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
218: Mar. _Two hot sheeps, marry._ Boyet. _And...ships?_] Rowe (ed.
2). Lady Ka. _Two hot sheepes marie._ Bo. _And...shipps?_ Q1. La.
Ma. _Two hot sheeps marie: And wherefore not ships?_ Ff Q2. See
note (VIII).
221: [Offering...] Capell.
224: _but, gentles, agree_] Theobald. _but gentles agree_ Qq Ff.
227, 229: Punctuated as in Theobald, _observation (which...eyes.
Deceave..._ Q1. _observation (which...eyes) Deceive_ Ff Q2.
230–252: Prin. _With-what?...lie._] Put in the margin by Pope.
233: _did_] Q1. _doc_ Ff Q2.
_their_] _the_ Q2.
234: _thorough_] _through_ Q2.
240: _feel only_] _feed on by_ Jackson conj.
243: _where_] Q1. _whence_ Ff Q2.
244: _point you_] Q1. _point out_ Ff Q2.
245: _quote_] Q2. _coate_ Q1 F1 F2. _coat_ F3 F4.
247: _and_] om. Q2.
249: _disposed._] _disposed_— Warburton.
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ACT III.
SCENE I. _The same._
_Enter_ ARMADO _and_ MOTH.
_Arm._ Warble, child; make passionate my sense of
hearing.
_Moth._ Concolinel. [_Singing._
_Arm._ Sweet air! Go, tenderness of years; take this
key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately 5
hither: I must employ him in a letter to my love.
_Moth._ Master, will you win your love with a French
brawl?
_Arm._ How meanest thou? brawling in French?
_Moth._ No, my complete master: but to jig off a tune at 10
the tongue’s end, canary to it with your feet, humour it with
turning up your eyelids, sigh a note and sing a note, sometime
through the throat, as if you swallowed love with singing
love, sometime through the nose, as if you snuffed up
love by smelling love; with your hat penthouse-like o’er the 15
shop of your eyes; with your arms crossed on your thin-belly
doublet, like a rabbit on a spit; or your hands in your
pocket, like a man after the old painting; and keep not too
long in one tune, but a snip and away. These are complements,
these are humours; these betray nice wenches, that 20
would be betrayed without these; and make them men of
note—do you note me?—that most are affected to these.
_Arm._ How hast thou purchased this experience?
_Moth._ By my penny of observation.
_Arm._ But O,—but O,— 25
_Moth._ ‘The hobby-horse is forgot.’
_Arm._ Callest thou my love ‘hobby-horse’?
_Moth._ No, master; the hobby-horse is but a colt, and
your love perhaps a hackney. But have you forgot your
love? 30
_Arm._ Almost I had.
_Moth._ Negligent student! learn her by heart.
_Arm._ By heart and in heart, boy.
_Moth._ And out of heart, master: all those three I will
prove. 35
_Arm._ What wilt thou prove?
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