Is coming here in utmost bravery

To ask our master's sister's hand?

Ger. What then?

2d Ret. What then? Why, you, she speaks to, if she meets

Your worship, smiles on as you hold apart

The boughs to let her through her forest walks,

You, always favorite for your no-deserts,

You 've heard, these three days, how Earl Mertoun sues

To lay his heart and house and broad lands too

At Lady Mildred's feet: and while we squeeze