And bring me word to-morrow. That’s the service
For which, good Tristram, I will pay you well.
But can I trust you?
T. I never deceived any one, my lady: and if I can discover my master’s secret, your ladyship shall know it. I hold, like your ladyship, that love is a most contemptible disease, from which a good servant should seek to deliver his master. But I don’t think 580 we shall find any lady.
D. No lady, no pay, Tristram; remember that:
And, above all, be secret. Now, go your way,
And tell your master I wish to see him here.
T. I will, your ladyship. (Aside.) And as for secrets—if you knew my master’s as well as I know yours, you would not need to take me into your pay.
[Exit.
D. To-night: they meet to-night. It may be now