JACOBUS
Good people, we have wasted time enow.
You see this fellow, that he has no writ--

PIPER
Why not, then? 'T was a bargain. If your word
Hold only when 't is writ--

KURT
We cannot spend
Clerkship on them that neither write nor read.
What good would parchment do thee?

JACOBUS
My good man--

PIPER
Who says I cannot read?--Who says I cannot?

OLD CLAUS
Piper, don't tell me you can read in books!

PIPER
[at bay]
Books! Where's a book? Shew me a book, I say!

OLD URSULA
The Holy Book! Bring that--or he'll bewitch you.

PIPER