A Select Collection of Old English Plays
Chapter 173 : FRIAR. For I will speak, whither thou wilt or no-- PARDONER. In faith, I care not, for

FRIAR.

For I will speak, whither thou wilt or no--

PARDONER.

In faith, I care not, for I will speak also--

FRIAR.

Wherefore hardly let us both go to--

PARDONER.

See which shall be better heard of us two--

FRIAR.

What, should ye give ought to parting pardoners--

PARDONER.

What, should ye spend on these flattering liars--

FRIAR.

What, should ye give ought to these bold beggars--

PARDONER.

As be these babbling monks and these friars--

FRIAR.

Let them hardly labour for their living--

PARDONER.

Which do nought daily but babble and lie--

FRIAR.

It much hurteth them good men's giving--

PARDONER.

And tell you fables dear enough at a fly--

FRIAR.

For that maketh them idle and slothful to wark--

PARDONER.

As doth this babbling friar here to-day--

FRIAR.

That for none other thing they will cark--

PARDONER.

Drive him hence, therefore, in the twenty-devil way!

FRIAR.

Hardly they would go both to plough and cart--

PARDONER.

On us pardoners hardly do your cost--

FRIAR.

And if of necessity once they felt the smart--

PARDONER.

For why your money never can be lost--