The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_Biron._ Saint George’s half-cheek in a brooch.
_Dum._ Ay, and in a brooch of lead. 610
_Biron._ Ay, and worn in the cap of a tooth-drawer.
And now forward; for we have put thee in countenance.
_Hol._ You have put me out of countenance.
_Biron._ False: we have given thee faces.
_Hol._ But you have out-faced them all. 615
_Biron._ An thou wert a lion, we would do so.
_Boyet._ Therefore, as he is an ass, let him go.
And so adieu, sweet Jude! nay, why dost thou stay?
_Dum._ For the latter end of his name.
_Biron._ For the ass to the Jude; give it him:—Jud-as, away! 620
_Hol._ This is not generous, not gentle, not humble.
_Boyet._ A light for Monsieur Judas! it grows dark, he
may stumble. [_Hol. retires._
_Prin._ Alas, poor Maccabæus, how hath he been baited!
_Enter_ ARMADO, _for Hector_.
_Biron._ Hide thy head, Achilles: here comes Hector in
arms. 625
_Dum._ Though my mocks come home by me, I will now
be merry.
_King._ Hector was but a Troyan in respect of this.
_Boyet._ But is this Hector?
_King._ I think Hector was not so clean-timbered. 630
_Long._ His leg is too big for Hector’s.
_Dum._ More calf, certain.
_Boyet._ No; he is best indued in the small.
_Biron._ This cannot be Hector.
_Dum._ He’s a god or a painter; for he makes faces. 635
_Arm._ The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty,
Gave Hector a gift,—
_Dum._ A gilt nutmeg.
_Biron._ A lemon.
_Long._ Stuck with cloves. 640
_Dum._ No, cloven.
_Arm._ Peace!—
The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty,
Gave Hector a gift, the heir of Ilion;
A man so breathed, that certain he would fight; yea 645
From morn till night, out of his pavilion.
I am that flower,—
_Dum._ That mint.
_Long._ That columbine.
_Arm._ Sweet Lord Longaville, rein thy tongue. 650
_Long._ I must rather give it the rein, for it runs against
Hector.
_Dum._ Ay, and Hector’s a greyhound.
_Arm._ The sweet war-man is dead and rotten; sweet
chucks, beat not the bones of the buried: when he breathed,
he was a man. But I will forward with my device. [_To the
Princess_] Sweet royalty, bestow on me the sense of hearing. 655
_Prin._ Speak, brave Hector: we are much delighted.
_Arm._ I do adore thy sweet Grace’s slipper.
_Boyet._ [_Aside to Dum._] Loves her by the foot.
_Dum._ [_Aside to Boyet_] He may not by the yard.
_Arm._ This Hector far surmounted Hannibal,— 660
_Cost._ The party is gone, fellow Hector, she is gone;
she is two months on her way.
_Arm._ What meanest thou?
_Cost._ Faith, unless you play the honest Troyan, the
poor wench is cast away: she’s quick; the child brags in 665
her belly already: ’tis yours.
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