_Adul._ When ye see your time, look this way, your friends upon!
_Avar._ I doubt not to scamble and rake as well as one.
_Adul._ Here be that would fain be disciples of your art.
_Avar._ I will not be behind to get a child's part.
_Adul._ Now, if ye have done, I pray you look this way back.
_Avar._ Who buzzeth in mine ear so? what? ye saucy Jack!
_Adul._ Are ye yet at leisure, with your good friends to talk?
_Avar._ What, clawest thou mine elbow, pratling merchant? walk! Ye flatterabundus, you! you flearing clawback, you! You the-crow-is-white, you! you the-swan-is-black, you! You John-hold-my-staff, you! you what-is-the-clock, you! You _ait-aio_ you! you _negat-nego_ you!
_Adul._ I marvel you speak to me in such fashion.
_Avar._ Why troublest thou me then in my contemplation?
_Adul._ I came of right good love, not minding you to let.
_Avar._ Thou ne'er camest to any man of good love yet.
_Adul._ And these men's minds it was I should so do.
_Avar._ As false wretches as thine own self, and falser too!
_Insol and Oppr._ We have been loving to you, and faithful alway.
_Avar._ For your own profits, then; and not mine, I daresay; And e'en, veray! you three it was, and others none, That would have robbed me, not yet half an hour gone.
_Insol._, _Oppr._, _Adul._ We never robbed any man, later or rather.
_Avar._ Yes, many a time and oft, your own very father.
_Oppr._ And to you have we borne hearty favours alway.
_Avar._ And, I warrant you hanged for your labours one day.
_Oppr._, _Adul._ And, as our god, we have alway honoured you.
_Avar._ And, e'en as your god, I have aye succoured you.
_Oppr._ We call you our founder, by All Holy Hallows!
_Avar._ Founder me no found'ring; but beware the gallows!
_Insol._ I pray you leave these words, and talk friendly at last.
_Avar._ Content! at your request, my fame is now well past; And, in faith! what saith our friend, Adulation?
_Adul._ I wonder at your rough communication, That ye would to me use words of such vehemence.
_Avar._ Faith, man! I spake but even to prove your patience, That if thou hadst grunted or stormed thereat.
_Adul._ Nay! few times do I use such loud manner as that.
_Avar._ Come! shake hands! for ever we two be at one.
_Adul._ As for grudge in me, there shall never remain none.