SCENE I. 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: Boyet. Now, Confider who the king your father fends; Of all perfections that a man may owe, [mean, To know, his pleasure; and, in that behalf, [Exit. Prin. All pride is willing pride, and yours is fo. Who are the votaries, my loving lords, That are vow-fellows with this virtuous duke? Lord. Longaville is one. Pr. Know you the man? Mar. I knew him, madam; at a marriage feaft, Between lord Perigort and the beauteous heir Or Japies Faulconbridge folemnized, In Normandy law I this Langaville: A man of fovereign parts he is cfteeni'd; Wellotted in the arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill, that he would well. The only foil of his fair virtue's glofs, (If virtue's glow will train with any foil) Is a fharp wit match'd 3 with too blunt a will; Whofe edge hath power to cut, whofe will still wills It should none fpare that come within his power. Prin. Some merry mocking lord, belike; is't fo? Mar. They fay fo moft, that moit his humours know. [grow. Prin. Such fhort-liv'd wits do wither as they Rofa. Another of thefe ftudents at that time Prin. God blefs my ladies! are they all in love; Re-enter Boyet. Prin. Now, what admittance, lord' Bover. Navarre had notice of your fair approach; And he and his competitors in oath Were all addreis'd to meet you, gentle lady, Before I came. Marry, thus much I have learnt, He rather means to lodge you in the field, (Like one that comes here to besiege his court) Than feek a difpenfation for his oath, To let you enter his unpeopled houfe, Here comes Navarre. Enter the King, Longaville, Dumain, Biron, and Attendants. King. Fair princefs, welcome to the court of 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, outh. Pia. Our Lady help my lord! he'll be forfworn. King, Your ladyship is ignorant what it is. But pardon me, I am too fudden bold; King. Madam, I will, if fuddenly I may. 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 [tire. R. The hour that fools fhould ask. King. Madam, your father here doth intimate But fay, that he, or we, (as neither have) A hundred thousand more,, in furety of the which But that one half which is unfatisfy'd, An hundred thousand crowns; and not demands, 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; Prin. We arrelt your word :- King. Satisfy me fo. [come, King. It fhall fuffice me; at which interview, 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? Dam. Sir, I pray you, a word; What lady is that fame ? Boyet. She hath but one for herfelf; to defire Long. Pray you, fir, whofe daughter? Long. Nay, my choler is ended. Boyet. Not unlike, fir; that may be. [Ex. Long. * Depart is here fynonymous to part with. Biron. What's her name in the cap? His heart, like an agat, with your print impreffed, Boyet, Farewell to me, fir, and welcome to you. Mar. That laft is Biron, the merry mad-caplord; Bayet. And every jest but a word. [word. they be. [agree: Did point out to buy them, along as you país’d. I only have made a mouth of his eye, 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? 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. 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 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? 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, Some obfcure precedence that hath tofore been fain. The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee, There's the moral: Now the l'envoy. Moth. I will add the l'envoy; Say the moral again. The fox, the ape, and the humble bee, Coff. The boy hath fold him a bargain, a goofe,- [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. 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, 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 [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? Cof. I thank your worship: God be with you. Caft. When would you have it done, fir? Cof. Well, I will do it, fir: Fare you well. Liege of all loiterers and malecontents, Of trotting paritors 5,--O my little heart !--- [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. АСТ |