O, there’s a kind of state

In everything, save in a cuckold’s pate!

Fie, fie, Horatio! what, is your pen foul?

Hor. No, father, cleaner than Lorenzo’s soul;

That’s dipp’d in ink made of an envious gall,

Else had my pen no cause to write at all.

Jer. Signior Andrea, say.

Hor. Signior Andrea——

Jer. ’Tis a villainous age this.

Hor. ’Tis a villainous age this——