t the Moors. 'Tis a peaceable house,
and we sleep quiet o' nights.

IV:1:32 5TH BRAVO.
Am I an ass?

IV:1:33 FLIX.
He is an ass who talks when he might eat.

IV:1:34 5TH BRAVO.
A Secadon sausage! Come, mother, I'm all peace; thou'rt a rare hand.
As in thy teeth, comrade, and no more on't

IV:1:35 1ST BRAVO.
When I will not, two cannot quarrel.

IV:1:36 OLD MAN.
Everything is changed for the worse.

IV:1:37 FRIAR.
For the love of St. Jago, senors; for the love of St. Jago!

IV:1:38 5TH BRAVO.
When it pleases not God, the saint can do little.

IV:1:39 2ND BRAVO.
Nay, supper for all, and drink's the best meat. Some have sung
for it, some danced. There is no fishing for trout in dry breeches.
You shall preach.

IV:1:40 FRIAR.
Benedicite, brethren--

IV:1:41 1ST BRAVO.
Nay, no Latin, for the devil's not here.

IV:1:42 2ND BRAVO.
And prithee let it be as full of meat as an egg; for we do many
deeds, love not many words.

IV:1:43 FRIAR.
Thou shalt not steal.

IV:1:44 1ST BRAVO.
He blasphemes.

IV:1:45 FRIAR.
But what is theft?

IV:1:46 2ND BRAVO.
Ay! there it is.

IV:1:47 FRIAR.
The tailor he steals the cloth, and the miller he steals the meal;
is either a thief? 'tis the way of trade. But what if our trade
be to steal? Why then our work is to cut purses; to cut purses is
to follow our business; and to follow our business is to obey the
King; and so thieving is no theft. And that's probatum, and so, amen.

IV:1:48 5TH BRAVO.
Shall put thy spoon in the olla for that.

IV:1:49 2ND BRAVO.
And drink this health to our honest fraternity.

IV:1:50 OLD MAN.
I have heard sermons by the hour; this is brief; every thing falls off.

[Enter a PERSONAGE masked and cloaked.]

IV:1:51 1ST BRAVO.

[to his Companions]

See'st yon mask?

IV:1:52 2ND BRAVO.
'Tis strange.

IV:1:53 GRAUS.

[to FLIX]

Who is this?

IV:1:54 FLIX.
The fool wonders, the wise ma