Pag. The last of the five Vowels if You repeat them, or the fift if I.

Peda. I will repeat them: a e I.

Pag. The Sheepe, the other two concludes it o u. Brag. Now by the salt wave of the mediteranium, a sweet tutch, a quicke venewe1 of wit, snip snap, quick & home, it rejoyceth my intellect, true wit. 1sally 60 Page. Offered by a childe to an olde man: which is wit-old.

Peda. What is the figure? What is the figure?
Page. Hornes.

Peda. Thou disputes like an Infant: goe whip thy Gigge.

Pag. Lend me your Horne to make one, and I will whip about your Infamie unum cita a gigge of a Cuckolds horne.

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Clow. And 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 Maister, thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou Pidgeon-egge of discretion. O & the heavens were so pleased, that thou wert but my Bastard; What a joyfull father wouldst thou make mee? Goe to, thou hast it ad dungil, at the fingers ends, as they say. Peda. Oh I smell false Latine, dunghel for unguem. Brag. Arts-man preambulat, we will bee singled from the barbarous. Do you not educate youth at the Charghouse2 on the top of the Mountaine? 2 school-house 80 Peda. Or Mons the hill.

Brag. At your sweet pleasure, for the Mountaine. Peda. I doe sans question.

Bra. Sir, it is the Kings most sweet pleasure and af

54. The last: The third-THEOBALD. 65. disputes: disputest-2-4F.

68. unum cita: circum circa-THEOBALD.

78. singled: singuled-1Q.

fection, to congratulate the Princesse at her Pavilion, in the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the after-noone.

Ped. The posterior of the day, most generous sir, is liable, congruent, and measurable for the after-noone: the word is well culd, chose, sweet, and apt I doe assure you sir, I doe assure.

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Brag. Sir, the King is a noble Gentleman, and my familiar, I doe assure ye very good friend: for what is inward betweene us, let it passe. I doe beseech thee remember thy curtesie. I beseech thee apparell thy head: and among other importunate & most serious designes, and of great import indeed too: but let that passe, for I must tell thee it will please his Grace (by the world) sometime to leane upon my poore shoulder, and with his royall finger thus dallie with my excrement, with my mustachio: but sweet heart let that passe. By the world I recount no fable, some certaine speciall honours it pleaseth his greatnesse to impart to Armado a Souldier, a man of travell, that hath seene the world: but let that passe; the very all of all is: but sweet heart, I do implore secrecie, that the King would have mee present the Princesse (sweet chucke) with some delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, or anticke, or fire-worke: Now, understanding that the Curate and your sweet self are good at such eruptions, and sodaine breaking out of myrth (as it were) I have acquainted you withall, to the end to crave your assistance.

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Peda. Sir, you shall present before her the Nine Worthies. Sir Holofernes, as concerning some entertainment of time, some show in the posterior of this day, to bee

96. importunate: important-1Q.

114. Holofernes out-Rowe.

rendred by our assistants the Kings command: and this most gallant, illustrate and learned Gentleman, before the Princesse: I say none so fit as to present the Nine Worthies.

Curat. Where will you finde men worthy enough to present them?

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Peda. Josua, your selfe: my selfe, and this gallant gentleman Judas Machabeus; this Swaine (because of his great limme or joynt) shall passe Pompey the great, the Page Hercules.

Brag. Pardon sir, error: He is not quantitie enough for that Worthies thumb, hee is not so big as the end of his Club.

Peda. Shall I have audience? he shall present Hercules in minoritie: his enter and exit shall bee strangling a Snake; and I will have an Apologie for that purpose. 131

Pag. An excellent device: so if any of the audience hisse, you may cry, Well done Hercules, now thou crushest the Snake; that is the way to make an offence gracious, though few have the grace to doe it.

Brag. For the rest of the Worthies?
Peda. I will play three my selfe.
Pag. Thrice worthy Gentleman.
Brag. Shall I tell you a thing?
Peda. We attend.

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Brag. We will have, if this fadge1 not, an Antique. I beseech

you

follow.

1 suit

Ped. Via good-man Dull, thou hast spoken no word all this while.

Dull. Nor understood none neither sir.

Ped. Alone, we will employ thee.

116. the Kings: at the king's-2-4F. 146. Alone: Allons!-RowE.

Dull. Ile make one in a dance, or so: or I will play on the taber to the Worthies, & let them dance the hey.1 1 country dance Ped. Most Dull, honest Dull, to our sport away. Exit.

[Scene ii. The same.]

Enter Ladies.

Qu. Sweet hearts we shall be rich ere we depart, If fairings come thus plentifully in.

A Lady wal'd about with Diamonds: Look you, what I have from the loving King.

Rosa. Madam, came nothing else along with that? Qu. Nothing but this: yes as much love in Rime, As would be cram'd up in a sheet of paper Writ on both sides the leafe, margent and all, That he was faine to seale on Cupids name.

Rosa. That was the way to make his god-head wax: For he hath beene five thousand yeeres a Boy.

Kath. I, and a shrewd unhappy gallowes too. Ros. You'll nere be friends with him, a a kild your sister. Kath. He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy, and so she died: had she beene Light like you, of such a merrie nimble stirring spirit, she might a bin a Grandam ere she died. And so may you: For a light heart lives long. Ros. What's your darke meaning mouse, of this light word?

Kat. A light condition in a beauty darke.

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Ros. We need more light to finde your meaning out.

147-8. 2 rhymed 11.-DYCE.

9. Writ on: Writ o' (a')-1Q.

4. new 1. at Look-POPE.

16-8. of such.. long: 3 five-accent ll.-2-4F. 17. might a: might ha'-IQ.

Kat. You'll marre the light by taking it in snuffe: Therefore Ile darkely end the argument.

Ros. Look what you doe, you doe it stil i'th darke. Kat. So do not you, for you are a light Wench. Ros. Indeed I waigh not you, and therefore light. Ka. You waigh me not, O that's you care not for me. Ros. Great reason: for past care, is still past cure. Qu. Well bandied both, a set of Wit well played. 30 But Rosaline, you have a Favour too? Who sent it? and what is it?

Ros. I would you knew.

And if my face were but as faire as yours,
My Favour were as great, be witnesse this.
Nay, I have Verses too, I thanke Berowne,
The numbers true, and were the numbring too,
I were the fairest goddesse on the ground.
I am compar'd to twenty thousand fairs.
O he hath drawne my picture in his letter.
Qu. Any thing like?

Ros. Much in the letters, nothing in the praise.
Qu. Beauteous as Incke: a good conclusion.
Kat. Faire as a text B. in a Coppie booke.

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Ros. Ware pensals. How? Let me not die your debtor, My red Dominicall, my golden letter.

O that your face were full of Oes.

Qu. [Kath.] A Pox of that jest, and I beshrew all Shrowes:

[Prin.] But Katherine, what was sent to you From faire Dumaine?

Kat. Madame, this Glove.

Qu. Did he not send you twaine?

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29. care... cure: cure... care-IQ. 34. And if: An if-CAPELL.

45. pensals: pencils-Rowe. How: ho-HANMER.

47. were full: were not so full-1Q.

49-50. I 1.-MALONE.