Page 1941 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
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Ay, that she can.
SPEED
Item: She brews good ale. [295]
LAUNCE
And thereof comes the proverb: “Blessing of your heart, you brew good
ale”.
SPEED
Item: She can sew.
LAUNCE
That’s as much as to say, “Can she so?”.
SPEED
Item: She can knit. [300]
LAUNCE
What need a man care for a stock with a wench, when she can knit him a
stock?
SPEED
Item: She can wash and scour.
LAUNCE
A special virtue; for then she need not be washed and scoured. [305]
SPEED
Item: She can spin.
LAUNCE
Then may I set the world on wheels, when she can spin for her living.
SPEED
Item: She hath many nameless virtues.
LAUNCE
That’s as much as to say, bastard virtues; that [310] indeed know not their
