pray heaven they ha' given her any dinner. Good lack-a-day, ha, ha,
ha, Oh, strange! I'll vow and swear now, ha, ha, ha, marry, and did
you ever see the like!

FORE. Why, how now, what's the matter?

NURSE. Pray heaven send your worship good luck, marry, and amen
with all my heart, for you have put on one stocking with the wrong
side outward.

FORE. Ha, how? Faith and troth I'm glad of it; and so I have:
that may be good luck in troth, in troth it may, very good luck.
Nay, I have had some omens: I got out of bed backwards too this
morning, without premeditation; pretty good that too; but then I
stumbled coming down stairs, and met a weasel; bad omens those:
some bad, some good, our lives are chequered. Mirth and sorrow,
want and plenty, night and day, make up our time. But in troth I am
pleased at my stocking; very well pleased at my stocking. Oh,
here's my niece! Sirrah, go tell Sir Sampson Legend I'll wait on
him if he's at leisure: --'tis now three o'clock, a very good hour
for business: Mercury governs this hour.


SCENE III.


ANGELICA, FORESIGHT, NURSE.

ANG. Is it not a good hour for pleasure too, uncle? Pray lend me
your coach; mine's out of order.