"Please it your Grace, thus said he."
"Tell him it skills not[#] what he can. I say he shall."
[#] Matters not.
"Then belike there shall be more tailors had?"
"I care not how it be done, so it cost no money."
"But, an't like your Grace, the tailors will not work without money: and unless more be had, Master Valentine can never, his own self—without he sit up all night, nor scarce then—make an end of your Grace's gown by to-morrow."
"Let him sit up, then. Good lack! what ado is here over a sely[#] tailor!"
[#] Simple, mean.
"Your Grace mindeth, maybe, that you were set to have the murrey[#] gown by next Sunday?—and both two cannot be done."
[#] Plum-coloured.