Fran. Servant.

Beard. Mistress.

Fran. We are undone.

Beard. Now Jove forfend![371]

Fran. This fellow has no land; and which is worse,
He has no credit.

Beard. How! are we outstripp'd?
Blown up by wit of man? Let us be gone
Home again, home again: our market now is done.

Fran. That were too great a scandal.

Throat. Most true!
Better to wed another, than to return
With scandal and defame: wed me a man,
Whose wealth may reconcile your mother's love.
And make the action lawful.

Beard. But where's the man?
I like your counsel, could you show the man.

Throat. Myself am he, might I but dare aspire
Unto so high a fortune.