Edg. Wou’d you have the box and all, sir, or only that that is in’t? I’ll get you that, and leave him the box to play with still, which will be the harder of the two, because I would gain your worship’s good opinion of me.
Winw. He says well, ’tis the greater mastery, and ’twill make the more sport when ’tis mist.
Edg. Ay, and ’twill be the longer a missing, to draw on the sport.
Quar. But look you do it now, sirrah, and keep your word, or—
Edg. Sir, if ever I break my word with a gentleman, may I never read word at my need. Where shall I find you?
Quar. Somewhere i’ the Fair, hereabouts: dispatch it quickly. [Exit Edgworth.] I would fain see the careful fool deluded! Of all beasts, I love the serious ass; he that takes pains to be one, and plays the fool with the greatest diligence that can be.
Grace. Then you would not choose, sir, but love my guardian, justice Overdo, who is answerable to that description in every hair of him.
Quar. So I have heard. But how came you, mistress Wellborn, to be his ward, or have relation to him at first?
Grace. Faith, through a common calamity, he bought me, sir; and now he will marry me to his wife’s brother, this wise gentleman that you see; or else I must pay value o’ my land.
Quar. ’Slid, is there no device of disparagement, or so? talk with some crafty fellow, some picklock of the law: would I had studied a year longer in the Inns of court, an’t had been but in your case.