’Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with 159 lying; the longer kept, the less worth. Off with ’t 160 while ’tis vendible; answer the time of request. Vir- 161 ginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out of 162 fashion, richly suited but unsuitable, just like the 163 brooch and the toothpick, which wear not now.
PAROLLES
Let me see. Marry, ill , to like him that ne’er 158
it likes. ’Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with 159
lying ; the longer kept, the less worth. Off with ’t 160
while ’tis vendible; answer the time of request . Vir- 161
ginity, like an old courtier , wears her cap out of 162
fashion, richly suited but unsuitable, just like the 163
brooch and the toothpick, which wear not now . 164
Your date is better in your pie and your porridge 165
than in your cheek . And your virginity, your old 166
virginity, is like one of our French withered pears: 167
it looks ill, it eats dryly; marry, ’tis a withered pear. 168
It was formerly better, marry, yet ’tis a withered 169
pear. Will you anything with it? 170
