Moth. By my penny of observation. 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. And out of heart, master: all those three I will prove. Arm. What wilt thou prove ? Moth. 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 embassador for an ass! Arm. Ha, ba! what sayest thou? Moth. Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse, for he is very slow-gaited: But I Arm. The way is but short; away. Moth. As swift as lead, sir. Arm. T'hy meaning, pretty ingenious ? Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow? Moth. Minimè, honest master; or rather, master, no. Arm. I say, lead it slow. Moth. You are too swift®, sir, to say so; • Quick, ready. Moth. I will add the Tenvoy : again. Is that lead slow which is fir'd from a gun? Arm. Sweet smoke of rhetorick! Thump then, and I fee. (Exit. Arm. A most acute juvenal; voluble and free of grace! Re-enter Moth and Costard. in a shin. l'envoyt;begin. Cost. No egma, no riddle, no l'envoy; no salve in the mail, sir: 0, sir, plaintain, a plain plaintaia; no l'enooy, no l'envoy, no salve, sir, but a plantain ! Arm. By virtue, thou enforcest laughter; thy silly thought, my spleen; the heaving of my lungs provokes me to ridiculous smiling : 0, pardon me, my stars! Doth the inconsiderate take salve for t'envoy, and the word, l'endoy, for a salve? Moth. Do the wise think them other? is not l'enooy a salve? Arm. No, page: it is an epilogue or discourse to make plain Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain. I will example it: The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee, Were still at odds, being but three. There's the moral: Now the l'envoy. Arm. The fox, the ape, and the were still at odds, being butt Moth. Until the goose came ou And stay'd the odds by addiog The fox, the ape, and the hum Staying the odds by adding fo that's flat- loose: argument begin? sbio. argument in; bought; Arm. But tell me; how Moth. I will tell you sen Cost, 'Thou hast po feeli Arm. We will talk no mo . A head. + An old French term for concluding verses, which served either to convey the moral, or to address the poem to some person. Acte free of Moth. I will add the l'envoy: again. Arm. The fox, the ape, and the hu Were still at odds, being but thre Moth. Until the goose came out of And stay'd the odds by adding four Now will I begin your moral, and d with my l'endoy. The fox, the ape, and the humble Were still at odds, being but thre Arm. Until the goose came out of • Staying the odds by adding four. • Moth. A good l'envoy, ending in th Would you desire more? Cost. The boy hath sold him a bar that's flat:Sir, your pennyworth is good, ap your To sell a bargain well, is as cunnin loose: Let me see a fat l'erivoy; ay, that's a Arm. Come hither, come hither : argument begin? Moth. By saying that a Costard w shin. Then call'd you for the l'envoy. Cost. True, and I for a plantain; T argument in; bought; Arm. But tell me; how was th broken in a shin? Moth. I will tell you sensibly. Cost, Thou hast no feeling of it, Arm. We will talk no more of this Jotune - 1993 114 Biron. O, this afternoon. Cost. Well, I will do it, sir: Biron. O, thou kpowest not Cost. I shall know, sir, when Biron. Why, villain, thou mu Cost. I will come to your Cost. 0, marry me to one Trances > smell some l'envoy, some goose, in this. Arm. By my sweet soul, I mean, setting thee at liberty, enfreedoming thy person; thou wert imniur. ed, restrained, captivated, bouud. Cost. True, true; and now you will be my purga tion, and let me loose. Arm. I give thee thy liberty, set thee from darance; and, in lieu thereof, impose on thee nothing but this : Bear this significant to the country maid Jaquenetta : there is remuneration : (Giving him money.) for the best ward of mine honour, is, rewarding my dependents. Moth, follow. Erit. Moth. Like tbe sequel, 1.-Signior Costard, adieu. · Cost. My sweet ounce of man's flesh! my incony Jew! [Exit Moth. Now will I look to his remuneration. Remunera. tion ! O, that's the Latin word for three farthings: three farthings--remuneration. What's the price of this inkle ? a penny :-No, I'll give you a remu neration : why, it carries it.Remuneration !why, it is a fairer name than French crown. I will never buy and sell out of this word. morning. Biron. It must be done this slave, it is but this; The princess comes to hunt here Aud in her train there is a gentle When tongues speak sweetly, tt bane, And Rosaline they call her: as And to her white hand see thou This seald-up counsel. There Enter Biron. Cost. Guerdon,-0 sweet Biron. 0! And I, forse Biron. O, my good knave Costard! exceedingly well met. Cost. Pray you, sir, how much carnation ribbon may a man by for a remuneration. Biron. What is a remuneration? biron. O, stay, slave; I must employ thee : As thou wilt win my favour, good my knave, Do one thing for me that I shall entreat. Cost. When would you have it done, sir? • Reward. With thi Hooded, veiled, The officers of the spiri • Delightful... tations. Biron. O, this afternoon. Cost. I will come to your worsh morning. Biron. It must be done this afte naine, (Gides Cost. Guerdon, sweet guerdon! remuneration; eleven-pence farthing sweet guerdon !—I will do it, sir, in p don-remuneration. Biron. 0!-And I, forsooth, in ] . Reward. + With the utmost ex Hooded, veiled, Petticoat | The officers of the spiritual courts i tations. |
