Southampton:
But the playwrights are not your friends.
Shakespeare:
I have befriended most of them.
Lacy:
A double reason for repugnance—ingratitude the point, envy the barb!
Southampton:
[To Shakespeare.] A fine play, Shakespeare, but you seem cast down. Is all well with you in your home?
Shakespeare:
Thanks to you: more than well. My father’s debts all paid; the best house in the village bought for my mother——