A C T II.

Before the King of Navarre's Palace.

Enter the Princes of France, Rofaline, Maria, Katharine, Boyet, Lords, and other Attendants. OW, inadam, fummon up your dearest fpirits:

King. Fair princefs, welcome to the court of
Navarre.

Prin. Fair, I give you back again; and, welcome I have not yet: the roof of this court is too high to be yours; and welcome to the wide fields too bafe to be nine.

King. You shall be welcome, madam, to my

court.

Prin. I will be welcome then; conduct me thither.

1 Cheap or chaping was anciently the market; chapman therefore is marketman. Ified. 3 1. c. p.. 41, 0. wore prepared.

King, Hear me, dear lady; I have fworn an And wrong the reputation of your name,
In fo unfeeming to confets receipt

outh.

Pia. Our Lady help my lord! he'll be forfworn.
King. Not for the world, fair nadam, by my will.
Prin. Why, will fhall break it; will, and no-
thing elfe.

King, Your ladyship is ignorant what it is.
Prin. Were my lord fo, his ignorance were wife,
Where now his knowledge must prove ignorance.
I hear, your grace hath fworn-out houfe-keeping:
'Tis deadly fin to keep that oath, my lord,
And fin to break it:

But pardon me, I am too fudden bold;
To teach a teacher ill befeemeth me.
Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming,
And fuddenly refolve me in my fuit.

King. Madam, I will, if fuddenly I may.
Prin. You will the fooner, that I were away;
For you'll prove perjar'd, if you make me stay.
Biron. Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?
Rof, Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?
Birm. I know, you did.

Ref. How needlets was it then

To alk the question!

En. You must not be fo quick.

Re 'Tis long of you, that fpur me with fuch
queftions.

[tire.
Bi an. Your wit's too hot, it fpeeds too faft, 'twill|
R. Not till it leave the rider in the mire.
Baron. What time o' day?

R. The hour that fools fhould ask.
Pion. Now fair betall your mafk!
Ref. Pair fall the face it covers!
Eiven. And fend you many lovers!
Ref. Amen; fo you be none.
Bron. Nay, then will I be gone.

King. Madam, your father here doth intimate
The payment of a hundred thousand crowns;
Being but the one half of an entire fum
Duburfed by my father in his wars.

But fay, that he, or we, (as neither have)
Receiv'd that fum; yet there remains unpaid

A hundred thousand more,, in furety of the which
Che part of Aquitain is bound to us,
Although not valu'd to the money's worth.
If then the king your father will restore

But that one half which is unfatisfy'd,
We will give up our right in Aquitain,
And hold fair friendship with his majetty.
But that, it feems, he little purpofeth,
For here he doth demand to have repaid

An hundred thousand crowns; and not demands,
On payment of a hundred thousand crowns,
To have his title live in Aquitain;
Which we much rather had depart withal,
And have the money by our father lent,
Than Aquitain fo gelded as it is.
Dear princefs, were not his requests so far
From reaton's yielding, your fair felf thould make
A yielding, 'gainft fome reafon in my breast,
And go well fatisfied to France again.

Pin. You do the king my father too much wrong,

Of that which hath so faithfully been paid.

King. I do proteít, I never heard of it;
And, if you prove it, I'll repay it back,
Or yield up Aquitain.

Prin. We arrelt your word :-
Boyet, you can produce acquittances,
For fuch a fum, from special officers
Of Charles his father.

King. Satisfy me fo.

[come,
Boyet. So please your grace, the packet is not
Where that and other fpecialties are bound;
To-morrow you fhall have a fight of them.

King. It fhall fuffice me; at which interview,
All liberal reafon I will yield unto.
Mean time, receive fuch welcome at my hand,
As honour, without breach of honour, may
Make tender of to thy true worthinefs:
You may not come, fair princes, in my gates ;
But here without you fhall be fo receiv'd,.
As you fhall deem yourself lodg'd in my heart,
Though fo deny'd fair harbour in my houfe.
Your own good thoughts excufe me, and farewell:
To-morrow we fhall vifit you again. [grace!
Prin. Sweet health and fair defires confort your
King. Thy own with, with I thee in every place!
[Exit.
Biron. Lady, I will commend you to my own
Roj. I pray you, do my commendations; [heart.
I would be glad to fee it.

Biron. I would, you heard it groan.

Rof. Is the fool fick ?

Biron. Sick at the heart.

Ref. Aluck, let it blood.

Biron. Would that do it good?

Raf. My phyfick fays, I.

Biron. Will you prick 't with your eye?
Ref. Non paynt, with my knife.
Biren. Now, God fave thy life!
Ref. And yours from long living!
Biron. I cannot ftay thanksgiving.

Dam. Sir, I pray you, a word; What lady is

that fame ?

Boyet. She hath but one for herfelf; to defire
that, were a thame.

Long. Pray you, fir, whofe daughter?
Boyet. Her mother's, I have heard.
Long. God's blefling on your beard!
Boyet. Good fir, be not offended:
She is an heir of Faulconbridge.

Long. Nay, my choler is ended.
She is a moft fweet lady.

Boyet. Not unlike, fir; that may be. [Ex. Long.

* Depart is here fynonymous to part with.

Biron. What's her name in the cap?
Boyet. Katharine, by good hap.
Biron. Is the wedded, or no?
Boyet. To her will, fir, or fo.
Biron. You are welcome, fir; adieu!

His heart, like an agat, with your print impreffed,
Proud with his form, in his eye pride expressed:
His tongue, all impatient to fpeak and not fee,
Did ftumble with hatte in his eye-fight to be;
All fenfes to that fenfe did make their repair,
To feel only looking on fairest of fair:
[Exit Biron. Methought, all his fenfes were lock'd in his eye,
As jewels in crystal for fome prince to buy ;
Who, tendering their own worth, from whence
they were glafs'd,

Boyet, Farewell to me, fir, and welcome to you.

Mar. That laft is Biron, the merry mad-caplord;
Not a word with him but a jeft.

Bayet. And every jest but a word. [word.
Prin. It was well done of you to take him at his
Boyet. I was as willing to grapple, as he was to
Mar. Two hot fheeps, marry! [board.
Boyet. And wherefore not ships?
"No theep, fweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips.
Mar. You theep, and I pasture; fhall that finish
Boyet. So you grant patture for me. [the jeft?
Mar. Not fo, gentle beat;
My lips are no common, though feveral
Boyet. Belonging to whom?
Mar. To my fortunes and me.

they be.

[agree:

Did point out to buy them, along as you país’d.
His face's own margent did quote fuch amazes,
That all eyes faw his eyes inchanted with gazes;
I'll give you Aquitain, and all that is his,
An you give him for my fake but one loving kiss.
Prin. Come, to our pavilion: Boyet is difpos'd-
Boyet. But to fpeak that in words, which his
eye hath difclos'd;

I only have made a mouth of his eye,
By adding a tongue which I know will not lye.
Ref. Thou art an old love-monger, and speak'ît

fkilfully.

ACT

CENE I

The Park, near the Palace.

Fater Armado and Motb.

III.

feet, humour it with turning up your eye-lids ; figh a note, and fing a note; fometime through the throat, as if you fwallow'd love with finging Love; fometime through the nofe, as if you fnutt 'd

"Arm. WARBLE, child; make paffionate my up love by (melling love; with your hat pent

fenfe of hearing.

houfe-like, o'er the fhop of your eyes; with your Math. Concolinel[Singing. arms crofs'd on your thin belly-doublet, like a Arm. Sweet air!-Go, tenderness of years; rabbit on a fpit; or your hands in your pocket, take this key, give enlargement to the fwain, bring like a man after the old painting; and keep not him feftinately 2 hither; I muit employ him in a too long in one tune, but a inip and away: Thefe letter to my love. are complements 5, thefe are humours: thefe betray nice wenches-that would be betray'd without thefe; and make the men of note, (do you note men?) that are most affected to these.

Moth. Mafter, will you win your love with French brawl 3?

a

Arm. How mean'st thou? brawling in French? Math. No, my compleat mafter: but to jig off a tune at the tongue's end, canary+ to it with your

Arm. How haft thou purchas'd this experience?
Moth. By my penny of obfervation.

This word, which is provincial, and ought to be fpelt feverell, is faid to mean thofe pieces of land in large open uninciofed countries, which bear corn and grafs, in contradiftinction to the common field, which always lay fallow for the purpofe of grazing cows and theep. 2 That is, haftily. 3 A kind of dance. 4 Canary was the name of a sprightly nimble dance. si. e. accomplishments, The meaning is, that they not only inveigle the young girls, but make the men taken notice of too, who affect them.

Am. But 0,but 0

Matb. the hobby-horse is forgot '. Arm. Call'ft thou my love, hobby-horse? Moth. No, mafter; the hobby-horfe is but a colt 2, and your love, perhaps, a hackney. But have you forgot your love?

Ar. Almoft I had.

Moth. Negligent ftudent! learn her by heart.
Hm. By heart, and in heart, boy.

Mob. And out of heart, mafter; all thofe three

Į will prove.

Arm. What wilt thou prove?

Meth. A man, if I live; and this, by, in, and without, upon the inftant: By heart you love her, becaufe your heart cannot come by her in heart you love her, because your heart is in love with her; and out of heart you love her, being out of heart that you cannot enjoy her.

Arm. I am all thefe three.

Morb. And three times as much more, and yet pothing all.

Arm. Fetch hither the fwain; he muft carry me a letter.

Math. A meffage well fympathis'd; a horfe to be embaffador for an afs!

Arm. Ha, ha; what fayeft thou ?

Meth. Marry, fir, you must fend the afs upon
the horse, for he is very flow-gaited: But I go.
Arm. The way is but fhort; away.
Math. As fwift as lead, fir.

Arm. Thy meaning, pretty ingenious?

Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and flow?

Moth. Minime, honeft matter; or rather, mafter, no.

Arm. I fay, lead is flow.

Moth. You are too fwift, fir, to fay fo:

Is that lead flow, which is fir'd from a gun?
Am. Sweet fmoke of rhetorick!

Caft. No egma, no riddle, no l'envoy; no falve in the male, fir: O fir, plantain, a plain plantain; no l'avy, no l'anvoy, or falve, fir, but a plantain!

Arm. By virtue, thou enforceft laughter; thy filly thought, my fpleen; the heaving of my lungs provokes me to ridiculous fimiling: O, pardon me, my ftars! Doth the inconfiderate take falve for Penvoy, and the word l'envoy for a falve?

Moth. Doth the wife think them other? is not Penvoy a falve?

Arm. No, page; it is an epilogue or difcourfe,
to make plain

Some obfcure precedence that hath tofore been fain.
I will example it:

The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,
Were ftill at odds, being but three.

There's the moral: Now the l'envoy.

Moth. I will add the l'envoy; Say the moral again.
Arm. The fax, the ape, and the humble-bee,
Were ftill at odds, being but three:
Moth. Until the goofe came out of door,
Staying the odds by adding tour.
Now will I begin your moral, and do you follow
with my l'envoy.

The fox, the ape, and the humble bee,
Were ftill at odds, being but three:
Arm. Until the goofe came out of door,
Staying the odds by adding four.
Moth. A good l'envoy, ending in the goofe ;---
Would you defire more?

Coff. The boy hath fold him a bargain, a goofe,-
that's flat :-

[fat.Sir, your penny-worth is good, an your goofe be To fell a bargain well, is as cunning as faft and loofe :

Let me fee a fat l'envoy; ay, that's a fat goose.
Arm. Come hither, come hither: How did this

He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's he argument begin?

I shoot thee at the fwain.

Meth. Thump then, and I flee.

[Exit.

Mob. By laying, that a Coftard was broken in a fhin: then call'd you for the l'invoy.

Arm. A moft acute juvenal; voluble and free of Caft. True, and I for a plantain; thus came grace! [face:your argument in:

By thy favour, fweet welkin 3, I muft figh in thy Then the boy's fat l'envoy, the goofe that you Moft rude melancholy, valour gives thee place.

My herald is return'd.

Re-enter Moth and Coftard.

bought;

And he ended the market.

Arm. But tell me; how was there a Coftard

Moth. I will tell you fenfibly.

Coft. Thou haft no feeling of it, Moth; I will fpeak that l'envoy:—

t, fati

In the celebration of May-day, befides the fports now ufed of hanging a pole with garlands, and dancing round it, formerly a boy was dreffed up reprefenting maid Marian; another like a friar; and another rode on a hobby-horfe, with bells jingling, and painted ftreamers. After the Refor mmation took place, and Precifians multiplied, thefe latter rites were looked upon to favour of paga nifm; and then maid Marian, the friar, and the poor hobby-horfe, were turned out of the games, Some who were not fo wifely precife, but regretted the difufe of the hobby-horfe, no d rized this fufpicion of idolatry, and archly wrote the epitaph above alluded to. Now Moth, hearing Armado groan ridiculously, and cry out. But oh! but oh!- -humouroufly pieces out his exclamation with the sequel of this epitaph. 2 Meaning, a hot. mad-brain'd, unbroken young fellow ; o fometimes an old fellow with juvenile delires. 3 Welkin is the sky. 4 i. e. a head. l'envoy, which is a term borrowed from the old French poetry, appeared always at the head of a few concluding verfes to each piece, and either forved to convey the moral, or to addrefs the poem to fome particular perfon. 6 The head was anciently called the col271, as obferved above.—— A cofHard likewife fignified a crab-flick.

S The

I, Coftare,

1, Coftard, running out, that was fafely within, Fell over the threshold, and broke my fhin.

m. We will talk no more of this matter. Cof. Till there be more matter in the thin.

. Sirrah, Coftard, I will enfranchife thee. Coft. O, marry me to one Frances ;-I fmell fome Fenway, fome goofe, in this.

Am. By my sweet foul, I mean, setting thee at liberty, enfreedoming thy períon; thou wert inmur'd, reftrained, captivated, bound.

Col. True, true; and now you will be my purgation, and let me loofe.

Caft. I will come to your worship to-morrow morning.

Biron. It must be done this afternoon. Hark, flave, it is but this :

The prince's comes to hunt here in the park,
And in her train there is a gentle lady; [name,
When tongues fpeak fweetly, then they name her
And Rofaline they call her: ask for her;
And to her fweet hand fee thou do commend
This feal'd-up counfel. There's thy guerdon; go.
[Gives him money.

Coft. Guerdon,-O fweet guerdon 2! better than Arm. I give thee thy liberty, fet thee from du- remuneration; eleven-pence farthing better:rance; and, in lieu thereof, impofe on thee nothing| Moft fweet guerdon !—I will do it, fir, in print 3. but this: Bear this fignificant to the country maid -Guerdon-remuneration. Jaquenetta: there is remuneration; [Giving him

Cojt. My fweet ounce of man's flefh! my incony
Jew!-

[Exit.

Birons OAnd I, forfooth, in love! I, that

money.] for the best ward of mine honour, is, re-have been love's whip; warding my dependants. Moth, follow. [Exit. A very beadle to a humourous figh; Moth. Like the fequel, I. Signior Cottard, A critic; nay, a night-watch conftable; adicu. [Exit. A domineering pedant o'er the boy, Than whom no mortal fo magnificent! This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy; Now will I look to his remuneration. Remune- This fignior Junio's giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; ration! O, that's the Latin word for three far-Regent of love-rhimes, lord of folded arms, things: three farthings-remuneration.-What's The anointed fovereign of fighs and groans, the price of this inkle? a penny :—No, I'll give you a remuneration: why, it carries it.--Remuneration !—why, it is a fairer name than French crown. I will never buy and fell out of this word.

Enter Biron.

Biron. O, my good knave Coftard! exceedingly

well met.

Coft. Pray you, fir, how much carnation ribbon may a man buy for a remuneration?

Bion. What is a remuneration?
Col. Marry, fir, half-penny farthing.
Biron. O, why then, three-farthing-worth of
filk.

Cof. I thank your worship: God be with you.
Biron. O, ftay, flave; I must employ thee:
As thou wilt win my favour, good my knave,
Do one thing for me that I fhall entreat.

Caft. When would you have it done, fir?
Biron. O, this afternoon.

Cof. Well, I will do it, fir: Fare you well.
Biran. O, thou knoweft not what it is.
Col. I fhall know, fir, when I have done it.
Biron. Why, villain, thou must know first.

Liege of all loiterers and malecontents,
Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces,
Sole imperator, and great general

Of trotting paritors 5,--O my little heart !---
And I to be a corporal of his field,
And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop!
What? what I love! I fue! I feck a wife!
A woman, that is like a German clock,
Still a repairing; ever out of frame ;
And never going aright, being a watch,
But being watch'd that it may still go right?
Nay, to be perjur'd, which is worst of all:
And, among three, to love the worst of all:
A whitely wanton with a velvet brow,
With two pitch-balls ftuck in her face for eyes;
Ay, and by heaven, one that will do the deed,
Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard :
And I to figh for her! to watch for her!
To pray for her! Go to; it is a plague
That Cupid will impofe for my neglect
Of his almighty dreadful little might. [groan;
Well, I will love, write, figh, pray, fue, and
Some men muft love my lady, and fome Joan.

[Exit.

1 Intony, or kony, in the north, fignifies fine, delicate-as a kony thing, a fine thing. 2. c. reward. 3. e. with the utmolt nicety. 4 The wimple was a hood or veil which fell over the face. 5 An apparitor, or paritor, is an officer of the bishop's court, who carries out citations for fornication and other matters cognizable in his court. That is, hanging on one thoulder, and falling under the oppolite arm.

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