ONAELIA
Sorrow becomes me best.
CORNEGO
A suit of laugh and lie down would wear better.
ONAELIA
What should I do to be merry, Cornego?
CORNGO
Be not sad.
ONELIA
But what's the best mirth in the world?
CORNEGO Marry this, to see much, say little, do little, get little, spend little and want nothing.
ONELIA
Oh, but there is a mirth beyond all these;
This picture has so vexed me, I'm half mad,
To spite it therefore, I'll sing any song
Thyself shall tune. Say then, what mirth is best?
CORNEGO Why then Madam, what I knock out now is the very marrowbone of mirth and this it is.
ONELIA
Say on.
CORNEGO The best mirth for a lawyer is to have fools to his clients; for citizens to have noblemen pay for their debts; for tailors to have store of satin brought in, for then how little soever their houses are, they will be sure to have large yards. The best mirth for bawds is to have fresh handsome whores, and for whores to have rich gulls come aboard their pinnaces <4>, for then they are sure to build galleasses <5>.