Sir Politick in Venice inquires of Peregrine: Why came you forth Empty of rules for travel? Peregrine : Faith, I had Some common ones from out of that vulgar grammar Which he that cried Italian to me, taught me. (II, i) Later in Act IV, Sir Politick is doing some itemizing for Peregrine: Sir P . Nay, sir, conceive me. It will cost me in onions, some thirty livres— Per . Which is one pound sterling. Sir P . Beside my water-works: for this I do, sir First, I bring in your ship ‘twixt two brick walls; But those the state shall venture: On the one