Brag. But O, but O
Boy. The Hobbie-horse is forgot
Bra. Cal"st thou my loue Hobbi-horse
Boy. No Master, the Hobbie-horse is but a Colt, and and your Loue perhaps, a Hacknie: but haue you forgot your Loue?
Brag. Almost I had
Boy. Negligent student, learne her by heart
Brag. By heart, and in heart Boy
Boy. And out of heart Master: all those three I will proue
Brag. What wilt thou proue?
Boy. A man, if I liue (and this) by, in, and without, vpon the instant: by heart you loue her, because your heart cannot come by her: in heart you loue her, because your heart is in loue with her: and out of heart you loue her, being out of heart that you cannot enioy her
Brag. I am all these three
Boy. And three times as much more, and yet nothing at all
Brag. Fetch hither the Swaine, he must carrie mee a letter
Boy. A message well simpathis"d, a Horse to be emba.s.sadour for an a.s.se
Brag. Ha, ha, What saiest thou?
Boy. Marrie sir, you must send the a.s.se vpon the Horse for he is verie slow gated: but I goe
Brag. The way is but short, away
Boy. As swift as Lead sir
Brag. Thy meaning prettie ingenious, is not Lead a mettall heauie, dull, and slow?
Boy. Minnime honest Master, or rather Master no
Brag. I say Lead is slow
Boy. You are too swift sir to say so.
Is that Lead slow which is fir"d from a Gunne?
Brag. Sweete smoke of Rhetorike, He reputes me a Cannon, and the Bullet that"s he: I shoote thee at the Swaine
Boy. Thump then, and I flee
Bra. A most acute Iuuenall, voluble and free of grace, By thy fauour sweet Welkin, I must sigh in thy face.
Most rude melancholie, Valour giues thee place.
My Herald is return"d.
Enter Page and Clowne.
Pag. A wonder Master, here"s a Costard broken in a shin
Ar. Some enigma, some riddle, come, thy Lenuoy begin
Clo. No egma, no riddle, no lenuoy, no salue, in thee male sir. Or sir, Plantan, a plaine Plantan: no lenuoy, no lenuoy, no Salue sir, but a Plantan
Ar. By vertue, thou inforcest laughter, thy sillie thought, my spleene, the heauing of my lunges prouokes me to rediculous smyling: O pardon me my stars, doth the inconsiderate take salue for lenuoy, and the word lenuoy for a salue?
Pag. Doe the wise thinke them other, is not lenuoy a salue?
Ar. No Page, it is an epilogue or discourse to make plaine, Some obscure precedence that hath tofore bin faine.
Now will I begin your morrall, and do you follow with my lenuoy.
The Foxe, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee, Were still at oddes, being but three
Arm. Vntill the Goose came out of doore, Staying the oddes by adding foure
Pag. A good Lenuoy, ending in the Goose: would you desire more?
Clo. The Boy hath sold him a bargaine, a Goose, that"s flat.
Sir, your penny-worth is good, and your Goose be fat.
To sell a bargaine well is as cunning as fast and loose: Let me see a fat Lenuoy, I that"s a fat Goose
Ar. Come hither, come hither: How did this argument begin?
Boy. By saying that a Costard was broken in a shin.
Then cal"d you for the Lenuoy
Clow. True, and I for a Plantan: Thus came your argument in: Then the Boyes fat Lenuoy, the Goose that you bought, And he ended the market
Ar. But tell me: How was there a Costard broken in a shin?
Pag. I will tell you sencibly
Clow. Thou hast no feeling of it Moth, I will speake that Lenuoy.
I Costard running out, that was safely within, Fell ouer the threshold, and broke my shin
Arm. We will talke no more of this matter
Clow. Till there be more matter in the shin
Arm. Sirra Costard, I will infranchise thee
Clow. O, marrie me to one Francis, I smell some Lenuoy, some Goose in this
Arm. By my sweete soule, I meane, setting thee at libertie.
Enfreedoming thy person: thou wert emured, restrained, captiuated, bound
Clow. True, true, and now you will be my purgation, and let me loose
Arm. I giue thee thy libertie, set thee from durance, and in lieu thereof, impose on thee nothing but this: Beare this significant to the countrey Maide Iaquenetta: there is remuneration, for the best ward of mine honours is rewarding my dependants. Moth, follow
Pag. Like the sequell I.
Signeur Costard adew.
Enter.
Clow. My sweete ounce of mans flesh, my inconie Iew: Now will I looke to his remuneration.