Have you summoned your wits from woolgathering?

The line is a sharp rebuke aimed at someone who is inattentive or mentally absent. “Woolgathering” was an established early-modern idiom for daydreaming or letting one’s thoughts drift, and “summoned your wits” frames attention as something that must be actively called back and marshaled. The phrasing suggests impatience and social pressure: in a scene of quick verbal exchange, being mentally elsewhere is treated as a fault—either foolishness, evasiveness, or a lapse in readiness. In Middleton’s dramatic world, such a jab typically functions both as characterization (the speaker’s caustic wit) and as stage-business, snapping the tempo back to alertness and conflict.