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[Italian singing]

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Daughters of witches!  

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[inaudible]

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It is hereby proclaimed by the king of Navarre

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that no woman shall come 
within a mile of the court,

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on pain of losing her tongue.

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[Women shriek]
And if any man be caught within sight of a woman,

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he shall suffer such pain as the 
rest of the court can devise!

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Whores, begone! [Shrieking]

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Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, 

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live register'd upon our brazen tombs
and then grace us in the disgrace of death; 

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when, spite of cormorant devouring time,
the endeavor of this present breath may buy 

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that honour which shall 
bate his scythe's keen edge 

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and make us heirs of all eternity.
Therefore, brave conquerors,--for so you are, 

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that war against your own affections
and the huge army of the world's desires,-- 

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Our late edict shall strongly stand in force:
Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; 

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our court shall be a little Academe,
still and contemplative in living art. 

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You three, Biron, Dumain, and Longaville,
have sworn for three years' term to live with me,

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my fellow-scholars, and to keep those statutes
That are recorded in this schedule here: 

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Your oaths are pass'd; and 
now subscribe your names, 

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that his own hand may strike his honour down
that violates the smallest branch herein: 

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If you are arm'd to do as sworn to do, 

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subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep it too.
I am resolved; 'tis but a three years' fast: 

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The mind shall banquet, though the body pine:
Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits 

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make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.
My loving lord, Dumain is mortified: 

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The grosser manner of these world's delights
he throws upon the gross world's baser slaves: 

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To love, to wealth, to pomp, I pine and die;
with all these living in philosophy. 

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I can but say their protestation over;
so much, dear liege, I have already sworn, 

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That is, to live and study here three years.
But there are other strict observances; 

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as, not to see a woman in that term,
which I hope well is not enrolled there; 

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and one day in a week to touch no food
and but one meal on every day beside, 

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the which I hope is not enrolled there;
and then, to sleep but three hours in the night, 

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and not be seen to wink of all the day--
when I was wont to think no harm all night 

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and make a dark night too of half the day--
which I hope well is not enrolled there: 

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O, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep, 

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not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep!
Your oath is pass'd to pass away from these.

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Let me say no, my liege, an if you please:
I only swore to study with your grace 

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and stay here in your court 
for three years' space. 

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You swore to that, Biron, and to the rest.

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By yea and nay, sir, then I swore in jest.
What is the end of study? Let me know.

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Why, that to know, which else we should not know.

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Things hid and barr'd, you 
mean, from common sense?

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Ay, that is study's godlike recompense.

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Come on, then; I will swear to study so,
to know the thing I am forbid to know: 

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As thus,--to study where I well may dine,
when I to feast expressly am forbid; 

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or study where to meet some mistress fine, 

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when mistresses from common sense are hid;
or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, 

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study to break it and not break my troth.
If study's gain be thus and this be so, 

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study knows that which yet it doth not know:
swear me to this, and I will ne'er say no.

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These be the stops that hinder study quite
and train our intellects to vain delight.

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Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain,
which with pain purchased doth inherit pain: 

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As, painfully to pore upon a book
to seek the light of truth; while truth the while 

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doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look:
Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: 

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So, ere you find where light in darkness lies,
your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. 

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Study me how to please the eye indeed
by fixing it upon a fairer eye, 

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who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed
and give him light that it was blinded by. 

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Study is like the heaven's glorious sun
that will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks: 

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Small have continual plodders ever won
save base authority from others' books. 

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How well he's read, to reason against reading!
Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding! 

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He weeds the corn and still lets grow the weeding.
The spring is near when green geese  

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are a-breeding.
How follows that? 

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Fit in his place and time.
In reason nothing. 

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Something then in rhyme.
Biron is like an envious sneaping frost, 

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That bites the first-born infants of the spring.
Well, say I am; why should proud summer boast 

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before the birds have any cause to sing?
Why should I joy in any abortive birth? 

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At Christmas I no more desire a rose
than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; 

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but like of each thing that in season grows.
So you, to study now it is too late, 

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climb o'er the house to unlock the little gate.
Well, sit you out. Go home, Biron. Adieu.
 

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No, my good lord; I have sworn to stay with you: 

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And though I have for barbarism spoke more
than for that angel knowledge you can say, 

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yet confident I'll keep what I have swore
and bide the penance of each three years' day. 

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Give me the paper; let me read the same;
and to the strict'st decrees I'll write my name.

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'Item, That no woman shall come within a
mile of my court:' Hath this been proclaimed? 

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Four days ago.
Let's see the penalty. 

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“On pain of losing her tongue.”
Who devised this penalty? 

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Marry, that did I.
Sweet lord, and why? 

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To fright them hence with that dread penalty.
A dangerous law against gentility! 

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“Item, If any man be seen to talk with a woman
within the term of three years,  

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he shall endure such
public shame as the  

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rest of the court can possibly devise.”
This article, my liege, yourself must break; 

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for well you know here comes in embassy
the French king's daughter  

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with yourself to speak--
a maid of grace and complete majesty-- 

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about surrender up of Aquitaine
to her decrepit, sick and bedrid father: 

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Therefore this article is made in vain,
or vainly comes the admired princess hither. 

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What say you, lords? Why, this was quite forgot.
 
So study evermore is overshot.

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We must of force dispense with this decree;
she must lie here on mere necessity.

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Necessity will make us all forsworn three 
thousand times within this three years' space.

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If I break faith, this word shall stand for me; 

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I am forsworn on 'mere necessity.'
So to the laws at large I write my name.

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And he that breaks them in the least degree
stands in attainder of eternal shame: 

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Suggestions are to other as to me;
but I believe, although I seem so loath, 

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I am the last that will last keep his oath.
But is there no quick recreation granted?

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Ay, that there is. Our court, you know, is haunted
by a refined traveller of Spain; 

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a man in all the world's new fashion planted,
that hath a mint of phrases in his brain; 

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one whom the music of his own vain tongue
doth ravish like enchanting harmony; 

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a man of complements, whom right and wrong
have chose as umpire of their mutiny: 

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This child of fancy, that Armado hight,
for interim to our studies shall relate 

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in high-born words the worth of many a knight
from tawny Spain lost in the world's debate. 

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How you delight, my lords, I know not, I;
but, I protest, I love to hear him lie 

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and I will use him for my minstrelsy.
Armado is a most illustrious wight, 

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a man of fire-new words, fashion's own knight.
 
Costard the swain and he shall be our sport; 

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and so to study, three years is but short.
Which is the duke's own person? 

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This, fellow: what wouldst?
I myself reprehend his own person, for I am his 

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grace's tharborough: but 
I demand to see his person 

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in flesh and blood.
This is he. 

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Signior Arme--Arme--commends you. There's villany 

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abroad: this letter will tell you more.
Sir, the contempts thereof are as touching me.
  

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A letter from the magnificent Armado.
 
How low soever the matter,  

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I hope in God for high words.
 
A high hope for a low heaven: 

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To hear? Or forbear laughing?
 
To hear meekly, sir, and to laugh  

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moderately; or to
forbear both.
 

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Well, sir, be it as the 
style shall give us cause to 

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climb in the merriness.
 
The matter is to me,  

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sir, as concerning Jaquenetta.
The manner of it is, I was taken with the manner.
 

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In what manner?
 
In manner and  

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form following, sir; all those three:
I was taken with her in the manor-house,  

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sitting with
her upon the form,  

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and taken following her into the
park; which, put together, is in manner and form 

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following. Now, sir, for the manner,--it is the
manner of a man to speak to a woman:  

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for the form,--
in some form.
 

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For the following, sir?
 
Which will form my correction: and God defend 

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the right!
 
Will you hear this letter with attention?
  

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As we would hear an oracle.
 
Such is the simplicity of  

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man to hearken after the flesh.
 
“Great deputy, the welkin's vicegerent and 

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sole dominator of Navarre, my soul's earth's god,
and body's fostering patron.”
  

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Not a word of Costard yet.
 
'So it is,'--
  

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It may be so: but if he say it is so, he is, in
telling true, but so.
  

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Peace!
 
Be to me and every man that dares not fight!
  

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No words!
 
Of other men's secrets, I beseech you.
  

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”So it is, besieged with sable-coloured
melancholy,  

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I did commend the black-oppressing humour
to the most wholesome physic of thy health-giving 

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air; and, as I am a gentleman, betook myself to
walk. The time when. About the sixth hour; when 

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beasts most graze, birds 
best peck, and men sit down 

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to that nourishment which 
is called supper: so much 

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for the time when. Now for 
the ground which; which, 

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I mean, I walked upon: it 
is y-cleped thy park. Then 

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for the place where; where, 
I mean, I did encounter 

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that obscene and most 
preposterous event, that draweth 

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from my snow-white pen the 
ebon-coloured ink, which 

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here thou viewest, beholdest, surveyest, or seest;
but to the ground where;  

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it standeth north-north-east
and by east from the west corner of thy curious- 

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knotted garden: there did I see that low-spirited
swain, that base minnow of thy mirth,”--

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Is that me?

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“that unlettered small-knowing soul,”--

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Me?

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“that shallow vassal,”--

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Still me?
”which, as I remember,  

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hight Costard,'--
 
O, me!
 

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"sorted and consorted, contrary to thy
established proclaimed edict and continent canon, 

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which with,--O, with--but 
with this I passion to say 

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wherewith,--"
With a wench. 

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“with a child of our grandmother Eve, a
female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a 

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woman. Him I, as my 
ever-esteemed duty pricks me on, 

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have sent to thee, to receive the meed of
punishment, by thy sweet grace's officer, Anthony 

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Dull; a man of good repute, carriage, bearing, and
estimation.'
 

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'Me, an't shall please you; I am Anthony Dull.
 
'For Jaquenetta,--so is the weaker vessel 

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called which I apprehended with the aforesaid
swain,--I keep her as a vessel to the law's fury; 

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and shall, at the least of thy sweet notice, bring
her to trial. Thine, in all compliments of devoted 

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and heart-burning heat of duty.
DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO.'
 

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This is not so well as I looked for, but the best
that ever I heard.
 

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Ay, the best for the worst. But, sirrah, what say
you to this?
 

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Sir, I confess the wench.
 
Did you not hear the proclamation?
 

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I do confess much of the hearing it but little of
the marking of it.
 

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It was proclaimed a year's 
imprisonment, to be taken 

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with a wench.
 
I was taken with none, sir: She was a damsel.
  

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Well, it was proclaimed 'damsel.'
 
This was no damsel, neither, sir;  

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she was a virgin.
 
It is so  

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varied, too; for it was proclaimed 'virgin.'
 
If it were, I deny her virginity: She was a maid.
 

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This maid will not serve your turn, sir.
 
This maid will serve my turn, sir.

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Sir, I will pronounce your 
sentence: you shall fast 

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a week with bran and water.
 
I had rather pray a month  

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with mutton and porridge.
 
And Don Armado shall be your keeper. 

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My Lord Biron, see him deliver'd o'er:
And go we, lords, to put in practise that 

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which each to other hath so strongly sworn.
 
My head to any good man's hat, 

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these oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn.
Sirrah, come on.
 

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I suffer for the truth, sir; for 
true it is Jaquenetta is a true girl

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and I was taken with 
Jaquenetta, but- oh nevermind.

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Affliction may one day smile again; 
and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!

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Boy, what sign is it when a man of great spirit 

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grows melancholy?
A great sign, sir, that he will look sad. 

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Why, sadness is one and the 
self-same thing, dear imp. 

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No, no; O Lord, sir, no.
How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, my 

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tender juvenile?
By a familiar demonstration  

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of the working, my tough senior.
Why tough senior? Why tough senior? 

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Why tender juvenile? Why tender juvenile?
I spoke it, tender juvenile,  

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as a congruent epitheton
appertaining to thy young days, which we may 

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nominate tender.
And I, tough senior,  

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as an appertinent title to your
old time, which we may name tough. 

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Pretty and apt.
How mean you, sir? I pretty, and my saying apt?

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Or I apt, and my saying pretty?
Thou pretty, because little. 

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Little pretty, because little. Wherefore apt?
And therefore apt, because quick. 

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Speak you this in my praise, master?
In thy condign praise. 

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I will praise an eel with the same praise. 

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What, that an eel is ingenious.
That an eel is quick. 

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I do say thou art quick in 
answers: thou heatest my blood. 

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I am answered, sir.
I love not to be crossed. 

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He speaks the mere contrary; crosses love not him.
I will hereupon confess I am in love: and as it is 

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base for a soldier to love, so am I in love with a
base wench. If drawing my sword against the humour 

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of affection would deliver me from the reprobate
thought of it, I would take Desire prisoner, and 

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ransom him to any French 
courtier for a new-devised 

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courtesy. I think scorn to sigh: methinks I should
outswear Cupid. Comfort, me, boy: What great men 

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have been in love?
Hercules, master. 

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Most sweet Hercules! More 
authority, dear boy, name 

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more; and, sweet my child, let them be men of good
repute and carriage. 

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Samson, master: he was a 
man of good carriage, great 

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carriage, for he carried 
the town-gates on his back 

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like a porter: and he was in love.
O well-knit Samson! Strong-jointed Samson! I do 

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excel thee in my rapier as 
much as thou didst me in 

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carrying gates. Who was Samson's
love, my dear Moth? 

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A woman, master.
"A woman, master." 

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Is there not a ballad of a King and a Beggar?
The world was very guilty of such a ballad some 

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three ages since: but I think now 'tis not to be
found; or, if it were, it would neither serve for 

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the writing nor the tune.
I will have that  

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subject newly writ o'er, that I may
example my digression by some mighty precedent. 

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Boy, I do love that country 
girl that I took in the 

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park with the rational hind 
Costard: she deserves well. 

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Moth:
To be whipped; and yet a better love than 

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my master.
Sing, boy; my spirit grows heavy in love. 

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And that's great marvel, loving a light wench.
I say, sing. 

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Forbear till this company be past.
Sir, the duke's pleasure is, that you keep Costard 

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safe: and you must suffer him to take no delight
nor no penance; but a' must fast three  

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days a week.
For this woman,

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she is allowed for the [inaudible]. Fare you well.
I do betray myself with blushing. Maid! 

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Man?
I will visit thee at the lodge. 

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That's nearby.
Oh, I know it is situate.

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Lord, how wise you are.
I will tell thee wonders.

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With that face?
I love thee. 

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So I heard you say.
And so, farewell. 

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Fair weather after you!
Come, Jaquenetta, away!

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Villain, thou shalt fast for thy offences ere thou
be pardoned. 

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Well, sir, I hope, when I 
do it, I shall do it on a 

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full stomach.
Thou shalt be heavily punished. 

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I am more bound to you than your fellows, for they
are but lightly rewarded. 

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Take away this villain; shut him up.
Come, you transgressing slave; away! 

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Let me not be pent up, sir: 
I shall fast, being loose. 

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No, sir; that were fast and 
loose: thou shalt to prison. 

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Well, if ever I do see the 
merry days of desolation 

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that I have seen, some shall see.
What shall some see? 

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Nay, nothing, Master Moth, not what they see,
but what they look upon. 

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It is not for prisoners to be too silent in their
words; and therefore I can be quiet: I thank 

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God I have as little patience as another man; and
therefore I can be silent. 

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[audience laughter]
I do affect the very ground, which is base, where 

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her shoe, which is baser, 
guided by her foot, which 

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is basest, doth tread. I shall be forsworn, which
is a great argument of falsehood, if I love. And 

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how can that be true love which is falsely
attempted? Love is a familiar; Love is a devil: 

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there is no evil angel but Love. Yet was Samson so
tempted? No, and he had an excellent strength;  

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yet was
Solomon  

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so seduced? No, and he had an execellent wit.
Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' club; 

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and therefore too much odds 
for a Spaniard's rapier. 

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The first and second cause will not serve my turn;
the passado he respects not, the duello he regards 

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not: his disgrace is to be called boy; but his
glory is to subdue  

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men. Adieu, valour! Rust rapier!
Be still, drum! For your manager is in love; yea, 

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he loveth. Assist me, some 
extemporal god of rhyme, 

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for I am sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit;
write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. 

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Now, madam, summon up your dearest spirits:
Consider who the king your father sends, 

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to whom he sends, and what's his embassy:
Yourself, held precious in the world's esteem, 

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to parley with the sole inheritor
of all perfections that a man may owe, 

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matchless Navarre; the plea of no less weight
than Aquitaine, a dowry for a queen. 

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Be now as prodigal of all dear grace
as Nature was in making graces dear 

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when she did starve the general world beside
and prodigally gave them all to you. 

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Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,
needs not the painted flourish of your praise: 

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Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues: 

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I am less proud to hear you tell my worth
than you much willing to be counted wise 

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in spending your wit in the praise of mine.
But now to task the tasker: good Boyet, 

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you are not ignorant, all-telling fame
doth noise abroad, Navarre hath made a vow, 

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till painful study shall outwear three years,
no woman may approach his silent court: 

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Therefore to's seemeth it a needful course,
before we enter his forbidden gates, 

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to know his pleasure; and in that behalf,
bold of your worthiness, we single you 

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as our best-moving fair solicitor.
Tell him, the daughter of the King of France, 

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on serious business, craving quick dispatch,
importunes personal conference with his grace: 

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Haste, signify so much; while we like 
humble-visaged suitors, his high will. 

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Proud of employment, willingly I go.
All pride is willing pride, and yours is so. 

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Who are the votaries, my loving ladies,
that are vow-fellows with this virtuous duke? 

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Lord Longaville is one.
Know you the man? 

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I know him, madam: at a marriage-feast,
Between Lord Perigort and the beauteous heir 

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of Jaques Falconbridge, solemnized
in Normandy, saw I this Longaville: 

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A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd;
well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: 

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Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.
The only soil of his fair virtue's gloss, 

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if virtue's gloss will stain with any soil,
is a sharp wit matched with too blunt a will; 

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whose edge hath power to 
cut, whose will still wills 

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it should none spare those 
that come within his power. 

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Some merry mocking lord, belike; is't so?
They say so most that most his humours know. 

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Such short-lived wits do wither as they grow.
Who are the rest? 

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The young Dumain, a well-accomplished youth,
of all that virtue love for virtue loved: 

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Most power to do most harm, least knowing ill;
for he hath wit to make an ill shape good, 

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and shape to win grace though he had no wit.
I saw him at the Duke Alencon's once; 

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and much too little of that good I saw
is my report to his great worthiness. 

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Another of these students at that time
was there with him, if I have heard a truth. 

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Biron they call him; but a merrier man,
within the limit of becoming mirth, 

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I never spent an hour's talk withal:
his eye begets occasion for his wit; 

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for every object that the one doth catch
the other turns to a mirth-moving jest, 

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conceit's expositor,
delivers in such apt and gracious words 

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that aged ears play truant at his tales
and younger hearings are quite ravished; 

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so sweet and voluble is his discourse.
God bless my ladies! Are they all in love, 

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that every one her own hath garnished
with such bedecking ornaments of praise? 

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Maria Here comes Boyet.
Now, what admittance, lord? 

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BOYET: Navarre had notice of your fair approach;
and he and his competitors in oath 

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were all address'd to meet you, gentle lady,
before I came. Marry, thus much I have learnt: 

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He rather means to lodge you in the field,
like one that comes here to besiege his court, 

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rather than seek a dispensation for his oath,
to let you enter his unpeopled house. 

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Here comes Navarre now.
[audience laughter] 

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FERDINAND: Welcome, fair 
princess, to the court of Navarre. 

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'Fair' I give you back again; and 'welcome' I have
not yet: the roof of this court is too high to be 

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yours; and welcome to the wide 
fields too base to be mine. 

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You shall be welcome, madam, to my court.
I will be welcome, then: conduct me thither. 

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Hear me, dear lady; I have sworn an oath.
Our Lady help my lord! He'll be forsworn. 

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Not for the world, madam, by my will.
Why, will shall break it; will and nothing else. 

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Your ladyship is ignorant what it is.
Were my lord so, his ignorance were wise, 

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where now his knowledge must prove ignorance.
I hear your grace hath sworn out house-keeping: 

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tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord,
and sin to break it. 

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But pardon me. I am too sudden-bold:
to teach a teacher ill beseemeth me. 

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Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming,
and suddenly resolve me in my suit. 

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I will, Madam, if suddenly I may.
You will the sooner, that I were away; 

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for you'll prove perjured if you make me stay.
Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? 

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I know you did.
How needless was it then to ask the question! 

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You must not be so quick.
'Tis 'long of you that spur  

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me with such questions.
Your wit's too hot,  

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it speeds too fast, 'twill tire.
Not till it leave the rider in the mire. 

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What time o' day?
The hour that fools should ask. 

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Now fair befall your mask!
Fair fall the face it covers! 

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And send you many lovers!
Amen, so you be none. 

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Nay, then will I be gone.
Madam, your father here doth intimate 

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the payment of a hundred thousand crowns;
being but the one half of an entire sum 

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disbursed by my father in his wars.
But say that he or we, as neither have, 

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received such sum, yet there remains unpaid
a hundred thousand more; in surety of the which, 

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one part of Aquitaine is bound to us,
although not valued to the money's worth. 

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If then the king your father would restore
but that one half which is unsatisfied, 

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we will give up our right in Aquitaine,
and hold fair friendship with his majesty. 

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But... fair Princess, were not his requests so far
from reason's yielding, your own fair self should make 

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a yielding 'gainst some reason in my breast
and go well satisfied to France again. 

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You do the king my father too much wrong
and wrong the reputation of your name, 

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in so unseeming to confess receipt
of that which hath so faithfully been paid.
 

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I do protest I never heard of it;
and if you prove it, I'll repay it back 

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or give up Aquitaine.
 
We arrest your word. 

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Boyet, you can produce acquittances
for such a sum from special officers 

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of Charles his father.
 
Satisfy me so.

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So please your grace, the packet is not come
where that and other specialties are bound: 

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To-morrow you shall have a sight of them.
 
It shall suffice me: at which interview 

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all liberal reason I will yield unto.
Meantime receive such welcome at my hand 

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as honour without breach of honour may
make tender of to thy true worthiness: 

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You may not come, fair princess, in my gates;
but here without you shall be so received 

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as you shall deem yourself lodged in my heart,
though so denied fair harbour in my house. 

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Your own good thoughts excuse me, and farewell:
To-morrow shall we visit you again. 

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Sweet health and fair desires consort your grace!
Thy own wish wish I thee in every place! 

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That last is Biron, the merry madcap lord:
Not a word with him but a jest. 

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And every jest but a word. 

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It was well done of you to take him at his word.
I was as willing to grapple as he was to board. 

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Two hot sheeps, marry.
And wherefore not ships? 

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No sheep, sweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips.
You sheep, and I pasture:  

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shall that finish the jest?
So you grant pasture for me. 

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Not so, gentle beast:
My lips are no common, though several they be. 

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Belonging to whom?
To my fortunes and me. 

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Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree:
This civil war of wits were much better used 

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on Navarre and his book-men; for here 'tis abused.
If by my observation, which very seldom lies, 

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by the heart's still rhetoric disclosed with eyes,
deceive me not now, Navarre is infected. 

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With what?
With that which we lovers entitle affected. 

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Your reason?
Why, all his behaviors did make their retire 

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to the court of his eye, peeping a thorough desire:
His heart, like an agate,  

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with your print impress'd,
he was proud with his form, in his eye pride express'd: 

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His tongue, all impatient to speak and not see,
did stumble with haste in his eyesight to be; 

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all senses to that sense did make their repair,
to feel only looking on fairest of fair. 

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I'll give you Aquitaine and all that is his, 

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if you give him for my sake but one loving kiss.
Come to our pavilion: Boyet is disposed. 

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But to speak that in words which his eye hath
disclosed. 

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I only have made a mouth of his tongue,
by adding a tongue which I know will not lie. 

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Thou art an old love-monger 
and speakest skilfully, Boyet. 

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He is Cupid's grandfather and learns news of him.
Then was Venus like her mother,  

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for her father is but grim.
Do you hear, my mad wenches? 

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No.
What then, do you see? 

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Ay, our way to be gone.
You are too hard for me.

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Fetch hither the swain: he must carry me a letter.
A message well sympathized; a horse to be  

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ambassador for an ass. 

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Ha, ha! what sayest thou?
Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse, 

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for he is very slow-gaited. But I go.
The way is but short: away! 

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As swift as lead, sir.
The meaning, pretty ingenious? 

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Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow?
Minime, honest master; or rather, master, no. 

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I say lead is slow.
You are too swift, sir, to say so: 

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Is that lead slow which is fired from a gun?
Sweet smoke of rhetoric! 

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He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's he:
I shoot thee at the swain. 

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Thump then and I flee.
A most acute juvenile; voluble and free of grace! 

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By thy favour, sweet welkin, 
I sigh in thy face: 

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00:40:33.160 --> 00:40:39.480
Most rude melancholy, valour gives thee place.
My herald is return'd. 

386
00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:44.584
A wonder, master! here's 
Costard broken in a shin. 

387
00:40:44.584 --> 00:40:50.360
Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee.
O, marry me to one Frances: I smell some l'envoy, 

388
00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:53.240
some goose, in this.
By my sweet soul,  

389
00:40:53.240 --> 00:41:00.000
I mean setting thee at freedom,
enfreedoming thy person; thou wert immured, 

390
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:05.480
restrained, captivated, bound.
True, true; and now you will be my  

391
00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:08.840
purgation and let me loose.
I give thee thy liberty,  

392
00:41:08.840 --> 00:41:18.560
set thee from durance; and,
in lieu thereof, impose on thee nothing but this: 

393
00:41:18.560 --> 00:41:25.920
bear this significant to 
the country maid Jaquenetta: 

394
00:41:27.040 --> 00:41:37.560
there is remuneration; for the best ward of mine
honour is to reward my dependents. Moth, follow. 

395
00:41:37.560 --> 00:41:43.720
Like the sequel, I. Signior Costard, adieu.
My sweet boy, my icony jewel! 

396
00:41:43.720 --> 00:41:49.960
Now will I look to his remuneration. Remuneration!
O, that's the Latin word  

397
00:41:49.960 --> 00:41:56.960
for three farthings: three
farthings--remuneration.--'What's the price of  

398
00:41:58.600 --> 00:42:01.280
this
inkle?'--'Oh, that's one penny.'--'No, I'll give you a 

399
00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:08.080
remuneration:' why, it carries it. Why, it is a fairer name than French crown. I will 

400
00:42:08.080 --> 00:42:15.600
never buy and sell out of this word.
O, my good knave Costard! Exceedingly well met. 

401
00:42:15.600 --> 00:42:21.520
Pray you, sir, how much carnation ribbon may a man
buy for a remuneration? 

402
00:42:21.520 --> 00:42:25.680
What is a remuneration?
Marry, sir, halfpenny farthing. 

403
00:42:25.680 --> 00:42:29.040
Why, then, three-farthing worth of silk.
I thank your worship: God be wi' you! 

404
00:42:29.040 --> 00:42:35.280
Stay, slave; I must employ thee:
As thou wilt win my favour, good my knave, 

405
00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:39.280
Do one thing for me that I shall entreat.
When would you have it done, sir? 

406
00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:41.560
This afternoon.
Well, I shall do it, sir: God be with you. 

407
00:42:41.560 --> 00:42:47.240
Thou knowest not what it is.
I shall know, sir, when I have done it. 

408
00:42:47.240 --> 00:42:55.200
Why, villain, thou must know first.
I shall come your worship to-morrow morning. 

409
00:42:55.200 --> 00:42:59.200
It must be done this afternoon.
Hark, slave, it is but this: 

410
00:42:59.200 --> 00:43:05.960
The princess comes to hunt here in the park,
and in her train there is a gentle lady; 

411
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:10.000
when tongues speak sweetly, 
then they name her name, 

412
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:16.760
and Rosaline they call her: speak to her;
and to her white hand see thou do commend 

413
00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:30.520
this seal'd-up counsel. There's thy guerdon; go.
Gardon, O sweet gardon! Better than remuneration, 

414
00:43:30.520 --> 00:43:33.440
a'leven-pence farthing 
better: most sweet gardon! I 

415
00:43:33.440 --> 00:43:54.200
will do it sir, in print. Gardon! Remuneration!
 
And I, forsooth, in love! I,  

416
00:43:54.200 --> 00:43:58.633
that have been love's whip;
a very beadle to a humorous sigh; 

417
00:43:59.117 --> 00:44:06.880
What, I! I love? I sue? I seek a wife? 

418
00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:11.420
A woman, that is like a German clock,
still a-repairing, ever out of frame, 

419
00:44:11.420 --> 00:44:19.760
and never going aright, being a watch,
but being watch'd that it may still go right! 

420
00:44:19.760 --> 00:44:26.720
Nay, to be perjured, which is worst of all;
and, among three, to love the worst of all; 

421
00:44:26.720 --> 00:44:32.560
a wightly wanton with a velvet brow,
with two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes; 

422
00:44:32.560 --> 00:44:38.880
Ay, and one that will do the deed,
though Argus were her eunuch and her guard: 

423
00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:49.160
And I to watch for her? To pray for her? To sigh for her? Go to; it is a plague 

424
00:44:49.160 --> 00:44:55.480
that Cupid will impose for my neglect
of his almighty dreadful little might. 

425
00:44:55.480 --> 00:45:06.400
Well, I will love, write, 
sigh, pray, sue and groan: 

426
00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:14.851
Some men must love my lady and some Joan.

427
00:45:18.876 --> 00:45:25.060
Was that the king, that spurred his horse so hard
against the steep uprising of the hill?

428
00:45:25.060 --> 00:45:27.720
I know not; but I think it was not he. 

429
00:45:27.720 --> 00:45:34.320
Whoe'er a' was, a' show'd a mounting mind.
Well, lords, to-day we shall have our dispatch: 

430
00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:39.880
on Saturday we will return to France.
Then, forester, my friend, where is the bush 

431
00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:44.760
that we must stand and play the murderer in?Hereby, upon the edge of yonder coppice; 

432
00:45:44.760 --> 00:45:49.760
a stand where you may make the fairest shoot.
I thank my beauty, I am fair that shoot, 

433
00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:55.760
and thereupon thou speak'st the fairest shoot.
Pardon me, madam, for I meant not so. 

434
00:45:55.760 --> 00:46:04.120
What, what? First praise me and again say no?
O short-lived pride! Not fair? A lack for woe! 

435
00:46:04.120 --> 00:46:08.320
Yes, madam, fair.
Nay, never paint me now: 

436
00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:16.520
Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow.
Here, good my glass, take this for telling true: 

437
00:46:16.520 --> 00:46:22.800
Fair payment for foul words is more than due.
Nothing but fair is that which you inherit. 

438
00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:30.680
See see, my beauty will be saved by merit!
O heresy in fair, fit for these days! 

439
00:46:30.680 --> 00:46:34.560
A giving hand, though foul, 
shall have fair praise. 

440
00:46:34.560 --> 00:46:41.640
But come, the bow: now mercy goes to kill,
and shooting well is then accounted ill. 

441
00:46:41.640 --> 00:46:47.480
Thus will I save my credit in the shoot:
Not wounding, pity would not let me do't; 

442
00:46:47.480 --> 00:46:53.619
if wounding, then it was more to show my skill,
that more for praise than purpose meant to kill. 

443
00:46:53.830 --> 00:46:56.600
Do not curst wives hold that self-sovereignty 

444
00:46:56.600 --> 00:46:59.788
only for praise sake, when they strive to be
Lords o'er their lords?

445
00:46:59.788 --> 00:47:11.400
Only for praise: and praise we may afford
to any lady that subdues a lord.

446
00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:17.880
Here comes a member of the commonwealth.
God dig-you-den all! Pray you,  

447
00:47:17.880 --> 00:47:21.360
which is the head lady?
Thou shalt know her,  

448
00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:26.320
fellow, by the rest that have no heads.
Which is the greatest lady, the highest? 

449
00:47:26.960 --> 00:47:31.840
The thickest and the tallest.
The thickest and the tallest!  

450
00:47:31.840 --> 00:47:36.320
It is so; truth is truth.
And your waist, mistress,  

451
00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:40.040
were as slender as my wit,
One o' these maids' girdles for  

452
00:47:40.040 --> 00:47:43.840
your waist should be fit.
Are not you the head lady  

453
00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:49.760
You are the thickest here.
What's your will, sir? What's your will? 

454
00:47:49.760 --> 00:47:56.480
I have a letter from Monsieur 
Biron to one Lady Rosaline. 

455
00:47:56.480 --> 00:48:01.320
O, thy letter, thy letter! 
e's a good friend of mine: 

456
00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:06.440
Stand aside, good bearer. Boyet, you can carve;
break up this capon. 

457
00:48:06.440 --> 00:48:14.880
I am bound to serve.
This letter is mistook, it importeth none here; 

458
00:48:14.880 --> 00:48:19.080
it is writ to Jaquenetta.
We will read it, I swear. 

459
00:48:19.080 --> 00:48:26.200
Break the neck of the wax, and every one give ear. 

460
00:48:26.200 --> 00:48:30.240
[Clears throat] “By heaven, that thou art 
fair, is most infallible; 

461
00:48:30.240 --> 00:48:37.000
true, that thou art beauteous; truth itself, that
thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful 

462
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:45.600
than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have
commiseration on thy heroical vassal! The 

463
00:48:45.600 --> 00:48:52.400
magnanimous and most illustrate King Cophetua set
eye upon the pernicious and indubitate beggar 

464
00:48:52.400 --> 00:49:01.000
Zenelophon; and he it was that might rightly say,
veni, vidi, vici; which to annothanize in the 

465
00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:10.880
vulgar,--o base and obscure vulgar!--videlicet, he
came, saw, and overcame: he came, one; saw two; 

466
00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:19.000
overcame, three. Who came? The king. Why did he
come? To see. Why did he see? To overcome. To 

467
00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:25.920
whom came he? To the beggar. What saw he? The
beggar. Who overcame he? The beggar. The 

468
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:32.600
conclusion is victory. On whose side? The king's.
The captive is enriched. On whose side? the 

469
00:49:32.600 --> 00:49:40.200
beggar's. The catastrophe is a nuptial. On whose
side? The king's. No, on both in one, or one in 

470
00:49:40.200 --> 00:49:48.680
both. I am the king; for so stands the comparison:
thou the beggar; for so witnesseth thy lowliness. 

471
00:49:50.160 --> 00:50:03.880
Shall I command thy love? I may: shall I enforce
thy love? I could. Shall I entreat thy love? I 

472
00:50:03.880 --> 00:50:13.880
will. What shalt thou exchange for rags? Robes;
for tittles? Titles; for thyself? me. Thus, 

473
00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:20.080
expecting thy reply, I 
profane my lips on thy foot, 

474
00:50:20.080 --> 00:50:32.000
my eyes on thy picture. and my heart on thy every
part. Thine, in the dearest design of industry, 

475
00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:35.195
DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO.” 

476
00:50:35.555 --> 00:50:38.160
What plume of feathers is 
he that indited this letter? 

477
00:50:38.160 --> 00:50:41.840
What vane? What weathercock? 
Did you ever hear better? 

478
00:50:41.840 --> 00:50:49.120
I am much deceived but I remember the style.
Else your memory is bad, going o'er it erewhile. 

479
00:50:49.120 --> 00:50:53.760
This Armado is a Spaniard, 
that keeps here in court; 

480
00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:56.880
a phantasime, a Monarcho, and one that makes sport 

481
00:50:56.880 --> 00:51:02.400
with the prince and his bookmates.
Thou fellow, a word: 

482
00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:07.080
Who gave thee this letter?
I told you; it was my lord. 

483
00:51:07.080 --> 00:51:12.400
To whom shouldst thou give it?
From my lord to my lady. 

484
00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:19.640
From which lord to which lady?
From my lord Biron, a good master of mine, 

485
00:51:19.640 --> 00:51:28.640
to a lady of France that he call'd Rosaline.
Thou hast mistaken his letter. Come, lords, away. 

486
00:51:28.640 --> 00:51:33.000
Here, sweet, put up this: 
'twill be thine another day. 

487
00:51:33.000 --> 00:51:38.040
Who is the suitor? Who is the suitor?
Why, she that bears the bow. 

488
00:51:38.040 --> 00:51:44.120
And who is your deer?
If we choose by the horns, yourself come not near. 

489
00:51:44.120 --> 00:51:48.200
Finely put on, indeed!
You still wrangle with her, Boyet, and she strikes 

490
00:51:48.200 --> 00:51:56.520
at the brow.
But she herself is hit lower: have I hit her now?

491
00:51:56.520 --> 00:52:00.206
[Applause]

492
00:52:02.208 --> 00:52:06.200
Very reverend sport, truly; and done in the testimony
of a good conscience.

493
00:52:06.200 --> 00:52:10.760
The deer was, as you 
know, sanguis, in blood; ripe 

494
00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:20.280
as the pomewater, who now hangeth like a jewel in
the ear of caelo, the sky, the welkin, the heaven; 

495
00:52:20.280 --> 00:52:29.440
and anon falleth like a crab on the face of terra,
the soil, the land, the earth. 

496
00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:32.240
Truly, Master Holofernes, 
the epithets are well varied, 

497
00:52:32.240 --> 00:52:37.400
like a scholar at the least: but, sir, I
assure ye, it was a buck of the first head. 

498
00:52:37.400 --> 00:52:43.040
Sir Nathaniel, haud credo.
'Twas not a haud credo; 'twas a pricket. 

499
00:52:43.040 --> 00:52:48.840
Twice-sod simplicity, his coctus!
O thou monster Ignorance, how deformed  

500
00:52:48.840 --> 00:52:51.360
dost thou look!
Sir, he hath  

501
00:52:51.360 --> 00:52:56.600
never fed of the dainties that are bred
in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he 

502
00:52:56.600 --> 00:53:01.680
hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not
replenished; he is only an animal,  

503
00:53:01.680 --> 00:53:04.760
only sensible in
the duller parts. 

504
00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:08.960
And such barren plants are set before us, that we
thankful should be, 

505
00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:12.040
which we of taste and feeling 
are, for those parts that 

506
00:53:12.040 --> 00:53:20.600
do fructify in us more than he.
This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a 

507
00:53:20.600 --> 00:53:24.640
foolish extravagant spirit, 
full of forms, figures, 

508
00:53:24.640 --> 00:53:31.240
shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions,
revolutions. These are begot in the ventricle of 

509
00:53:31.240 --> 00:53:38.320
memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and
delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. But the 

510
00:53:38.320 --> 00:53:42.000
gift is good in those in 
whom it is acute, and I am 

511
00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:45.600
thankful for it.
I thank God for you, sir; and so may my 

512
00:53:45.600 --> 00:53:50.800
parishioners; for their sons are well tutored by
you, and their daughters profit very greatly under 

513
00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:54.080
you.
Mehercle, if their sons be ingenuous, they shall 

514
00:53:54.080 --> 00:53:57.720
want no instruction; if 
their daughters be capable, 

515
00:53:57.720 --> 00:54:06.360
I will put it to them: but vir sapit qui pauca
loquitur; a soul feminine saluteth us.

516
00:54:06.360 --> 00:54:11.151
God grant you 
good morrow, master Parson.
 

517
00:54:11.440 --> 00:54:18.280
Good master Parson, be so good as read me this
letter? It was given me by Costard, and sent me 

518
00:54:18.280 --> 00:54:21.678
from Don Armado: I beseech you, read it.

519
00:54:21.971 --> 00:54:25.880
What, my soul, verses?
Ay, and very learned.
 

520
00:54:25.880 --> 00:54:36.280
Let me hear a staff, a stanze, 
a verse; lege, domine.
 

521
00:54:36.280 --> 00:54:41.880
[Clears throat] "If love make me forsworn, 
how shall I swear to love? 

522
00:54:41.880 --> 00:54:45.800
Ah, never faith could hold, 
if not to beauty vow'd! 

523
00:54:45.800 --> 00:54:50.480
Though to myself forsworn, 
to thee I'll faithful prove: 

524
00:54:50.480 --> 00:54:56.400
These thoughts to me were oaks, to thee like
osiers bow'd. 

525
00:54:56.400 --> 00:55:01.520
Study his bias leaves and 
makes his book thine eyes, 

526
00:55:01.520 --> 00:55:06.280
Where all those pleasures live that art would
comprehend: 

527
00:55:06.280 --> 00:55:10.920
If knowledge be the mark, 
to know thee shall suffice; 

528
00:55:10.920 --> 00:55:15.861
Well learned is that tongue 
that well can thee commend.

529
00:55:16.031 --> 00:55:19.960
Celestial as thou art, O, pardon, love,  

530
00:55:19.960 --> 00:55:22.520
this wrong, that sings

531
00:55:22.520 --> 00:55:29.160
heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue."
You find not the apostraphas, and so miss the 

532
00:55:29.160 --> 00:55:46.720
accent: let me supervise the canzonet. These are but
only numbers ratified; but, for the elegancy, 

533
00:55:46.720 --> 00:55:53.960
facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret.
Ovidius Naso was the man: and why, indeed, Naso, 

534
00:55:53.960 --> 00:56:00.360
but for smelling out the odouriferous flowers of
fancy, the jerks of invention? Imitari is nothing: 

535
00:56:00.360 --> 00:56:08.080
so doth the hound his master, the ape his keeper,
the tired horse his rider. But, damosella virgin, 

536
00:56:08.080 --> 00:56:14.140
was this directed to you?
 
Ay, sir, from Don Adriano de Armando.

537
00:56:14.200 --> 00:56:20.960
I will overglance the superscript: "To the
snow-white hand of the most beauteous Lady 

538
00:56:20.960 --> 00:56:27.720
Rosaline-" I will look again on the intellect of
the letter, for the nomination of the party  

539
00:56:27.720 --> 00:56:28.360
written to the

540
00:56:28.360 --> 00:56:36.160
person written unto: 'Your ladyship's in all
desired employment, BIRON.' Sir Nathaniel, this 

541
00:56:36.160 --> 00:56:38.720
Biron is one of the votaries 
with the king; and here 

542
00:56:38.720 --> 00:56:41.880
he hath framed a letter to 
a sequent of the stranger 

543
00:56:41.880 --> 00:56:44.400
queen's. Trip and go, my 

544
00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:47.320
sweet; deliver this paper 
into the royal hand of the

545
00:56:47.320 --> 00:56:51.880
king: it may concern much. I forgive thy duty; adieu. 

546
00:56:51.880 --> 00:56:56.240
Good Costard, go with me. Sir, God save your life! 

547
00:56:58.600 --> 00:57:02.200
Have with thee, my girl.
I do dine to-day at  

548
00:57:02.200 --> 00:57:06.800
the father's of a certain pupil
of mine; where, if, before repast, it shall please 

549
00:57:06.800 --> 00:57:13.680
you to grace the table with a grace.
Sir, I do invite you too; you shall not 

550
00:57:13.680 --> 00:57:26.160
say me nay: pauca verba. Away! the gentles are at
their game, and we will to our recreation. 

551
00:57:29.520 --> 00:57:42.840
The king he is hunting the deer; I am coursing
myself: they have pitched a toil; I am toiling in 

552
00:57:42.840 --> 00:57:54.840
a pitch,--pitch that defiles: defile! A foul
word. Well, set thee down, sorrow! For so they say 

553
00:57:54.840 --> 00:58:05.240
the fool said, and so say I, and I the fool: well
proved, wit! By the Lord, this love is as mad as 

554
00:58:05.240 --> 00:58:19.320
Ajax: it kills sheep; it kills me, I the sheep:
well proved again o' my side! I will not love: if 

555
00:58:19.320 --> 00:58:28.280
I do, hang me. O, but her
eye,--by this light, but for her eye, I would not 

556
00:58:28.280 --> 00:58:34.120
love her; yes, for her two 
eyes. Well, I do nothing 

557
00:58:34.120 --> 00:58:41.040
in the world but lie, and lie in my throat. By
heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme 

558
00:58:41.040 --> 00:58:46.920
and to be melancholy; and 
here is part of my rhyme, 

559
00:58:46.920 --> 00:58:59.080
and here, my melancholy. Well, she hath one o' my
sonnets already: the clown bore it, the fool sent 

560
00:58:59.080 --> 00:59:12.120
it, and the lady hath it: sweet clown, sweeter
fool, sweetest lady! By the world,  

561
00:59:12.120 --> 00:59:17.280
I would not care
a pin, if the other three were in. Here comes one 

562
00:59:17.280 --> 00:59:23.200
with a paper: God give him grace to groan!
Ay me! 

563
00:59:23.200 --> 00:59:28.120
Shot, by heaven! Proceed, sweet Cupid:
thou hast thumped him with thy bird-bolt under the 

564
00:59:28.120 --> 00:59:36.400
left pap. In faith, secrets!
So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not 

565
00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:46.040
to those fresh morning drops upon the rose,
as thy eye-beams, when their fresh rays have smote 

566
00:59:46.040 --> 00:59:55.080
the night of dew that on my cheeks down flows.
Nor shines the silver moon one half so bright 

567
00:59:55.080 --> 01:00:03.480
through the transparent bosom of the deep,
as doth thy face through tears of mine give light; 

568
01:00:03.480 --> 01:00:11.280
thou shinest in every tear that I do weep.
No drop but as a coach doth carry thee; 

569
01:00:11.280 --> 01:00:15.944
So ridest thou triumphing in my woe.
Do but behold the tears that swell in me, 

570
01:00:16.035 --> 01:00:22.440
O queen of queens! How far dost thou excel, 

571
01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:36.600
no thought can think, nor tongue of mortal tell.
How shall she know my griefs? I'll drop the paper: 

572
01:00:36.600 --> 01:00:40.185
Sweet leaves, shade folly. Who is he comes here? 

573
01:00:40.240 --> 01:00:43.621
Now, in thy likeness, one more fool appear!

574
01:00:43.621 --> 01:00:46.590
What, Longaville! And reading! Listen, here.

575
01:00:46.590 --> 01:00:51.360
Ay me, I am forsworn!

576
01:00:51.640 --> 01:00:56.005
Why, he comes in like a perjure, wearing papers.

577
01:00:56.005 --> 01:00:58.200
Am I the first that have been perjured so? 

578
01:00:58.200 --> 01:01:01.240
I could put thee in comfort. 
Not by two that I know: 

579
01:01:01.240 --> 01:01:04.800
Thou makest the triumviry, 
the corner-cap of society, 

580
01:01:04.800 --> 01:01:09.440
the shape of Love's Tyburn 
that hangs up simplicity. 

581
01:01:09.440 --> 01:01:22.760
I fear these stubborn lines lack power to move:
O sweet Maria, empress of my love! 

582
01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:27.440
These numbers will I tear, and write in prose.
O, rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose: 

583
01:01:27.440 --> 01:01:32.440
Disfigure not his slop.
This same shall go. 

584
01:01:32.440 --> 01:01:39.080
Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,
'gainst whom the world cannot hold argument, 

585
01:01:39.080 --> 01:01:47.400
persuade my heart to this false perjury?
Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment. 

586
01:01:47.400 --> 01:01:54.920
A woman I forswore; but I shall prove,
thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee: 

587
01:01:54.920 --> 01:02:03.040
My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love;
thy grace being gain'd cures all disgrace in me. 

588
01:02:03.040 --> 01:02:11.960
Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is:
Then thou, fair sun, which on my earth dost shine, 

589
01:02:11.960 --> 01:02:20.720
exhalest this vapour-vow; in thee it is:
If broken then, it is no fault of mine: 

590
01:02:20.720 --> 01:02:27.440
If by me broke, what fool is not so wise
to lose an oath and gain a paradise? 

591
01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:35.400
This is the liver-vein, which makes flesh a deity,
a green goose a goddess: pure, pure idolatry. 

592
01:02:35.400 --> 01:02:39.339
God amend us, God amend! 
We are much out o' the way. 

593
01:02:39.339 --> 01:02:44.360
By whom shall I send this?--Company! stay.
All hid, all hid; an old infant play. 

594
01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:50.360
Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.
And wretched fools' secrets heedfully o'ereye. 

595
01:02:51.560 --> 01:02:59.000
More sacks to the mill! O heavens, I have my wish!
Dumain transform'd! Four woodcocks in a dish! 

596
01:02:59.000 --> 01:03:04.120
O most divine Kate!
O most profane coxcomb! 

597
01:03:04.120 --> 01:03:10.520
By heaven, the wonder in a mortal eye!
By earth, she is not, corporal, there you lie. 

598
01:03:10.520 --> 01:03:16.800
Her amber hair for foul hath amber quoted.
An amber-colour'd raven was well noted. 

599
01:03:16.800 --> 01:03:20.760
As upright as the cedar.
Stoop, I say; 

600
01:03:20.760 --> 01:03:26.840
her shoulder is with child.
As fair as day. 

601
01:03:26.840 --> 01:03:32.240
Ay, as some days; but then no sun must shine.
O that I had my wish! 

602
01:03:32.240 --> 01:03:34.640
And I had mine!
And I mine too, good Lord! 

603
01:03:34.640 --> 01:03:42.040
Amen, so I had mine: is not that a good word?
I would forget her; but a fever she 

604
01:03:42.040 --> 01:03:47.240
reigns in my blood and will remember'd be.
A fever in your blood! Why, then incision 

605
01:03:47.240 --> 01:03:52.600
would let her out in saucers: sweet misprision!
Once more I'll read the ode that I have writ. 

606
01:03:52.600 --> 01:03:59.880
Once more I'll mark how love can vary wit.
On a day--alack the day!-- 

607
01:03:59.880 --> 01:04:04.880
love, whose month is ever May,
spied a blossom passing fair 

608
01:04:04.880 --> 01:04:09.201
playing in the wanton air.

609
01:04:09.330 --> 01:04:12.080
But, alack, my hand is sworn 

610
01:04:12.080 --> 01:04:17.240
ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn.
Vow, alack, for youth unmeet, 

611
01:04:17.240 --> 01:04:24.040
youth so apt to pluck a sweet!
Do not call it sin in me, 

612
01:04:24.040 --> 01:04:27.880
that I am forsworn for thee;
thou for whom Jove would swear 

613
01:04:27.880 --> 01:04:31.360
Juno but an Ethiope were;
and deny himself for Jove, 

614
01:04:31.360 --> 01:04:39.960
turning mortal for thy love.
This will I send, and something else more plain, 

615
01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:47.240
that shall express my true love's fasting pain.
O, would the king, Biron, and Longaville, 

616
01:04:47.240 --> 01:04:53.520
were lovers too! Ill, to example ill,
would from my forehead wipe a perjured note; 

617
01:04:53.520 --> 01:05:01.480
for none offend where all alike do dote.
Dumain, thy love is far from charity. 

618
01:05:05.800 --> 01:05:13.120
You may look pale, but I should blush, I know,
to be o'erheard and taken napping so.

619
01:05:13.120 --> 01:05:24.040
Come, sir, you blush; as his your case is such;
You chide at him, offending twice as much; 

620
01:05:24.040 --> 01:05:29.920
You do not love Maria; Longaville
Did never sonnet for her sake compile, 

621
01:05:29.920 --> 01:05:37.960
Nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart
his loving bosom to keep down his heart. 

622
01:05:37.960 --> 01:05:45.760
I have been closely shrouded in this bush
and mark'd you both and for you both did blush: 

623
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:49.480
I heard your guilty rhymes, observed your fashion, 

624
01:05:49.480 --> 01:05:56.920
saw sighs reek from you, noted well your passion:
Ay me! says one; O Jove! The other cries; 

625
01:05:56.920 --> 01:06:02.080
one, her hairs were gold, 
crystal the other's eyes: 

626
01:06:02.080 --> 01:06:08.960
You would for paradise break faith, and troth;
and Jove, for your love, would break an oath. 

627
01:06:08.960 --> 01:06:17.160
What will Biron say when that he shall hear
faith so infringed, which such zeal did swear? 

628
01:06:17.160 --> 01:06:24.080
How will he scorn! how will he spend his wit!
How will he triumph, leap and laugh at it! 

629
01:06:24.080 --> 01:06:30.280
For all the wealth that ever I did see,
I would not have him know so much by me. 

630
01:06:30.280 --> 01:06:38.560
Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy.
Ah, good my liege, I pray thee, pardon me! 

631
01:06:38.560 --> 01:06:46.320
Good heart, what grace hast thou, thus to reprove
these worms for loving, that art most in love? 

632
01:06:46.320 --> 01:06:52.680
Your eyes do make no coaches; in your tears
there is no certain princess that appears; 

633
01:06:52.680 --> 01:06:55.880
you'll not be perjured, 'tis a hateful thing; 

634
01:06:55.880 --> 01:07:03.560
tush, none but minstrels like of sonneting!
But are you not ashamed? Nay, are you not, 

635
01:07:03.560 --> 01:07:11.600
all three of you, to be thus much o'ershot?
You found his mote; the king your mote did see; 

636
01:07:11.600 --> 01:07:18.480
but I a beam do find in each of three.
O, what a scene of foolery have I seen, 

637
01:07:18.480 --> 01:07:29.520
of sighs, of groans, of sorrow and of teen!
O me, with what strict patience have I sat, 

638
01:07:29.520 --> 01:07:35.480
to see a king transformed to a gnat!
To see great Hercules whipping a gig, 

639
01:07:35.480 --> 01:07:35.604
and profound Solomon to tune a jig,
and Nestor play at push-pin with the boys, 

640
01:07:35.604 --> 01:07:39.520
and critic Timon laugh at idle toys!
Where lies thy grief, O, tell me, good Dumain? 

641
01:07:39.520 --> 01:07:47.960
And gentle Longaville, where lies thy pain?
And where my liege's? All about the breast: 

642
01:07:47.960 --> 01:07:51.240
A caudle, ho!
Too bitter is thy jest. 

643
01:07:51.240 --> 01:07:58.480
Are we betray'd thus to thy over-view?
Not you to me, but I betray'd by you: 

644
01:07:58.480 --> 01:08:04.160
I, that am honest; I, that hold it sin
To break the vow I am engaged in; 

645
01:08:04.160 --> 01:08:11.160
I am betray'd, by keeping company
with men like men of inconstancy. 

646
01:08:11.160 --> 01:08:17.680
When shall you see me write a thing in rhyme?
Or groan for love? Or spend a minute's time 

647
01:08:17.680 --> 01:08:25.440
In pruning me? When shall you hear that I
will praise a hand, a foot, a face, an eye, 

648
01:08:26.040 --> 01:08:35.160
a gait, a state, a brow, a breast, a waist,
a leg, a limb? 

649
01:08:35.160 --> 01:08:41.460
Soft! Whither away so fast?
A true man or a thief that gallops so? 

650
01:08:41.460 --> 01:08:48.600
I post from love: good lover, let me go.
God bless the king!

651
01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:50.040
What present hast thou there?

652
01:08:50.040 --> 01:08:52.880
Some certain treason.

653
01:08:52.880 --> 01:08:54.320
What makes treason here?

654
01:08:54.320 --> 01:08:56.720
Nay, it makes nothing, sir.

655
01:08:56.720 --> 01:09:00.080
If it mar nothing neither,
the treason and you go in peace away together.

656
01:09:00.080 --> 01:09:08.200
I beseech your grace, let this letter be read:
Our parson misdoubts it; 'twas treason, he said.

657
01:09:08.200 --> 01:09:12.800
Biron, read it over.

658
01:09:12.800 --> 01:09:15.120
Where hadst thou it?
Of Costard. 

659
01:09:15.120 --> 01:09:21.280
Where hadst thou it?
Of Dun Adramadio, Dun Adramadio. 

660
01:09:21.280 --> 01:09:29.389
How now! What is in you? why dost thou tear it?
A toy, my liege, a toy:  

661
01:09:29.389 --> 01:09:30.040
your grace needs not fear it.
It did move him to passion, and therefore let's  

662
01:09:30.040 --> 01:09:34.840
hear it.
It is Biron's writing, and here is his name. 

663
01:09:34.840 --> 01:09:40.480
Ah, you whoreson loggerhead! you were
born to do me shame. 

664
01:09:41.280 --> 01:09:45.600
Guilty, my lord, guilty! I confess, I confess.
What? 

665
01:09:45.600 --> 01:09:49.840
That you three fools lack'd 
me fool to make up the mess: 

666
01:09:49.840 --> 01:09:58.980
He, he, and you, and you, my liege, and I,
are pick-purses in love, and we deserve to die. 

667
01:09:58.980 --> 01:10:03.040
O, dismiss this audience, 
and I shall tell you more. 

668
01:10:03.040 --> 01:10:06.760
Now the number is even.
True, true; we are four. 

669
01:10:06.760 --> 01:10:12.200
Will these turtles be gone?
Hence, sirs; away! 

670
01:10:12.200 --> 01:10:25.320
Walk aside the true folk, 
and let the traitors stay. 

671
01:10:33.880 --> 01:10:51.000
Sweet lords, sweet lovers, O, let us embrace!
As true we are as flesh and blood can be: 

672
01:10:51.000 --> 01:11:00.960
the sea will ebb and flow, heaven show his face;
young blood doth not obey an old decree: 

673
01:11:00.960 --> 01:11:07.040
we cannot cross the cause why we were born;
therefore of all hands must we be forsworn. 

674
01:11:07.040 --> 01:11:11.320
What, did these red lines 
show some love of thine?

675
01:11:11.320 --> 01:11:15.240
Did they, quoth you? Who 
sees the heavenly Rosaline, 

676
01:11:15.240 --> 01:11:20.200
that, like a rude and savage man of Inde,
at the first opening of the gorgeous east, 

677
01:11:20.200 --> 01:11:27.532
bows not his vassal head and strucken blind
kisses the base ground with obedient breast? 

678
01:11:27.532 --> 01:11:27.605
What peremptory eagle-sighted eye
dares look upon the heaven of her brow, 

679
01:11:27.605 --> 01:11:32.080
That is not blinded by her majesty?
What zeal, what fury hath inspired thee now? 

680
01:11:32.080 --> 01:11:36.280
My love, her mistress, is a gracious moon; 

681
01:11:36.280 --> 01:11:42.920
and she an attending star, scarce seen a light.
My eyes are then no eyes, nor I Biron: 

682
01:11:42.920 --> 01:11:48.120
O, but for my love, day would turn to night!
Of all complexions the cull'd sovereignty 

683
01:11:48.120 --> 01:11:53.800
do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,
where several worthies make one dignity, 

684
01:11:53.800 --> 01:12:00.160
where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
O, 'tis the sun that maketh all things shine.

685
01:12:00.160 --> 01:12:05.280
By heaven, thy love is black as ebony.
Is ebony like her? O wood divine! 

686
01:12:05.280 --> 01:12:09.440
A wife of such wood were felicity.
O, where is a book? Who can give an oath? 

687
01:12:09.440 --> 01:12:14.960
That I may swear beauty doth beauty lack,
if that she learn not of her eye to look: 

688
01:12:15.480 --> 01:12:18.600
no face is fair that is not full so black.

689
01:12:18.600 --> 01:12:22.000
O paradox! Black is the badge of hell, 

690
01:12:22.000 --> 01:12:28.000
the hue of dungeons and the suit of night;
and beauty's crest becomes the heavens well.

691
01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:31.720
Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. 

692
01:12:31.720 --> 01:12:37.200
O, if in black my lady's brows be deck'd,
it mourns that painting and usurping hair 

693
01:12:37.200 --> 01:12:43.628
should ravish doters with a false aspect;
And therefore is she born to make black fair.

694
01:12:43.950 --> 01:12:46.480
Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light. 

695
01:12:46.480 --> 01:12:50.080
Your mistresses dare never come in rain,
for fear their colours should be wash'd away. 

696
01:12:50.080 --> 01:12:53.560
'Twere good, yours did; 
for, sir, to tell you plain, 

697
01:12:53.560 --> 01:13:00.259
I'll find a fairer face not wash'd to-day.
I'll prove her fair, or talk till doomsday here. 

698
01:13:00.259 --> 01:13:03.929
No devil will fright thee then so much as she.
I never knew man hold vile stuff so dear. 

699
01:13:04.113 --> 01:13:09.398
But what of this? Are we not all in love? 

700
01:13:09.398 --> 01:13:14.840
Then leave this chat; and, good Biron, now prove 

701
01:13:14.840 --> 01:13:20.100
our loving lawful, and our faith not torn.
Ay, marry, there; some flattery for this evil. 

702
01:13:20.100 --> 01:13:23.360
O, some authority how to proceed;
Some tricks, some quillets,  

703
01:13:23.360 --> 01:13:26.400
how to cheat the devil.
Some salve for perjury. 

704
01:13:26.400 --> 01:13:33.680
'Tis more than need.
Have at you, then, affection's men at arms. 

705
01:13:33.680 --> 01:13:39.400
Consider what you first did swear unto,
to fast, to study, and to see no woman; 

706
01:13:39.920 --> 01:13:47.360
flat treason 'gainst the kingly state of youth.
Say, can you fast? our stomachs are too young; 

707
01:13:47.360 --> 01:13:52.960
and abstinence engenders maladies.
And where that you have vow'd to study, lords, 

708
01:13:52.960 --> 01:13:56.320
in that each of you have forsworn his book,
can you still dream and pore and thereon look? 

709
01:13:56.320 --> 01:14:01.940
For when would you, my liege, or you, or you,
in leaden contemplation have found such 

710
01:14:01.940 --> 01:14:07.280
fiery numbers as the prompting eyes
of beauty's tutors have enrich'd you with? 

711
01:14:07.280 --> 01:14:12.640
Other arts entirely keep the brain;
and therefore, finding barren practisers, 

712
01:14:12.640 --> 01:14:19.440
scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil.
But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, 

713
01:14:19.440 --> 01:14:23.640
lives not alone immured in the brain;
but, with the motion of all elements, 

714
01:14:23.640 --> 01:14:28.840
courses as swift as thought in every power,
And gives to every power a double power, 

715
01:14:28.840 --> 01:14:35.160
above their functions and their offices.
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: 

716
01:14:35.160 --> 01:14:42.200
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
they are the books, the arts, the academes, 

717
01:14:42.200 --> 01:14:50.360
that show, contain and nourish all the world:
lse none at all in ought proves excellent. 

718
01:14:50.360 --> 01:14:57.800
Then fools you were these women to forswear,
or keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools. 

719
01:14:57.800 --> 01:15:03.760
For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love,
or for love's sake, a word that loves all men, 

720
01:15:03.760 --> 01:15:09.840
or for men's sake, the authors of these women,
or women's sake, by whom we men are men, 

721
01:15:09.840 --> 01:15:15.480
let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,
or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths. 

722
01:15:15.480 --> 01:15:20.080
It is religion to be thus forsworn,
for charity itself fulfills the law, 

723
01:15:20.080 --> 01:15:25.800
and who can sever love from charity?
Saint Cupid, then! and, soldiers, to the field! 

724
01:15:25.800 --> 01:15:31.548
Advance your standards, and upon them, lords;
pell-mell, down with them! But be first advised, 

725
01:15:31.548 --> 01:15:35.040
in conflict that you get the sun of them.
Now to plain-dealing; lay these glozes by: 

726
01:15:35.040 --> 01:15:41.640
Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France?
 
And win them too: therefore let us devise 

727
01:15:41.640 --> 01:15:48.600
Some entertainment for them in their tents.
 
Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn; 

728
01:15:48.600 --> 01:15:54.920
In fortune always whirls in equal measure:
Light wenches may prove plagues to men forsworn; 

729
01:15:55.720 --> 01:16:10.440
if so, our copper buys no better treasure.
Satis quod sufficit. 

730
01:16:10.440 --> 01:16:18.400
I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner
have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without 

731
01:16:18.400 --> 01:16:24.240
scurrility, witty without 
affection, audacious without 

732
01:16:24.240 --> 01:16:30.940
impudency, learned without 
opinion, and strange with- 

733
01:16:30.940 --> 01:16:39.220
out heresy. I did converse this quondam day with
a companion of the king's, who is intituled, nomi- 

734
01:16:39.220 --> 01:16:48.960
nated, or called, Don Adriano de Armado.
Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his 

735
01:16:48.960 --> 01:16:58.040
discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye
ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general 

736
01:16:58.040 --> 01:17:06.520
behavior vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. He is
too picked, too spruce,  

737
01:17:06.520 --> 01:17:12.880
too affected, too odd, as it
were, too peregrinate, as I may call it. 

738
01:17:12.880 --> 01:17:24.395
A most singular and choice epithet.
Videsne quis venit?
 

739
01:17:24.395 --> 01:17:24.421
Video, et gaudeo.
Chirrah! 

740
01:17:24.421 --> 01:17:32.640
Quare chirrah, not sirrah?
Men of peace, well encountered. 

741
01:17:33.960 --> 01:17:37.240
Most military sir, salutation. 

742
01:17:37.240 --> 01:17:41.680
They have been at a great feast of 
languages, and stolen the scraps. 

743
01:17:41.680 --> 01:17:44.520
O, they have lived long on 
the alms-basket of words. 

744
01:17:44.520 --> 01:17:47.760
I marvel thy master hath 
not eaten thee for a word; 

745
01:17:47.760 --> 01:17:53.080
for thou art not so long by the head as
honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier 

746
01:17:53.080 --> 01:17:55.840
swallowed than a flap-dragon.
Monsieur-- 

747
01:17:55.840 --> 01:17:59.640
Peace! the peal begins.
-- are you not lettered? 

748
01:17:59.640 --> 01:18:05.760
Arts-man, preambulate, we will be singled from the
barbarous. Do you not educate youth at the 

749
01:18:05.760 --> 01:18:09.720
charge-house on the top of the mountain?
Or mons, the hill. 

750
01:18:09.720 --> 01:18:13.360
At your sweet pleasure, for the mountain.
I do, sans question. 

751
01:18:13.360 --> 01:18:21.280
Sir, it is the king's most sweet pleasure and
affection to congratulate the princess at her 

752
01:18:21.280 --> 01:18:26.880
pavilion in the posteriors of this day, which the
rude multitude call the afternoon. 

753
01:18:26.880 --> 01:18:32.360
The posterior of the day, most generous sir, is
liable, congruent and measurable  

754
01:18:32.360 --> 01:18:35.480
for the afternoon:
the word is well culled,  

755
01:18:35.480 --> 01:18:39.680
chose, sweet and apt, I do
assure you, sir, I do assure. 

756
01:18:39.680 --> 01:18:43.320
Sir, the king is a noble 
gentleman, and my familiar, 

757
01:18:43.320 --> 01:18:50.920
I do assure ye, for what is
inward between us, let it pass. I do beseech thee, 

758
01:18:50.920 --> 01:18:55.480
remember thy courtesy; I beseech thee, apparel thy
head: and among other important and most serious 

759
01:18:55.480 --> 01:18:59.080
designs, and of great import indeed, too, but let 

760
01:18:59.080 --> 01:19:01.280
that pass: for I must tell 
thee, it will please his 

761
01:19:01.280 --> 01:19:07.920
grace, by the world, sometime to lean upon my poor
shoulder, and with his royal finger, thus, dally 

762
01:19:07.920 --> 01:19:17.120
with my excrement, with my mustachio; but, sweet
heart, let that pass. By the world, I recount no 

763
01:19:17.120 --> 01:19:21.200
fable: some certain special 
honours it pleaseth his 

764
01:19:21.200 --> 01:19:30.160
greatness to impart to Armado, a soldier, a man of
travel, that hath seen the world;  

765
01:19:30.160 --> 01:19:34.560
but let that pass.
The very all of all is,--but, sweet heart, I do 

766
01:19:34.560 --> 01:19:40.680
implore secrecy,--that the king would have me
present the princess, sweet chuck, with some 

767
01:19:40.680 --> 01:19:49.280
delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or
antique, or firework. Now, understanding that the 

768
01:19:49.280 --> 01:19:58.680
curate and your sweet self are good at such
eruptions and sudden breaking out of mirth, as it 

769
01:19:58.680 --> 01:20:03.240
were, I have acquainted you withal, to the end to
crave your assistance. 

770
01:20:03.240 --> 01:20:08.680
Sir, you shall present 
before her the Nine Worthies. 

771
01:20:08.680 --> 01:20:12.000
Sir, as concerning some 
entertainment of time, some 

772
01:20:12.000 --> 01:20:15.464
show in the posterior of 
this day, to be rendered by 

773
01:20:15.464 --> 01:20:19.280
our assistants, at the 
king's command, and this most 

774
01:20:19.280 --> 01:20:24.720
gallant, illustrate, and learned gentleman, before
the princess; I say none so fit as to present the 

775
01:20:24.720 --> 01:20:28.640
Nine Worthies.
Where will you find men worthy  

776
01:20:28.640 --> 01:20:30.600
enough to present them?
Joshua,  

777
01:20:30.600 --> 01:20:37.760
yourself; myself and this gallant gentleman,
Judas Maccabaeus; this swain, because of his great 

778
01:20:37.760 --> 01:20:48.600
limb or joint, shall pass Pompey the Great; the
page, Hercules,-- 

779
01:20:48.600 --> 01:20:55.520
Pardon, sir; error: he is not quantity enough for
that Worthy's thumb: he is not so big as the end  

780
01:20:55.520 --> 01:20:58.080
of his club.
Shall I have  

781
01:20:58.080 --> 01:21:06.520
audience? he shall present Hercules in
minority: his enter and exit shall be strangling a 

782
01:21:06.520 --> 01:21:10.120
snake; and I will have an 
apology for that purpose. 

783
01:21:10.120 --> 01:21:19.800
An excellent device! so, if any of the audience
hiss, you may cry 'Well done, Hercules! now thou 

784
01:21:19.800 --> 01:21:27.960
crushest the snake!' that is the way to make an
offence gracious, though few  

785
01:21:27.960 --> 01:21:31.040
have the grace to do it.
For the rest of the Worthies?-- 

786
01:21:31.040 --> 01:21:35.512
I will play three myself.
Thrice-worthy gentleman! 

787
01:21:35.512 --> 01:21:37.072
Shall I tell you a thing?
We attend. 

788
01:21:37.072 --> 01:21:37.641
We will have, if this fadge not, an antique. I
beseech you, follow. 

789
01:21:37.641 --> 01:21:38.720
Via, goodman Dull! thou hast 
spoken no word all this while. 

790
01:21:38.720 --> 01:21:42.720
Nor understood none neither, sir.
Allons! we will employ thee. 

791
01:21:42.720 --> 01:21:45.560
I'll make one in a dance, or so; or I will play
On the tabour to the Worthies, and  

792
01:21:45.560 --> 01:21:54.520
let them dance the hay.
Most dull, honest Dull! To our sport, away. 

793
01:22:19.680 --> 01:22:26.200
Sweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart,
If fairings come thus plentifully in: 

794
01:22:26.200 --> 01:22:31.600
A lady wall'd about with diamonds!
Look you what I have from the loving king. 

795
01:22:31.600 --> 01:22:37.560
Madame, came nothing else along with that?
Nothing but this! yes, as much love in rhyme 

796
01:22:37.560 --> 01:22:42.920
As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper,
Writ o' both sides the leaf, margent and all, 

797
01:22:42.920 --> 01:22:48.040
That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name.
That was the way to make his godhead wax, 

798
01:22:48.040 --> 01:22:53.360
For he hath been five thousand years a boy.
Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too. 

799
01:22:53.360 --> 01:22:55.840
You'll ne'er be friends with 
him; a' kill'd your sister. 

800
01:22:55.840 --> 01:23:01.960
He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy;
And so she died: had she been light, like you, 

801
01:23:01.960 --> 01:23:07.160
Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,
She might ha' been a grandam ere she died: 

802
01:23:07.160 --> 01:23:10.880
And so may you; for a light heart lives long.
What's your dark meaning,  

803
01:23:10.880 --> 01:23:14.720
mouse, of this light word?
A light condition in a beauty dark. 

804
01:23:14.720 --> 01:23:19.000
We need more light to find your meaning out.
You'll mar the light by taking it in snuff; 

805
01:23:19.000 --> 01:23:23.880
Therefore I'll darkly end the argument.
Look what you do, you do it still i' the dark. 

806
01:23:23.880 --> 01:23:28.920
So do not you, for you are a light wench.
Indeed I weigh not you, and therefore light. 

807
01:23:28.920 --> 01:23:36.080
You weigh me not? O, that's you care not for me.
Great reason; for 'past cure is still past care.' 

808
01:23:36.080 --> 01:23:41.480
Well bandied both; a set of wit well play'd.
But Rosaline, you have a favour too: 

809
01:23:41.480 --> 01:23:44.440
Who sent it? and what is it?
I would you knew: 

810
01:23:44.440 --> 01:23:48.200
An if my face were but as fair as yours,
My favour were as great; be witness this. 

811
01:23:48.200 --> 01:23:54.280
Nay, I have verses too, I thank Biron:
The numbers true; and, were the numbering too, 

812
01:23:54.280 --> 01:23:59.920
I were the fairest goddess on the ground:
I am compared to twenty thousand fairs. 

813
01:23:59.920 --> 01:24:04.640
O, he hath drawn my picture in his letter!
Any thing like? 

814
01:24:04.640 --> 01:24:08.918
Much in the letters; nothing in the praise.
Beauteous as ink; a good conclusion. 

815
01:24:08.918 --> 01:24:08.997
Fair as a text B in a copy-book.
'Ware pencils, ho! let me not die your debtor, 

816
01:24:08.997 --> 01:24:09.075
My red dominical, my golden letter:
O, that your face were not so full of O's! 

817
01:24:09.075 --> 01:24:10.640
A pox of that jest! and I beshrew all shrows.
But, Katharine, what was sent to you  

818
01:24:10.640 --> 01:24:13.200
from fair Dumain?
Madam, this glove. 

819
01:24:13.200 --> 01:24:16.440
Did he not send you twain?
Yes, madam, and moreover 

820
01:24:16.440 --> 01:24:21.120
Some thousand verses of a faithful lover,
A huge translation of hypocrisy, 

821
01:24:21.120 --> 01:24:28.800
Vilely compiled, profound simplicity.
This and these pearls to me sent Longaville: 

822
01:24:28.800 --> 01:24:34.400
The letter is too long by half a mile.
I think no less. Dost thou not wish in heart 

823
01:24:34.400 --> 01:24:41.240
The chain were longer and the letter short?
Ay, or I would these hands might never part. 

824
01:24:41.240 --> 01:24:48.120
We are wise girls to mock our lovers so.
They are worse fools to purchase mocking so. 

825
01:24:48.120 --> 01:24:53.160
That same Biron I'll torture ere I go:
O that I knew he were but in by the week! 

826
01:24:53.160 --> 01:25:00.000
How I would make him fawn and beg and seek
And wait the season and observe the times 

827
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:06.640
And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes
And shape his service wholly to my hests 

828
01:25:06.640 --> 01:25:08.235
And make him proud to make me proud that jests!
So perttaunt-like would I o'ersway his state 

829
01:25:08.235 --> 01:25:13.120
That he should be my fool and I his fate.
None are so surely caught, when they are catch'd, 

830
01:25:13.120 --> 01:25:20.000
As wit turn'd fool: folly, in wisdom hatch'd,
Hath wisdom's warrant and the help of school 

831
01:25:20.000 --> 01:25:26.960
And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool.
The blood of youth burns not with such excess 

832
01:25:26.960 --> 01:25:33.960
As gravity's revolt to wantonness.
Folly in fools bears not so strong a note 

833
01:25:33.960 --> 01:25:39.400
as foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote;
Since all the power thereof it doth apply 

834
01:25:39.400 --> 01:25:47.900
To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity.
Here comes Boyet, and mirth is in her face. 

835
01:25:47.900 --> 01:25:51.600
BOYET: O, I am stabb'd with 
laughter! Where's her grace? 

836
01:25:51.600 --> 01:25:55.240
Thy news Boyet?
Prepare, madam, prepare! 

837
01:25:55.240 --> 01:26:01.440
Arm, wenches, arm! encounters mounted are
against your peace: Love doth approach disguised, 

838
01:26:01.440 --> 01:26:06.460
armed in arguments; you'll be surprised:
Muster your wits; stand in your own defence; 

839
01:26:06.460 --> 01:26:12.200
Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence.
 
Saint Denis to Saint Cupid! What are they 

840
01:26:12.200 --> 01:26:16.100
That charge their breath 
against us? say, scout, say.
 

841
01:26:16.100 --> 01:26:20.360
But what, but what, come they to visit us?
 
They do, they do: and are apparell'd thus. 

842
01:26:20.360 --> 01:26:27.080
Like Muscovites or Russians, as I guess.
Their purpose is to parle, to court and dance; 

843
01:26:27.080 --> 01:26:31.200
And every one his love-feat will advance
unto his several mistress, which they'll know 

844
01:26:31.200 --> 01:26:38.280
By favours several which they did bestow.
 
And will they so? the gallants shall be task'd; 

845
01:26:38.280 --> 01:26:44.840
For, ladies, we shall every one be mask'd;
And not a man of them shall have the grace, 

846
01:26:44.840 --> 01:26:51.640
Despite of suit, to see a lady's face.
Hold, Rosaline, this favour thou shalt wear, 

847
01:26:51.640 --> 01:26:58.680
And then the king will court thee for his dear;
Hold, take thou this, my sweet, and give me thine, 

848
01:26:58.680 --> 01:27:04.160
So shall Biron take me for Rosaline.
And change your favours too; so shall your loves 

849
01:27:04.160 --> 01:27:10.440
Woo contrary, deceived by these removes.
 
Come on, then; wear the favours most in sight.

850
01:27:10.440 --> 01:27:18.400
But in this changing what is your intent?
 
The effect of my intent is to cross theirs: 

851
01:27:18.400 --> 01:27:24.120
They do it but in mocking merriment;
And mock for mock is only my intent. 

852
01:27:24.760 --> 01:27:31.040
Their several counsels they unbosom shall
To loves mistook, and so be mock'd withal 

853
01:27:31.040 --> 01:27:36.240
Upon the next occasion that we meet,
With visages displayed, to talk and greet.
 

854
01:27:36.240 --> 01:27:41.560
But shall we dance, if they desire to't?
No, to the death, we will not move a foot; 

855
01:27:41.560 --> 01:27:48.680
Nor to their penn'd speech render we no grace,
But while 'tis spoke each turn away her face. 

856
01:27:48.680 --> 01:27:54.280
Why, that contempt will kill the speaker's heart,
And quite divorce his memory from his part.
 

857
01:27:54.280 --> 01:28:01.800
Therefore I do it; and I make no doubt
The rest will ne'er come in, if he be out 

858
01:28:01.800 --> 01:28:05.680
There's no such sport as 
sport by sport o'erthrown, 

859
01:28:05.680 --> 01:28:11.040
To make theirs ours and ours none but our own: 

860
01:28:11.040 --> 01:28:19.320
So shall we stay, mocking intended game,
And they, well mock'd, depart away with shame. 

861
01:28:20.720 --> 01:28:24.120
[Trumpets sound within]
 
The trumpet sounds: be mask'd; the maskers come. 

862
01:28:38.280 --> 01:28:50.440
[singing]

863
01:28:50.440 --> 01:28:51.440
All  

864
01:29:04.720 --> 01:29:12.520
hail, the richest beauties on the earth!--
Beauties no richer than rich taffeta. 

865
01:29:12.520 --> 01:29:20.720
A holy parcel of the fairest dames.
That ever turn'd their--backs--to mortal views! 

866
01:29:20.720 --> 01:29:23.480
Their eyes, villain, their eyes!
That ever turn'd their eyes to  

867
01:29:23.480 --> 01:29:27.840
mortal views!--Out--
True; out indeed. 

868
01:29:27.840 --> 01:29:33.280
Out of your favours, heavenly spirits, vouchsafe
Not to behold-- 

869
01:29:33.280 --> 01:29:39.840
Once to behold, rogue.
Once to behold with your sun-beamed eyes, 

870
01:29:39.840 --> 01:29:44.720
--with your sun-beamed eyes--
They will not answer to that epithet; 

871
01:29:44.720 --> 01:29:50.600
You were best call it 'daughter-beamed eyes.'
They do not mark me, and that brings me out. 

872
01:29:50.600 --> 01:29:56.080
Is this your perfectness? be gone, you rogue!
What would these strangers?  

873
01:29:56.080 --> 01:30:00.240
know their minds, Boyet:
If they do speak our language, 'tis our will: 

874
01:30:00.240 --> 01:30:07.800
That some plain man recount their purposes
Know what they would. 

875
01:30:07.800 --> 01:30:18.680
What would you with the princess?
Nothing but peace and gentle visitation. 

876
01:30:18.680 --> 01:30:23.960
What would they, say they?
Nothing but peace and gentle visitation. 

877
01:30:24.880 --> 01:30:33.520
Why, that they have; and bid them so be gone.
She says, you have it, and you may be gone. 

878
01:30:33.520 --> 01:30:40.760
Say to her, we have measured many miles
To tread a measure with her on this grass. 

879
01:30:40.760 --> 01:30:46.040
She hears herself.
 
How many weary steps, 

880
01:30:46.040 --> 01:30:51.520
Of many weary miles you have o'ergone,
Are number'd in the travel of one mile? 

881
01:30:51.520 --> 01:30:54.800
We number nothing that we spend for you:
Our duty is so rich, so infinite, 

882
01:30:54.800 --> 01:30:58.120
That we may do it still without accompt.
Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face, 

883
01:30:58.120 --> 01:31:08.680
That we, like savages, may worship it.
My face is but a moon, and clouded too. 

884
01:31:08.680 --> 01:31:13.160
Blessed are clouds, to do as such clouds do! 

885
01:31:13.160 --> 01:31:16.800
Vouchsafe, bright moon, and 
these thy stars, to shine, 

886
01:31:16.800 --> 01:31:23.600
Those clouds removed, upon our watery eyne.
O vain petitioner! beg a greater matter; 

887
01:31:23.600 --> 01:31:30.160
Thou now request'st but moonshine in the water.
Then, in our measure do but vouchsafe one change. 

888
01:31:30.160 --> 01:31:36.880
Thou bid'st me beg: this begging is not strange.
Play, music, then! Nay, you must do it soon.

889
01:31:36.880 --> 01:31:44.080
Not yet! no dance! Thus change I like the moon.
 
Will you not dance? How come you thus estranged?
 

890
01:31:44.080 --> 01:31:47.280
You took the moon at full, but now she's changed.
 

891
01:31:47.280 --> 01:31:54.280
Yet still she is the moon, and I the man.
The music plays; vouchsafe some motion to it.
 

892
01:31:54.280 --> 01:31:59.720
Our ears vouchsafe it.
 
But your legs should do it.
 

893
01:31:59.720 --> 01:32:06.608
Since you are strangers and come here by chance,
We'll not be nice: take hands. We will not dance.
 

894
01:32:06.608 --> 01:32:06.656
Why take we hands, then?
 
Only to part friends: 

895
01:32:06.656 --> 01:32:06.749
Curtsy, sweet hearts; and so the measure ends.
 
More measure of this measure; be not nice.
 

896
01:32:06.749 --> 01:32:06.837
We can afford no more at such a price.
 
Prize you yourselves: what buys your company?
 

897
01:32:06.837 --> 01:32:06.878
Your absence only.
 
That can never be.
 

898
01:32:06.878 --> 01:32:06.960
Then cannot we be bought: and so, adieu;
Twice to your visor, and half once to you.

899
01:32:06.960 --> 01:32:10.240
If you deny to dance, let's hold more chat. 

900
01:32:10.240 --> 01:32:15.280
In private, then.
I am best pleased with that. 

901
01:32:15.280 --> 01:32:22.200
White-handed mistress, one sweet word with thee.
 
Honey, and milk, and sugar; there is three.
 

902
01:32:22.200 --> 01:32:23.011
Nay then, two treys, and if you grow so nice,
Metheglin, wort, and malmsey: well run, dice! 

903
01:32:23.011 --> 01:32:23.063
There's half-a-dozen sweets.
 
Seventh sweet, adieu: 

904
01:32:23.063 --> 01:32:24.040
Since you can cog, I'll play no more with you.
 
One word in secret.
 

905
01:32:24.040 --> 01:32:27.160
Let it not be sweet.
 
Thou grievest my gall.
 

906
01:32:27.160 --> 01:32:30.339
Gall! bitter.
 
Therefore meet. 

907
01:32:30.339 --> 01:32:32.520
They converse apart
 
Will you vouchsafe with me to change a word?

908
01:32:33.240 --> 01:32:35.548
Name it.
 
Fair lady,--

909
01:32:35.548 --> 01:32:38.840
Say you so? Fair lord,--
Take that for your fair lady.
 

910
01:32:38.840 --> 01:32:40.840
Please it you,
As much in private,  

911
01:32:40.840 --> 01:32:45.880
and I'll bid adieu.
They converse apart

912
01:32:45.880 --> 01:32:50.320
What, was your vizard made without a tongue?

913
01:32:50.320 --> 01:32:53.600
I know the reason, lady, why you ask.

914
01:32:53.600 --> 01:32:59.800
O for your reason! quickly, sir; I long.
 
You have a double tongue within your mask, 

915
01:32:59.800 --> 01:33:02.922
And would afford my speechless vizard half.

916
01:33:02.922 --> 01:33:02.989
Veal, quoth the Dutchman. Is not 'veal' a calf?
 
A calf, fair lady!

917
01:33:02.989 --> 01:33:03.032
No, a fair lord calf.
 
Let's part the word.

918
01:33:03.032 --> 01:33:03.102
No, I'll not be your half
Take all, and wean it; it may prove an ox.
 

919
01:33:03.102 --> 01:33:03.195
Look, how you butt yourself in these sharp mocks!
Will you give horns, chaste lady? do not so.

920
01:33:03.195 --> 01:33:06.240
Then die a calf, before your horns do grow.
 
One word in private with you, ere I die.

921
01:33:06.240 --> 01:33:12.840
Bleat softly then; the butcher hears you cry.
 
The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen 

922
01:33:12.840 --> 01:33:17.000
As is the razor's edge invisible,
Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen, 

923
01:33:17.000 --> 01:33:21.160
Above the sense of sense; so sensible
Seemeth their conference;  

924
01:33:21.160 --> 01:33:24.000
their conceits have wings
Fleeter than arrows, bullets,  

925
01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:26.920
wind, thought, swifter things.
 
Not one word more,  

926
01:33:26.920 --> 01:33:37.640
my maids; break off, break off.
 
By heaven, all dry-beaten with pure scoff!
 

927
01:33:37.640 --> 01:33:46.160
Farewell, mad wenches; you have simple wits.
 
Twenty adieus, my frozen Muscovits.

928
01:33:46.160 --> 01:33:51.920
Are these the breed of wits so wonder'd at?
 
Tapers they are, with your sweet breaths  

929
01:33:51.920 --> 01:33:53.320
puff'd out.
 
Well-liking  

930
01:33:53.320 --> 01:33:58.800
wits they have; gross, gross; fat, fat.
 
O poverty in wit, kingly-poor flout! 

931
01:33:58.800 --> 01:34:05.800
Will they not, think you, hang themselves tonight?
Or ever, but in vizards, show their faces? 

932
01:34:05.800 --> 01:34:13.840
This pert Biron was out of countenance quite.
 
O, they were all in lamentable cases! 

933
01:34:13.840 --> 01:34:20.560
The king was weeping-ripe for a good word.
 
Biron did swear himself out of all suit.

934
01:34:20.560 --> 01:34:27.380
Dumain was at my service, and his sword:
No point, quoth I; my servant straight was mute.

935
01:34:27.380 --> 01:34:30.360
Lord Longaville said, I came o'er his heart; 

936
01:34:30.360 --> 01:34:34.400
And trow you what he called me?
Qualm, perhaps.

937
01:34:34.400 --> 01:34:38.080
Yes, in good faith.
 
Go, sickness as thou art!
 

938
01:34:38.080 --> 01:34:41.120
Well, better wits have worn plain statute-caps. 

939
01:34:41.120 --> 01:34:48.360
But will you hear? the king is my love sworn.
 
And quick Biron hath plighted faith to me.

940
01:34:48.360 --> 01:34:52.120
And Longaville was for my service born.

941
01:34:52.120 --> 01:34:58.160
Dumain is mine, as sure as bark on tree.
 
Madam, and pretty mistresses, give ear: 

942
01:34:58.160 --> 01:35:02.480
Immediately they will again be here
In their own shapes; for it can never be 

943
01:35:02.480 --> 01:35:06.840
They will digest this harsh indignity.
 
Will they return?
 

944
01:35:06.840 --> 01:35:11.240
They will, they will, God knows,
And leap for joy, though they are lame with blows: 

945
01:35:11.240 --> 01:35:17.960
Therefore change favours; and, when they repair,
Blow like sweet roses in this summer air.
 

946
01:35:17.960 --> 01:35:24.520
How blow? how blow? speak to be understood.
 
Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud; 

947
01:35:24.520 --> 01:35:30.400
Dismask'd, their damask sweet commixture shown,
Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.
 

948
01:35:30.400 --> 01:35:36.880
Avaunt, perplexity! What shall we do,
If they return in their own shapes to woo?
 

949
01:35:36.880 --> 01:35:40.240
Good madam, if by me you'll be advised,
Let's, mock them still,  

950
01:35:40.240 --> 01:35:44.480
as well known as disguised:
Let us complain to them what fools were here, 

951
01:35:44.480 --> 01:35:48.714
Disguised like Muscovites, in shapeless gear;
And wonder what they were and to what end 

952
01:35:48.714 --> 01:35:48.800
Their shallow shows and prologue vilely penn'd
And their rough carriage so ridiculous, 

953
01:35:48.800 --> 01:35:53.640
Should be presented at our tent to us.
 
Ladies, withdraw: the gallants are at hand. 

954
01:35:54.560 --> 01:36:01.992
All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day!
'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive.
 

955
01:36:01.992 --> 01:36:02.080
Construe my speeches better, if you may.
 
Then wish me better; I will give you leave.
 

956
01:36:02.080 --> 01:36:04.360
We came to visit you, and purpose now 

957
01:36:04.360 --> 01:36:11.360
To lead you to our court; vouchsafe it then.
 
This field shall hold me; and so hold your vow: 

958
01:36:11.360 --> 01:36:16.840
Nor God, nor I, delights in perjured men.
 
Rebuke me not for that which you provoke: 

959
01:36:16.840 --> 01:36:23.280
The virtue of your eye must break my oath.
 
You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke; 

960
01:36:23.280 --> 01:36:26.759
For virtue's office never breaks men's troth.
Now by my maiden honour, yet as pure 

961
01:36:26.759 --> 01:36:27.280
As the unsullied lily, I protest,
A world of torments though I should endure, 

962
01:36:27.280 --> 01:36:33.200
I would not yield to be your house's guest;
So much I hate a breaking cause to be 

963
01:36:33.200 --> 01:36:39.320
Of heavenly oaths, vow'd with integrity.
 
O, you have lived in desolation here, 

964
01:36:39.320 --> 01:36:45.160
Unseen, unvisited, much to our shame.
 
Not so, my lord; it is not so, I swear; 

965
01:36:45.160 --> 01:36:51.440
We have had pastimes here and pleasant game:
A mess of Russians left us but of late.
 

966
01:36:51.440 --> 01:36:54.760
How, madam! Russians!
Ay, in truth, my lord; 

967
01:36:54.760 --> 01:37:03.280
Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state.
Madam, speak true. It is not so, my lord: 

968
01:37:03.280 --> 01:37:08.920
My lady, to the manner of the days,
In courtesy gives undeserving praise. 

969
01:37:08.920 --> 01:37:13.280
We four indeed confronted were with four
In Russian habit: here they stay'd an hour, 

970
01:37:13.280 --> 01:37:16.280
And talk'd apace; and in that hour, my lord, 

971
01:37:16.280 --> 01:37:22.720
They did not bless us with one happy word.
I dare not call them fools; but this I think, 

972
01:37:22.720 --> 01:37:27.280
When they are thirsty, fools 
would fain have drink.
 

973
01:37:27.280 --> 01:37:33.640
Which of the vizards was it that you wore?
Where? when? what vizard? why demand you this?
 

974
01:37:33.640 --> 01:37:40.400
There, then, that vizard; that superfluous case
That hid the worse and show'd the better face.
 

975
01:37:40.400 --> 01:37:45.840
We are descried; they'll mock us now downright.
 
Let us confess and turn it to a jest.
 

976
01:37:45.840 --> 01:37:50.040
Amazed, my lord? why looks your highness sad?
 
Help, hold his brows! he'll  

977
01:37:50.040 --> 01:37:55.310
swoon! Why look you pale?
Sea-sick, I think, coming from Muscovy.
 

978
01:37:55.310 --> 01:38:01.560
Thus pour the stars down plagues for perjury.
Can any face of brass hold longer out? 

979
01:38:01.560 --> 01:38:05.000
Here stand I
lady, dart thy skill at me; 

980
01:38:05.000 --> 01:38:11.360
Bruise me with scorn, confound me with a flout;
Thrust thy sharp wit quite through my ignorance; 

981
01:38:11.360 --> 01:38:15.840
Cut me to pieces with thy keen conceit;
And I will wish thee never more to dance, 

982
01:38:15.840 --> 01:38:21.920
Nor never more in Russian habit wait.
O, never will I trust to speeches penn'd, 

983
01:38:21.920 --> 01:38:26.920
Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue,
Nor never come in vizard to my friend, 

984
01:38:26.920 --> 01:38:34.800
Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's song!
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, 

985
01:38:34.800 --> 01:38:40.480
Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,
Figures pedantical; these summer-flies 

986
01:38:40.480 --> 01:38:46.880
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation:
I do forswear them; and I here protest, 

987
01:38:46.880 --> 01:38:52.800
By this white glove;--how 
white the hand, God knows!-- 

988
01:38:52.800 --> 01:38:58.920
Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd
In russet yeas and honest kersey noes: 

989
01:38:58.920 --> 01:39:10.800
And, to begin, wench,--so God help me, la!--
My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.
 

990
01:39:10.800 --> 01:39:14.440
Sans sans, I pray you.
 
Yet I have a trick 

991
01:39:14.440 --> 01:39:21.600
Of the old rage: bear with me, I am sick;
I'll leave it by degrees. Soft, let us see: 

992
01:39:21.600 --> 01:39:26.480
Write, 'Lord have mercy on us' on those three;
They are infected; in their hearts it lies; 

993
01:39:26.480 --> 01:39:34.400
They have the plague, and caught it of your eyes;
Speak for yourselves; my wit is at an end. 

994
01:39:34.400 --> 01:39:39.520
Teach us, sweet madam, for our rude transgression
Some fair excuse.
 

995
01:39:39.520 --> 01:39:45.080
The fairest is confession.
Were not you here but even now disguised? 

996
01:39:45.080 --> 01:39:47.960
Madam, I was.
And were you well advised? 

997
01:39:47.960 --> 01:39:50.800
I was, fair madam.
When you then were here, 

998
01:39:50.800 --> 01:39:57.600
What did you whisper in your lady's ear?
That more than all the world I did respect her. 

999
01:39:57.600 --> 01:40:01.680
When she shall challenge 
this, you will reject her. 

1000
01:40:01.680 --> 01:40:04.960
Upon mine honour, no.
Peace, peace! forbear: 

1001
01:40:04.960 --> 01:40:11.520
Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear.
Despise me, when I break this oath of mine. 

1002
01:40:11.520 --> 01:40:17.080
I will: and therefore keep it. Rosaline,
What did the Russian whisper in your ear?
 

1003
01:40:17.080 --> 01:40:24.120
Madam, he swore that he did hold me dear
As precious eyesight, and did value me 

1004
01:40:24.120 --> 01:40:39.160
Above this world; adding thereto moreover
That he would wed me, or else die my lover.
 

1005
01:40:39.160 --> 01:40:45.000
God give thee joy of him! the noble lord
Most honorably doth unhold his word.
 

1006
01:40:45.000 --> 01:40:48.320
What mean you, madam? by my life, my troth,
I never swore this lady such an oath.
 

1007
01:40:48.320 --> 01:40:58.680
By heaven, you did; and to confirm it plain,
You gave me this: but take it, sir, again.
 

1008
01:40:58.680 --> 01:41:04.280
My faith and this the princess I did give:
I knew her by this jewel on her sleeve.
 

1009
01:41:04.280 --> 01:41:14.160
Pardon me, sir, this jewel did she wear;
And Lord Biron, I thank him, is my dear. 

1010
01:41:14.160 --> 01:41:23.240
What, will you have me, or your pearl again?
Neither of either; I remit both twain. 

1011
01:41:25.480 --> 01:41:30.400
I see the trick on't: here was a consent,
Knowing aforehand of our merriment, 

1012
01:41:30.400 --> 01:41:39.440
To dash it like a Christmas comedy:
Much upon this it is: and might not you  

1013
01:41:39.440 --> 01:41:47.480
forestall our sport, to make us thus untrue?
You put our page out: go, you are allow'd; 

1014
01:41:47.480 --> 01:41:53.200
Die when you will, a smock shall be your shroud.
You leer upon me, do you? there's an eye 

1015
01:41:53.200 --> 01:41:56.240
wounds like a leaden sword.
Full merrily 

1016
01:41:56.240 --> 01:42:02.880
Hath this brave manage, this career, been run.
 
Lo, he is tilting straight! Peace! I have done.

1017
01:42:02.880 --> 01:42:08.520
Welcome, pure wit! thou partest a fair fray.
O Lord, sir, they would know 

1018
01:42:08.520 --> 01:42:11.780
Whether the three Worthies shall come in or no.

1019
01:42:11.780 --> 01:42:12.720
What, are there but three?

1020
01:42:12.720 --> 01:42:16.720
No, sir; but it is vara fine,
For every one pursents three.
 

1021
01:42:16.720 --> 01:42:20.360
And three times thrice is nine.
 
Not so, sir; under correction,  

1022
01:42:20.360 --> 01:42:23.360
sir; I hope it is not so.
You cannot beg us, sir, I can assure  

1023
01:42:23.360 --> 01:42:25.000
you, sir we know
what we know: 

1024
01:42:25.000 --> 01:42:29.360
I hope, sir, three times thrice, sir,--
 
Is not nine.
 

1025
01:42:29.360 --> 01:42:31.920
Under correction, sir, we know 
whereuntil it doth amount.
 

1026
01:42:31.920 --> 01:42:35.000
By Jove, I always took three threes for nine.
 

1027
01:42:35.000 --> 01:42:36.640
O Lord, sir, it were pity 
you should get your living 

1028
01:42:36.640 --> 01:42:40.027
by reckoning, sir.
 
How much is it?

1029
01:42:40.027 --> 01:42:43.880
O Lord, sir, the parties themselves, the actors,
sir, will show whereuntil it doth amount: for mine 

1030
01:42:43.880 --> 01:42:47.160
own part, I am, as they 
say, but to parfect one man 

1031
01:42:47.160 --> 01:42:52.120
in one poor man, Pompion the Great, sir.
 
Art thou one of the Worthies?

1032
01:42:52.120 --> 01:42:56.720
It pleased them to think me worthy of Pompion the
Great: for mine own part, I know not the degree of 

1033
01:42:56.720 --> 01:43:00.440
the Worthy, but I am to stand for him.
 
Go, bid them prepare.

1034
01:43:00.440 --> 01:43:03.480
We will turn it finely off, sir; we will take
some care. 

1035
01:43:03.480 --> 01:43:10.960
Biron, they will shame us: let them not approach.
 
We are shame-proof, my lord: and tis some policy 

1036
01:43:10.960 --> 01:43:13.320
To have one show worse than 
the king's and his company.
 

1037
01:43:13.320 --> 01:43:18.840
I say they shall not come.
 
Nay, my good lord, let me o'errule you now: 

1038
01:43:18.840 --> 01:43:21.897
That sport best pleases that doth least know how.

1039
01:43:21.988 --> 01:43:25.480
A right description of our sport, my lord. 

1040
01:43:28.120 --> 01:43:38.000
Anointed, I implore so much expense of thy royal
sweet breath as will utter a brace of words. 

1041
01:43:38.000 --> 01:43:40.360
Doth this man serve God?
Why ask you? 

1042
01:43:40.360 --> 01:43:45.040
He speaks not like a man of God's making.
That is all one, my fair,  

1043
01:43:45.040 --> 01:43:50.600
sweet, honey monarch; for,
I protest, the schoolmaster is exceeding 

1044
01:43:50.600 --> 01:43:58.440
fantastical; too, too vain, too too vain: but we
will put it, as they say, to fortuna de la guerra. 

1045
01:43:58.440 --> 01:44:06.400
I wish you the peace of 
mind, most royal couplement! 

1046
01:44:07.120 --> 01:44:13.800
Here is like to be a good presence of Worthies. He
presents Hector of Troy; the swain, Pompey the 

1047
01:44:13.800 --> 01:44:18.120
Great; the parish curate, 
Alexander; Armado's page, 

1048
01:44:18.120 --> 01:44:26.800
Hercules; the pedant, Judas Maccabaeus: And if
these four Worthies in their first show thrive, 

1049
01:44:26.800 --> 01:44:28.640
These four will change habits,  

1050
01:44:28.640 --> 01:44:31.883
and present the other five.
There is five in the first show. 

1051
01:44:32.054 --> 01:44:39.800
take each one in his vein.
The ship is under sail, and here she comes amain. 

1052
01:44:39.800 --> 01:44:48.560
I Pompey am,--
You lie, you are not he. 

1053
01:44:48.560 --> 01:44:52.600
I Pompey am,--
 
With libbard's head on knee.
 

1054
01:44:52.600 --> 01:44:59.720
Well said, old mocker: I must needs be friends
with thee.
 

1055
01:44:59.720 --> 01:45:05.160
I Pompey am, surnamed the Big--
 
The Great.
 

1056
01:45:05.160 --> 01:45:08.320
It is, 'Great,' sir:--
Pompey surnamed the Great; 

1057
01:45:08.320 --> 01:45:14.480
That oft in field, with targe and shield, did make
my foe to sweat: 

1058
01:45:14.480 --> 01:45:18.320
And travelling along this 
coast, I here am come by chance, 

1059
01:45:18.320 --> 01:45:23.960
And lay my arms before the legs 
of this sweet lass of France, 

1060
01:45:24.800 --> 01:45:28.920
If your ladyship would say, 
'Thanks, Pompey,' I had done.
 

1061
01:45:28.920 --> 01:45:33.120
Great thanks, great Pompey.
 
'Tis not so much worth;  

1062
01:45:33.120 --> 01:45:40.000
but I hope I was perfect: I
made a little fault in 'Great.'
 

1063
01:45:40.000 --> 01:45:52.920
My hat to a halfpenny, Pompey 
proves the best Worthy.
 

1064
01:46:05.040 --> 01:46:14.280
When in the world I lived, I was the world's
commander; 

1065
01:46:14.280 --> 01:46:23.000
By east, west, north, and south, I spread my
conquering might: 

1066
01:46:23.000 --> 01:46:29.000
My scutcheon plain declares 
that I am Alisander,--
 

1067
01:46:29.000 --> 01:46:32.400
Your nose says, no, you are 
not for it stands too right.

1068
01:46:32.400 --> 01:46:36.480
Your nose smells 'no' in this, 
most tender-smelling knight.
 

1069
01:46:36.480 --> 01:46:46.840
The conqueror is dismay'd. 
Proceed, good Alexander.
 

1070
01:46:46.840 --> 01:46:50.440
When in the world I lived, I was the world's 

1071
01:46:50.440 --> 01:46:55.880
commander,--
Most true, 'tis right; you were so, Alisander. 

1072
01:46:55.880 --> 01:46:59.400
Pompey the Great,--
Your servant, and Costard. 

1073
01:46:59.400 --> 01:47:05.400
Take away the conqueror, take away Alisander.
O, sir, you have overthrown 

1074
01:47:05.400 --> 01:47:06.732
Alisander the conqueror! 

1075
01:47:07.240 --> 01:47:09.640
Your lion will be given
to Ajax. A conqueror, 

1076
01:47:09.640 --> 01:47:13.560
and afeard to speak! For shame. 

1077
01:47:13.560 --> 01:47:17.160
There, an't shall please 
you; a foolish mild man; an 

1078
01:47:17.160 --> 01:47:27.025
honest man, look you, and soon dashed. He is a
marvellous good neighbour and an excellent 

1079
01:47:27.025 --> 01:47:29.320
bowler: but, the conqueror,--alas, you see how
'tis,--a little o'erparted. But there are Worthies 

1080
01:47:29.320 --> 01:47:41.520
a-coming will speak their mind in some other sort.
Great Hercules is presented by this imp, 

1081
01:47:41.520 --> 01:47:46.120
Whose club kill'd Cerberus, 
that three-headed canis; 

1082
01:47:46.120 --> 01:47:55.440
And when he was a child, a babe, a shrimp,
Thus did he strangle serpents in his manus. 

1083
01:47:55.440 --> 01:48:05.680
Quoniam he seemeth in minority,
Ergo I come with this apology. 

1084
01:48:05.680 --> 01:48:18.120
Keep some state in thy exit, and retire.
I Judas am,-- 

1085
01:48:18.120 --> 01:48:22.920
A Judas!
Not Iscariot, sir. 

1086
01:48:22.920 --> 01:48:31.360
I Judas am, ycliped Maccabaeus.
Judas Maccabaeus clipt is plain Judas. 

1087
01:48:31.360 --> 01:48:36.720
And so adieu, sweet Jude! nay, why dost thou stay?
For the latter end of his name. 

1088
01:48:36.720 --> 01:48:43.480
For the ass to the Jude; 
give it him:--Jud-as, away! 

1089
01:48:43.480 --> 01:48:54.960
This is not generous, not gentle, not humble.
A light for Monsieur Judas! it grows dark,  

1090
01:48:54.960 --> 01:49:02.520
he may stumble.
Alas, poor Maccabaeus, how hath he been baited! 

1091
01:49:03.520 --> 01:49:07.840
Hide thy head, Achilles: 
here comes Hector in arms. 

1092
01:49:07.840 --> 01:49:11.040
Though my mocks come home 
by me, I will now be merry. 

1093
01:49:11.040 --> 01:49:16.400
Hector was but a Troyan in respect of this.
But is this Hector? 

1094
01:49:16.400 --> 01:49:23.120
I think Hector was not so clean-timbered.
His leg is too big for Hector's. 

1095
01:49:23.120 --> 01:49:27.400
More calf, certain.
No; he is best endued in the small. 

1096
01:49:27.400 --> 01:49:34.040
This cannot be Hector.
He's a god or a painter; for he makes faces. 

1097
01:49:34.040 --> 01:49:39.920
The 'armipotent' Mars, of lances the almighty, 

1098
01:49:39.920 --> 01:49:43.560
Gave Hector a gift,--
A gilt nutmeg. 

1099
01:49:43.560 --> 01:49:45.360
A lemon.
Stuck with cloves. 

1100
01:49:45.360 --> 01:49:50.480
No, cloven.
Peace!-- 

1101
01:49:50.480 --> 01:50:00.680
The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty
Gave Hector a gift, the heir of Ilion; 

1102
01:50:00.680 --> 01:50:06.440
A man so breathed, that 
certain he would fight; day by day 

1103
01:50:06.440 --> 01:50:10.680
or night, out of his pavilion.
I am that flower,--

1104
01:50:10.680 --> 01:50:12.440
That mint.
 
That columbine. 

1105
01:50:12.440 --> 01:50:18.360
Sweet Lord Longaville, rein thy tongue.
I rather give it the rein,  

1106
01:50:18.360 --> 01:50:22.640
for it runs against Hector.
Ay, and Hector's a greyhound. 

1107
01:50:23.760 --> 01:50:25.480
Sweet chucks, the war-man is dead 
and rotten;  

1108
01:50:25.480 --> 01:50:28.880
beat not the bones of the 
buried: when he breathed, 

1109
01:50:28.880 --> 01:50:36.760
he was a man. But I will forward with my device.
Sweet royalty, bestow on me the sense of hearing.

1110
01:50:36.760 --> 01:50:42.080
Speak, brave Hector: we are much delighted.
I do adore thy sweet grace's slipper. 

1111
01:50:42.080 --> 01:50:47.480
Loves her by the foot,--
He may not by the yard. 

1112
01:50:47.480 --> 01:50:56.440
This Hector far surmounted Hannibal,--
The party is gone- fellow Hector, she is gone; she 

1113
01:50:56.440 --> 01:51:01.440
is three months on her way.
What meanest thou? 

1114
01:51:01.440 --> 01:51:04.360
Faith, unless you play the honest Troyan, the poor 

1115
01:51:04.360 --> 01:51:07.920
wench is cast away: she's 
quick; the child brags in 

1116
01:51:07.920 --> 01:51:12.480
her belly already: tis yours.
Dost thou infamonize me among  

1117
01:51:12.480 --> 01:51:18.040
potentates? thou shalt
die. 

1118
01:51:19.400 --> 01:51:22.560
I'll do it in my shirt.
Most resolute Pompey! 

1119
01:51:23.560 --> 01:51:28.840
Master, let me take you a buttonhole lower. Do you
not see Pompey is uncasing  

1120
01:51:28.840 --> 01:51:32.800
for the combat? What mean
you? You will lose your reputation.
 
 

1121
01:51:32.800 --> 01:51:35.800
Gentlemen and soldiers, 
pardon me; I will not combat 

1122
01:51:35.800 --> 01:51:38.120
in my shirt.
You may not deny it:  

1123
01:51:38.120 --> 01:51:42.360
Pompey hath made the challenge. 
 
Sweet bloods, I both may and will. 

1124
01:51:42.360 --> 01:51:44.880
What reason have you for't?
 
The naked truth of it is,  

1125
01:51:44.880 --> 01:51:51.160
I have no shirt; I go
woolward for penance. 

1126
01:51:51.160 --> 01:51:58.400
True, and it was enjoined him in Rome for want of
linen: since when, I'll be sworn, he wore none but 

1127
01:51:58.400 --> 01:52:03.876
a dishclout of Jaquenetta's, 
and that a' wears next 

1128
01:52:03.876 --> 01:52:20.520
his heart for a favour.
MERCADE: God save you, madam!

1129
01:52:20.520 --> 01:52:25.600
Welcome, Mercade;
But that thou interrupt'st our merriment.

1130
01:52:25.600 --> 01:52:37.120
I am sorry, madam; for the news I bring
Is heavy in my tongue. The king your father--

1131
01:52:37.120 --> 01:52:40.600
Dead, for my life!

1132
01:52:40.600 --> 01:52:46.480
Even so; my tale is told.
 
Worthies, away! the scene begins to cloud.

1133
01:52:46.480 --> 01:52:52.960
For mine own part, I breathe free breath. I have
seen the day of wrong through the little hole of 

1134
01:52:52.960 --> 01:52:57.920
discretion, and I will 
right myself like a soldier.

1135
01:52:57.920 --> 01:52:59.800
How fares your majesty?

1136
01:52:59.800 --> 01:53:02.220
Boyet, prepare; I will away tonight.

1137
01:53:02.220 --> 01:53:05.040
Madam, not so; I do beseech you, stay.

1138
01:53:05.040 --> 01:53:11.483
Prepare, I say. I thank you, gracious lords. 

1139
01:53:11.562 --> 01:53:13.720
If over-boldly we have borne ourselves 

1140
01:53:13.720 --> 01:53:16.880
In the converse of breath: your gentleness 

1141
01:53:16.880 --> 01:53:24.720
Was guilty of it. Farewell worthy lord!
A heavy heart bears not a humble tongue: 

1142
01:53:24.720 --> 01:53:31.720
Excuse me so, coming too short of thanks
For my great suit so easily obtain'd.

1143
01:53:31.720 --> 01:53:38.600
The extreme parts of time extremely forms
All causes to the manners of his speed, 

1144
01:53:38.600 --> 01:53:43.520
And often at his very loose decides
That which long process could not arbitrate: 

1145
01:53:43.520 --> 01:53:48.840
I understand you not: my griefs are double.
 
Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief; 

1146
01:53:48.840 --> 01:53:55.560
by these badges understand the king.
For your fair sakes have we neglected time, 

1147
01:53:55.560 --> 01:53:59.880
play'd foul play with our 
oaths: your beauty, ladies, 

1148
01:53:59.880 --> 01:54:06.400
hath much deform'd us, fashioning our humors
even to the opposed end of our intents 

1149
01:54:06.400 --> 01:54:10.880
Therefore, ladies, our love being 
yours, the error that love makes 

1150
01:54:10.880 --> 01:54:17.720
is likewise yours: we to ourselves prove false,
By being once false for ever to be true 

1151
01:54:17.720 --> 01:54:24.840
To those that make us both,--fair ladies, you:
And even that falsehood, in itself a sin, 

1152
01:54:24.840 --> 01:54:31.480
Thus purifies itself and turns to grace.
We have received your letters full of love; 

1153
01:54:31.480 --> 01:54:36.800
Your favours, the ambassadors of love;
And, in our maiden council, rated them 

1154
01:54:36.800 --> 01:54:43.440
At courtship, pleasant jest and courtesy,
As bombast and as lining to the time: 

1155
01:54:43.440 --> 01:54:48.920
But more devout than this in our respects
Have we not been; and therefore met your loves 

1156
01:54:48.920 --> 01:54:54.960
In their own fashion, like a merriment.
Our letters, madam, show'd much more than jest. 

1157
01:54:54.960 --> 01:54:58.240
As did our looks.
We did not quote them so. 

1158
01:54:58.240 --> 01:55:02.280
Now, at the latest minute of the hour,
Grant us your loves. 

1159
01:55:02.280 --> 01:55:06.920
A time, methinks, too short
To make a world-without-end bargain in. 

1160
01:55:06.920 --> 01:55:14.380
No, no, my lord, your grace is perjured much,
Full of dear guiltiness; and therefore this: 

1161
01:55:14.380 --> 01:55:26.440
If for my love, as there is no such cause,
You will do aught, this shall you do for me: 

1162
01:55:26.440 --> 01:55:39.680
Your oath I will not trust; but go with speed
To some forlorn and naked hermitage, 

1163
01:55:39.680 --> 01:55:47.480
Remote from all the pleasures of the world;
There stay until the twelve celestial signs 

1164
01:55:47.480 --> 01:55:52.240
Have brought about the annual reckoning.
If this austere insociable life 

1165
01:55:52.800 --> 01:55:56.797
Change not your offer made in heat of blood;

1166
01:55:56.880 --> 01:56:10.360
Then, at the expiration of the year,
Come challenge me, challenge me by these deserts, 

1167
01:56:10.360 --> 01:56:16.200
And, by this virgin palm now kissing thine
I will be thine; and till that instant shut 

1168
01:56:16.200 --> 01:56:22.040
My woeful self up in a mourning house,
If this, or more than this, I would deny, 

1169
01:56:22.040 --> 01:56:28.600
to flatter up these powers of mine with rest,
the sudden hand of death close up mine eye! 

1170
01:56:28.600 --> 01:56:38.520
Hence ever then my heart is in thy breast.
But what to me, my love? but what to me? A wife? 

1171
01:56:38.520 --> 01:56:43.280
A beard, fair health, and honesty;
With three-fold love I wish you all these three. 

1172
01:56:43.280 --> 01:56:49.200
O, shall I say, I thank you, gentle wife?
Not so, my lord; a twelvemonth and a day 

1173
01:56:49.200 --> 01:56:55.400
I'll mark no words that smooth-faced wooers say:
Come when the king doth to my lady come; 

1174
01:56:55.400 --> 01:57:00.920
Then, if I have much love, I'll give you some.
I'll serve thee true and faithfully till then.

1175
01:57:00.920 --> 01:57:09.040
Yet swear not, lest ye be forsworn again.
 
What says Maria?

1176
01:57:09.040 --> 01:57:10.520
At the twelvemonth's end 

1177
01:57:10.520 --> 01:57:18.520
I'll change my black gown for a faithful friend.
 
I'll stay with patience; but the time is long.

1178
01:57:18.520 --> 01:57:22.160
The liker you; few taller are so young.

1179
01:57:29.280 --> 01:57:35.360
Studies my lady? Mistress, look on me;
Behold the window of my heart, mine eye, 

1180
01:57:35.360 --> 01:57:41.920
What humble suit attends thy answer there:
Impose some service on me for thy love.

1181
01:57:41.920 --> 01:57:46.840
Oft have I heard of you, my Lord Biron,
Before I saw you; and the world's large tongue 

1182
01:57:46.840 --> 01:57:51.440
Proclaims you for a man replete with mocks,
Full of wounding flouts and comparisons, 

1183
01:57:52.360 --> 01:57:58.640
Which you on all estates will execute
That lie within the mercy of your wit. 

1184
01:57:58.640 --> 01:58:04.520
To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain,
And therewithal to win me, if you please, 

1185
01:58:04.520 --> 01:58:10.960
Without the which I am not to be won,
You shall this twelvemonth term from day to day 

1186
01:58:10.960 --> 01:58:16.800
Visit the speechless sick and still converse
With groaning wretches; and your task shall be, 

1187
01:58:16.800 --> 01:58:22.120
With all the fierce endeavor of your wit
To enforce the pained impotent to smile. 

1188
01:58:23.040 --> 01:58:26.160
To move wild laughter in the throat of death? 

1189
01:58:27.480 --> 01:58:30.520
It cannot be; it is impossible:
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

1190
01:58:30.520 --> 01:58:35.320
Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit,
Whose influence is begot of that loose grace 

1191
01:58:35.320 --> 01:58:41.560
Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools:
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear 

1192
01:58:42.320 --> 01:58:48.080
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears, 

1193
01:58:48.080 --> 01:58:53.760
Deaf'd with the clamours of their own dear groans,
Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, 

1194
01:58:53.760 --> 01:58:59.080
And I will have you and that fault withal;
But if they will not, throw away that spirit, 

1195
01:58:59.080 --> 01:59:11.265
And I shall find you empty of that fault,
Right joyful of your reformation.

1196
01:59:11.265 --> 01:59:17.400
Well; befall what will befall,
I'll jest a twelvemonth in an hospital.

1197
01:59:17.400 --> 01:59:21.109
Ay, sweet my lord; and so I take my leave.

1198
01:59:21.109 --> 01:59:26.440
We will bring you on your way.
 
Our wooing doth not end like an old play; 

1199
01:59:26.440 --> 01:59:31.600
Jack hath not Jill: these ladies' courtesy
Might well have made our sport a comedy.

1200
01:59:31.600 --> 01:59:34.120
Come, sir, it wants a twelvemonth and a day, 

1201
01:59:34.120 --> 01:59:43.080
And then 'twill end.
That's too long for a play. 

1202
01:59:43.080 --> 01:59:46.494
Sweet majesty, 

1203
01:59:46.494 --> 01:59:52.160
I will kiss thy royal finger, and take leave. I am 

1204
01:59:52.160 --> 01:59:59.540
a votary; I have vowed to Jaquenetta to hold the
plough for her love three years. 

1205
01:59:59.540 --> 02:00:01.640
But, will 
you not hear the dialogue that 

1206
02:00:01.640 --> 02:00:05.704
the two learned men have compiled in praise of the
owl and the cuckoo?

1207
02:00:05.704 --> 02:00:07.400
Call them forth quickly;  

1208
02:00:07.400 --> 02:00:20.360
We will do so.
Holla! Approach.

1209
02:00:20.360 --> 02:00:24.680
This side is Ver, Spring. 
This side here is Winter. 

1210
02:00:24.680 --> 02:00:33.298
The one maintained by the owl, the other by the
cuckoo. Ver, begin.

1211
02:00:33.298 --> 02:00:36.300
[Flute begins to play]

1212
02:00:37.268 --> 02:00:41.338
[Singing]
♪ When daisies pied and violets blue 

1213
02:00:41.404 --> 02:00:51.190
♪ Do paint the meadows with delight,
♪ The cuckoo then, on every tree, 

1214
02:00:51.190 --> 02:00:56.016
♪ Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo;
♪ Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, 

1215
02:00:56.016 --> 02:01:04.156
♪ Unpleasing to a married ear!
♪ When shepherds pipe on oaten straws 

1216
02:01:04.389 --> 02:01:28.760
♪ Unpleasing to a married ear! (Repeat)
♪ When icicles hang by the wall 

1217
02:01:28.760 --> 02:01:33.796
♪ And Dick the shepherd blows his nail
♪ And Tom bears logs into the hall 

1218
02:01:33.796 --> 02:01:39.191
♪ And milk comes frozen home in pail,
♪ When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, 

1219
02:01:39.191 --> 02:01:45.728
♪ Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit;
♪ Tu-who, a merry note, 

1220
02:01:45.728 --> 02:01:50.860
♪ While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
♪ When all aloud the wind doth blow 

1221
02:01:50.860 --> 02:01:55.880
♪ And coughing drowns the parson's saw
♪ And birds sit brooding in the snow 

1222
02:01:55.880 --> 02:02:02.902
♪ And Marian's nose looks red and raw,
♪ When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, 

1223
02:02:02.902 --> 02:02:04.370
♪ Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; 

1224
02:02:04.370 --> 02:02:12.443
♪ Tu-who, a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. ♪♪

1225
02:02:18.448 --> 02:02:22.051
The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.

1226
02:02:22.480 --> 02:02:30.824
You that way: we this way.

1227
02:02:30.824 --> 02:03:25.070
[Applause]