140 It must appear in other ways than words,

Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.

Gra. [To Nerissa] By yonder moon I swear you do me wrong;

In faith, I gave it to the judge’s clerk:

Would he were gelt that had it, for my part,

145 Since you do take it, love, so much at heart.

Por. A quarrel, ho, already! what’s the matter?

Gra. About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring

[148] That she did give me, whose posy was

For all the world like cutler’s poetry