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King.

Madam, I will, if suddenly I may.

Prin.

You will the sooner, that I were away,

For you’ll prove perjur’d if you make me stay.

Ber.

Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?

Kath.

Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?

Ber.

I know you did.

Kath.

How needless was it then

To ask the question?

Ber.

You must not be so quick.

Kath.

’Tis long of you that spur me with such questions.

Ber.

Your wit’s too hot, it speeds too fast, ’twill tire.

Kath.

Not till it leave the rider in the mire.

Ber.

What time a’ day?

Kath.

The hour that fools should ask.

Ber.

Now fair befall your mask!

Kath.

Fair fall the face it covers!

Ber.

And send you many lovers!

Kath.

Amen, so you be none.

Ber.

Nay then will I be gone.

King.

Madam, your father here doth intimate

The payment of a hundred thousand crowns,

Being but the one half of an entire sum

Disbursed by my father in his wars.

But say that he, or we, as neither have,

Receiv’d that sum, yet there remains unpaid

A hundred thousand more, in surety of the which