_Speed._ 'Item: She is too liberal.' _Launce._ Of her tongue she cannot, for that's writ down 340 she is slow of; of her purse she shall not, for that I'll keep shut: now, of another thing she may, and that cannot I help. Well, proceed. _Speed._ 'Item: She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults.' 345 _Launce._ Stop there; I'll have her: she was mine, and not mine, twice or thrice in that last article. Rehearse that once more. _Speed._ 'Item: She hath more hair than wit,'-- _Launce._ More hair than wit? It may be; I'll prove it. 350 The cover of the salt hides the salt, and therefore it is more than the salt; the hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the greater hides the less. What's next? _Speed._ 'And more faults than hairs,'-- _Launce._ That's monstrous: O, that that were out! 355 _Speed._ 'And more wealth than faults.' _Launce._ Why, that word makes the faults gracious. Well, I'll have her: and if it be a match, as nothing is impossible,-- _Speed._ What then? 360 _Launce._ Why, then will I tell thee--that thy master stays for thee at the North-gate? _Speed._ For me? _Launce._ For thee! ay, who art thou? he hath stayed for a better man than thee. 365 _Speed._ And must I go to him? _Launce._ Thou must run to him, for thou hast stayed so long, that going will scarce serve the turn. _Speed._ Why didst not tell me sooner? pox of your love-letters! [_Exit._ 370 _Launce._ Now will he be swinged for reading my letter,--an unmannerly slave, that will thrust himself into secrets! I'll after, to rejoice in the boy's correction. [_Exit._ Notes: III, 1.