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stinatly hither: I must imploy him in a letter to my Love. 1 quickly 10 Boy. Will you win your love with a French braule?2 Bra. How meanest thou, brauling in French? 2 a dance Boy. No my compleat master, but to Jigge off a tune at the tongues end, canarie2 to it with the feete, humour it with turning up your eie: sigh a note and sing a note, sometime through the throate: if you swallowed love with singing, love sometime through: nose as if you snuft up love by smelling love with your hat penthouselike ore the shop of your eies, with your armes crost on your thinbellie doublet, like a Rabbet on a spit, or your hands in your pocket, like a man after the old painting, and keepe not too long in one tune, but a snip and away: these are complements, these are humours, these betraie nice wenches that would be betraied without these, and make them men of note: do you note men that most are affected to these?

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Brag. How hast thou purchased this experience? Boy. By my penne of observation.

Brag. But O, but O.

Boy. The Hobbie-horse is forgot.

Bra. Cal'st thou my love Hobbi-horse.

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Boy. No Master, the Hobbie-horse is but a Colt, and

your Love perhaps, a Hacknie:

But have you forgot your Love?

Brag. Almost I had.

Boy. Negligent student, learne her by heart.

11. begins Master-IQ.

15. eie: eyelids-1Q.

14. the feete: your feet-IQ.

16. if: as if-THEOBALD.

17. singing, love sometime: singing love, sometime-THEOBALD.

17. through: nose: through the nose-2-4F.

25. note men: note me?-Warburton.

28. penne: penny-HANMER.

Brag. By heart, and in heart Boy.

Boy. And out of heart Master: all those three I will prove.

Brag. What wilt thou prove?

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Boy. 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.

Brag. I am all these three.

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

Brag. Fetch hither the Swaine, he must carrie mee a letter.

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Boy. A message well simpathis'd, a Horse to be embassadour for an Asse.

Brag. Ha, ha, What saiest thou?

Boy. Marrie sir, you must send the Asse upon the Horse for he is verie slow gated: but I goe.

Brag. The way is but short, away.

Boy. As swift as Lead sir.

Brag. Thy meaning prettie ingenious, is not Lead a mettall heavie, dull, and slow?

Boy. Minnime honest Master, or rather Master no. Brad. I say Lead is slow.

Boy. You are too swift sir to say so.

Is that Lead slow which is fir'd from a Gunne?
Brag. Sweete smoke of Rhetorike,

He reputes me a Cannon, and the Bullet that's he:
I shoote thee at the Swaine.

Boy. Thump then, and I flee.

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[Exit.]

Bra. A most acute Juvenall, voluble and free of grace,

58. Thy: The-12.

68. voluble: volable-IQ.

By thy favour sweet Welkin, I must sigh in thy face.
Most rude melancholie, Valour gives thee place.
My Herald is return'd.

Enter Page [Moth] and Clowne.

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Pag. A wonder Master, here's a Costard1 broken in a shin. 1 head

Ar. Some enigma, some riddle, come, thy Lenvoy begin.

Clo. No egma, no riddle, no lenvoy, no salve, in thee male sir. Or sir, Plantan, a plaine Plantan: no lenvoy, no lenvoy, no Salve sir, but a Plantan.

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Ar. By vertue thou inforcest laughter, thy sillie thought, my spleene, the heaving of my lunges provokes me to rediculous smyling: O pardon me my stars, doth the inconsiderate take salve for lenvoy, and the word lenvoy for a salve?

Pag.

salve?

Doe the wise thinke them other, is not lenvoy a

Ar. No Page, it is an epilogue or discourse to make plaine,

Some obscure precedence that hath tofore bin faine. [I will example it:

The Fox, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee,

Were still at oddes, being but three.

Ther's the morrall: Now the lenvoy.

Ar.

Pag. I will adde the lenvoy, say the morrall againe.
The Foxe, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee,
Were still at oddes, being but three.

Pag. Untill the Goose came out of doore,
And staied the oddes by adding foure.]

77. thee: the-2-4F.

88. faine: sain-12.

78. male: mail-Cambridge, 88-9. bracketed 11.-1Q.

follow with

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Now will I begin your morrall, and do you

my lenvoy.

The Foxe, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee,

Were still at oddes, being but three. Arm. Untill the Goose came out of doore, Staying the oddes by adding foure.

Pag. A good Lenvoy, ending in the Goose: would you desire more?

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Clo. The Boy hath sold him a bargaine, a Goose, that's Sir, your penny-worth is good, and your Goose be fat. To sell a bargaine well is as cunning as fast and loose: Let me see a fat Lenvoy, I that's a fat Goose.

Ar. Come hither, come hither:

How did this argument begin?

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Boy. By saying that a Costard was broken in a shin. Then cal'd you for the Lenvoy.

Clow. True, and I for a Plantan:

Thus came your argument in:

Then the Boyes fat Lenvoy, the Goose that you bought, And he ended the market.

Ar. But tell me: How was there a Costard broken in a shin?

Pag. I will tell you sencibly.

Clow. Thou hast no feeling of it Moth,

I will speake that Lenvoy.

I Costard running out, that was safely within,
Fell over the threshold, and broke my shin.

Arm. We will talke no more of this matter.
Clow. Till there be more matter in the shin.
Arm. Sirra Costard, I will infranchise thee.

Clow. O, marrie me to one Francis, I smell some Lenvoy, some Goose in this.

98. and: an-POPE.

105-6. I 1.-12.

101-2. I 1.-12.

112-3. I 1.-1Q.

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Arm. By my sweete soule, I meane, setting thee at libertie. Enfreedoming thy person: thou wert emured, restrained, captivated, bound.

Clow. True, true, and now you will be my purgation, and let me loose.

Arm. I give thee thy libertie, set thee from durance, and in lieu thereof, impose on thee nothing but this: [Giving a letter.] Beare this significant to the countrey Maide Jaquenetta: | there is remuneration, for the best ward of mine honours is rewarding my dependants. Moth, follow. |

Pag. Like the sequell I.

Signeur Costard adew.

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Exit.

Clow. My sweete ounce of mans flesh, my in-conie1 Jew: Now will I looke to his remuneration. 1 fine Remuneration, O, that's the Latine word for three-farthings: Three-farthings remuneration, What's the price of this yncle? i.d. no, Ile give you a remuneration: Why? It carries it remuneration: Why? It is a fairer name then a French-Crowne. I will never buy and sell out of this word.

Enter Berowne.

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Ber. O my good knave Costard, exceedingly well met. Clow. Pray you sir, How much Carnation Ribbon may a man buy for a remuneration?

Ber. What is a remuneration?

Cost. Marrie sir, halfe pennie farthing.

122. emured: immured-2-4F.

129. bonours: honour-IQ.

137. i.d.: one (a) penny-RowE.

137-8. Why? It carries it remuneration: Why, it carries it. Remuneration!-THEOBALD.

138-9. then a French-Crowne: than French crown-10

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