Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Const. Question your Grace the late Embassadors,
Const. With what great State he heard their Embassie,
Const. How well supply'd with Noble Councellors,
Const. How modest in exception; and withall,
Const. How terrible in constant resolution:
Const. And you shall find, his Vanities fore-spent,
Const. Were but the out-side of the Roman Brutus,
Const. Couering Discretion with a Coat of Folly;
Const. As Gardeners doe with Ordure hide those Roots
Const. That shall first spring, and be most delicate.
Dolphin. Dolphin.
Dolphin. Well, 'tis not so, my Lord High Constable.
Dolphin. But though we thinke it so, it is no matter:
Dolphin. In cases of defence, 'tis best to weigh
Dolphin. The Enemie more mightie then he seemes,
Dolphin. So the proportions of defence are fill'd:
Dolphin. Which of a weake and niggardly proiection,
Dolphin. Doth like a Miser spoyle his Coat, with scanting
Dolphin. A little Cloth.
King. King.