M. MERRY. Yea, ye may see ye ne'er take me to good cheer with you: If ye had, I could have told you her name now. R. ROISTER. I was to blame indeed, but the next time perchance-- And she dwelleth in this house-- M. MERRY. What, Christian Custance? R. ROISTER. Except I have her to my wife, I, I shall run mad. M. MERRY. Nay, unwise perhaps; but I warrant you for mad.[49] R. ROISTER. I am utterly dead, unless I have my desire. M. MERRY. Where be the bellows that blew this sudden fire? R. ROISTER. I hear she is worth a thousand pound and more. M. MERRY. Yea, but learn this one lesson of me afore: An hundred pound of marriage-money, doubtless, Is ever thirty pound sterling, or somewhat less;[50] So that her thousand pound, if she be thrifty, Is much near[51] about two hundred and fifty. Howbeit, wooers and widows are never poor. R. ROISTER. Is she a widow? I love her better therefore. M. MERRY. But I hear she hath made promise to another. R. ROISTER. He shall go without her, and he were my brother. M. MERRY. I have heard say, I am right well advised, That she hath to Gawin Goodluck promised. R. ROISTER. What is that Gawin Goodluck? M. MERRY. A merchant-man. R. ROISTER. Shall he speed afore me? Nay, sir, by sweet Saint Anne! Ah, sir! _Backare_, quod Mortimer to his sow:[52] I will have her mine own self, I make God a vow; For, I tell thee, she is worth a thousand pound. M. MERRY. Yet a fitter wife for your maship[53] might be found; Such a goodly man as you might get one with land, Besides pounds of gold a thousand and a thousand, And a thousand and a thousand and a thousand, And so to the sum of twenty hundred thousand: Your most goodly personage is worthy of no less. R. ROISTER. I am sorry God made me so comely, doubtless; For that maketh me each where so highly favoured, And all women on me so enamoured. M. MERRY. Enamoured, quod you? have ye spied out that? Ah, sir, marry, now I see you know what is what. Enamoured, ka?[54] marry, sir, say that again; But I thought not ye had marked it so plain. R. ROISTER. Yes, each where they gaze all upon me, and stare.