M. Merry. Yea, but learn this one lesson of me afore:

An hundred pound of marriage-money, doubtless,

Is ever thirty pound sterling, or somewhat less;[50]

So that her thousand pound, if she be thrifty,

Is much near[51] about two hundred and fifty.

Howbeit, wooers and widows are never poor.

R. Roister. Is she a widow? I love her better therefore.

M. Merry. But I hear she hath made promise to another.

R. Roister. He shall go without her, and he were my brother.

M. Merry. I have heard say, I am right well advised,