SCAEVOLA.
So long as you may speak, I don’t see why I shouldn’t.
SCARAMUCCIO.
Well, then, what have you done that was so noble?
SCAEVOLA.
The day before yesterday I helped my spendthrift of a nephew out of his debts.
SCARAMUCCIO.
And yesterday I saved the prompter from talking himself hoarse by leaving out a whole scene.
SCAEVOLA.
I was in a merry humour at table one day last week, and gave a whole shilling in charity.