[Speed.] O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,

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125 As a nose on a man’s face, or a weathercock on a steeple!

My master sues to her; and she hath taught her suitor,

He being her pupil, to become her tutor.

O excellent device! was there ever heard a better,

That my master, being [scribe], to himself should write the letter?

130 Val. How now, sir? what are you reasoning with yourself?

Speed. Nay. I was rhyming: ’tis you that have the reason.

Val. To do what?

135 Speed. To be a spokesman for Madam Silvia.