King. Thy own wish wish I thee in every place ! [Exeunt King and his train. Biron. Lady, I will commend you to my own heart. Ros. Pray you, do my commendations ; I would be glad to see it. heard it groan. Biron. I would you [Retiring. well. [Exit. shame. Long. Nay, my choler is ended. be. [E.cit LONGAVILLE. Biron. [Coming forward.] What's her name in the cap ? a a Boyet. Katharine, by good hap. ; [Excit BIRON.-Ladies unmask. Mar. That last is Biron, the merry madcap lord ; Not a word with him but a jest. Boyet. And every jest but a word. Prin. It was well done of you to take him at his word. Boyet. I was as willing to grapple as he was to board. Mar. Two hot sheeps, marry! Boyet. And wherefore not ships ? No sheep, sweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips. Mar. You sheep, and I pasture ; shall that finish the jest? Boyet. So you grant pasture for me. [Offering to kiss her. Mar. Not so, gentle beast; My lips are no common,, though several they be. Boyet. Belonging to whom ? To my fortunes and me. Boyet. If my observation (which very seldom lies), Prin. With what ? Boyet. Why, all his behaviours did make their retire 3 All senses to that sense did make their repair, Prin. Come, to our pavilion: Boyet is dispos’d. Boyet. But to speak that in words which his eye hath disclos'd: I only have made a mouth of his eye, By adding a tongue which I know will not lie. Ros. Thou art an old love-monger, and speak’st skilfully. Mar. He is Cupid's grandfather, and learns news of him. Ros. Then was Venus like her mother; for her father is but grim. Boyet. Do you hear, my mad wenches ? Mar. No. Boyet. What then, do you see? Ros. Ay, our way to be gone. Boyet. You are too hard for me. [Esceunt. Costa Remuneration : 0, that's the Latin word for three-farthings: three-farthingt-remuneration. -Act III, Sc. l. ACT III. SCENE I.-Another part of the same. a Enter ARMADO and MOTH. Arm. Warble, child ; make passionate my sense of hearing. Moth. Concolineli_ [Singing. Arm. Sweet air !–Go, tenderness of years ; take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither; I must employ him in a letter to my love. Moth. Master, will love with a French brawl ?? Arm. How meanest thou ? brawling in French ? Moth. No, my complete master : but to jig off a tune at the tongue’s end, canary to it with your feet, humour it with turning up your eyelids; sigh a note and sing a note, sometime through the throat, as if you swallowed love with singing love, sometime through the nose, as if you snuffed up love by smelling love ; with your hat penthouse-like, o'er the shop of your eyes ; with 3 your arms crossed on your thin belly's doublet, like a rabbit on a spit; or your hands in your pocket, like a man after the old painting ; and keep not too long in one tune, but a snip and away. These are compliments, these are humours ; these betray nice wenches-that would be betrayed without these ; and make them men of note (do you note me ?), that most are affected to these. Arm. How hast thou purchased this experience ? 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. 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. A message well sympathised ; a horse to be ambassador for an ass ! Arm. Ha, ha! what sayest thou ? Moth. Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse, for he is very slow-gaited. But I go. Arm. The way is but short; away. Moth. As swift as lead, sir. Arm. Thy meaning, pretty ingenious ? Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow? |