And therefore let me be thus bold with you

To give you over at this first encounter,

Unless you will accompany me thither.

Gru. I pray you, sir, let him go while the humour lasts.

[O'] my word, an she knew him as well as I do, she would think

scolding would do little good upon him: she may perhaps

call him half a score knaves or so: why, that's nothing; an

he [begin] once, he'll rail in [his] [rope-tricks]. I'll tell you what,

sir, an she stand him but a little, he will throw a figure in

her face and so disfigure her with it that she shall have no