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The troop is past. Come, pilgrim, I will bring you
Where you shall host. Of enjoined penitents
There’s four or five, to great Saint Jaques bound,
Already at my house.

HELENA
I humbly thank you. [95]

Please it this matron and this gentle maid
To eat with us tonight; the charge and thanking
Shall be for me, and, to requite you further,

I will bestow some precepts of this virgin,
Worthy the note.

WIDOW and MARIANA
We’ll take your offer kindly. [100]
Exeunt.

Scene VI IT

Enter Bertram and the two French Lords.

FIRST LORD
Nay, good my lord, put him to’t, let him have his way.

SECOND LORD
If your lordship find him not a hilding, hold me no more in your respect.

FIRST LORD
On my life, my lord, a bubble. [5]

BERTRAM
Do you think I am so far deceived in him?

FIRST LORD
Believe it, my lord, in mine own direct knowledge, without any malice, but to

speak of him as my kinsman, he’s a most notable coward, an infinite and