What reason have you to be jealous of this creature? what an ignorant ass or flattering knave might he be counted, that should write sonnets to her eyes, or call her brow the snow of Ida or ivory of Corinth, or compare her hair to the blackbird's bill, when 'tis liker the blackbird's feather! This is all; be wise, I will make you friends; and you shall go to bed together. Marry, look you, it shall not be your seeking; do you stand upon that by any means: walk you aloof; I would not have you seen in't. [CAMILLO _retires._] Sister, my lord attends you in the banqueting-house. Your husband is wondrous discontented. _Vit. Cor._ I did nothing to displease him: I carved to him at supper-time.[27] _Flam._ You need not have carved him, in faith; they say he is a capon already. I must now seemingly fall out with you. Shall a gentleman so well descended as Camillo,--a lousy slave, that within this twenty years rode with the black guard[28] in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping-pans-- _Cam._ Now he begins to tickle her. _Flam._ An excellent scholar,--one that hath a head filled with calves-brains without any sage in them,--come crouching in the hams to you for a night's lodging?--that hath an itch in's hams, which like the fire at the glass-house hath not gone out this seven years.--Is he not a courtly gentleman?--when he wears white satin, one would take him by his black muzzle to be no other creature than a maggot.--You are a goodly foil, I confess, well set out--but covered with a false stone, yon counterfeit diamond.[29] _Cam._ He will make her know what is in me. _Flam._ Come, my lord attends you; thou shalt go to bed to my lord-- _Cam._ Now he comes to't. _Flam._ With a relish as curious as a vintner going to taste new wine.--I am opening your case hard. [_To_ CAMILLO. _Cam._ A virtuous brother, o' my credit! _Flam._ He will give thee a ring with a philosopher's stone in it. _Cam._ Indeed, I am studying alchymy. _Flam._ Thou shalt lie in a bed stuffed with turtles' feathers; swoon in perfumed linen, like the fellow was smothered in roses. So perfect shall be thy happiness, that, as men at sea think land and trees and ships go that way they go, so both Heaven and earth shall seem to go your voyage. Shall't meet him; 'tis fixed with nails of diamonds to inevitable necessity. _Vit. Cor._ How shall's rid him hence? _Flam._ I will put the breeze in's tail,--set him gadding presently.--[_To_ CAMILLO] I have almost wrought her to it, I find her coming: but, might I advise you now, for this night I would not lie with her; I would cross her humour to make her more humble. _Cam._ Shall I, shall I? _Flam._ It will show in you a supremacy of judgment. _Cam._ True, and a mind differing from the tumultuary opinion; for, _quæ negata, grata_. _Flam._ Right: you are the adamant[30] shall draw her to you, though you keep distance off.