Launce. And thereof comes the proverb: ‘Blessing of your heart, you brew good ale.’
Speed. ‘Item: She can sew.’
Launce. That’s as much as to say, Can she so?
III. 1.
300 Speed. ‘Item: She can knit.’
Launce. 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.’
Launce. A special virtue; for then she [need not be] 305 washed and scoured.
Speed. ‘Item: She can spin.’
Launce. Then may I set the world on wheels, when she can spin for her living.
Speed. ‘Item: She hath many nameless virtues.’