17401634Pedant. Satis quid sufficit.

17411635Curat. I prayse God for you sir, your reasons at Dinner

17421636haue been sharpe & sententious: pleasant without scurillitie,

17431637wittie without affection, audatious without impudencie,

17441638learned without opinion, and strange without heresie: I did

17451639conuerse this quondam day with a companion of the kings,

17461640who is intituled, nominated, or called, Don Adriano de Ar-

17471641matho.

17481642Ped. Noui hominum tanquam te, His humour is loftie, his

17491643discourse peremptorie: his tongue fyled, his eye ambitious,

17501644his gate maiesticall, and his generall behauiour vaine, redicu-

17511645lous, & thrasonicall. He is too picked, to spruce, too affected,

17521646to od as it were, too peregrinat as I may call it.

17541647Curat. A most singuler and choyce Epithat,

17561649Peda. He draweth out the thred of his verbositie, finer

17571650then the staple of his argument. I abhorre such phanatticall

17581651phantasims, such insociable and poynt deuise companions,

17591652such rackers of ortagriphie, as to speake dout fine, when he

17601653should say doubt; det, when he shold pronounce debt; d e b t,

17611654not det: he clepeth a Calfe, Caufe: halfe, haufe: neighbour

17621655vocatur nebour; neigh abreuiated ne: this is abhominable,

17631656which he would call abbominable, it insinuateth me of in-

17641657famie: ne inteligis domine, to make frantique lunatique?

17661658Curat. Laus deo, bene intelligo.

17671659Peda. Bome boon for boon prescian, a litle scratcht, twil serue.

17701661Curat. Vides ne quis venit?

17711662Peda. Video, et gaudio.

17721663Brag. Chirra.

17731664Peda. Quari Chirra, not Sirra?

17741665Brag. Men of peace well incontred.

17751666Ped. Most millitarie sir salutation.

17761667Boy. They haue been at a great feast of Languages, and

17771668stolne the scraps.

17781669Clow. O they haue lyud long on the almsbasket of wordes.

17791670I maruaile thy M. hath not eaten thee for a worde, for thou

17801671art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus:

17811672Thou art easier swallowed then a flapdragon.

17831673Page. Peace, the peale begins.

17841674Brag. Mounsier, are you not lettred?

17851675Page. Yes yes, he teaches boyes the Horne-booke: What

17861676is Ab speld backward with the horne on his head?

17871677Poda. Ba, puericia with a horne added.

17881678Pag. Ba most seely Sheepe, with a horne: you heare his (learning.

17901679Peda. Quis quis thou Consonant?

17911680Pag. The last of the fiue Vowels if You repeate them,

17921681or the fift if I.

17931682Peda. I will repeate them: a e I.

17941683Pag. The Sheepe, the other two concludes it o u.

17951684Brag. Now by the sault wane of the meditaranium, a

17961685sweete tutch, a quicke venewe of wit, snip snap, quicke and

17971686home, it reioyceth my intellect, true wit.

17981687Page. Offerd by a childe to an old man: which is wit-old.

18001688Peda. What is the figure? What is the figure?

18011689Page. Hornes.

18021690Peda. Thou disputes like an Infant: goe whip thy Gigg.

18041691Pag. Lende me your Horne to make one, and I will whip

18051692about your Infamie vnū cita a gigge of a Cuckolds horne.

18071693Clow. And I had but one peny in the world thou shouldst

18081694haue it to buy Ginger bread: Holde, there is the verie

18091695Remuneration I had of thy Maister, thou halfepennie

18101696purse of wit, thou Pidgin-egge of discretion. O and the

18111697heauens were so pleased, that thou wart but my Ba-

1698stard; What a ioyfull father wouldest thou make me?

18121699Go to, thou hast it ad dungil at the fingers ends, as they say.

18141700Peda. Oh I smell false Latine, dunghel for vnguem.

18151701Brag. Arts-man preambulat, we will be singuled from the

18161702barbarous. Do you not educate youth at the Charg-House

18171703on the top of the Mountaine?

18181704Peda. Or Mons the hill.

18191705Brag. At your sweete pleasure, for the Mountaine.

18201706Peda. I do sans question.

18211707Bra. Sir, it is the Kings most sweete pleasur & affection,

18221708to congratulate the Princesse at her Pauilion, in the posteriors

18231709of this day, which the rude multitude call the after-noone.

18251710Peda. The posterior of the day, most generous sir, is liable,

18261711congruent, and measurable for the after noone: the worde is

18271712well culd, chose, sweete, & apt I do assure you sir, I do assure.

18291713Brag. Sir, the King is a noble Gentleman, and my fami-

18301714lier, I do assure ye very good friende: for what is inwarde

18311715betweene vs, let it passe. I do beseech thee remember thy

18321716curtesie. I beseech thee apparrell thy head: and among other

18331717importunt and most serious designes, and of great import in

18341718deede too: but let that passe for I must tell thee it will

18351719please his Grace (by the worlde) sometime to leane vpon

18361720my poore shoulder, and with his royall finger thus dallie

18371721with my excrement, with my mustachie: but sweete hart

18381722let that passe. By the world I recount no fable, some certaine

18391723special honours it pleaseth his greatnes to impart to Armado

18401724a Souldier, a man of trauayle, that hath seene the worlde: but

18411725let that passe; the very all of all is: but sweet hart, I do implore

18421726secretie, that the King would haue me present the Princesse

18441727(sweete chuck) with some delightfull ostentation, or show,

18451728or pageant, or antique, or fierworke: Now vnderstanding

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 assistance.

18501732Peda. Sir, you shall present before her the Nine Worthies,

18511733Sir Holofernes, as concerning some entertainement of time,

18521734some show in the posterior of this day, to be rended by our

18531735assistants the Kinges commaund, and this most gallant il-

18541736lustrate and learned Gentleman, before the Princesse: I say

18551737none so fit as to present the nine Worthies.

18571738Curat. Where will you finde men worthie enough to pre-

18581739sent them?

18591740Peda. Iosua, your selfe, my selfe, and this gallant Gentle-

18601741man Iudas Machabeus; this Swaine (because of his great lim

18611742or ioynt) shall passe 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 present Hercules

18671746in minoritie: his enter and exit shalbe strangling a Snake;

18681747and I will haue an Apologie for that purpose.

18691748Page. An excellent deuice: so if any of the audience hisse,

18701749you may cry, Well done Hercules, now thou crusshest the

18711750Snake; that is the way to make an offence gracious, though

18721751few haue the grace to do it.

18731752Brag. For the rest of the Worthies?

18741753Peda. I will play three my selfe.

18751754Page. Thrice worthie Gentleman.

18761755Brag. Shall I tell you a thing?

18771756Peda. We attende.

18781757Brag. We will haue, if this fadge not, an Antique. I be-

18791758seech you follow.

18801759Peda. Via good-man Dull, thou hast spoken no worde all

18811760this while.

18821761Dull. Nor vnderstoode none neither sir.

18831762Ped. Alone, we will employ thee.

18841763Dull. Ile make one in a daunce, or so: or I will play on

18851764the Taber to the worthies, and let them dance the hey.

18861765Peda. Most Dull, honest Dull, to our sport: away. Exeunt.