Val. I had my townsmen's wrongs to busy me.
Gau. This is the lady's birthday, do you know?
—Her day of pleasure?
Val. —That the great, I know,
For pleasure born, should still be on the watch
To exclude pleasure when a duty offers:
Even as, for duty born, the lowly too
May ever snatch a pleasure if in reach:
Both will have plenty of their birthright, sir!
Gau. [Aside to Guibert.] Sir Guibert, here's your man! No scruples now—