No Wit No Help Like a Woman’s

WEATHERWISE Marry, sir, I’ll give it out abroad that I have lain with the widow myself, as ‘tis the fashion of many a gallant to disgrace his new mistress when he cannot have his will of her, and lie with her name in every tavern, though he ne'er came within a yard of her person; so I, being a gentleman, may say as much in that kind as a gallant: I am as free by my father’s copy.