CAL. Mother, as I promised to assoil thy doubt, Here I give thee an hundred pieces of gold. CEL. Sir, I promise you I shall bring it about, All thing to purpose, even as ye would; For your reward I will do as I should. Be merry, fear nothing, content ye shall be. CAL. Then, mother, farewell; be diligent, I pray thee. [_Exit Celestine_. How sayest, Sempronio, have I done well? SEM. Yea, sir, in my mind, and most according. CAL. Then wilt thou do after my counsel? After this old woman will thou be hieing, To remember and haste her in everything. SEM. Sir, I am content, as ye command me. CAL. Then go, and bid Parmeno come, I pray thee. [_Exit Sempronio_. Now God be their guides! the posts[57] of my life, My relief from death, the ambassadors of my wealth! My hope, my hap; my quietness, my strife; My joy, my sorrow; my sickness, my health. The hope of this old woman; my heart telleth That comfort shall come shortly, as I intend. Or else come, death, and make of me an end.
PAR. In faith, it maketh no force nor matter mich, CAL. What sayest, Parmeno, what sayest to me? PAR. Marry, I say plainly, that yonder old witch And Sempronio together will undo thee. CAL. Ah, ill-tongued wretch, will ye not see? Thinkest thou, lurden, thou handlest me fair? Why, knave, wouldest thou put me in despair? [_Exit Calisto_. PAR. Lo, sirs, my master, ye see, is angry; But this it is, tell fools for their profit, Or warn them for their wealth, it is but folly; For strike them on the heel, and as much wit Shall come forth at their forehead to perceive it. Go thy way, Calisto, for on my charge Thy thrift is sealed up, though thou be at large. Oh, how unhappy I am to be true; For other men win by falsehood and flattery: I lose for my truth: the world doth so ensue, Truth is put back, and taken for folly. Therefore now I will change my copy. If I had done, as Celestine bad me, Calisto to his mission still would have had me. This giveth me warning from henceforward How to deal with him for all thing as he will: I will [be] the same forward or backward. I will go straight to him, and follow him still: Say as he saith, be it good or ill; And sith these bawds get good provoking lechery, I trust flattery shall speed as well as bawdry.