12071122Holo. Sir Nathaniel, will you heare an extemporall Epy-

12081123taph on the death of the Deare, and to humour the igno-

12091124rault cald the Deare: the Princesse kild a Pricket.

12111125Nath. Perge, good M. Holofernes perge, so it shall please

12121126you to abrogate squirilitie.

12131127Holo. I wil somthing affect the letter, for it argues facilitie.

12151128The prayfull Princesse pearst and prickt

12161129 a prettie pleasing Pricket,

12171130Some say a Sore, but not a sore,

12181131 till now made sore with shooting.

12191132The Dogges did yell, put ell to Sore,

12201133 then Sorell iumps from thicket:

12211134Or Pricket-sore, or els Sorell,

12221135 the people fall a hooting.

12231136If Sore be sore, then el to Sore,

12241137 makes fiftie sores o sorell:

12251138Of one sore I an hundred make

12261139 by adding but one more l.

12271140Nath. A rare talent.

12281141Dull. If a talent be a claw, looke how he clawes him

12291142with a talent.

12301143Nath. This is a gyft that I haue simple: simple, a foolish

12311144extrauagant spirit, full of formes, figures, shapes, obiectes,

12321145Ideas, aprehentions, motions, reuolutions. These are begot in

12331146the ventricle of Memorie, nourisht in the wombe of prima-

12341147ter, and deliuered vpon the mellowing of occasion: But the

12351148gyft is good in those whom it is acute, and I am thankfull

12361149for it.

12371150Holo. Sir, I prayse the L. for you, and so may my parishi-

12381151oners, for their Sonnes are well tuterd by you, and their

12391152Daughters profite very greatly vnder you: you are a good

12401153member of the common wealth.

12411154Nath. Me hercle, yf their Sonnes be ingenous, they shal

12421155want no instruction: If their Daughters be capable, I will

12431156put it to them. But Vir sapis qui pauca loquitur, a soule Femi-

12441157nine saluteth vs.