VINCENT: By my troth, uncle, methinketh that you say very well.
ANTHONY: I say surely, cousin, as I think. And yet all this have I
said concerning them that dwell in such places that they are never
like in their lives to come in the danger to be put to the proof.
Howbeit, many a man may think himself far from it, who yet may
fortune to come to it by some chance or other, either for the truth
of faith or for the truth of justice, which go almost all alike.
But now you and I, cousin, and all our friends here, are far in
another point. For we are so likely to fall in the experience of it
soon, that it would have been more timely for us, all other things
set aside, to have devised upon this matter, and firmly to have
settled ourselves upon a false point long ago, than to begin to
commune and counsel upon it now.
VINCENT: In good faith, uncle, you say therein very truth, and
would God it had come sooner in my mind. But yet is it better late
than never. And I trust God shall yet give us respite and time. And
that we lose no part thereof, uncle, I pray you proceed now with
your good counsel therein.
ANTHONY: Very gladly, cousin, shall I now go forth in the fourth
temptation, which alone remaineth to be treated of, and properly
pertaineth wholly unto this present purpose.
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