“Humph! The maids have come, then?”
He nodded. “There’s a goodly ship down there, with a goodly lading.”
“Videlicet, some fourscore waiting damsels and milkmaids, warranted honest by my Lord Warwick,” I muttered.
“This business hath been of Edwyn Sandys’ management, as you very well know,” he rejoined, with some heat. “His word is good: therefore I hold them chaste. That they are fair I can testify, having seen them leave the ship.”
“Fair and chaste,” I said, “but meanly born.”
“I grant you that,” he answered. “But after all, what of it? Beggars must not be choosers.