SOG. Troth, an you be good gentlemen, let's make them friends, and take up the matter between his rapier and him. CAR. Nay, if you intend that, you must lay down the matter; for this rapier, it seems, is in the nature of a hanger-on, and the good gentleman would happily be rid of him. FAST. By my faith, and 'tis to be suspected; I'll ask him. MACI. O, here's rich stuff! for life's sake, let us go: A man would wish himself a senseless pillar, Rather than view these monstrous prodigies: "Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit --" [EXIT WITH DELIRO. FAST. Signior. SHIFT. At your service. FAST. Will you sell your rapier? CAR. He is turn'd wild upon the question; he looks as he had seen a serjeant. SHIFT. Sell my rapier! now fate bless me! PUNT. Amen. SHIFT. You ask'd me if I would sell my rapier, sir? FAST. I did indeed. SHIFT. Now, lord have mercy upon me! PUNT. Amen, I say still. SHIFT. 'Slid, sir, what should you behold in my face, sir, that should move you, as they say, sir, to ask me, sir, if I would sell my rapier? FAST. Nay, let me pray you sir, be not moved: I protest, I would rather have been silent, than any way offensive, had I known your nature. SHIFT. Sell my rapier? 'ods lid! -- Nay, sir, for mine own part, as I am a man that has serv'd in causes, or so, so I am not apt to injure any gentleman in the degree of falling foul, but -- sell my rapier! I will tell you, sir, I have served with this foolish rapier, where some of us dare not appear in haste; I name no man; but let that pass. Sell my rapier! -- death to my lungs! This rapier, sir, has travell'd by my side, sir, the best part of France, and the Low Country: I have seen Flushing, Brill, and the Hague, with this rapier, sir, in my Lord of Leicester's time; and by God's will, he that should offer to disrapier me now, I would -- Look you, sir, you presume to be a gentleman of sort, and so likewise your friends here; if you have any disposition to travel for the sight of service, or so, one, two, or all of you, I can lend you letters to divers officers and commanders in the Low Countries, that shall for my cause do you all the good offices, that shall pertain or belong to gentleman of your ---- [LOWERING HIS VOICE.] Please you to shew the bounty of your mind, sir, to impart some ten groats, or half a crown to our use, till our ability be of growth to return it, and we shall think oneself ---- 'Sblood! sell my rapier! SOG. I pray you, what said he, signior? he's a proper man. FAST. Marry, he tells me, if I please to shew the bounty of my mind, to impart some ten groats to his use, or so -- PUNT. Break his head, and give it him. CAR. I thought he had been playing o' the Jew's trump, I.