Qu. Sweet Touchstone, will you lend me two shillings?
To. Not a penny.
Qu. Not a penny? I have friends, and I have acquaintance; I will piss at thy shop-posts, and throw rotten eggs at thy sign. Work upon that now. 150
[Exit staggering.
To. Now, sirrah, you! hear you? you shall serve me no more neither—not an hour longer.
Go. What mean you, sir?
To. I mean to give thee thy freedom, and with thy freedom my daughter, and with my daughter a father’s love. And with all these such a portion as shall make Knight Petronel himself envy thee! Y’are both agreed, are ye not?
Am. With all submission, both of thanks and duty.
To. Well then, the great Power of heaven bless and
confirm you. And, Golding, that my love to thee may not show less than my wife’s love to my eldest daughter, thy marriage feast shall equal the knight’s and hers. 163