Scene 15.
My Lord, doth my Counsel take good effect?
Yes faith, for she seems to take it very patiently, or elce she is so dull a Creature as she is not sensible of any injury that's done her.
How doth she look when you adress, and salute your Mi∣striss?
She seems to regard us not; but is as if she were in a deep contemplation of another world.
I think she is one of the fewest words, for I never heard her speak.
Faith so few, as I am in good hope she is tongue-tyed, or will grow dumb.
That would be such a happiness, as all married men would en∣vy you for.
They will have cause, for there is nothing so tedious as talking women, they speak so constraintly, and utter their Nonsence with such formality, and ask impertinent questions so gravely, or else their dis∣course is snip snap, or so loud and shrill, as deafs a mans ears, so as a man would never keep them Company, if it were not for other reasons.
Your Lordship speaks as if you were a woman-hater.
O Pardon me, for there is no man loves the Sex better than I; yet I had rather discourse with their beauty than their wits; besides, I only speak of generalities, not particularities.