Has no one got a better soul than that?
If only for the credit of your parishes,
Traffic with us.
A WOMAN
What will you give for mine?
FIRST MERCHANT (reading in book)
"Soft, handsome, and still young"—not much, I think.
"It's certain that the man she's married to
Knows nothing of what's hidden in the jar
Between the hour-glass and the pepper-pot."
THE WOMAN
The scandalous book.
FIRST MERCHANT
"Nor how when he's away
At the horse fair the hand that wrote what's hid
Will tap three times upon the window-pane."
THE WOMAN