But that won't advance me much, either.

What is there, then, to commend me?
Why, marry, I can brew a bowl of punch, and I can broil a devilled fowl.

It is not much, but I can do it well.' 'Truly, good sir,' I said, with a smile, 'neither of these accomplishments is like to prove of much use to us on our present errand.

You do, however, but jest, no doubt, when you talk of descending to such a position.' 'Not a whit! not a whit!' he replied earnestly.

'"To such base uses do we come," as Will Shakespeare has it.