_R. Royster._ No by my trouth I would have hir to my Wife. 65 _M. Mery._ Then are ye a good man, and God save your life, And what or who is she, with whome ye are in love? _R. Royster._ A woman whome I knowe not by what meanes to move. _M. Mery._ Who is it? _R. Royster._ A woman yond. _M. Mery._ What is hir name? _R. Royster._ Hir yonder. 70 _M. Mery._ Who[359][?] _R. Royster._ Mistresse ah-- _M. Mery._ Fy fy for shame[!] Love ye, and know not whome? but hir yonde, a Woman, We shall then get you a Wyfe, I can not tell whan. _R. Royster._ The faire Woman, that supped wyth us yesternyght-- And I hearde hir name twice or thrice, and had it ryght. _M. Mery._ Yea, ye may see ye nere[360] take me to good cheere with you, 75 If ye had, I coulde have tolde you hir name now. _R. Royster._ I was to blame in deede, but the nexte tyme perchaunce: And she dwelleth in this house. _M. Mery._ What Christian Custance. _R. Royster._ Except I have hir to my Wife, I shall runne madde. _M. Mery._ Nay unwise perhaps, but I warrant you for madde. 80 _R. Royster._ I am utterly dead unlesse I have my desire. _M. Mery._ Where be the bellowes that blewe this sodeine fire? _R. Royster._ I heare she is worthe a thousande pounde and more. _M. Mery._ Yea, but learne this one lesson of me afore, An hundred pounde of Marriage money doubtlesse, 85 Is ever thirtie pounde sterlyng, or somewhat lesse, So that hir Thousande pounde yf she be thriftie, Is muche neere[361] about two hundred and fiftie, Howebeit wowers and Widowes are never poore. _R. Royster._ Is she a Widowe?[362] I love hir better therefore. 90 _M. Mery._ But I heare she hath made promise to another. _R. Royster._ He shall goe without hir, and[363] he were my brother. _M. Mery._ I have hearde say, I am right well advised, That she hath to Gawyn Goodlucke promised. _R. Royster._ What is that Gawyn Goodlucke? B i 95 _M. Mery._ a Merchant man. _R. Royster._ Shall he speede afore me? nay sir by sweete Sainct Anne. Ah sir, Backare quod Mortimer to his sowe,[364] I wyll have hir myne owne selfe I make God a vow. For I tell thee, she is worthe a thousande pounde. _M. Mery._ Yet a fitter wife for your maship[365] might be founde: 100 Suche a goodly man as you, might get one wyth lande,[366] Besides poundes of golde a thousande and a thousande, And a thousande, and a thousande, and a thousande, And so to the summe of twentie hundred thousande, Your most goodly personage is worthie of no lesse.[367] 105