12871195gancie, facilitie, and golden cadence of poesie caret: Ouiddius

12881196Naso was the man. And why in deed Naso, but for smel-

12891197ling out the odoriferous flowers of fancie? the ierkes of in-

12901198uention imitarie is nothing: So doth the Hound his maister,

12911199the Ape his keeper, the tyred Horse his rider: But Damosella

12921200virgin, Was this directed to you?

12941201Iaq. I sir from one mounsier Berowne, one of the strange

12951202Queenes Lordes.

12961203Nath. I will ouerglaunce the superscript.

12981205I will looke againe on the intellect of the letter, for the no-

13021208Ped. Sir Holofernes, this Berowne is one of the Votaries

13031209with the King, and here he hath framed a letter to a sequent

13041210of the stranger Queenes: which accidentally, or by the way

13051211of progression, hath miscarried. Trip and goe my sweete,

13061212deliuer this Paper into the royall hand of the King, it may

13071213concerne much: stay not thy complement, I forgine thy

13081214dewtie, adue.

13091215Mayd. Good Costard go with me: sir God saue your life.

13111216Cost. Haue with thee my girle. Exit.

13121217Holo. Sir you haue done this in the feare of God verie reli-

13131218giously: and as a certaine Father saith

13141219Ped. Sir tell not mee of the Father, I do feare colourable

13151220coloures. But to returne to the Verses, Did they please you

13161221sir Nathaniel?

13171222Nath. Marueilous well for the pen.

13181223Peda. I do dine to day at the fathers of a certaine pupill of

13191224mine, where if (before repast) it shall please you to gratifie

13201225the table with a Grace, I will on my priuiledge I haue with

13211226the parentes of the foresaid childe or pupill, vndertake your

13221227bien venuto, where I will proue those Verses to be very vn-

13231228learned, neither sauouring of Poetrie, wit, nor inuention.

13241229I beseech your societie.

13261230Nath. And thanke you to: for societie (saith the text)

13271231is the happines of life.

13281232Peda. And certes the text most infallibly concludes it.