340 Launce. Of her tongue she cannot, for that’s writ down she is slow of; of her purse she shall not, for that I’ll keep shut: now, of another thing she may, and that [cannot I] help. Well, proceed.
Speed. ‘Item: She hath more [hair] than wit, and more 345 faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults.’
Launce. Stop there; I’ll have her: she was mine, and not mine, twice or thrice in [that last] article. Rehearse that once more.
Speed. ‘Item: She hath more hair than wit,’—
III. 1.
350 Launce. More hair than wit? [It may be; I’ll prove it]. The cover of the salt hides the salt, and therefore it is more than the salt; the hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the greater hides the less. What’s next?
Speed. ‘And more faults than hairs,’—
355 Launce. That’s monstrous: O, that that were out!
Speed. ‘And more wealth than faults.’
Launce. Why, that word makes the faults gracious.
Well, I’ll have her: and if it be a match, as nothing is impossible,—