17531747that is but a kinde of bastard hope neither.

17541748Iessica. And what hope is that I pray thee?

17551749Clowne. Marry you may partly hope that your Father got you

17561750not, that you are not the Iewes daughter.

17571751Iessica. That were a kind of bastard hope in deede, so the sinnes

17581752of my mother should be visited vpon me.

17591753Clowne. Truly then I feare you are damnd both by father and

17601754mother: thus when I shun Scilla your father, I fall into Caribdis

17611755your mother; well, you are gone both wayes.

17621756Iessica. I shall be sau'd by my husband, he hath made me a Chri

17631757stian?

17641758Clowne. Truly the more to blame he, we were Christians enow

17651759before, in as many as could well liue one by another: this making

17661760of Christians will raise the price of Hogs, if we grow all to be pork

17671761eaters, we shall not shortly haue a rasher on the coles for mony.

17691763Iessi. Ile tell my husband Launcelet what you say, here he come?

17701764Loren. I shall grow iealious of you shortly Launcelet, if you thus

17711765get my wife into corners?

17721766Iessica. Nay, you neede not feare vs Lorenzo, Launcelet and I are

17731767out, he tells me flatly there's no mercy for mee in heauen, because

17741768I am a Iewes daughter: and he sayes you are no good member of

17751769the common-wealth, for in conuerting Iewes to Christians, you

17761770raise the price of porke.

17771771Loren. I shall aunswere that better to the common-wealth than

17781772you can the getting vp of the Negroes belly: the Moore is with

17791773child by you Launcelet?

17801774Clowne. It is much that the Moore should be more then rea-

17811775son: but if she be lesse then an honest woman, she is indeede more

17821776then I tooke her for.

17831777Loren. How euery foole can play vpon the word, I thinke the

17841778best grace of wit will shortly turne into silence, and discourse grow

17851779commendable in none onely but Parrats: goe in sirra, bid them

17861780prepare for dinner?

17871781Clowne. That is done sir, they haue all stomacks?

17881782Loren. Goodly Lord what a wit snapper are you, than bid them

17891783prepare dinner?

G2 Clowne.