Page 1905 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
P. 1905
That my master, being scribe, to himself should write the letter?
VALENT INE
How now, sir? What are you reasoning with yourself?
SPEED
Nay, I was rhyming; ’tis you that have the reason. [135]
VALENT INE
To do what?
SPEED
To be a spokesman from Madam Silvia.
VALENT INE
To whom?
SPEED
To yourself. Why, she woos you by a figure.
VALENT INE
What figure? [140]
SPEED
By a letter, I should say.
VALENT INE
Why, she hath not writ to me.
SPEED
What need she, when she hath made you write to yourself? Why, do you
not perceive the jest?
VALENT INE
No, believe me. [145]
SPEED
No believing you, indeed, sir. But did you perceive her earnest?
