The Way of the World: Scene III.
Scene III.
LADY WISHFORT, PEG with a bottle and china cup.
PEG
Madam, I was looking for a cup.
LADY WISHFORT
A cup, save thee, and what a cup hast thou brought! Dost
thou take me for a fairy, to drink out of an acorn? Why didst thou
not bring thy thimble? Hast thou ne'er a brass thimble clinking in
thy pocket with a bit of nutmeg? I warrant thee. Come, fill, fill.
So, again. See who that is. [One knocks.] Set down the bottle
first. Here, here, under the table:- what, wouldst thou go with the
bottle in thy hand like a tapster? As I'm a person, this wench has
lived in an inn upon the road, before she came to me, like
Maritornes the Asturian in Don Quixote. No Foible yet?
PEG
No, madam; Mrs. Marwood.
LADY WISHFORT
Oh, Marwood: let her come in. Come in, good Marwood.