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FRIAR.
For I will speak, whither thou wilt or no--
PARDONER.
In faith, I care not, for I will speak also--
FRIAR.
Wherefore hardly let us both go to--
PARDONER.
See which shall be better heard of us two--
FRIAR.
What, should ye give ought to parting pardoners--
PARDONER.
What, should ye spend on these flattering liars--
FRIAR.
What, should ye give ought to these bold beggars--
PARDONER.
As be these babbling monks and these friars--
FRIAR.
Let them hardly labour for their living--
PARDONER.
Which do nought daily but babble and lie--
FRIAR.
It much hurteth them good men's giving--
PARDONER.
And tell you fables dear enough at a fly--
FRIAR.
For that maketh them idle and slothful to wark--
PARDONER.
As doth this babbling friar here to-day--
FRIAR.
That for none other thing they will cark--
PARDONER.
Drive him hence, therefore, in the twenty-devil way!
FRIAR.
Hardly they would go both to plough and cart--
PARDONER.
On us pardoners hardly do your cost--
FRIAR.
And if of necessity once they felt the smart--
PARDONER.
For why your money never can be lost--
