Erastus, be thou honour'd for this deed. ENGLISHMAN. So young, and of such good accomplishment! Thrive, fair beginner, as this time doth promise, In virtue, valour, and all worthiness: Give me thy hand, I vow myself thy friend. ERASTUS. Thanks, worthy sir, whose favourable hand Hath enter'd such a youngling in the war; And thanks unto you all, brave worthy sirs: Impose me task, how I may do you good; Erastus will be dutiful in all. PHILIPPO. Leave protestations now, and let us hie To tread _lavolto_, that is women's walk; There spend we the remainder of the day. [_Exeunt. Manet_ FERDINANDO. FERDINANDO. Though overborne, and foiled in my course, Yet have I partners in mine infamy. 'Tis wondrous, that so young a toward warrior Should bide the shock of such approved knights, As he this day hath match'd and mated too: But virtue should not envy good desert, Therefore, Erastus, happy laud thy fortune: But my Lucina, how she chang'd her colour, When at th' encounter I did lose a stirrup; Hanging her head, as partner of my shame. Therefore now will I go visit her, And please her with this carcanet of worth, Which by good fortune I have found to-day; When valour fails, then must gold make the way. [_Exit._ _Enter_ BASILISCO, _riding of a mule_. BASILISCO. O cursed fortune, enemy to fame, Thus to disgrace thy honoured name, By overthrowing him that far hath spread thy praise, Beyond the course of Titan's burning rays. _Enter_ PISTON. Page, set aside the gesture of my enemy; Give him a fiddler's fee, and send him packing. PISTON. Ho, God save you, sir! have you burst your shin? BASILISCO. Ay, villain; I have broken my shin-bone, My backbone, my channel[395]-bone, and my thigh-bone, Beside two dozen of small inferior bones. PISTON. A shrewd loss, by my faith, sir: But where's your courser's tail? BASILISCO. He lost the same in service. PISTON. There was a hot piece of service where he lost his tail; But how chanc'd[396] it his nose is slit? BASILISCO. For presumption, for covering the emperor's mare. PISTON. Marry, a foul fault; but why are his ears cut? BASILISCO. For neighing in the emperor's court. PISTON. Why, then, thy horse hath been a colt in his time.