Save four or five. Here, sir, is one of these
The others will gain courage in good time.
MIDDLE-AGED-MAN
I come to deal—if you give honest price.
FIRST MERCHANT (reading in a book)
"John Maher, a man of substance, with dull mind,
And quiet senses and unventurous heart.
The angels think him safe." Two hundred crowns,
All for a soul, a little breath of wind.
THE MAN
I ask three hundred crowns. You have read there
That no mere lapse of days can make me yours.
FIRST MERCHANT