_Val._ As you enjoin'd me, I have writ your letter Unto the secret nameless friend of yours; Which I was much unwilling to proceed in, 95 But for my duty to your ladyship. _Sil._ I thank you, gentle servant: 'tis very clerkly done. _Val._ Now trust me, madam, it came hardly off; For, being ignorant to whom it goes, I writ at random, very doubtfully. 100 _Sil._ Perchance you think too much of so much pains? _Val._ No, madam; so it stead you, I will write, Please you command, a thousand times as much; And yet-- _Sil._ A pretty period! Well, I guess the sequel; 105 And yet I will not name it;--and yet I care not;-- And yet take this again:--and yet I thank you; Meaning henceforth to trouble you no more. _Speed._ [_Aside_] And yet you will; and yet another 'yet.' _Val._ What means your ladyship? do you not like it? 110 _Sil._ Yes, yes: the lines are very quaintly writ; But since unwillingly, take them again. Nay, take them. _Val._ Madam, they are for you. _Sil._ Ay, ay: you writ them, sir, at my request; 115 But I will none of them; they are for you; I would have had them writ more movingly. _Val._ Please you, I'll write your ladyship another. _Sil._ And when it's writ, for my sake read it over, And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. 120 _Val._ If it please me, madam, what then? _Sil._ Why, if it please you, take it for your labour: And so, good morrow, servant. [_Exit._ _Speed._ O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple! 125 My master sues to her; and she hath taught her suitor, He being her pupil, to become her tutor. O excellent device! was there ever heard a better, That my master, being scribe, to himself should write the letter? _Val._ How now, sir? what are you reasoning with 130 yourself? _Speed._ Nay. I was rhyming: 'tis you that have the reason. _Val._ To do what? _Speed._ To be a spokesman for Madam Silvia. 135 _Val._ To whom? _Speed._ To yourself: why, she wooes you by a figure. _Val._ What figure? _Speed._ By a letter, I should say. _Val._ Why, she hath not writ to me? 140 _Speed._ What need she, when she hath made you write to yourself? Why, do you not perceive the jest? _Val._ No, believe me. _Speed._ No believing you, indeed, sir. But did you perceive her earnest? 145 _Val._ She gave me none, except an angry word. _Speed._ Why, she hath given you a letter. _Val._ That's the letter I writ to her friend. _Speed._ And that letter hath she delivered, and there an end. 150 _Val._ I would it were no worse.