If I can get the girl to go with me,
Disguis'd in habit like a pedlar's mort,[203]
I'll serve this execution, on my life,
And single out a time alone to take
Robin, that often careless walks alone.
Why, answer not; remember what I said:
Yonder, I see, comes Jenny, that fair maid.
If we agree, then back me soon with aid.
_Enter_ JENNY _with a fardel_.
PRIOR. Tuck, if thou do it--
DON. Pray, you do not talk:
As we were strangers let us careless walk.
JEN. Now to the green wood wend I, God me speed.
TUCK. Amen, fair maid, and send thee, in thy need,
Much, that is born to do thee much good deed.
JEN. Are you there, Friar? nay then, i'faith, we have it.
TUCK. What, wench? my love?
JEN. Ay, gi't me when I crave it.
TUCK. Unask'd I offer; prythee, sweet girl, take it.
JEN. Gifts stink with proffer: foh! Friar, I forsake it.
TUCK. I will be kind.
JEN. Will not your kindness kill her?
TUCK. With love?
JEN. You cog.
TUCK. Tut, girl, I am no miller:
Hear in your ear.
DON. The Friar courts her. [_Standing behind_.
PRIOR. Tush, let them alone;
He is our Lady's Chaplain, but serves Joan.
DON. Then, from the Friar's fault, perchance, it may be
The proverb grew, Joan's taken for my lady.
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