FUL. I pry thee, Anselm, but observe this fellow; Doest not hear him? he would die for love; That misshap'd love thou wouldst condemn in him, I see in thee: I prythee, note him well. ANS. Were I assur'd that I were such a lover I should be with myself quite out of love: I prythee, let's persuade him still to live. FUL. That were a dangerous case, perhaps the fellow In desperation would, to soothe us up, Promise repentant recantation, And after fall into that desperate course, Both which I will prevent with policy. AMIN. O death! come with thy dart! come, death, when I bid thee! _Mors, veni: veni, mors_! and from this misery rid me; She whom I lov'd--whom I lov'd, even she--my sweet pretty Mary, Doth but flout and mock, and jest and dissimulary. FUL. I'll fit him finely; in this paper is The juice of mandrake, by a doctor made To cast a man, whose leg should be cut off, Into a deep, a cold, and senseless sleep; Of such approved operation That whoso takes it, is for twice twelve hours Breathless, and to all men's judgments past all sense; This will I give the pedant but in sport; For when 'tis known to take effect in him, The world will but esteem it as a jest; Besides, it may be a means to save his life, For being [not] perfect poison, as it seems His meaning is, some covetous slave for coin Will sell it him,[17] though it be held by law To be no better than flat felony. ANS. Uphold the jest--but he hath spied us; peace! AMIN. Gentles, God save you! Here is a man I have noted oft, most learn'd in physic, One man he help'd of the cough, another he heal'd of the pthisic, And I will board him thus, _salve, O salve, magister_! FUL. _Gratus mihi advenis! quid mecum vis_? AMIN. _Optatus venis; paucis te volo_. FUL. _Si quid industria nostra tibi faciet, dic, quaeso_. AMIN. Attend me, sir;--I have a simple house, But, as the learned Diogenes saith In his epistle to Tertullian, It is extremely troubled with great rats; I have no _mus_ puss, nor grey-ey'd cat, To hunt them out. O, could your learned art Show me a means how I might poison them, _Tuus dum suus_, Sir Aminadab. FUL. With all my heart; I am no rat-catcher; But if you need a poison, here is that Will pepper both your dogs, and rats, and cats: Nay, spare your purse: I give this in good will; And, as it proves, I pray you send to me, And let me know. Would you aught else with me? AMIN. _Minimè quidem_; here's that you say will take them? A thousand thanks, sweet sir; I say to you, As Tully in his Aesop's Fables said _Ago tibi gratias_; so farewell, _vale_! [_Exit_. FUL. Adieu! Come, let us go; I long to see, What the event of this new jest will be. _Enter_ YOUNG ARTHUR. Y. ART. Good morrow, gentleman; saw you not this way, As you were walking, Sir Aminadab? ANS. Master Arthur, as I take it? Y. ART. Sir, the same.