And surely, cousin, albeit that methinketh I see divers evil tokens
of this misery coming to us, yet can there not, to my mind, be a
worse prognostication of it than this ungracious token that you
note here yourself. For undoubtedly, cousin, this new manner of
men's favourable fashion in their language toward these ungracious
Turks declareth plainly not only that their minds give them that
hither shall he come, but also that they can be content both to
live under him and, beside that, to fall from the true faith of
Christ into Mahomet's false abominable sect.
VINCENT: Verily, mine uncle, as I go about more than you, so must
I needs hear more (which is a heavy hearing in mine ear) the manner
of men in this matter, which increaseth about us here--I trust that
in other places of this realm, by God's grace, it is otherwise. But
in this quarter here about us, many of these fellows who are fit
for the war were wont at first, as it were in sport, to talk as
though they looked for a day when, with a turn to the Turk's faith,
they should be made masters here of true Christian men's bodies and
owners of all their goods. And, in a while after that, they began
to talk so half between game and earnest--and now, by our Lady, not
far from fair flat earnest indeed.
ANTHONY: Though I go out but little, cousin, yet hear I
sometimes--when I say little!--almost as much as that.
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