Herbert:

No, no. Come in and be seated. I was half asleep, I think.

Shakespeare:

We have not tasted life together for days and days.

Herbert:

’Tis true; not since my quarrel with Raleigh. How the old limpet clings to place. He has just come to new honours, I hear: she has made him Governor of Jersey. Curse him!

Shakespeare:

With honour one can always buy honours.

Herbert:

[Laughs.] Yes! the singular is more than the plural.