The troublesome Raigne
1395Philip I thinke and
see so: why how cam
st thou here?
1396Frier To hide her from lay meu.
1397Nunne Tis true
sir, for feare.
1398Philip For feare of the laytie: a pitifull dred
1399When a Nunne
flies for
succour to a fat Friers bed.
1400But now for your ran
some my Cloy
ster-bred Conney,
1401To the che
st that you
speake of where lyes
so much money.
1402Nunne Faire Sir, within this pre
sse, of plate & money is
1403The valew of a thou
sand markes, and other thing by gis.
1404Let vs alone, and take it all, tis yours Sir, now you know it.
1405Philip Come on
sir Frier, pick the locke, this geere dooth
1407That couetou
snes
so cunningly mu
st pay
ye letchers ran
som.
1408What is in the hoord?
1409Frier Frier
Laurence my Lord, now holy water help vs,
1410Some witch, or
some diuell is
sent to delude vs:
1411Haud credo Laurentius, that thou
should
st be pend thus
1412In the pre
sse of a Nun we are all vndon,
1413And brought to di
scredence if thou be Frier
Laureuce,
1414Frier Amor vincit omnia,
so
Cato a
ffirmeth,
1415And therefore a Frier who
se fancie
soone burneth:
1416Becau
se he is mortall and made of mould,
1417He omits what he ought, and doth more than he
should.
1418Philip How goes this g
éere? the Friers che
st filde with
1420The Nunne again locks Frier vp, to keep him frõ the Sun.
1421Belike the pre
sse is purgatorie, or penance pa
ssing grieuous:
1422The Friers che
st a hel for Nuns. How do the
se dolts deceiue
1423Is this the labour of their liues to f
éede and liue at ea
se,
(vs?
1424To reuell
so la
sciuiou
sly as often as they plea
se.
1425Ile mend the fault or fault my ayme, if I do mi
sse amending,
1426Tis better burn
ye cloi
sters down than leaue thẽ for o
ffending.
1427But holy you, to you I
speake, to you religious diuell,
1428Is this the pre
sse that holdes the
summe to quite you for your
1430Nunne I crie
Peccaui, parce me, g
ood Sir I was beguild.
Frier