Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Bap. And then to dinner: you are passing welcome,
Bap. And so I pray you all to thinke your selues.
Pet. Pet.
Pet. Signior Baptista, my businesse asketh haste,
Pet. And euerie day I cannot come to woo,
Pet. You knew my father well, and in him me,
Pet. Left solieire to all his Lands and goods,
Pet. Which I haue bettered rather then decreast,
Pet. Then tell me, if I get your daughters loue,
Pet. What dowrie shall I haue with her to wife.
Bap. Bap.
Bap. After my death, the one halfe of my Lands,
Bap. And in possession twentie thousand Crownes.
Pet. And for that dowrie, Ile assure her of
Pet. Her widdow‑hood, be it that she suruiue me
Pet. In all my Lands and Leases whatsoeuer,
Pet. Let specialties be therefore drawne betweene vs,
Pet. That couenants may be kept on either hand.