Sir Harry. Here, sirrah, take thy quarter’s wages afore-hand, And tell me all their words, and what their greeting Was at their first encounter; hold thine hand. Taber. Thanks, noble sir; and now I’ll tell you. Your daughter being walking to take the air of the fields, and I before her, whom should we meet just in the nick-- Sir Harry. Just in the nick, man! Taber. In the highway I meant, sir. Sir Harry. Ha, and what conference passed betwixt them, Taber? Taber. As well as my pipe can utter, you shall know, sir. This gentleman meeting with my young mistress full butt--imagine you were she, and I young Master Sencer; now there you come, and here I meet you; he comes in this manner, and puts off his hat in this fashion. Sir Harry. Ay, but what said he? Taber. “Be with you,[4.20] fair gentlewoman;” and so goes quite away, and scarce so much as once looked back: and if this were language to offer to a young lady, judge you. Sir Harry. But spake he nothing else? Taber. Nothing, as I am true. Sir Harry. Why, man, all this was nothing. Taber. Yes, sir, it was as much as my quarter’s wages afore-hand. _Enter_ Sencer, Haringfield, _and_ Gratiana. Gratiana. Here are two gentlemen, with great desire, Crave conference with my father. Here he is: Now, gallants, you may freely speak your minds. Sencer. Save you, sir! my name is Sencer; I am a Northamptonshire gentleman, born to a thousand pound land by the year: I love your daughter, and I am come to crave your good-will. Sir Harry. Have you my daughter’s, that you covet mine? Sencer. No, sir, but I hope in time I shall have. Sir Harry. So hope not I, sir. Sir, my daughter’s young, And you a gentleman unknown. Sencer! ha, Sencer? Oh, sir, your name I now remember well; ’Tis ranked ’mongst unthrifts, dicers, swaggerers, and drunkards: Were not you brought before me, some month since, For beating of the watch? by the same token, I sent you to the Counter.[4.21] Sencer. I confess myself to have been in that action, but note the cause, sir: you could not have pleasured me so much, in giving me a piece of gold, as at the same time to help me to that Counter. Sir Harry. Why, sir, what cause had you to beat the watch, And raise a midnight tumult in the streets? Sencer. Nay, but hear me, sweet Sir Harry. Being somewhat late at supper at the Mitre, the doors were shut at my lodging; I knocked at three or four places more; all were a-bed, and fast; inns, taverns, none would give me entertainment. Now, would you have had me despaired, and lain in the streets? No, I bethought me of a trick worth two of that, and presently devised, having at that time a charge of money about me, to be lodged, and safely too. Sir Harry. As how, I pray you?