[Enter Segasto, the Clown, and ROMBELO.]
SEGASTO. Come, sirs; what, shall I never have you find out Amadine and the shepherd?
MOUSE. And I have been through the woods, and through the woods, and could see nothing but an emet.
ROMBELO. Why, I see thousand emets; thou meanest a little one? MOUSE. Nay, that emet that I saw was bigger than thou art.
ROMBELO. Bigger than I? 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 life about the woods.
SEGASTO. Thou wouldest say a solitary life about the woods. MOUSE. I think it was so, indeed.
ROMBELO. I thought what a fool thou art.
MOUSE. Thou art a wise man! 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, Rombelo? what shall we do now? ROMBELO. Faith, I'll home to dinner, and afterward to sleep. MOUSE. Why, then, thou wilt be hanged.
ROMBELO. Faith, I care not, for i know I shall never find them: well, I'll once more abroad, & if I cannot find them, I'll never come home again.
MOUSE. I tell thee what, Rombelo, thou shalt go in at one end of the wood and I at the other, and we will meet both together at the midst.
ROMBELO. Content! let's away to dinner.
[Exeunt.]
