For now may
they find sure places to lay their treasure in, so that all the
Turk's army shall never find it out.
VINCENT: Marry, uncle, that way they will not forget, I warrant
you, as near as their wits will serve them. But yet have I known
some who have ere this thought that they had hid their money safe
and sure enough, digging it full deep in the ground, and yet have
missed it when they came again and found it digged out and carried
away to their hands.
ANTHONY: Nay, from their hands, I think you would say. And it was
no marvel. For some such have I known, too, but they have hid their
goods foolishly in such place as they were well warned before that
they should not. And that were they warned by him whom they well
knew for such a one as knew well enough what would come of it.
VINCENT: Then were they more than mad. But did he tell them too
where they should have hid it, to make it sure?
ANTHONY: Yea, by St. Mary, did he! For else he would have told
them but half a tale. But he told them a whole tale, bidding them
that they should in no wise hide their treasure in the ground. And
he showed them a good cause, for there thieves dig it out and steal
it away.
VINCENT: Why, where should they hide it, then, said he? For
thieves may hap to find it out in any place.
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