And hold fair friendship with his majesty.
But that, it seems, he little purposeth,
For here he doth demand to have repaid

An hundred thousand crowns; and not demands,
On payment of a hundred thousand crowns,
To have his title live in Aquitain;

Which we much rather had depart withal,
And have the money by our father lent,
Than Aquitain so gelded as it is.

Dear princess, were not his requests so far

From reason's yielding, your fair self should make
A yielding, 'gainst some reason, ir my breast,
And go well satisfied to France again.

PRIN. You do the king my father too much wrong,
And wrong the reputation of your name,

In so unseeming to confess receipt

Of that which hath so faithfully been paid.
KING. I do protest, I never heard of it;
And, if you prove it, I'll repay it back,
Or yield up Aquitain.

PRIN.

We arrest your word:—

Boyet, you can produce acquittances,
For such a sum, from special officers
Of Charles his father.

BOYET. So please your grace, the packet is not come,
Where that and other specialties are bound;
To-morrow you shall have a sight of them.

KING. It shall suffice me: at which interview,

All liberal reason I will yield unto.

Meantime, receive such welcome at my hand
As honour, without breach of honour, may
Make tender of to thy true worthiness:
You may not come, fair princess, in my gates;
But here without you shall be so receiv'd,
As you shall deem yourself lodg'd in my heart,
Though so denied farther harbour in my house.
Your own good thoughts excuse me, and farewell:
To-morrow we shall visit you again.

PRIN. Sweet health and fair desires consort your grace!

KING. Thy own wish wish I thee in every place!

[Exeunt KING and his train. BIRON. Lady, I will commend you to my own heart.

Ros. 'Pray you, do my commendations; I would be glad to see it.

BIRON. I would you heard it groan.

Ros. Is the fool sick?

BIRON. Sick at the heart.

Ros. Alack, let it blood.

BIRON. Would that do it good?

Ros. My physic says, ay.

BIRON. Will you prick 't with your eye?

Ros. No poynt, with my knife.
BIRON. Now, God save thy life!

Ros. And yours from long living!

BIRON. I cannot stay thanksgiving.

[Retiring.

DUM. Sir, I pray you a word: What lady is that same?
BOYET. The heir of Alençon, Rosaline her name.
DUм. A gallant lady! Monsieur, fare you well.

[Exit.

LONG. I beseech you a word: What is she in the white? BOYET. A woman sometimes, if you saw her in the light.

LONG. Perchance, light in the light: I desire her name. BOYET. She hath but one for herself; to desire that were a shame.

LONG. Pray you, sir, whose daughter?
BOYET. Her mother's, I have heard.
LONG. God's blessing on your beard!
BOYET. Good sir, be not offended:
She is an heir of Falconbridge.
LONG. Nay, my choler is ended.
She is a most sweet lady.

BOYET. Not unlike, sir; that may be.
BIRON. What's her name, in the cap?

[Exit LONG.

BOYET. Katharine, by good hap.

BIRON. Is she wedded, or no?

BOYET. To her will, sir, or so.

BIRON. You are welcome, sir; adieu!

BOYET. Farewell to me, sir, and welcome to you.

[Exit BIRON.-Ladies unmask.

MAR. That last is Biron, the merry madcap lord;
Not a word with him but a jest.

BOYET.
And every jest but a word.
PRIN. It was well done of you to take him at his word.
BOYET. I was as willing to grapple, as he was to board.
MAR. Two hot sheeps, marry!

BOYET.
And wherefore not ships?
No sheep, sweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips.

MAR. You sheep, and I pasture: Shall that finish the jest? BOYET. So you grant pasture for me. [Offering to kiss her. MAR. Not so, gentle beast; My lips are no common, though several they be. BOYET. Belonging to whom?

MAR.

To my fortunes and me.
PRIN. Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agreé:
This civil war of wits were much better us'd

On Navarre and his book-men; for here 't is abus'd.
BOYET. If my observation, (which very seldom lies,)
By the heart's still rhetoric, disclosed with eyes,
Deceive me not now, Navarre is infected.

PRIN. With what?

BOYET. With that which we lovers entitle, affected.
PRIN. Your reason?

BOYET. Why, all his behaviours do make their retire
To the court of his eye, peeping thorough desire:
His heart, like an agate, with your print impressed,
Proud with his form, in his eye pride expressed:
His tongue, all impatient to speak and not see,
Did stumble with haste in his eye-sight to be;
All senses to that sense did make their repair,
To feel only looking on fairest of fair:
Methought all his senses were lock'd in his eye,
As jewels in crystal for some prince to buy;

Who, tend'ring their own worth, from whence they were

glass'd,

Did point out to buy them, along as you pass'd.
His face's own margent did quote such amazes,
That all eyes saw his eyes enchanted with gazes:
I'll give you Aquitain, and all that is his,

Au you give him for my sake but one loving kiss.

PRIN. Come, to our pavilion: Boyet is dispos'd

BOYET. But to speak that in words, which his eye hath disclos'd:

I only have made a mouth of his eye,

By adding a tongue which I know will not lie.

Ros. Thou art an old love-monger, and speakest skilfully. MAR. He is Cupid's grandfather, and learns news of him. Ros. Then was Venus like her mother; for her father is but grim.

BOYET. Do you hear, my mad wenches?

ing.

ACT III

SCENE I-Another part of the Park.

Enter ARMADO and MOTH.

ARM. Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hear

MOTH. Concolinel,

[Singing. ARM. Sweet air! Go, tenderness of years! take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither; I must employ him in a letter to my love.

MOTH. Will you win your love with a French brawl?
ARM. How meanest thou? brawling in French?

MOTH. No, my complete master: but to jig off a tune at the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet, humour it with turning up your eyelids; sigh a note, and sing a note; sometime through the throat, as if you swallowed love with singing love; sometime through the nose, as if you snuffed up love by smelling love; with your hat, penthouse-like, o'er the shop of your eyes; with your arms crossed on your thin belly-doublet, like a rabbit on a spit; or your hands in your pocket, like a man after the old painting; and keep not too

long in one tune, but a snip and away: These are complements, these are humours; these betray nice wenches, that would be betrayed without these; and make them men of note, (do you note, men ?) that most are affected to these. ARM. How hast thou purchased this experience? MOTH. By my penny of observation.

ARM. But 0,-but O—

MOTH. the hobby-horse is forgot.

ARM. Callest thou my love, hobby-horse?

MOTH. No, master; the hobby-horse is but a colt, and your love, perhaps, a hackney. But have you forgot your love?

ARM. Almost I had.

MOTH. Negligent student! learn her by heart.

ARM. By heart, and in heart, boy.

MOTH. And out of heart, master: all those three I will prove.

ARM. What wilt thou prove?

Mотн. A man, if I live; and this, by, in, and without, upon the instant: By heart you love her, because your heart cannot come by her: in heart you love her, because your heart is in love with her: and out of heart you love her, being out of heart that you cannot enjoy her.

ARM. I am all these three.

MOTH. And three times as much more, and yet nothing at all.

ARM. Fetch hither the swain; he must carry me a letter. MOTH. A message well sympathised; a horse to be ambassador for an ass!

ARM. Ha, ha! what sayest thou?

MOTH. Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse, for he is very slow-gaited: But I go.

ARM. The way is but short; away.

MOTH. As swift as lead, sir.

ARM. Thy meaning, pretty ingenious ?

Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow?

MOTH. Minimè, honest master; or rather, master, no.

ARM. I say, lead is slow.

You are too swift, sir, to say so:

Мотн.
Is that lead slow which is fired from a gun?