Bion. [Sir], my mistress sends you word
That she is busy, and [she cannot] come.
Pet. [How!] [she is busy], and she cannot come!
Is that an answer?
Gre. Ay, and a kind one too:
Pray God, sir, your wife send you not a worse.
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Pet. I hope, [better].
Hor. Sirrah Biondello, go and entreat my wife
To come to me forthwith. [Exit Biondello.