_Por._ Ay, that’s a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but talk of his horse; and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts, that he can shoe him himself. I am much afeard my lady his mother played false with a smith. _Ner._ Then there is the County Palatine. 40 _Por._ He doth nothing but frown; as who should say, ‘if you will not have me, choose:’ he hears merry tales, and smiles not: I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather be married to a death’s-head with 45 a bone in his mouth than to either of these. God defend me from these two! _Ner._ How say you by the French lord, Monsieur Le Bon? _Por._ God made him, and therefore let him pass for a 50 man. In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker: but, he! —why, he hath a horse better than the Neapolitan’s; a better bad habit of frowning than the Count Palatine: he is every man in no man; if a throstle sing, he falls straight a capering: he will fence with his own shadow: if I should 55 marry him, I should marry twenty husbands. If he would despise me, I would forgive him; for if he love me to madness, I shall never requite him. _Ner._ What say you, then, to Falconbridge, the young baron of England? 60 _Por._ You know I say nothing to him; for he understands not me, nor I him: he hath neither Latin, French, nor Italian; and you will come into the court and swear that I have a poor pennyworth in the English. He is a proper man’s picture; but, alas, who can converse with a 65 dumbshow? How oddly he is suited! I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round hose in France, his bonnet in Germany, and his behaviour every where. _Ner._ What think you of the Scottish lord, his neighbour? _Por._ That he hath a neighbourly charity in him; for he 70 borrowed a box of the ear of the Englishman, and swore he would pay him again when he was able: I think the Frenchman became his surety, and sealed under for another. _Ner._ How like you the young German, the Duke of Saxony’s nephew? 75 _Por._ Very vilely in the morning, when he is sober; and most vilely in the afternoon, when he is drunk: when he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast: an the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without him. 80 _Ner._ If he should offer to choose, and choose the right casket, you should refuse to perform your father’s will, if you should refuse to accept him. _Por._ Therefore, for fear of the worst, I pray thee, set a deep glass of Rhenish wine on the contrary casket; for, if 85 the devil be within and that temptation without, I know he will choose it. I will do any thing, Nerissa, ere I’ll be married to a sponge.