_Bel._ Marry, heaven forbid!---- [_Aside._ _Alon._ And I could only find it was no way demonstrative, but altogether fallacious. _Mask._ On what a rock have we split ourselves! _Bel._ Now my ignorance will certainly come out! _Beat._ Sir, remember you are old and crazy, sir; and if the evening air should take you----beseech you, sir, retire. _Alon._ Knowledge is to be preferred before health; I must needs discuss a point with this learned cavalier, concerning a difficult question in that art, which almost gravels me. _Mask._ How I sweat for him, Beatrix, and myself too, who have brought him into this _præmunire_! _Beat._ You must be impudent; for our old man will stick like a burr to you, now he's in a dispute. _Alon._ What judgment may a man reasonably form from the trine aspect of the two infortunes in angular houses? _Bel._ That's a matter of nothing, sir; I'll turn my man loose to you for such a question. [_Puts_ MASKALL _forward_. _Alon._ Come on, sir. I am the quærent. _Mask._ Meaning me, sir! I vow to God, and your worship knows it, I never made that science my study in the least, sir. _Bel._ The gleanings of mine are enough for that: Why, you impudent rogue you, hold forth your gifts, or I'll--What a devil, must I be pestered with every trivial question, when there's not a master in town of any science, but has his usher for these mean offices? _Theo._ Try him in some deeper question, sir; you see he will not put himself forth for this. _Alon._ Then I'll be more abstruse with him: What think you, sir, of the taking Hyleg? or of the best way of rectification for a nativity? Have you been conversant in the Centiloquium of Trismegistus: What think you of Mars in the tenth, when 'tis his own house, or of Jupiter configurated with malevolent planets? _Bel._ I thought what your skill was! to answer your question in two words, Mars rules over the martial, and Jupiter over the jovial; and so of the rest, sir. _Alon._ This every school-boy could have told me. _Bel._ Why then you must not ask such school-boy's questions. But your carcase, sirrah, shall pay for this. [_Aside to_ MASKALL. _Alon._ You seem not to understand the terms, sir. _Bel._ By your favour, sir, I know there are five of them; do not I know your Michaelmas, your Hillary, your Easter, your Trinity, and your Long Vocation term, sir? _Alon._ I do not understand a word of this jargon. _Bel._ It may be not, sir; I believe the terms are not the same in Spain they are in England. _Mask._ Did one ever hear so impudent an ignorance? _Alon._ The terms of art are the same every where. _Bel._ Tell me that! you are an old man, and they are altered since you studied them. _Alon._ That may be, I must confess; however, if you please to discourse something of the art to me, you shall find me an apt scholar.