MIDO. Nay, ye should have set Mido before Abra, I trow,
For I am a man toward, and so is not she.
ABRA. No, but yet I am more woman toward than ye.
REBECCA. I charge you both that, whatever hath been spoken,
Ye do not to any living body open.
ABRA. For my part it shall to no body uttered be.
MIDO. And slit my tongue, if ever it come out for me:
But if any tell, Abra here will be prattling.
For they say, women will ever be clattering.
ABRA. There is none here that prattleth so much as you.
REBECCA. No mo words, but hence we altogether now.
[_Exeunt omnes_.
ACTUS TERTIJ, SCAENA PRIMA.
ESAU. ISAAC. MIDO.
ESAU. Now, since I last saw mine old father Isaac,
Both I do think it long, and he will judge me slack,
But he cometh forth; I will here listen and see,
Whether he shall chance to speak any word of me.
[_Steps aside_.
ISAAC. On, lead me forth, Mido, to the bench on this hand,
That I may sit me down, for I cannot long stand.
MIDO. Here, sir, this same way, and ye be at the bench now,
Where ye may sit down in God's name, if please you.
ISAAC. I marvel, where Esau my son doth become,
That he doth now of days visit me so seldom.
But it is oft seen, whom fathers do best favour,
Of them they have least love again for their labour.
I think, since I saw him, it is a whole week.
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