I could have shot him, from sheer vexation. With cloudy eye and a struggling intellect he fetched this out: "Marry, I seem not to understand. It is PROVED that our wages be double thine; how then may it be that thou'st knocked therefrom the stuffing? - an miscall not the wonderly word, this being the first time under grace and providence of God it hath been granted me to hear it.

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