_Avar._ This to you be known: I will do all for your sake, and not for mine own.
_Avar._ Nay, I thank you, lady! And I trust ere long to ease all our malady-- Well, ye put yourself now wholly into my hands?
_Avar._ Well! I thank you once again. But, now that you may think my dealing true and plain, And, because one cannot do so well as many, Ye must associate me with mo company: And first, by my will, ye shall set up Honesty.
_Resp._ Marry! with all my very heart--but where is he?
_Avar._ Very hard to find: but I think I could fet him.
_Resp._ Call him straightways hither! see that nothing let him!
_Avar._ It were best if I shall go fet men for the nonce; To make but one viage, and bring them all at once.
_Avar._ And eke Reformation-- We four will rule things of another fashion.
_Resp._ Policy! I pray you go fet all these straightway.
_Avar._ Yes! for this your present case may bide no delay. I will go and come with all festination. [_Exeat._
_Resp._ I like well this trade of Administration: Policy for to devise for my commodity; No person to be advanced but Honesty; Then Reformation, good wholesome laws to make; And Authority see the same effect may take; What commonweal shall then be so happy as I? For this, (I perceive), is the drift of Policy.
[_Intrat_ AVARICE, _adducens_ INSOLENCE, OPPRESSION, _and_ ADULATION.
And, behold! where he is returned again since: He showeth himself a man of [much] diligence.
ADULATION. AVARICE. RESPUBLICA. INSOLENCE. OPPRESSION.
_Adul._ I will do her double service to another!
_Avar._ Ye double knave, you! will ye never be other?
_Adul._ She shall have triple service of me, Honesty.
_Avar._ Ye quadrible knave! wi[ll] ye ne'er use modesty? Thou drunken whoreson! dost thou not see nor perceive Where Respublica stands, ready us to receive?
_Resp._ What talk have they yonder, among themselves together?
_Adul._ I have spied her now, shall I first to her thither?
_Resp._ I ween they be in fear-- Policy, approach! and bring my good friends near.
_Avar._ Come on, my dear friends! and execute with good will Such office as each of you shall be put until. Dame Respublica it is that for you hath sent. Come on, friends! I will you unto her grace present.
_Insol. [and] Oppr._ To serve her, we are pressed with heart and whole intent.