[♦] Purs. The better that your lordship please to ask.

[100] Hast. I tell thee, man, ’tis better with me now

[♦] Than when I met thee last where now we meet:

Then was I going prisoner to the Tower,

By the suggestion of the queen’s allies;

But now, I tell thee—keep it to thyself—

105 This day those enemies are put to death,

[♦] And I in better state than e’er I was.

Purs. God hold it, to your honour’s good content!

[♦] Hast. Gramercy, fellow: there, drink that for me. [Throws him his purse.