Two Gentleman of Verona — Scene 1. (Part 9 of 12)

SPEED

'Item: She can sew.'

LAUNCE

That's as much as to say, Can she so?

SPEED

'Item: She can knit.'

LAUNCE

What need a man care for a stock with a wench, when
she can knit him a stock?

SPEED

'Item: She can wash and scour.'

LAUNCE

A special virtue: for then she need not be washed
and scoured.

SPEED

'Item: She can spin.'

LAUNCE

Then may I set the world on wheels, when she can
spin for her living.

SPEED

'Item: She hath many nameless virtues.'

LAUNCE

That's as much as to say, bastard virtues; that,
indeed, know not their fathers and therefore have no names.

SPEED

'Here follow her vices.'

LAUNCE

Close at the heels of her virtues.

SPEED

'Item: She is not to be kissed fasting in respect
of her breath.'

LAUNCE

Well, that fault may be mended with a breakfast. Read on.