Lady W.—Why, if the price be high, you will get eight cash.
Niu Chau.—And if low?
Lady W.—You will get but seven cash and a half.
Niu Chau.—O, you wicked, tantalizing thing!
[Sings.] Since leaving home this morning,
I have met but with a trifler,
Who, in the shape of an old wife,
Tortures and gives me no job;
I’ll shoulder again my boxes, continue my walk,
And never again will I return to the house of Wang.