Explanation of Therefore I promise ye I fear you. I was always plain with you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter. Therefore be damned; good cheer, for truly I think you are damned. There is but one hope in it that can do you any good, and that

Lancelot and Jessica are in an argument over whether she can be saved by God since she was born a Jew. Lancelot tells her that since both her parents are Jews, she is damned. She protests that she can be saved once she becomes a Christian because her husband Lorenzo is a Christian. Lancelot then makes a joke, and says that Lorenzo is a bad man because by converting all the Jews he is raising the price of pork (since Jews do not eat pork, but Christians do).