ILF. To any maid, so she be fair: To any maid, so she be rich: To any maid, so she be young: And to any maid-- BAR. So she be honest. ILF. Faith, it's no great matter for her honesty, for in these days that's a dowry out of request. BUT. From these crabs will I gather sweetness: wherein I'll imitate the bee, that sucks her honey, not from the sweetest flowers, but [from] thyme, the bitterest: so these having been the means to beggar my master, shall be the helps to relieve his brothers and sister. [_Aside_.] ILF. To whom shall I now be a suitor? BUT. Fair fall ye, gallants. ILF. Nay, and she be fair, she shall fall sure enough. Butler, how is't, good butler? BUT. Will you be made gallants? WEN. Ay, but not willingly cuckolds, though we are now talking about wives. BUT. Let your wives agree of that after: will you first be richly married? ALL. How, butler? richly married? BUT. Rich in beauty, rich in purse, rich in virtue, rich in all things. But mum, I'll say nothing, I know of two or three rich heirs. But cargo![403] my fiddlestick cannot play without rosin: avaunt. WEN. Butler. ILF. Dost not know me, butler? BUT. For kex,[404] dried kex, that in summer has been so liberal to fodder other men's cattle, and scarce have enough to keep your own in winter. Mine are precious cabinets, and must have precious jewels put into them, and I know you to be merchants of stock-fish, dry-meat,[405] and not men for my market: then vanish. ILF. Come, ye old madcap, you: what need all this? cannot a man have been a little whoremaster in his youth, but you must upbraid him with it, and tell him of his defects which, when he is married, his wife shall find in him? Why, my father's dead, man, now; who by his death has left me the better part of a thousand a year. BUT. Tut, she of Lancashire has fifteen hundred. ILF. Let me have her then, good butler. BUT. And then she, the bright beauty of Leicestershire, has a thousand, nay, thirteen hundred a year, at least. ILF. O, let me have her, honest butler. BUT. Besides, she the most delicate, sweet countenanced, black-browed gentlewoman in Northamptonshire, in substance equals the best of them. ILF. Let me have her then. BAR. Or I. WEN. Or I, good butler. BUT. You were best play the parts of right fools and most desperate whoremasters, and go together by the ears for them, ere ye see them. But they are the most rare-featured, well-faced, excellent-spoke, rare-qualitied, virtuous, and worthy-to-be-admired gentlewomen. ALL. And rich, butler? BUT. Ay, that must be one, though they want all the rest [_Aside_]; --and rich, gallants, as are from the utmost parts of Asia to the present confines of Europe. ALL. And wilt thou help us to them, butler?