Ere she came hether.—How now, wife? how ist?
What, are ye yet in charity and love
With mistresse Barnes?
Mi. Gou. With mistris Barnes! why mistris[1740] Barnes, I pray?
M. Gou. Because she is your neighbour and—— 111
Mi. Gou. And what?
And a jealous slandering spitefull queane she is,
One that would blur my reputation
With her approbrious mallice, if she could. 115
She wrongs her husband, to abuse my fame: