Or for men's fake, the authors of these women;
Or women's fake, by whom we men are men;
Let us once lofe our oaths to find ourselves,
Or elfe we lose ourselves to keep our oaths:
It is religion, to be thus forfworn:

For charity itself fulfils the law;

And who can fever love from charity?

King. Saint Cupid, then! and, foldiers, to the field! Biron. Advance your ftandards, and upon them, lords; Pell-mell, down with them! but be first advis'd, In conflict that you get the fun of them.

Long. Now to plain-dealing; lay these glozes by: Shall we refolve to woo thefe girls of France?

King. And win them too: therefore let us devise Some entertainment for them in their tents.

Biron. First, from the park let us conduct them thither; Then, homeward, every man attach the hand

Of his fair miftrefs: in the afternoon

We will with fome ftrange paftime folace them,
Such as the fhortness of the time can shape;
For revels, dances, mafks, and merry hours,
Fore-run fair love, ftrewing her way with flowers.
King. Away, away! no time fhall be omitted,

t

That will be time, and may by us be fitted.

Biron. Allons! allons!" Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn; And justice always whirls in equal measure : Light wenches may prove plagues to men forfworn; If fo, our w copper buys no better treasure.

Exeunt.

get the fun of them.]—on your backs, in a favourable position. ttime]-timely, opportune.

"Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn ;]-Prov. Perjury muft expect to reap falfhood.

* copper]-bafe coin.

ACT

ACT V. SCENE I.

The Street.

Enter Holofernes, Nathaniel, and Dull.

Hol. Satis quod fufficit.

Nath. I praise God for you, Sir: your y reafons at dinner have been sharp and fententious; pleafant without fcurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without herefy. I did converse this quondam day with a companion of the king's, who is intituled, nominated, or called, · Don Adriano de Armado.

Hol. Novi hominem tanquam te: His humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrafonical. He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were; too' peregrinate, as I may call it.

Nath. A moft fingular and choice epithet.

[Draws out his table-book. Hol. He draweth out the thread of his verbofity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor fuch fanatical phantafms, fuch infociable and point-devife companions; fuch rackers of orthography, as to speak, dout, fine, when he fhould fay, doubt; det, when he should pronounce debt; d, e, b, t; not d, e, t: he clepeth a calf, cauf; half,

* Satis quod fufficit :]-Enough's as good as a feaft. reajons]-difcourfe, converfation.

a audacious]-animated.

b

2

affection,affectation.

opinion, ]-opiniativeness, obftinacy. Novi hominem tanquam te :]—I know him well. dfiled ]-fmooth. e picked,]-nice, delicate. fperegrinate,]-outlandish, of a foreign mould, 8 point-devife]-finical.

hauf;

hauf; neighbour, vocatur, nebour; neigh, abbreviated, ne: This is abhominable, (which he would call abominable) hit infinuateth men of infanie; Nonne intelligis, domine? to be frantick, lunatick?

Nath. Laus Deo, bonè intelligo.

k

Hol. Bone?-bone, for benè: Priscian a little scratch'd; 'twill ferve.

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Enter Armado, Moth, and Coftard.

Nath. Videfne quis venit?

m

Hol. Video, et gaudeo.

Arm. Chirra!

n

Hol. Quare Chirra, not firrah?

Arm. Men of peace, well encounter'd.

Hol. Moft military fir, falutation.

Moth. They have been at a great feast of languages, and ftoln the fcraps.

[To Coftard afide. Coft. O, they have liv'd long on the alms-basket of of words! I marvel thy mafter hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not fo long by the head as, honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier fwallowed than a flapdragon.

Moth. Peace; the peal begins.

Arm. Monfieur, are you not letter'd?

P

Moth. Yes, yes; he teaches boys the horn-book: What is a, b, fpelt backward with a horn on his head?

Hol. Ba, pueritia, with a horn added.

h it infinuateth men of infanie ;]-it argues the men to be mad.

i Nonne intelligis, domine?]-Do you take me, Sir?

j Laus Deo, bonè intelligo.]—Praised be God, I understand you perfectly. Prifcian a little feratch'd;]-A little falfe Latin.

1 Videfne quis venit ?]-See you who is coming?
m Video, et gaudeo,]-I both fee and rejoice.
• the alms-basket]—the refufe.
P flap-dragon 1-a raifin in burning brandy.
"Drinks off candles' ends for flap-dragons."

n

Quare]-Why.

HENRY IV. Part II. A&t 2, S. 4. Fal.

Moth.

Moth. Ba, moft filly fheep, with a horn:-You hear his learning.

Hol. Quis, quis, thou confonant?

Moth. The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them; or the fifth, if I.

Hol. I will repeat them, a, e, i.

Moth. The fheep: the other two concludes it; o, u.

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Arm. Now, by the falt wave of the Mediterraneum, a fweet touch, a quick venew of wit: fnip, fnap, quick and home; it rejoiceth my intellect: true wit.

Moth. Offer'd by a child to an old man; which is witold.

Hol. What is the figure? what is the figure?

Moth. Horns.

Hol. Thou difputeft like an infant: go, whip thy gigg. Moth. Lend me your horn to make one, and I will whip about your infamy circùm circà; A gigg of a cuckold's horn!

Coft. An I had but one penny in the world thou shouldst have it to buy ginger-bread: hold, there is the very remuneration I had of thy master, thou half-penny purse of wit, thou pigeon egg of difcretion. O, an the heavens were so pleased, that thou wert but my bastard! what a joyful father wouldst thou make me? Go to; thou haft it ad dungbill, at the fingers' ends, as they say.

Hol. Oh, I fmell falfe Latin; dunghill for unguem.

Arm. Arts-man, 'præambula; we will be fingled from the barbarous. Do you not educate youth at the "chargehouse on the top of the mountain ?

Quis, quis,]-Which of us is the sheep?

"Three veneys for a dish of ftew'd prunes.'

venew-bout, fet-to, fpecimen.

circùm circà]-about and about. t

charge-boufe-charter-house, free-fchool.

MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, A&t I, S. 1. Slen. præambula ;]-lead the way.

Hol.

Hol. Or, mons the hill.

Arm. At your fweet pleasure, for the mountain.
Hol. I do, fans question.

Arm. Sir, it is the king's moft fweet pleasure and affection, to congratulate the princess at her pavilion, in the pofteriors of this day; which the rude multitude call the afternoon.

Hol. The pofterior of the day, moft generous fir, is liable, congruent, and measurable for the afternoon the word is well cull'd, chofe; fweet and apt, I do affure you, fir, I do affure.

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Arm. Sir, the king is a noble gentleman; and my miliar, I do affure you, very good friend :-For "what is inward between us, let it pass :-I do beseech thee, * refrain thy courtesy ;—I beseech thee, apparel thy head :-and among other importunate and most serious defigns,— and of great import indeed, too;-but let that pafs:

for I must tell thee, it will please his grace (by the world) sometime to lean upon my poor shoulder; and with his royal finger, thus, dally with my 'excrement, with my muftachio but fweet heart, let that pafs. By the world, I recount no fable; some certain special honours it pleaseth his greatness to impart to Armado, a foldier, a man of travel, that hath feen the world: but let that pass.The very all of all is,but, fweet heart, I do implore fecrefy, that the king would have me present the princefs, sweet chuck, with fome delightful oftentation, or show, or pageant, or antick, or fire-work. Now understanding that the curate, and your sweet self, are good at fuch eruptions, and fudden breakings out of mirth, as it

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w what is inward between us,]-our intimacy.

* remember-remember not-Do not stand upon ceremony-be covered. Y excrement,]-beard.

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were,