| | Closely and safely, fitting things to time.-- | |
| | But in extremes advantage hath no time; | |
| | And therefore all times fit not for revenge. | |
| | Thus therefore will I rest me in unrest, | |
| | Dissembling quiet in unquietness, | 30 |
| | Not seeming that I know their villanies, | |
| | That my simplicity may make them think, | |
| | That ignorantly I will let all slip; | |
| | For ignorance, I wot, and well they know, | |
| | Remedium malorum iners est. | |
| | Nor ought avails it me to menace them | |
| | Who, as a wintry storm upon a plain, | |
| | Will bear me down with their nobility. | |
| | No, no, Hieronimo, thou must enjoin | |
| | Thine eyes to observation, and thy tongue | 40 |
| | To milder speeches than thy spirit affords, | |
| | Thy heart to patience, and thy hands to rest, | |
| | Thy cap to courtesy, and thy knee to bow, | |
| | Till to revenge thou know, when, where and how. | |
| [A noise within. | |
| | How now, what noise? what coil is that you keep? | |
| Enter a Servant. | |
| | | |
| Serv. | Here are a sort of poor petitioners, | |
| | That are importunate, and it shall please you, sir, | |
| | That you should plead their cases to the king. | |
| Hier. | That I should plead their several actions? | |
| | Why, let them enter, and let me see them. | |