We women, my lord, are fanciful in our choice--I had said now, to judge by the eye, there was no comparison to be held betwixt your follower and this gentleman.

But Varney is a well-spoken fellow, and, to say truth, that goes far with us of the weaker sex .-- look you, Master Tressilian, a bolt lost is not a bow broken.

Your true affection, as I will hold it to be, hath been, it seems, but ill requited; but you have scholarship, and you know there have been false Cressidas to be found, from the Trojan war downwards.

Forget, good sir, this Lady Light o' Love--teach your affection to see with a wiser eye.

This we say to you, more from the writings of learned men than our own knowledge, being, as we are, far removed by station and will from the enlargement of experience in such idle toys of humorous passion.