stock, for all the world knows, but particularly my own town, who

the Panzas from whom I am descended were; and, what is more, I know

and have learned, by many good words and deeds, your worship's

desire to show me favour; and if I have been bargaining more or less

about my wages, it was only to please my wife, who, when she sets

herself to press a point, no hammer drives the hoops of a cask as

she drives one to do what she wants; but, after all, a man must be a

man, and a woman a woman; and as I am a man anyhow, which I can't