Enter Segasto, the Clown and Rumbelo.
SEGASTO.
Come, sirs; what, shall I never have you find out Amadine and the
shepherd?
MOUSE.
I have been through the woods and through the woods, and could see
nothing but an emet.
RUMBELO.
Why, I see a thousand emets. Thou meanest a little one?
MOUSE.
Nay, that emet that I saw was bigger than thou art.
RUMBELO.
Bigger than I? [_To Segasto_.] What a fool have you to your man! I pray
you, master, turn him away.
SEGASTO.
But dost thou hear, was he not a man?
MOUSE.
I think he was, for he said he did lead a saltseller’s life about the
woods.
SEGASTO.
Thou wouldst say, a solitary life about the woods?
MOUSE.
I think it was so, indeed.
RUMBELO.
I thought what a fool thou art.
MOUSE.
Thou art a wise man! [_To Segasto_.] Why, he did nothing but sleep
since he went.
SEGASTO.
But tell me, Mouse, how did he go?
MOUSE.
In a white gown, and a white hat on his head, and a staff in his hand.
SEGASTO.
I thought so; it was a hermit that walked a solitary life in the woods.
Well, get you to dinner; and after never leave seeking, till you bring
some news of them, or I’ll hang you both.
[_Exit._]
MOUSE.
How now, Rumbelo, what shall we do now?
RUMBELO.
Faith, I’ll home to dinner, and afterward to sleep.
MOUSE.
Why, then, thou wilt be hanged.
RUMBELO.
Faith, I care not, for I know I shall never find them. Well, I’ll once
more abroad, and if I cannot find them, I’ll never come home again.
MOUSE.
I tell thee what, Rumbelo; thou shalt go in at one end of the wood, and
I at the other, and we will meet both together in the midst.
RUMBELO.
Content, let’s away to dinner.
[_Exeunt._]