_2nd Shepherd._ I trow not oone farthyng.

_3rd Shepherd._ Fast agayne wille I flyng,
Abyde ye me there.

[_He returns to the house, the others following._]

Mak, take it no grefe if I com to thi barne.

_Mak._ Nay, thou dos me greatt reprefe, and fowlle has thou
farne.[32]

_3rd Shepherd._ The child wille it not grefe, that lytylle day
starne[33]?
Mak, with youre leyfe, let me gyf youre barne
Bot vj pence.

_Mak._ Nay, do way: he slepys.

_3rd Shepherd._ Me thynk he pepys.

_Mak._ When he wakyns he wepys.
I pray you go hence.

_3rd Shepherd._ Gyf me lefe hym to kys, and lyft up the clowtt.
What the dewille is this? he has a long snowte.

The cat is out of the bag. Mak, with an assurance worthy of a better
cause, declines to believe their report of the cradle's contents, and