VINCENT: I pray you, good uncle, keep your customary manner, for
"manner" may you call it well enough. For as it would be against
good manners to look that a man should kneel down for courtesy
when his knee is sore, so is it very good manners that a man of
your age (aggrieved with such sundry sicknesses besides, that
suffer you not always to sleep when you should) should not let his
sleep slip away but should take it when he can. And I will, uncle,
in the meanwhile steal from you, too, and speed a little errand
and return to you again.
ANTHONY: Stay as long as you will, and when you have dined go at
your pleasure. But I pray you, tarry not long.
VINCENT: You shall not need, uncle, to put me in mind of that, I
would so fain have up the rest of our matter.
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BOOK THREE
VINCENT: I have tarried somewhat the longer, uncle, partly because
I was loth to come over-soon, lest my soon-coming might have happed
to have made you wake too soon. But I tarried especially for the
reason that I was delayed by someone who showed me a letter, dated
at Constantinople, by which it appeareth that the great Turk
prepareth a marvellous mighty army. And yet whither he will go with
it, that can there yet no man tell. But I fear in good faith,
uncle, that his voyage shall be hither.
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