O, now I have it! She became tired of sitting in the corner unnoticed, and has heard no doubt of some lady captivating every heart by her lively and generous enthusiasm; so she has rushed from her tackle of footstools and decorum, like a brig cut from the stocks, and set herself afloat on the ocean of fashion. By my faith, and she has made a good cruise of it too!
LADY SHREWDLY.
Perhaps your conjecture is not far from the truth.
BLOUNT.
How came this goose of a lord to be taken in by it?
LADY SHREWDLY.
By that which has taken in many, both lords and commoners, ere now;—his own obtrusive eagerness for praise, which had tired out everybody.
BLOUNT.
And received this new stream of flattery like rain upon the parched sands of Araby.
LADY SHREWDLY.
Even so: to say nothing of a wife lately dead, who would never say one civil thing of all the
