=Pam.= The happiest in the worlde, were I, if I could make that exchaunge (I meane) that hir minde might come dwell in my brest, in sorte as mine hath wholye dwelled in hir body.
=Ma.= But wil you giue me leaue now eftsones a while to play the Sophister his part with you?
=Ma.= Is it possible that one and the same bodie both haue the soule and be without the soule.
=Ma.= When the soule is awaye, then the body (you say) is deade.
=Ma.= And it lyueth not but when y^e soule is present withall?
=Ma.= How commeth this to passe then, that y^e soule being there where it loueth, the body yet wherout it is departed, neuerthelesse lyueth? for if it lyueth in one place, when it loueth in an other, by what reasō is it called _Exanime Corpus_, as you would say, a lifelesse body, since it hath life and sense in it.
=Pam.= By saint Marie you playe the Sophistres meetelye well, howbeit you cannot snarle me in such chicken bandes. That soule which after a sort gouerneth the bodye of a liuing creature being in suche case is improperly called the soule, for in very dede it is a certaine small portion of the soule, which remaineth behind, euen as the sauor of Roses tarieth still in the hande of him, which bare them, when y^e very Roses themselues be done away.
=Ma.= I sée well inough it is hard to take a foxe in a pitch, but answere me to this also. Is not he a doer which murthereth.
=Ma.= And is not y^e partie a sufferer, who is murthered?
=Ma.= How commeth it to passe then, that since he which loueth is the doer and shée which is beloued is but the sufferer, she should be infamed for a murtherer, which is beloued. When as in verie déede, he that loueth rather murthereth himself?
=Pam.= Nay, it is contrarie, for he that loueth suffreth, she that is beloued doth.
=Ma.= That shall you neuer proue true with the consent of our chiefe _Areopagites_ of Grammer.
=Pam.= But this will I proue true by the consent of the whole Parliament of Logitians.
=Ma.= But aunswere me to this againe, loue you with your wil, or against your wyll?
=Maria.= Ergo, sithence it is in frée choise to loue, or not to loue, whoso loueth, is a murtherer of himselfe, and wrongfullye accuseth the poore wench beloued.
=Pam.= Why? I say not that the wench murthereth bicause she is beloued, but bicause she loueth not againe the party which loueth hir: for (truth it is) she is guilty of murther, which might saue a mans life and will not.