My mother greets me kindly. Is she well?

She is not well, but yet she has her health. She's 1212very merry, but yet she is not well. But, thanks be 1213given, she's very well, and wants nothing i'th'world. But 1214yet she is not well.

If she be very well, what does she ail that she's 1216not very well?

Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two things.

What two things?

One, that she's not in heaven -- whither God send 1220 her quickly; the other, that she's in earth -- from whence 1221 God send her quickly.

Bless you, my fortunate lady.

I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine 1225own good fortune.

You had my prayers to lead them on, and to 1227keep them on, have them still. -- O my knave, how does 1228my old lady?

So that you had her wrinkles and I her money, 1230I would she did as you say.

Why, I say nothing.

Marry, you are the wiser man, for many a man's 1233tongue shakes out his master's undoing. To say nothing, 1234to do nothing, to know nothing, and to have nothing, 1235is to be a great part of your title, which is within a very 1236little of nothing.

Away, thou'rt a knave.

You should have said, sir, 'Before a knave, th'art a 1239knave' -- that's 'before me th'art a knave.' This had been 1240truth, sir.

Go to, thou art a witty fool. I have found 1242thee.

Did you find me in yourself, sir, or were you 1244taught to find me?

The search, sir, was profitable; and much fool 1246may you find in you, even to the world's pleasure and the 1247increase of laughter.

A good knave, i'faith, and well fed.

2.4.191249Madam, my lord will go away tonight;

2.4.201250A very serious business calls on him.

2.4.211251The great prerogative and rite of love,

2.4.221252Which, as your due time claims, he does acknowledge,

2.4.231253But puts it off to a compelled restraint,

2.4.241254Whose want and whose delay is strewed with sweets

2.4.251255Which they distill now in the curbèd time

2.4.261256To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy,

2.4.271257And pleasure drown the brim.

And pleasure drown the brim. What's his will else?

That you will take your instant leave o'th'king,

2.4.301260And make this haste as your own good proceeding,

2.4.311261Strengthened with what apology you think

2.4.321262May make it probable need.

May make it probable need. What more commands he?

That, having this obtained, you presently

2.4.341265Attend his further pleasure.

In everything, I wait upon his will.

I shall report it so.

I pray you. -- Come, sirrah.