PHANTASMA _to_ AMORETTO. [_Reads from a Horace, addressing himself_.] _Mecaenas, atavis edite regibus, O, et praesidium et dulce decus meum, Dii faciant votis vela secunda tuis_. INGENIOSO. God save you, good Master Recorder, and good fortunes follow your deserts. I think I have cursed him sufficiently in few words. [_Aside_. SIR RADERIC. What have we here? three begging soldiers? Come you from Ostend or from Ireland? PAGE. _Cujum pecus? an Melibaei?_ I have vented all the Latin one man had. PHANTASMA. _Quid dicam amplius? domini similis os_. AMORETTO'S PAGE. Let him [not] alone, I pray thee. To him again: tickle him there! PHANTASMA. _Quam dispari domino dominaris?_ RECORDER. Nay, that's plain in Littleton; for if that fee-simple and fee-tail be put together, it is called hotch-potch. Now, this word hotch-potch in English is a pudding; for in such a pudding is not commonly one thing only, but one thing with another. AMORETTO. I think I do remember this also at a mooting in our Temple. So then this hotch-potch seems a term of similitude? FUROR to SIR RADERIC. Great Capricornus, of thy head take keep: Good Virgo, watch, while that thy worship sleep; And when thy swelling vents amain, Then Pisces be thy sporting chamberlain. SIR RADERIC. I think the devil hath sent some of his family to torment me. AMORETTO. There is tail-general and tail-special, and Littleton is very copious in that theme; for tail-general is when lands are given to a man and his heirs of his body begotten; tail-special is when lands are given to a man and to his wife, and to the heirs of their two bodies lawfully begotten; and that is called tail-special. SIR RADERIC. Very well; and for his oath I will give a distinction. There is a material oath and a formal oath; the formal oath may be broken, the material may not be broken: for mark you, sir, the law is to take place before the conscience, and therefore you may, using me your councillor, cast him in the suit. There wants nothing to be full meaning of this place. PHANTASMA. _Nihil hic nisi carmina desunt_. INGENIOSO. An excellent observation, in good faith. See how the old fox teacheth the young cub to worry a sheep; or rather sits himself, like an old goose, hatching the addle brain of Master Amoretto. There is no fool to the satin fool, the velvet fool, the perfumed fool; and therefore the witty tailors of this age put them under colour of kindness into a pair of cloth bags, where a voider will not serve the turn. And there is no knave to the barbarous knave, the moulting knave, the pleading knave.--What, ho! Master Recorder? Master _Noverint universi per presentes_,--not a word he, unless he feels it in his fist. PHANTASMA. _Mitto tibi merulas, cancros imitare legendo_. SIR RADERIC _to_ FUROR. Fellow, what art thou, that art so bold?