HAPHAZARD. Nay then, by the mass, it’s time to be knacking: No words at all, but to me he is pointing. Nay, have at you again: you shall have your anointing.
MANSIPULA. Body of me, hold, if ye can! What, will you kill such a proper man?
HAPHAZARD. Nay, sure I have done, when women do speak. Why would the knave my patience so break?
MANSIPULUS. Well, I must be gone, there is no remedy, For fear my tail makes buttons, by mine honesty.
HAPHAZARD. For reverence on your face, your nose and your chin. By the gods, have ye heard such an unmannerly villain?
MANSIPULA. I never heard one so rank of rudeness.
MANSIPULUS. In faith, it is but for lack of lewdness.[173] But here I burn day-light, while thus I am talking. Away, come, Mansipula, let us be walking.
MANSIPULA. Contented, Mansipulus; have with thee with speed.
HAPHAZARD. Nay, stay yet, my friends, I am not agreed.
MANSIPULA. We dare not tarry, by God, we swear.
HAPHAZARD. Nay, tarry, take comfort with you for to bear: It is but in hazard, and if you be miss’d, And so it may happen you feel not his fist. Perhaps he is stay’d by talk with some friend: It is but in hazard: then sing, ere you wend. Let hope be your helper, your care to defend.
MANSIPULUS. By hap or by hazard we sing, ere we cry; Then sing, let us say so, let sorrow go by.
MANSIPULA. We can be but beaten, that is the worst.
What how, Mansipulus! thou knave, art thou curs’d? My lord standeth talking, and I gape for thee. Come away, with a wannion! run, haste and hie.
MANSIPULUS. Nay, hearken, Subservus, stay, I pray thee: Let us have a song, and then have with thee.
_Hope so, and hap so, in hazard of threat’ning, The worst that can hap, lo, in end is but beating._
_What, if my lording do chance for to miss me, The worst that can happen is, cudgel will kiss me: In such kind of sweetness, I swear by God’s mother, It will please me better, it were on some other._ [ALL.] _With thwick thwack, with thump thump, With bobbing and bum, Our side-saddle shoulders shall shield that doth come. Hope so, and hap so, in hazard, &c._
_If[174] case that my lady do threaten my case, No cause to contrary, but bear her a space, Until she draw home, lo, where so she will use me, As Doctors doth doubt it, how I should excuse me._ [ALL.] _With thwick thwack, with thump thump, With bobbing and bum, Our side-saddle shoulders shall shield that doth come. Hope so, and hap so, in hazard, &c._