I swear and promise that, in what I can, I will preserve it sappy, full of juice, and as well victualled for her use as may be.

She shall not suck me, I believe, in vain, nor be destitute of her allowance; there shall her justum both in peck and lippy be furnished to the full eternally.

You expound this passage allegorically, and interpret it to theft and larceny.

I love the exposition, and the allegory pleaseth me; but not according to the sense whereto you stretch it.

It may be that the sincerity of the affection which you bear me moveth you to harbour in your breast those refractory thoughts concerning me, with a suspicion of my adversity to come.