They are all disloyal, unconstant, all unjust:
Who tries as I have tried, and finds as I have found,
Will say theres so such creatures on the ground.
BLANCH.
Unconstant Knight, though some deserve no trust,
Theres others faithful, loving, loyal, and just.
[Enter to them Valingford with Em and the Miller, and
Mountney, and Manville, and Elner.]
WILLIAM.
How now, Lord Valingford, what makes these women here?
VALINGFORD.
Here be two women, may it please your grace,
That are contracted to one man, and are
In strife whether shall have him to their husband.
WILLIAM.
Stand foorth, women, and say,
To whether of you did he first give his faith.
EM.
To me, forsooth.
ELNER.
To me, my gratious Lord.
WILLIAM.
Speak, Manville: to whether didst thou give thy faith?
MANVILLE.
To say the troth, this maid had first my love.
ELNER.
Yes, Manville, but there was no witness by.
EM.
Thy conscience, Manville, is a hundred witnesses.
ELNER.
She hath stolen a conscience to serve her own turn; but you
are deceived, yfaith, he will none of you.
MANVILLE.
In deed, dread Lord, so dear I held her love
As in the same I put my whole delight;
But some impediments, which at that instant hapned,
Made me forsake her quite;
For which I had her fathers frank consent.
WILLIAM.
What were the impediments?
MANVILLE.
Why, she could neither hear nor see.
WILLIAM.
Now she doth both.
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