That, however, did not prevent the Dutch Cable Company from pocketing my two hundred guilders.

I wonder what the fools could see in tulips, who gave 10,000 guilders for one root.

VOICES [laughing, drunkenly] One thousand guilders to a 'masterless dog'!

Oho,that mouldy thousand guilders You think of!But it was your Hamelin friends That loved the guilders, and not I. BARBARA Then why Why did you steal me hence? PIPER Why did yourself Long to be stolen?

Castleman and I found the burgomaster, to whom we paid five hundred guilders (a sum equal to his entire annual salary), and within an hour a troop of twenty men-at-arms awaited us in the courtyard of The Cygnet.

No man in reason could PIPER One thousand guilders.

"Alida, herself, is not more nimble-fingered," whispered the Alderman; "and I never heard the girl touch the Dutch lute, that cost a hundred Holland guilders, with a livelier movement!

And,if ye will have reasons, good,ye see, I wantone thousand guilders.