SCENE V.

_A Street._

_Enter Jeweller’s Wife and Boy._

JEW. WIFE. Is my sweet knight coming? are you certain he’s coming? BOY. Certain, forsooth; I am sure I saw him out of the barber’s shop, ere I would come away. JEW. WIFE. A barber’s shop? O, he’s a trim knight! would he venture his body into a barber’s shop, when he knows ’tis as dangerous as a piece of Ireland? O, yonder, yonder he comes! Get you back again, and look you say as I advised you. BOY. You know me, mistress. JEW. WIFE. My mask, my mask. [_Exit Boy._

_Enter_ KNIGHT, _and Lackey following at some distance_.

KNIGHT. My sweet Revenue! JEW. WIFE. My Pleasure, welcome! I have got single; none but you shall accompany me to the justice of peace, my father’s. KNIGHT. Why, is thy father justice of peace, and I not know it? JEW. WIFE. My father? i’faith, sir, ay; simply though I stand here a citizen’s wife, I am a justice of peace’s daughter. KNIGHT. I love thee the better for thy birth. JEW. WIFE. Is that your lackey yonder, in the steaks[829] of velvet? KNIGHT. He’s at thy service, my sweet Revenue, for thy money paid for ’em. JEW. WIFE. Why, then, let him run a little before, I beseech thee; for, a’ my troth, he will discover us else. KNIGHT. He shall obey thee.—Before, sirrah, trudge. [_Exit Lackey._]—But do you mean to lie at your father’s all night? JEW. WIFE. Why should I desire your company else? KNIGHT. ’S foot, where shall I lie then? JEW. WIFE. What an idle question’s that! why, do you think I cannot make room for you in my father’s house as well as in my husband’s? they’re both good for nothing else. KNIGHT. A man so resolute in valour as a woman in desire, were an absolute leader. [_Exeunt._