1740Pedant. Satis quid sufficit.

1741Curat. I praise God for you sir, your reasons at dinner

1742haue beene sharpe & sententious: pleasant without scur-

1743rillity, witty without affection, audacious without im-

1744pudency, learned without opinion, and strange without

1745heresie: I did conuerse this quondam day with a compa-

1746nion of the Kings, who is intituled, nominated, or called,

1747Don Adriano de Armatho.

1748Ped. Noui hominum tanquam te, His humour is lofty,

1749his discourse peremptorie: his tongue filed, his eye

1750ambitious, his gate maiesticall, and his generall behaui-

1751our vaine, ridiculous, and thrasonicall. He is too picked,

1752too spruce, too affected, too odde, as it were, too pere-

1753grinat, as I may call it.

M2 Curat.

1754Curat. A most singular and choise Epithat,

1756Peda. He draweth out the thred of his verbositie, fi-

1757ner then the staple of his argument. I abhor such pha-

1758naticall phantasims, such insociable and poynt deuise

1759companions, such rackers of ortagriphie, as to speake

1760dout fine, when he should say doubt; det, when he shold

1761pronounce debt; d e b t, not det: he clepeth a Calf, Caufe:

1762halfe, haufe: neighbour vocatur nebour; neigh abreuiated

1763ne: this is abhominable, which he would call abhomi-

1764nable it insinuateth me of infamie: ne inteligis domine, to

1765make franticke, lunaticke?

1766Cura. Laus deo, bene intelligo.

1767Peda. Bome boon for boon prescian, a little scratcht, 'twil

1768serue.

1770Curat. Vides ne quis venit?

1771Peda. Video, & gaudio.

1772Brag. Chirra.

1773Peda. Quari Chirra, not Sirra?

1774Brag. Men of peace well incountred.

1775Ped. Most millitarie sir salutation.

1776Boy. They haue beene at a great feast of Languages,

1777and stolne the scraps.

1778Clow. O they haue liu'd long on the almes-basket of

1779words. I maruell thy M. hath not eaten thee for a word,

1780for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitu-

1781dinitatibus: Thou art easier swallowed then a flapdra-

1782gon.

1783Page. Peace, the peale begins.

1784Brag. Mounsier, are you not lettred?

1785Page. Yes, yes, he teaches boyes the Horne-booke:

1786What is Ab speld backward with the horn on his head?

1787Peda. Ba, puericia with a horne added.

1788Pag. Ba most seely Sheepe, with a horne: you heare

1789his learning.

1790Peda. Quis quis, thou Consonant?

1791Pag. The last of the fiue Vowels if You repeat them,

1792or the fift if I.

1793Peda. I will repeat them: a e I.

1794Pag. The Sheepe, the other two concludes it o u.

1795Brag. Now by the salt waue of the mediteranium, a

1796sweet tutch, a quicke venewe of wit, snip snap, quick &

1797home, it reioyceth my intellect, true wit.

1798Page. Offered by a childe to an olde man: which is

1799wit-old.

1800Peda. What is the figure? What is the figure?

1801Page. Hornes.

1802Peda. Thou disputes like an Infant: goe whip thy

1803Gigge.

1804Pag. Lend me your Horne to make one, and I will

1805whip about your Infamie vnum cita a gigge of a Cuck-

1806olds horne.

1807Clow. And I had but one penny in the world, thou

1808shouldst haue it to buy Ginger bread: Hold, there is the

1809very Remuneration I had of thy Maister, thou halfpenny

1810purse of wit, thou Pidgeon-egge of discretion. O & the

1811heauens were so pleased, that thou wert but my Bastard;

1812What a ioyfull father wouldst thou make mee? Goe to,

1813thou hast it ad dungil, at the fingers ends, as they say.

1814Peda. Oh I smell false Latine, dunghel for vnguem.

1815Brag. Arts-man preambulat, we will bee singled from

1816the barbarous. Do you not educate youth at the Charg-

1817house on the top of the Mountaine?

1818Peda. Or Mons the hill.

1819Brag. At your sweet pleasure, for the Mountaine.

1820Peda. I doe sans question.

1821Bra. Sir, it is the Kings most sweet pleasure and af-

1822fection, to congratulate the Princesse at her Pauilion, in

1823the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call

1824the after-noone.

1825Ped. The posterior of the day, most generous sir, is lia-

1826ble, congruent, and measurable for the after-noone: the

1827word is well culd, chose, sweet, and apt I doe assure you

1828sir, I doe assure.

1829Brag. Sir, the King is a noble Gentleman, and my fa-

1830miliar, I doe assure ye very good friend: for what is in-

1831ward betweene vs, let it passe. I doe beseech thee re-

1832member thy curtesie. I beseech thee apparell thy head:

1833and among other importunate & most serious designes,

1834and of great import indeed too: but let that passe, for I

1835must tell thee it will please his Grace (by the world)

1836sometime to leane vpon my poore shoulder, and with

1837his royall finger thus dallie with my excrement, with my

1838mustachio: but sweet heart, let that passe. By the world

1839I recount no fable, some certaine speciall honours it

1840pleaseth his greatnesse to impart to Armado a Souldier,

1841a man of trauell, that hath seene the world: but let that

1842passe; the very all of all is: but sweet heart I do implore

1843secrecie, that the King would haue mee present the

1844Princesse (sweet chucke) with some delightfull ostenta-

1845tion, or show, or pageant, or anticke, or fire-worke:

1846Now, vnderstanding that the Curate and your sweet self

1847are good at such eruptions, and sodaine breaking out of

1848myrth (as it were) I haue acquainted you withall, to

1849the end to craue your assistance.

1850Peda. Sir, you shall present before her the Nine Wor-

1851thies. Sir Holofernes, as concerning some entertainment

1852of time, some show in the posterior of this day, to bee

1853rendred by our assistants the Kings command: and this

1854most gallant, illustrate and learned Gentleman, before

1855the Princesse: I say none so fit as to present the Nine

1856Worthies.

1857Curat. Where will you finde men worthy enough to

1858present them?

1859Peda. Iosua, your selfe: my selfe, and this gallant gen-

1860tleman Iudas Machabeus; this Swaine (because of his

1861great limme or ioynt) shall passe Pompey the great, the

1862Page Hercules.

1863Brag. Pardon sir, error: He is not quantitie enough

1864for that Worthies thumb, hee is not so big as the end of

1865his Club.

1866Peda. Shall I haue audience? he shall present Hercu-

1867les in minoritie: his enter and exit shall bee strangling a

1868Snake; and I will haue an Apologie for that purpose.

1869Pag. An excellent deuice: so if any of the audience

1870hisse, you may cry, Well done Hercules, now thou cru-

1871shest the Snake; that is the way to make an offence gra-

1872cious, though few haue the grace to doe it.

1873Brag. For the rest of the Worthies?

1874Peda. I will play three my selfe.

1875Pag. Thrice worthy Gentleman.

1876Brag. Shall I tell you a thing?

1877Peda. We attend.

1878Brag. We will haue, if this fadge not, an Antique. I

1879beseech you follow.

1880Ped. Via good-man Dull, thou hast spoken no word

1881all this while.

1882Dull. Nor vnderstood none neither sir.

1883Ped. Alone, we will employ thee.

1884Dull. Ile make one in a dance, or so: or I will play

M2v on

1885on the taber to the Worthies, & let them dance the hey.

1886Ped. Most Dull, honest Dull, to our sport away. Exit.