12071134Beleeue it better then reportingly.

12091136Prince I doe but stay til your mariage be consummate, and

12101137then go I toward Arragon.

12111138Claud. Ile bring you thither my lord, if youle vouchsafe

12121139me.

12131140Prince Nay that would be as great a soyle in the new glosse

12141141of your marriage, as to shew a child his new coate and forbid

12151142him to weare it, I wil only be bold with Benedick for his com-

12161143pany, for from the crowne of his head, to the sole of his foot,

12171144he is al mirth, he hath twice or thrice cut Cupides bow-string,

12181145and the little hang-man dare not shoot at him, he hath a heart

12191146as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper, for what his

12201147heart thinkes, his tongue speakes.

12221148Bene. Gallants, I am not as I haue bin.

12231149Leo. So say I, me thinkes you are sadder.

12241150Clau. I hope he be in loue.

12251151Prince Hang him truant, theres no true drop of bloud in

12261152him to be truly toucht with loue, if he be sadde, he wantes mo-

12271153ney.

12281154Bene. I haue the tooth-ach.

12291155Prince Draw it.

12301156Bene. Hang it.

12311157Clau. You must hang it first, and draw it afterwards.

12321158Prince What? sigh for the tooth-ach.

12331159Leon. Where is but a humour or a worme.

12341160Bene. Wel, euery one cannot master a griefe, but he that

12351161has it.

12361162Clau. Yet say I, he is in loue.

12371163Prince There is no appeerance of fancie in him, vnlesse it

12381164be a fancy that he hath to strange disguises, as to be a Dutch-

12391165man to day, a French-man to morrow, or in the shape of two

1166countries at once, as a Germaine from the waste downward,

1167all slops, and a Spaniard from the hip vpward, no dublet: vn-

12401168lesse he haue a fancie to this foolery, as it appeares he hath,

12411169he is no foole for fancy, as you would haue it appeare he

12421170is.