She knew all the family history by this time, and how that Gertrude was not responsible for the luxuries with which her life would be surrounded.
"Go to, child, go to; I am no judge over thee.

What matters it a few years earlier or later?
It began in Shakespeare's time, as you may read if you will, and it grows worse every generation.

Soon the shopmen and traders will be the fine gentlemen of the land, and we may hope for the pickings and leavings of their tables.

What does it matter to me?
I shall not be troubled by it.

And if I be not troubled thereby, what matter if all the world goes mad?
"Now fare you well, young folks; and thou, good Master Builder, thank Heaven for a good and dutiful daughter, for they grow not on every hedge in these graceless days.
"See me to my coach, young man, if thou canst leave devouring thy wife with thine eyes for so much as a minute.
"Poor fools! poor fools! both of you.
"Give me a kiss, maiden--nay, mistress I must call thee now.