+Pet.+ He is hide-bound: he will part with nothing. There is an old rivelled purse hangs at his side, has not been loosed these twenty years, and, I think, will so continue. +Lio.+ Why, will his charity stretch to nothing, Petro? +Pet.+ Yes, he has sent you something. +Lio.+ What is't? +Pet.+ A piece of antiquity, sir; 'tis English coin; and if you will needs know, 'tis an old Harry groat.[322] +Lio.+ Thank him heartily. +Pet.+ And 'tis the first, he says, that e'er was made of them; and, in his esteem, is worth three double ducats newly stamped. +Lio.+ His folly may put what price he please upon it, but to me 'tis no more than the value, Petro. +Pet.+ He says, moreover, that it may stand you in some use and pleasure hereafter, when you grow ancient; for it is worn so thin with often handling, it may serve you for a spectacle. +Lio.+ Very well. +Duke.+ 'Twere a good deed to conspire against him; he has a humour easy to be wrought on, and if you'll undertake him, we'll assist you in the performance. +Lio.+ With all my heart, gentlemen, and I thank you. +Duke.+ Let us defer it no longer then, but instantly about it. +Lio.+ A match! Lead on; good wit and fortune guide us. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [310] So in Ben Jonson's "Every Man out of his Humour," act iii. sc. 3: "You shall see sweet silent rhetorique and _dumb eloquence speaking in her eye_; but when she speaks herself, such an anatomy of wit, so fine wiz'd and arteriz'd, that 'tis the goodliest model of pleasure that ever was to behold." Again, in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," act ii. sc. 2-- "She speaks, yet she says nothing; what of that? _Her eye discourses_, I will answer it." And Pope, in his translation of the "Iliad"-- "Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, _and eloquence of eyes_." The lines in the text, as well as those quoted in the note, were all written subsequent to the publication of "The Complaint of Rosamond," by Samuel Daniel, whence the following stanza is extracted-- "Ah beauty, syren, faire enchaunting good, Sweet _silent rhetorique of perswading eyes_, _Dombe eloquence_, whose power doth move the blood, More than the words or wisedome of the wise; Still harmonie, whose diapason lies Within a brow, the key which passions move, To ravish sense, and play a world in love." [311] Borrowed from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," act ii. sc. 2-- "O that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek;" which, Mr Steevens observes, hath been ridiculed by Shirley in "The School of Compliment"-- "O that I were a flea upon that lip," &c. [312] So in "Love's Labour's Lost," [Dyce 2d edit. ii. 187]-- "And _wear_ his _colours_ like a tumbler's hoop."