With phrases and fine speeches? I shall answer

Quite unpolitely thus, ‘Friend Manuel,

This house of mine is yours—for months, for years,

For all your life, with all the service in ’t

That I or mine can do for you.’ So back,

And bring your lady, telling her from me

I stay behind because I am unapt

At such fine speeches as her lover makes.

Man. Oh, let me thank you,—

Gil. Nay, ’twere better far