Page 1885 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
P. 1885
Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.
SPEED
And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.
PROT EUS
Come, come, open the matter in brief; what said she? [125]
SPEED
Open your purse, that the money and the matter may be both at once
delivered.
PROT EUS
Well, sir, here is for your pains. - What said she?
SPEED
Truly, sir, I think you’ll hardly win her. [130]
PROT EUS
Why? Couldst thou perceive so much from her?
SPEED
Sir, I could perceive nothing at all from her; no, not so much as a ducat for
delivering your letter; and being so hard to me that brought your mind, I
fear she’ll prove as hard to you in telling your mind. Give her no [135]
token but stones, for she’s as hard as steel.
PROT EUS
What said she? Nothing?
SPEED
No, not so much as ‘Take this for thy pains’. To testify your bounty, I thank
you, you have testerned me; in requital whereof, henceforth carry your
letters yourself. [140] And so, sir, I’ll commend you to my master.
[Exit]
PROT EUS
Go, go, be gone, to save your ship from wreck,
Which cannot perish, having thee aboard,
