SPEED.
Item, She brews good ale.
LANCE.
And thereof comes the proverb, “Blessing of your heart, you brew good ale.”
SPEED.
Item, She can sew.
LANCE.
That’s as much as to say, “Can she so?”
SPEED.
Item, She can knit.
LANCE.
What need a man care for a stock with a wench, when she can knit him a stock?
SPEED.
Item, She can wash and scour.
LANCE.
A special virtue, for then she need not be washed and scoured.
SPEED.
Item, She can spin.
LANCE.
Then may I set the world on wheels, when she can spin for her living.