Volume Ii Part 44 (1/2)

ACTUS QUINTI, SCAENA QUINTA.

RAGAN.

Where are we now become? marry, sir, here is array!

With Esau, my master, this is a black day.

I told you Esau one day would s.h.i.+t a rag, Have we not well hunted, of blessing to come lag?[280]

Nay, I thought ever it would come to such a pa.s.s, Since he sold his heritage like a very a.s.s.

But, in faith, some of them, I dare jeopard a groat, If he may reach them, will have on the petticoat.[281]

ACTUS QUINTI, SCAENA s.e.xTA.

ESAU. RAGAN. ABRA. MIDO. DEBORAH.

ESAU. Come out, wh.o.r.es and thieves; come out, come out, I say!

RAGAN.[282] I told you, did I not, that there would be a fray? [_Aside_.

ESAU. Come out, little wh.o.r.eson ape, come out of thy den.

MIDO. Take my life for a penny, whither shall I ren?[283]

ESAU. Come out, thou little fiend, come out, thou skittish gill.

ABRA. Out, alas, alas! Esau will us all kill.

ESAU. And come out, thou mother Mab;[284] out, old rotten witch!

As white as midnight's a.r.s.ehole or virgin pitch.

Where be ye? come together in a cl.u.s.ter.

RAGAN. In faith, and these three will make a n.o.ble muster.

ESAU. Ere ye escape my fingers, ye shall all be taught, For these be they which have all this against me wrought.

MIDO. I wrought not a stroke this day, but led Isaac: If I wrought one stroke to-day, lay me on the jack.

ESAU. Hence then, get thee in, and do against me no more.

MIDO. I care as much for you now, as I did before. [_Aside_.

ESAU. What sayest thou, little thief? if I may thee catch.

MIDO. Ye shall run apace then, I ween, so G.o.d me s.n.a.t.c.h.

RAGAN. Now to go, Mido, ere thou art caught in a trip.