Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Du. worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Dut. Dut.
Dut. It must be your imagination then, & not theirs.
Duk. Duk.
Duk. If wee imagine no worse of them then they of
Duk. themselues, they may passe for excellent men. Here com
Duk. two noble beasts, in a man and a Lion.
Duk. Enter Lyon and Moone‑shine.
Lyon. Lyon.
Lyon. You Ladies, you (whose gentle harts do feare
Lyon. The smallest monstrous mouse that creepes on floore)
Lyon. May now perchance, both quake and tremble heere,
Lyon. When Lion rough in wildest rage doth roare.
Lyon. Then know that I, one Snug the Ioyner am
Lyon. A Lion fell, nor else no Lions dam:
Lyon. For if I should as Lion come in strife
Lyon. Into this place, 'twere pittie of my life.
Du. Du.
Du. A verie gentle beast, and of good conscience.
Dem. Dem.