How dare you come wooing my daughter, you empty pill-box, who have not two silver pennies to rattle in your pouch! Go win fortune and a name before you dare to look up to such as she.' 'That is my desire, and I will do it, sir,' I answered.
'So, you apothecary's drudge, you will win name and place, will you! Well, long before that deed is done the maid shall be safely wedded to one who has them and who is not unknown to you.

Daughter, say now that you have finished with him.' 'I cannot say that, father,' she replied, plucking at her robe.

'If it is not your will that I should marry Thomas here, my duty is plain and I may not wed him.

But I am my own and no duty can make me marry where I will not.

While Thomas lives I am sworn to him and to no other man.' 'At the least you have courage, hussey,' said her father.