[_She trips about the stage._ _Ge._ Has the Court ne'er a trot? _Po._ No, but a false gallop, lady. _Ge._ _And if she will not go to bed_-- [_Cantat._ _Be._ The knight's come, forsooth. _Enter_ Sir PETRONEL, Master TOUCHSTONE, _and_ Mistress TOUCHSTONE. _Ge._ Is my knight come? O the Lord, my band! Sister, do my cheeks look well? Give me a little box o' the ear, that I may seem to blush; now, now! So, there, there, there! here he is: O my dearest delight! Lord, Lord! and how does my knight? 231 _To._ Fie! with more modesty. _Ge._ Modesty! why, I am no citizen now--modesty! Am I not to be married? y'are best to keep me modest, now I am to be a lady. _Sir Pe._ Boldness is good fashion and courtlike. _Ge._ Ay, in a country lady I hope it is, as I shall be. And how chance ye came no sooner, knight? _Sir Pe._ 'Faith, I was so entertained in the progress with one Count Epernoum, a Welsh knight; we had a match at balloon[27] too with my Lord Whachum, for four crowns. 242 _Ge._ At baboon? Jesu! you and I will play at baboon in the country, knight. _Sir Pe._ O, sweet lady! 'tis a strong play with the arm. _Ge._ With arm or leg, or any other member, if it be a Court-sport. And when shall's be married, my knight? _Sir Pe._ I come now to consummate it, and your father may call a poor knight son-in-law. 250 _M. To._ Sir, ye are come; what is not mine to keep I must not be sorry to forego. A 100 li. land her grandmother left her, 'tis yours; herself (as her mother's gift) is yours. But if you expect aught from me, know, my hand and mine eyes open together; I do not give blindly. Work upon that now. _Sir Pe._ Sir, you mistrust not my means? I am a knight. _To._ Sir, sir, what I know not, you will give me leave to say I am ignorant of. 260 _Mist. To._ Yes, that he is a knight; I know where he had money to pay the gentlemen-ushers and heralds their fees. Ay, that he is a knight, and so might you have been too, if you had been aught else than an ass, as well as some of your neighbours. And I thought you would not ha' been knighted, as I am an honest woman, I would ha' dubbed you myself. I praise God I have wherewithal. But as for your daughter---- _Ge._ Ay, mother, I must be a lady to-morrow; and by your leave, mother (I speak it not without my duty, but only in the right of my husband), I must take place of you, mother. 272 _Mist. To._ That you shall, lady-daughter, and have a coach as well as I too.