895895Manuile. Nay; with his daughter rather.
896896Valingf. Thus it is father, we are come to craue your friend
ship
(in a matter. 897897Miller. Gentlemen as you are
strangers to me,
898898Yet by the way of courte
sie you
shall demand
899899Any rea
sonable thing at my hands.
900900Manuile. What is the matter
so forward
901901They come to craue his good will?
902902Valinford. It is giuen vs to vnder
stand that your daughter
903903Is
sudenly become both blinde and deafe.
904904Miller. Mary God forbid: I haue
sent for her, in deed
905905She hath kept her chamber this three daies.
906906It were no litle griefe to me if it
should be
so.
907907Manuile. This is Gods iudgement for her trecherie.
908908Enter Trotter leading Em. 909909Miller. Gentlemen I feare your words are two true:
910910See where
Trotter comes leading of her.
911911What ayles my
Em, not blinde I hope?
912912Em. Mountney and
Validgford both together?
913913And
Manuile, to whom I haue faithfully vowed my loue?
914914Now
Em suddenly helpe thy
selfe.
915915Mountney. This is no de
sembling
Valingford.
916916Valingford. If it be; it is cunningly contriued of all
sides.
917917Em. Trotter lend me thy hand,
918918And as thou loue
st me keep my coun
sell
919919And iu
sti
fie what
so euer I
saie, and Ile largely requite thee.
920920Trott. Ah, that is as much as to
saie you would tell a mon
strous,
921921Terrible, horrible, outragious lie,
922922And I
shall
sooth it, no berlady.
923923Em. My pre
sent extremitie wills me, if thou loue me
Trotter? 924924Trotter. That
same word loue makes me to doe any thing.
925925Em. Trotter wheres my father?
926926He thrusts Em vpon her father. 927927Trotter. Why what a blinde dunce are you, can you not
see?
928928He
standeth right before you.
930930Good father, giue me leaue to
sit
Where