Make ends meet

The gentleman is surely pleas'd to jest!

Now to be off in time, were best! She'd make the very devil marry her.

But ere you leave us, quickly tell! I from a witness fain had heard, Where,

how, and when my husband died and was interr'd. To forms I've always been

attached indeed, His death I fain would in the journals read.

Ay, madam, what two witnesses declare Is held as valid everywhere; A

gallant friend I have, not far from here, Who will for you before the judge

appear. I'll bring him straight.