_Warn._ What do you mean, sir, to intrust this man with your affairs thus?
_Sir Mart._ Trust him? why, he's a friend of mine.
_Warn._ No matter for that; hark you, a word, sir.
_Sir Mart._ Pr'ythee leave fooling; and as I was saying----I was in the church, when I first saw this fair one.
_Sir John._ Her name, sir, I beseech you.
_Warn._ For heaven's sake, sir, have a care.
_Sir Mart._ Thou art such a coxcomb--Her name's Millisent.
_Warn._ Now, the pox take you, sir, what do you mean?
_Sir John._ Millisent, say you? That's the name of my mistress.
_Sir Mart._ Lord! what luck is that now! well, sir, it happened one of her gloves fell down; I stooped to take it up; and, in the stooping, made her a compliment.
_Warn._ The devil cannot hold him; now will this thick-skulled master of mine tell the whole story to his rival!
_Sir Mart._ You'll say, 'twas strange, sir; but at the first glance we cast on one another, both our hearts leaped within us, our souls met at our eyes, and with a tickling kind of pain slid to each other's breast, and in one moment settled as close and warm, as if they long had been acquainted with their lodging. I followed her somewhat at a distance, because her father was with her.
_Sir Mart._ Saucy rascal, avoid my sight; must you tutor me?--So, sir, not to trouble you, I enquired out her father's house, without whose knowledge I did court the daughter, and both then, and often since coming to Canterbury, I received many proofs of her kindness to me.
_Warn._ You had best tell him too, that I am acquainted with her maid, and manage your love under-hand with her.
_Sir Mart._ Well remembered, i'faith; I thank thee for that, I had forgot it, I protest! My valet de chambre, whom you see here with me, grows me acquainted with her woman.
_Sir Mart._ In fine, sir, this maid, being much in her mistress's favour, so well solicited my cause, that, in fine, I gained from fair mistress Millisent an assurance of her kindness, and an engagement to marry none but me.
_Warn._ 'Tis very well! you have made a fair discovery!
_Sir John._ A most pleasant relation, I assure you: You are a happy man, sir! but what occasion brought you now to London?
_Sir Mart._ That was in expectation to meet my mistress here; she writ me word from Canterbury, she and her father shortly would be here.