1022Gon. I like thee well, thou hast a good toung.

1023Mes. And as bad a toung if it be set on it, as any Oysterwife

1024at Billinsgate hath: why, I haue made many of my neighbours

1025forsake their houses with rayling vpon them, and go dwell else

1026where; and so by my meanes houses haue bin good cheape in

1027our parish: My toung being well whetted with choller, is more

1028sharpe then a Razer of Palerno.

1029Gon. O, thou art a fit man for my purpose.

1030Mes. Commend me not, sweet Queene, before you try me.

1031As my deserts are, so do think of me.

1032Gon. Well sayd, then this is thy tryall: Instead of carrying

1033the Kings letters to my father, carry thou these letters to my

1034sister, which contayne matter quite contrary to the other: there

1035shal she be giuen to vnderstand, that my father hath detracted

1036her, giuen out slaundrous speaches against her; and that hee

1037hath most intollerably abused me, set my Lord and me at va-

1038riance, and made mutinyes amongst the commons.

1039These things (although it be not so)

1040Yet thou must affirme them to be true,

1041With othes and protestations as will serue,

1042To driue my sister out of loue with him,

1043And cause my will accomplished to be.

1044This do, thou winst my fauour for euer,

1045And makest a hye way of preferment to thee

1046And all thy friends.

1047Mess. It sufficeth, conceyt it is already done:

1048I will so toung-whip him, that I will

1049Leaue him as bare of credit, as a Poulter

1050Leaues a Cony, when she pulls off his skin.

1051Gon. Yet there is a further matter.

1052Mes. I thirst to heare it.

1053Gon. If my sister thinketh conuenient, as my letters

1054importeth, to make him away, hast thou the heart to

1055effect it?

1056Mess. Few words are best in so small a matter:

1057These are but trifles. By this booke I will.