18391723special honours it plea
seth his greatnes to impart to
Armado 18401724a Souldier, a man of trauayle, that hath
seene the worlde: but
18411725let that pa
sse; the very all of all is: but
sweet hart, I do implore
18421726secretie, that the King would haue me pre
sent the Prince
sse
18441727(
sweete chuck) with
some delightfull o
stentation, or
show,
18451728or pageant, or antique, or
fierworke: Now vnder
standing
18461729that the Curate and your
sweete
selfe, are good at
such erup
- 18471730tions, and
sodaine breaking out of myrth (as it were) I haue
18481731acquainted you withall, to the ende to craue your a
ssistance.
18501732Peda. Sir, you
shall pre
sent before her the Nine Worthies,
18511733Sir
Holofernes, as concerning
some entertainement of time,
18521734some
show in the po
sterior of this day, to be rended by our
18531735a
ssistants the Kinges commaund, and this mo
st gallant il
- 18541736lu
strate and learned Gentleman, before the Prince
sse: I
say
18551737none
so
fit as to pre
sent the nine Worthies.
18571738Curat. Where will you
finde men worthie enough to pre
- 18591740Peda. Iosua, your
selfe, my
selfe, and this gallant Gentle
- 18601741man
Iudas Machabeus; this Swaine (becau
se of his great lim
18611742or ioynt)
shall pa
sse
Pompey the great, the Page
Hercules.
18631743Brag. Pardon
sir, error: He is not quantitie enough for
18641744that worthies thumbe, he is not
so big as the end of his Club.
18661745Peda. Shall I haue audience? He
shall pre
sent
Hercules 18671746in minoritie: his enter and exit
shalbe
strangling a Snake;
18681747and I will haue an Apologie for that purpo
se.
18691748Page. An excellent deuice:
so if any of the audience hi
sse,
18701749you may cry, Well done
Hercules, now thou crus
she
st the
18711750Snake; that is the way to make an o
ffence gracious, though
18731752Brag. For the re
st of the Worthies
? 18741753Peda. I will play three my
selfe.
18781757Brag. We will haue, if this fadge not, an Antique. I be
- 18801759Peda. Via good-man
Dull, thou ha
st spoken no worde all
Dull
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