How can I teach thee my secrets if thou wilt not open thine ears to hear them ?' 'I would your lordship would teach me!' said Dorothy.

'I might not be an apt pupil, but I should be both an eager and a humble one.' 'By St.Patrick! mistress Dorothy, but you go straight to steal my husband's heart from me.

"Humble," forsooth! and "eager" too! Nay! nay! If I have no part in his brain, I can the less yield his heart.' 'What would be gladly learned would be gladly taught, cousin,' said lord Herbert.
'There! there!' exclaimed lady Margaret; 'I knew it would be so.

You discharge your poor dull apprentice the moment you find a clever one!' 'And why not?
I never was able to teach thee anything.' 'Ah, Ned, there you are unkind indeed!' said lady Margaret, with something in her voice that suggested the water-springs were swelling.
'My shamrock of four!' said her husband in the tenderest tone, 'I but jested with thee.

How shouldst thou be my pupil in anything I can teach?
I am yours in all that is noble and good.