Mtb. Sampfon, master: he was a man of good] Coftard fafe: and you must let him take no delight, carage, great carnage; for he carried the town nor no penance; but a' must fast three days a ges on his back, like a porter: and he was in love.

4. O well-knit Sampfon! ftrong-jointed Spion! I do excel thee in my rapier, as much as thou didft me in carrying gates. I am in love wo-Who was Sampfon's love, my dear Moth? Moth. A woman, mafter.

Ars. Of what complexion?

Mtb. Of all the four, or the three, or the two; er one of the four.

A. Tell me precifely of what complexion?
Math. Of the fea-water green, fir.

A. Is that one of the four complexions?
Meth. As I have read, fir; and the beft of
them too.

4. Green, indeed, is the colour of lovers: but to have a love of that colour, methinks, Sampfan had fmall reafon for it. He, furely, affected ber for her wit.

Math. It was fo, fir; for the had a green wit.
Are. My love is moft immaculate white and

red.

Mh. Moft maculate thoughts, mafter, are mak'd under fuch colours.

A Define, define, well-educated infant. Math. My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, at me!

d. Sweet invocation of a child; moft pretty, and puthetical!

Mus. If the be made of white and red,

Her faults will ne'er be known;
For bluthing cheeks by faults are bred,
And fears by pale-white fhown:
Then, if the fear, or be to blame,

By this you fhall not know;
For ftill her cheeks poffefs the fame,

Which native the doth owe.

week: For this damfel, I must keep her at the park; fhe is allow'd for the day-woman. Fare you well.

A. I do betray myself with blufhing.-Maid.
faq. Man.

Am. I will vifit thee at the lodge.
Jaq. That's hereby.

Arm, I know where it is fituate.
Jaq. Lord, how wife you are!
don. I will tell thee wonders.
Jaq. With that face?
Arm. I love thee.

Jaq. So I heard you fay.
Arm. And fo farewell.
Jaq. Fair weather after you!
Dull. Come, Jaquenetta, away.

[Exeunt Dull and Jaquenett. Arm. Villain, thou shalt faft for thy offences, ere thou be pardoned.

Coft. Well, fir, I hope, when I do it, I do it on a full ftomach.

Arm. Thou shalt be heavily punished.

Coft. I am more bound to you, than your fellows, for they are but lightly rewarded.

Arm. Take away this villain; fhut him up. Moth. Come, you tranfgreffing flave; away. Coft. Let me not be pent up, fir; I will faft, being loofe.

Moth. No, fir; that were faft and loofe: thou fhalt to prifon.

Caft. Well, if ever I do fee the merry days of defolation that I have seen, fome fhall feeMoth. What shall some fee? Coft. Nay, nothing, mafter Moth, but what they look upon. It is not for prifoners to be filent in their words; and, therefore, I will fay nothing; I thank God, I have as little patience as another

A dangerous rhime, matter, against the reason of man; and therefore I can be quiet. white and red.

Ar. Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the Beggar?

[Exeunt Moth and Cofard. Arm. I do affect the very ground, which is bale, where her fhoe, which is bafer, guided by her Moth, The world was very guilty of fuch a bal-foot, which is bafeft, doth tread. I fhall be forta fome three ages fince: but, I think, now 'tis fworn, (which is a great argument of falfhood) if not to be found; or, if it were, it would neither I love: And how can that be true love, which is leve for the writing, nor the tune. falfly attempted? Love is a familiar; love is a 4. I will have that fubject newly writ o'er, devil: there is no evil angel but love, tur I may example my digreffion by fome mighty fon was to tempted; and he had an excellent precedent. Boy, I do love that country girl, that ttrength; yet was Solomon fo feduced; and he I took in the park with the rational hind Coftard; the deferves well.

Merb. To be whipp'd; and yet a better love than my master. [Afide. Ar. Sing, boy; my spirit grows heavy in love. Marb. And that's great marvel, loving a light

*ench.

A. I fay, fing.

Maró. Forbear, till this company be past.
Enter Dull, Coftard, and Jaquenetta.
Dal, Sir, the duke's pleasure is, that you keep

Yet Samp

had a very good wit. Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' club, and therefore too much odds for a Spaniard's rapier. The first and fecond caufe will not ferve my turn; the paffado he reípects not, the duello he regards not; his difgrace is to be call'd boy; but his glory is, to fubdue men. Adieu, valour! ruft, rapier! be ftill, drum! for your manager is in love; yea, he loveth. Adlift me fome extemporal god of rhime, for, I am fure, I fhall turn fonneteer. Devife wit; write pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.

Digreffion here fignifics the act of going out of the right way. 2 That is, love,

[Exit.

Prin. Fair, give you back again; and, welcome I have not yet: the roof of this court is too high to be yours; and welcome to the wide fields too bafe to be mine.

King. You fhall be welcome, madam, to my

Prin. I will be welcome then; conduct m● thither.

Cheap or cheping was anciently the market; chapman therefore is marketman. 2 i. e. well qua

Kg. Hear me, dear lady; I have fworn an

Boyet. She hath but one for herfelf; to defire
that, were a shame.

Long. Pray you, fir, whofe daughter?
Boyet. Her mother's, I have heard.
Long. God's blefling on your beard!
Boyet. Good fir, be not offended:
She is an heir of Faulconbridge.

Long. Nay, my choler is ended.
She is a moft fweet lady.

Boyet. Not unlike, fir; that may be. [Ex. Long.

1 Depart is here fynonymous to part with.

Biron. What's her name in the cap?
Boyet. Katharine, by good hap.
Biron. Is the wedded, or no?
Boyat. To her will, fir, or fo.
Biron. You are welcome, fir; adieu!

Boyet. Farewell to me, fir, and welcome to you.
[Exit Biron.
Mar. That laft is Biron, the merry mad-cap lord;
Not a word with him but a jest.

Boyet. And every jeft but a word. [word.
Prin. It was well done of you to take him at his
Boyet. I was as willing to grapple, as he was to
Mar. Two hot fheeps, marry! [board.
Boyet. And wherefore not fhips?
No fheep, fweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips.
Mar. You sheep, and I pafture; fhall that finish
Beyet. So you grant pafture for me. [the jett?
Mar. Not fo, gentle beaft;

My lips are no common, though feveral
Boyet. Belonging to whom?

Mar. To my fortunes and me.

they be.

[agree:

His heart, like an agat, with your print impreffed,
Proud with his form, in his eye pride expreffed:
His tongue, all impatient to fpeak and not fee,
Did ftumble with hatte in his eye-fight to be;
All fenfes to that fenfe did make their repair,
To feel only looking on fairest of fair:
Methought, all his fenfes were lock'd in his eye,
As jewels in crystal for fome prince to buy;
Who, tendering their own worth, from whence
they were glafs'd,

Did point out to buy them, along as you pass'd.
His face's own margent did quote fuch amazes,
That all eyes faw his eyes inchanted with gazes :
I'll give you Aquitain, and all that is his,
An you give him for my fake but one loving kiss.
Prin. Come, to our pavilion: Boyet is difpos'd→→→
Boyet. But to fpeak that in words, which his
eye hath difclos'd:

I

only have made a mouth of his eye,

By adding a tongue which I know will not lye.
Rof. Thou art an old love-monger, and speak'st

fkilfully.

Arm.

SCENE

ACT

I.

The Park; near the Palace.

W

Math. Concolinel

III.

feet, humour it with turning up your eye-lids; figh a note, and fing a note; fometime through the throat, as if you fwallow'd love with finging love; fometime through the nofe, as if you fnutid

Enter Araudo und Moth. ARBLE, child; make pallonate my up love by fmelling love; with your hat pentfenfe of hearing. houfe-like, o'er the fhop of your eyes; with your [Singing arms crofs'd on your thin belly-doublet, like a Arm. Sweet air!-Go, tenderness of years; rabbit on a fpit; or your hands in your pocket, take this key, give enlargement to the fwain, bring like a man after the old painting; and keep not him feftinately 2 hither; I must employ him in letter to my love.

Moth. Mafter, will you win your love with French brawl 3?

a

a

too long in one tune, but a hip and away: Theic
are complements 5, thefe are humours: thefe he-
tray nice wenches-that would be betray'd with-
Fout thefe; and make the men of note, (do you
note men?) that are most affected to these .
Arm. How haft thou purchas'd this experience
Math. By my penny of observation.

↑ This word, which is provincial, and ought to be spelt fererell, is faid to mean those pieces of land in large open tinmclofed conntries, which bear corn and grafs, in contradiftinction to the common held, which always lay fallow for the purpose of grazing cows and theep. 2 That is, hattily

3 A kind of dance. 4 Cinary was the name of a fprighily nimble dance. si. e accomplißiments The meaning is. that they not only inveigle the young 4s, but make the men taken notice of too, who aflect them,

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Maza. Negligent ftudent! learn her by heart. d. By heart, and in heart, boy.

Merb. And out of heart, maiter; all thofe three I will prove.

A. What wilt thou prove?

Mab. A man, if I live; and this, by, in, and without, upon the inftant: By heart you love her, becorate your best cannot come by her in heart you Gie her, because your heart is in love with tes; and out of heart you love her, being out of best that you cannot enjoy her.

A. I am all these three.

Merb. And three times as much more, and yet puching at all.

. Fetch hither the fwain; he muft carry me a letter.

Coft. No egma, no riddle, no l'envoy; no falve in the male, fir: O fir, plantain, a plain plantain ; no l'envoy, no l'invoy, or falve, fir, but a plantain!

Arm. By virtue, thou enforceft laughter; thy filly thought, my fpleen; the heaving of my lungs provokes me to ridiculous fmiling; O, pardon me, my ftars! Doth the inconfiderate take falve for lousy, and the word l'envoy for a falve ?

Moth. Doth the wife think them other? is not L'envoy a falve?

Aim. No, page; it is an epilogue or difcourfe,
to make plain

Some obfcure precedence that hath tofore been fain.
I will example it;

The fox, the ape, and the humble-hee,
Were ftill at odds, being but three.
There's the moral: Now the l'emy.

Moth. I will add the l'envoy; Say the moral again.
Arm. The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,
Were ftill at odds, being but three:
Moth. Until the goofe came out of door,
Staying the odds by adding four.

Math. A meffage well fympathis'd; a horfe to Now will I begin your moral, and do you follow be emballador for an afs!

i. Ha, ha; what fayeft thou?

Mera Marry, fir, you muit fend the afs upon Le horfe, for he is very flow-gaited: But I go. . The way is but fhort; away,

Mub. As fwift as lead, fir.

A. Thy meaning, pretty ingenious} Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and flow?

Matb. Minime, honeft matter; or rather, maf

ter, no.

4. I fay, lead is flow.

Math. You are too fwift, fir, to say fo;

Is that lead flow, which is fir'd from a gun? 4. Sweet fmoke of rhetorick!

He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's he

I choot thee at the fwain.

Merb. Thump then, and I flee.

[Exit.

with niv l'envoy.

The fox, the ape, and the humble bee,
Were ftill at odds, being but three:
Arm. Until the goote came out of door,
Staying the odds by adding four.
Moth. A good l'envoy, ending in the goofe ;-
Would you defire more?

Caft. The boy hath fold him a bargain, a goose,
that's flat :-

[Fal Sir, your penny-worth is good, an your gooie be To fell a bargain well, is as cunning as fat and

loofe :

Let me fee a fat l'envoy; ay, that's a fat goofe.

Arm. Come hither, come hither: How did this argument begin?

Moth. By faying, that a Coftard was broken in a fhin: then call'd you for the envoy.

4. A moit acute juvenal; voluble and free of Cof. True, and I for a plantain; thus came

grace!

[face:your argument in :

By thy favour, fweet welkin 3, I must figh in thy Then the boy's fat l'envoy, the goofe that you Met rude melancholy, valour gives thee place.

My herald is return'd.

Re-enter Moth and Coftard.

bought;

And he ended the market.

Arm. But tell me; how was there a Coftard

Motb. A wonder, mafter; here's a Coftard 4 bro-broken in a fhin?

ken in a fhin.

Arm. Some enigma, fome riddle: come,-thy

Fenvoy 5;-begin.

Math. I will tell you fenfibly.

Coff. Thou haft no feeling of it, Moth; I will fpeak that l'envoy :——

I In the celebration of May-day, befides the sports now ufed of hanging a pole with garlands, and Lancing round it, formerly a boy was dreffed up reprefenting maid Marian; another like a friar ; another rode on a hobby-horfe, with bells jingling, and painted ftreamers. After the Refor Eition took place, and Precifians multiplied, thefe latter rites were looked upon to favour of pagam; and then maid Marian, the friar, and the poor hobby-hoife, were turned out of the games. Some who were not fo wifely precife, but regretted the diffe of the hobby-horfe, no doubt, fatithis fufpicion of idolatry, and archly wrote the epitaph above alluded to. Now Moth, hearig Armado groan ridiculoufly, and cry out, But oh! but on!- -humourously pieces out his exclaion with the fequel of this epitaph. 2 Meaning, a hot, mad-brain'd, unbroken young fellow ; ometimes an old fellow with juvenile defires. 3 Welkin is the fky. 4 i. e. a head. ny, which is a term borrowed from the old French poetry, appeared always at the head of a few concluding verfes to each piece, and either ferved to convey the moral, or to addrefs the poem to fome particular perfon. 6 The head was anciently called the coftard, as obferved above:-A cofpar likewife fignified a crab-ftick.

5 The

1, Coftard,