Page 1903 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

SPEED

[aside]
O, give ye good even! Here’s a million of manners.

SILVIA

Sir Valentine and servant, to you two thousand.

SPEED

[aside]
He should give her interest, and she gives [95] it him.

VALENT INE

As you enjoined me, I have writ your letter
Unto the secret nameless friend of yours;
Which I was much unwilling to proceed in,
But for my duty to your ladyship. [100]

SILVIA

I thank you, gentle servant, ’tis very clerkly done.

VALENT INE

Now trust me, madam, it came hardly off;
For, being ignorant to whom it goes,
I writ at random, very doubtfully.

SILVIA

Perchance you think too much of so much pains? [105]

VALENT INE

No, madam; so it stead you, I will write,
Please you command, a thousand times as much;
And yet -

SILVIA

A pretty period! Well, I guess the sequel;
And yet I will not name it; and yet I care not; [110]
And yet take this again; and yet I thank you,
Meaning henceforth to trouble you no more.

SPEED