"Ye are happy (ko I) that ye are a woman:
This would cost you your life, in case ye were a man."
R. Roister. Yea, an hundred thousand pound should not save her life.
M. Merry. No, but that ye woo her to have her to your wife;
But I could not stop her mouth.
R. Roister. Heigho, alas!
M. Merry. Be of good cheer, man, and let the world pass.[111]
R. Roister. What shall I do or say, now that it will not be?
M. Merry. Ye shall have choice of a thousand as good as she;
And ye must pardon her; it is for lack of wit.