140: _o’ t’ other_] _at other_ Qq Ff. _of wit_] _of small wit_ Collier MS. 141: _a most_] F2 F3 F4. _most_ Qq F1. 142: [Shout within.] F4. Shot within. Q1. Shoote within. F1. Shoote with him. Q2. Showte within. F2. ~~~~~ SCENE II. _The same._ _Enter_ HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, _and_ DULL. _Nath._ Very reverend sport, truly; and done in the testimony of a good conscience. _Hol._ The deer was, as you know, sanguis, in blood; ripe as the pomewater, who now hangeth like a jewel in the ear of caelo, the sky, the welkin, the heaven; and anon falleth 5 like a crab on the face of terra, the soil, the land, the earth. _Nath._ Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets are sweetly varied, like a scholar at the least: but, sir, I assure ye, it was a buck of the first head. _Hol._ Sir Nathaniel, haud credo. 10 _Dull._ ’Twas not a haud credo; ’twas a pricket. _Hol._ Most barbarous intimation! yet a kind of insinuation, as it were, in via, in way, of explication; facere, as it were, replication, or, rather, ostentare, to show, as it were, his inclination, after his undressed, unpolished, uneducated, 15 unpruned, untrained, or, rather, unlettered, or, ratherest, unconfirmed fashion, to insert again my haud credo for a deer. _Dull._ I said the deer was not a haud credo; ’twas a pricket. _Hol._ Twice-sod simplicity, bis coctus! 20 O thou monster Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look! _Nath._ Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts: 25 And such barren plants are set before us, that we thankful should be, Which we of taste and feeling are, for those parts that do fructify in us more than he. For as it would ill become me to be vain, indiscreet, or a fool, So were there a patch set on learning, to see him in a school: But omne bene, say I; being of an old father’s mind, 30 Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. _Dull._ You two are book-men: can you tell me by your wit What was a month old at Cain’s birth, that’s not five weeks old as yet? _Hol._ Dictynna, goodman Dull; Dictynna, goodman Dull. _Dull._ What is Dictynna? 35 _Nath._ A title to Phœbe, to Luna, to the moon. _Hol._ The moon was a month old when Adam was no more, And raught not to five weeks when he came to five-score. The allusion holds in the exchange. _Dull._ ’Tis true indeed; the collusion holds in the exchange. 40 _Hol._ God comfort thy capacity! I say, the allusion holds in the exchange. _Dull._ And I say, the pollusion holds in the exchange; for the moon is never but a month old: and I say beside 45 that, ’twas a pricket that the princess killed.