at Barnet, when I knew the women would run mad for him. _Brain._ I have a luscious air forming, like a Pallas, in my brain-pain: and now thou com'st across my fancy, to disturb the rich ideas, with the yellow jaundice of thy jealousy. [_Noise within._ Hark, what noise is that within, about Judith's bed? _Mrs Brain._ I believe, dear, she's making it.--Would the fool would go! [_Aside._ _Brain._ Hark, again! _Mrs Brain._ [_Aside_] I have a dismal apprehension in my head, that he's giving my maid a cast of his office, in my stead. O, how it stings me! [WOODALL _sneezes._ _Brain._ I'll enter, and find the reason of this tumult. _Mrs Brain._ [_Holding him._] Not for the world: there may be a thief there; and should I put 'nown dear in danger of his life?--What shall I do? betwixt the jealousy of my love, and fear of this fool, I am distracted: I must not venture them together, whatever comes on it. [_Aside._] Why Judith, I say! come forth, damsel. _Wood_. [_Within._] The danger's over; I may come out safely. _Jud._ [_Within._] Are you mad? you shall not. _Mrs Brain._ [_Aside._] So, now I'm ruined unavoidably. _Brain._ Whoever thou art, I have pronounced thy doom; the dreadful Brainsick bares his brawny arm in tearing terror; kneeling queens in vain should beg thy being.--Sa, sa, there. _Mrs Brain._ [_Aside._] Though I believe he dares not venture in, yet I must not put it to the trial. Why Judith, come out, come out, huswife. _Enter_ JUDITH, _trembling._ What villain have you hid within?