_Men._ Command our sudden letter.--Not enter! sha't: what place is there in Genoa but thou shalt? into my heart, into my very heart: come, let's love; we must love, we two, soul and body. _Mal._ How didst like the hermit? a strange hermit, sirrah. 220 _Men._ A dangerous fellow, very perilous: He must die. _Mal._ Ay, he must die. _Men._ Thou'st[503] kill him. We are wise; we must be wise. _Mal._ And provident. _Men._ Yea, provident: beware an hypocrite; A churchman once corrupted, O, avoid! A fellow that makes religion his stalking-horse,[504] He breeds a plague: thou shalt poison him. _Mal._ O, 'tis wondrous necessary: how? _Men._ You both go jointly to the citadel; There sup, there poison him: and Maria, 230 Because she is our opposite, shall bear The sad suspect; on which she dies or loves us. _Mal._ I run. [_Exit._ _Men._ We that are great, our sole self-good still moves us. They shall die both, for their deserts crave more Than we can recompense: their presence still Imbraids[505] our fortunes with beholdingness, Which we abhor; like deed, not doer: then conclude, They live not to cry out "Ingratitude!" One stick burns t'other, steel cuts steel alone: 240 'Tis good trust few; but, O, 'tis best trust none! [_Exit._ [484] The tagged laces by which the busk (the upright piece of whalebone in the front of the stays) was fastened. [485] A slow solemn dance. [486] "Qy. '_Los guantes?_' Mr. Collier (_Shakespeare Soc. Papers_, i. 28), quotes from Rawlinson's MS. No. 108, Bodl. Lib., a list of dances, among which is 'Quarto dispayne;' while Mr. Halliwell (_Dict. of Arch. and Prov. Words_) gives from the same MS., '_Quanto_-dispaine.'--In Munday's _Banquet of Daintie Conceits_, 1588, is:-- "'A Dyttie expressing a familiar controversie between Wit and Will: wherein Wit mildlie rebuketh the follies of Will, and sheweth him (as in a glasse) the fall of wilfull heads. "'This Dittie may be sung after the note of a courtlie daunce, called _Les Guanto_.'"--_Dyce._ [487] Ed. 1. "double." [488] We have the expression "trick-of-twenty" again in the _Dutch Courtesan_. What the particular figure was I am unable to say. (Sometimes "trick-of-twenty" is used in the sense of "excellent device." Cf. Brome's _City Wit_, iv. 2:--"Well, 'twas mine error, not malice; but as for the procurer of it, if I pay not him in his own coin, Mr. Footwell! I'll show you a _trick of twenty_.") [489] Ed. 2. "bid." [490] Ed. 1. "talking." [491] Some copies of ed. 1. "neuer." [492] Ed. 1. "their." [493] "_i.e._, being treated as a minion or darling."--_Steevens._