Huff:
The way men cheat! This windle-stalk was he
Would hold a show of spirit for the world
To study while it ruined!--Make what you please
Of your short wrangle here, but leave me out.
I have my thoughts--O far enough from this.
[Turning away.]
Shale (seizing him):
You shall not put me off. I tell you, Huff,
You are to take her back now.
Huff:
Take her back!
And what has she to do with what I want?
Shale:
Isn't she yours? I must be quit of her;
I'll not be in the risk of keeping her.
She's yours!
Huff:
And what's the good of her now to me?
What's the good of a woman whom I've married?
[During this, WARP the molecatcher has come in.]
Warp:
Shale and Huff at their old pother again!
Merrick:
The molecatcher.
Sollers:
Warp, have you travelled far?
Is it through frenzy and ghastly crowds you've come?
Vine:
Have you got dreadful things to tell us, Warp?
Warp:
Why, no.
But seemingly you'ld have had news for me,
If I'd come later. Is Huff to murder Shale,
Or Shale for murdering Huff? One way or 'tother,
'Tis time 'twas settled surely.
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