,
I have a health to give them, ere they part.

WEN. Health, knight! not as drunkards give their healths, I hope: to go
together by the ears when they have done?

HAR. My healths are Welcome: Welcome, gentlemen.

ILF. Are we welcome, knight, in faith?

HAR. Welcome, in faith, sir.

ILF. Prythee, tell me, hast not thou been a whoremaster?

HAR. In youth I swill'd my fill at Venus' cup,
Instead of full draughts now I am fain to sup.

ILF. Why then thou art a man fit for my company:
Dost thou hear? (_to_ WEN. _and_ BAR.) he is a good fellow of our stamp.
Make much of this[341] father.

[_Exeunt_.

_Manent_ SCARBOROW _and_ CLARE.

SCAR. The father and the gallants have left me here with a gentlewoman,
and if I know what to say to her, I am a villain. Heaven grant her life
hath borrowed so much impudence of her sex but to speak to me first:
for, by this hand, I have not so much steel of immodesty in my face to
parley to a wench without blushing. I'll walk by her, in hope she can
open her teeth. Not a word? Is it not strange a man should be in a
woman's company all this while and not hear her tongue. I'll go
further. God of his goodness! not a syllable. I think if I should take
up her clothes too, she would say nothing to me. With what words, trow,
does a man begin to woo. Gentlewoman, pray you, what is't a clock?

CLARE. Troth, sir, carrying no watch about me but mine eyes, I answer
you: I cannot tell.

SCAR. And if you cannot tell, beauty, I take the adage for my reply: you
are naught to keep sheep.

CLARE. Yet I am big enough to keep myself.

SCAR. Prythee tell me: are you not a woman?

CLARE. I know not that neither, till I am better acquainted with a man.

SCAR. And how would you be acquainted with a man?

CLARE. To distinguish betwixt himself and myself.

SCAR. Why, I am a man?

CLARE. That's more than I know, sir.

SCAR. To approve I am no less, thus I kiss thee.

CLARE. And by that proof I am a man too; for I have kissed you.

SCAR. Prythee, tell me, can you love?

CLARE. O Lord, sir, three or four things: I love my meat, choice of
suitors, clothes in the fashion, and, like a right woman, I love to have
my will.

SCAR. What think you of me for a husband?

CLARE. Let me first know what you think of me for a wife?

SCAR. Troth, I think you are a proper gentlewoman.

CLARE. Do you but think so?

SCAR. Nay, I see you are a very perfect proper gentl