JAILER I may depart with little while I...

The Two Noble Kinsmen

Jailer Jailer's Daughter The Wooer

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JAILER I may depart with little while I live; something I may cast to you, not much. Alas, the prison I keep, though it be for great ones, yet they seldom come; before one salmon you shall take a number of minnows. I am given out to be better lined than it can appear to me report is a true speaker. I would I were really that I am delivered to be. Marry, what I have, be it what it will, I will assure upon my daughter at the day of my death.

WOOER Sir, I demand no more than your own offer, and I will estate your daughter in what I have Promised.

JAILER Well, we will talk more of this when the solemnity is past. But have you a full promise of her? When that shall be seen, I tender my consent.

Enter the Jailer’s Daughter, carrying rushes.

WOOER I have sir. Here she comes.

JAILER to

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