Sir Silas.
“Or he hangs without me. I am for dinner in half the time.”
Sir Thomas.
“Silas! Silas! he hangeth not with thee or without thee.”
Sir Silas.
“He thinketh himself a clever fellow; but he (look ye) is the cleverest that gets off.”
“I hold quite the contrary,” quoth Will Shakspeare, winking at Master Silas from the comfort and encouragement he had just received touching the hanging.
And Master Silas had his answer ready, and shewed that he was more than a match for poor Willy in wit and poetry.
He answered thus:—
“If winks are wit,
Who wanteth it?