What's the lodestar ?" "The star that draws us all,--some to ruin, some to bliss ineffable, woman." "Humph! The maids have come, then ?" He nodded.

"There's a goodly ship down there, with a goodly lading." "Videlicet, some fourscore waiting damsels and milkmaids, warranted honest by my Lord Warwick," I muttered.
"This business hath been of Edwyn Sandys' management, as you very well know," he rejoined, with some heat.

"His word is good: therefore I hold them chaste.

That they are fair I can testify, having seen them leave the ship." "Fair and chaste," I said, "but meanly born." "I grant you that," he answered.

"But after all, what of it?
Beggars must not be choosers.