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and fole dominator of Navarre, my foul's earth's God, and

body's foft'ring patron,

Coft. Not a word of Coftard yet :

King. So it is,

Coft. It may be fo: but if he fay it is fo, he is, in telling true, but fo, fo.

King, Peace.

Coft.-be to me, and every man that dares not fight! King. No words.

Coft.-of other men's fecrets, I beseech you.

King. So it is, befieged with fable-coloured melancholy, I did commend the black oppreffing humour to the most wholesome phyfick of thy health-giving air; and, as I am a gentleman, betook myself to walk. The time, when? About the fixth bour; when beafts most graze, birds beft peck, and men fit down to that nourishment which is called fupper. So much for the time when : Now for the ground which; which, I mean, I walk'd upon it is 'ycleped, thy park. Then for the place where; where, I mean I did encounter that obfcene and moft prepofterous event, that draweth from my fnow-white pen the ebon-colour'd ink, which here thou vieweft, beholdeft, furveyeft, or feeft: But to the place, where,-It ftandeth northnorth-east and by east from the west corner of thy curiousknotted garden: There did I fee that low-fpirited fwain, that

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bafe minnow of thy mirth, (Coft. Me.) that unletter'd fmallknowing foul, (Coft. Me.) that shallow vaffal, (Cost. Still me.) which, as I remember, hight Coftard, (Coft. O me!) forted and conforted, contrary to thy established proclaimed ediɛt and continent canon, with,-with-O with,—but with this I paffion to fay wherewith

1ycleped,]—called.

bafe minnow]-contemptibly fmall fish-vile object.
"This Triton of the minnows.”

CORIOLANUS, A&t III, S. 1. Cor.

Coft.

Coft. With a wench.

King, with a child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more fweet understanding, a woman. Him, I (as my ever-esteemed duty pricks me on) have fent to thee, to receive the meed of punishment, by thy fweet grace's officer, Anthony Dull; a man of good repute, carriage, bearing, and eftimation.

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Dull. Me, an't fhall pleafe you; I am Anthony Dull. King. For Jaquenetta, (fo is the weaker veffel called which I apprehended with the aforefaid fwain) I keep her as a vessel of thy law's fury; and fhall, at the least of thy fweet notice, bring her to trial. Thine, in all compliments of devoted and beart-burning beat of duty, Don Adriano de Armado.

Biron. This is not fo well as I look'd for, but the best that ever I heard.

King. Ay, the best for the worst. But, firrah, what fay you to this?

Coft. Sir, I confefs the wench.

King. Did you hear the proclamation?

Coft. I do confefs much of the hearing it, but little of the marking of it.

King. It was proclaim'd a year's imprisonment to be taken with a wench.

Coft. I was taken with none, fir; I was taken with a damofel.

King. Well, it was proclaimed damofel.

Coft. This was no damofel neither, fir; fhe was a virgin. King. It is fo varied too; for it was proclaim'd virgin, Coft. If it were, I deny her virginity; I was taken with

a maid.

King. This maid will not ferve your turn, fir.

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Coft. This maid will ferve my turn, fir.

King. Sir, I will pronounce fentence; You shall fast a week with bran and water.

Coft. I had rather pray a month with mutton and porridge.

King. And Don Armado fhall be your keeper.My lord Biron, fee him delivered o'er.—

And go we, lords, to put in practice that

Which each to other hath fo ftrongly fworn. [Exeunt. Biron. I'll lay my head to any good man's hat,

These oaths and laws will prove an idle fcorn.Sirrah, come on.

Coft. I fuffer for the truth, fir: for true it is, I was taken with Jaquenetta, and Jaquenetta is a true girl; and therefore, Welcome the four cup of prosperity! Affliction may one day fmile again, and until then, fit down forrow! [Exeunt.

SCEN E II.

Armado's Houfe.

Enter Armado and Moth.

Arm. Boy, what fign is it, when a man of great spirit grows melancholy?

Moth. A great fign, fir, that he will look fad.

Arm. Why fadnefs is one and the felf-fame thing, dear

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Moth. No, no; O lord, fir, no.

Arm. How can't thou part fadnefs and melancholy, my tender 'juvenal ?

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"the juvenal,-whofe chin is not yet fledg'd."
HENRY IV, Part 2, Act I, S. z. Fal.

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Moth. By a familiar demonstration of the working, my tough fignior.

Arm. Why tough fignior? why tough fignior? Moth. Why tender juvenal? why tender juvenal ? Arm. I fpoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton, appertaining to thy young days, which we may nominate, tender.

Moth. And I, tough fignior, as an appertinent title to your old time, which we may name, 'tough.

Arm. Pretty, and apt.

Moth. How mean you, fir? I pretty, and my faying apt? or I apt, and my faying pretty?

Arm. Thou pretty, becaufe little.

Moth. Little, pretty because little: Wherefore apt?

Arm. And therefore apt, because quick,

Moth. Speak you this in my praise, master?

Arm. In thy condign praife.

Moth. I will praife an eel with the fame praife,

Arm. What? that an eel is ingenious?

Moth. That an eel is quick.

Arm. I do say, thou art quick in anfwers; Thou heat'st my blood.

Moth. I am answer'd, fir.

Arm. I love not to be crofs'd.

Moth. He speaks the mere contrary, "croffes love not

him.

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Arm. I have promised to study three years with the duke.
Moth. You may do it in an hour, fir,

Arm. Impoffible.

of the working,]-the different manner of their working, their dif ferent effects.

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"old and tough, young and tender." PROV.

u croes]-money.

"If I fhould bear you, I should bear no cross.”
AS YOU LIKE IT, A&t II, S, 4. Clown.

Moth.

Moth. How many is one thrice told?

Arm. I am ill at reckoning, it fitteth the spirit of a tapfter.

Moth. You are a gentleman, and a gamester, fir.

Arm. I confefs both; they are both the varnish of a complete man.

Moth. Then, I am fure, you know how much the grofs fum of deuce-ace amounts to.

Arm. It doth amount to one more than two.

Moth. Which the base vulgar do call, three.
Arm. True.

Moth. Why, fir, is this fuch a piece of study? Now here is three studied, ere you'll thrice wink and how easy it is to put years to the word three, and study three years in two words, the dancing horfe will tell you.

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Arm. A moít fine figure!

Moth. To prove you a cypher.

[Afide.

Arm. I will hereupon confefs, I am in love: and, as it is bafe for a foldier to love, so I am in love with a base wench. If drawing my fword against the humour of af. fection would deliver me from the reprobate thought of it, I would take defire prifoner; and ransom him to any French courtier for a new devis'd court'fy. I think scorn to figh; methinks, I fhould out-fwear Cupid. Comfort me, boy; What great men have been in love?

Moth. Hercules, master.

Arm. Moft fweet Hercules!-More authority, dear boy, name more; and, fweet my child, let them be men of good repute and carriage.

Moth. Sampfon, master: he was a man of good carriage, great carriage; for he carried the towngates on his back, like a porter: and he was in love.

* in two words,]-in those two.

* the dancing horfe]-Banks's horfe of knowledge was famous about that time.

Arm.

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