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Loues Labour's lost. Curat. A most singular and choise Epithat, Draw out his Table‑booke. Peda.
[1645]

He draweth out the thred of his verbositie, fi­

ner then the staple of his argument. I abhor such pha­

naticall phantasims, such insociable and poynt deuise

companions, such rackers of ortagriphie, as to speake

dout fine, when he should say doubt; det, when he shold

[1650]

pronounce debt; debt, not det: he clepeth a Calf, Caufe:

halfe, haufe: neighbour vocatur nebour; neigh abreuiated

ne: this is abhominable, which he would call abhomi­

nable: it insinuateth me of infamie: ne inteligis domine , to

make franticke, lunaticke?

 Cura.
[1655]

Laus deo, bene intelligo

Peda.

Bome boon for boon prescian, a little scratcht, 'twil

serue.

 Enter Bragart, Boy. Curat.

Vides ne quis venit?

Peda.

Video, & gaudio.

Brag.
[1660]

Chirra.

 Peda.

Quari Chirra, not Sirra?

Brag.

Men of peace well incountred.

 Ped.

Most millitarie sir salutation.

 Boy.

They haue beene at a great feast of Languages,

[1665]

and stolne the scraps.

Clow.

O they haue liu'd long on the almes‑basket of

words. I maruell thy M. hath not eaten thee for a word,

for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitu­

dinitatibus: Thou art easier swallowed then a flapdra­

[1670]

gon.

 Page.

Peace, the peale begins.

 Brag.

Mounsier, are you not lettred?

 Page.

Yes, yes, he teaches boyes the Horne‑booke:

What is Ab speld backward with the horn on his head?

 Peda.
[1675]

Ba, puericia with a horne added.

Pag.

Ba most seely Sheepe, with a horne: you heare

his learning.

 Peda.

Quis quis, thou Consonant?

Pag.

The last of the fiue Vowels if You repeat them,

[1680]

or the fift if I.

Peda.

I will repeat them: a e I.

 Pag.

The Sheepe, the other two concludes it o u.

 Brag.

Now by the salt waue of the mediteranium, a

sweet tutch, a quicke vene we of wit, snip snap, quick &

[1685]

home, it reioyceth my intellect, true wit.

Page.

Offered by a childe to an olde man: which is

wit‑old.

 Peda.

What is the figure? What is the figure?

 Page.

Hornes.

 Peda.
[1690]

Thou disputes like an Infant: goe whip thy

Gigge.

 Pag.

Lend me your Horne to make one, and I will

whip about your Infamie vnum cita a gigge of a Cuck­

olds horne.

 Clow.
[1695]

And I had but one penny in the world, thou

shouldst haue it to buy Ginger bread: Hold, there is the

very Remuneration I had of thy Maister, thou halfpenny

purse of wit, thou Pidgeon‑egge of discretion. O & the

heauens were so pleased, that thou wert but my Bastard;

[1700]

What a ioyfull father wouldst thou make mee? Goe to,

thou hast it ad dungil, at the fingers ends, as they say.

Peda.

Oh I smell false Latine, dunghel for vnguem.

Brag.

Arts‑man preambulat, we will bee singled from

the barbarous. Do you not educate youth at the Charg‑

[1705]

house on the top of the Mountaine?

 Peda. Or Mons the hill.

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Brag.

At your sweet pleasure, for the Mountaine.

 Peda.

I doe sans question.

Bra.

Sir, it is the Kings most sweet pleasure and af­

[1710]

fection, to congratulate the Princesse at her Pauilion, in

the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call

the after‑noone.

 Ped.

The posterior of the day, most generous sir, is lia­

ble, congruent, and measurable for the after‑noone: the

[1715]

word is well culd, chose, sweet, and apt I doe assure you

sir, I doe assure.

 Brag.

Sir, the King is a noble Gentleman, and my fa­

miliar, I doe assure ye very good friend: for what is in­

ward betweene vs, let it passe. I doe beseech thee re­

[1720]

member thy curtesie. I beseech thee apparell thy head:

and among other importunate & most serious designes,

and of great import indeed too: but let that passe, for I

must tell thee it will please his Grace (by the world)

sometime to leane vpon my poore shoulder, and with

[1725]

his royall finger thus dallie with my excrement, with my

mustachio: but sweet heart let that passe. By the world

I recount no fable, some certaine speciall honours it

pleaseth his greatnesse to impart to Armado a Souldier,

a man of trauell, that hath seene the world: but let that

[1730]

passe; the very all of all is: but sweet heart I do implore

secrecie, that the King would haue mee present the

Princesse (sweet chucke) with some delightfull ostenta­

tion, or show, or pageant, or anticke, or fire‑worke:

Now, vnderstanding that the Curate and your sweet self

[1735]

are good at such eruptions, and sodaine breaking out of

myrth (as it were) I haue acquainted you withall, to

the end to craue your assistance.

 Peda.

Sir, you shall present before her the Nine Wor­

thies. Sir Holofernes, as concerning some entertainment

[1740]

of time, some show in the posterior of this day, to bee

rendred by our assistants the Kings command: and this

most gallant, illustrate and learned Gentleman, before

the Princesse: I say none so fit as to present the Nine

Worthies.

 Curat.
[1745]

Where will you finde men worthy enough to

present them?

 Peda.

Iosua, your selfe: my selfe, and this gallant gen­

tleman Iudas Machabeus; this Swaine (because of his

great limme or ioynt) shall passe Pompey the great, the

[1750]

Page Hercules.

Brag.

Pardon sir, error: He is not quantitie enough

for that Worthies thumb, hee is not so big as the end of

his Club.

 Peda.

Shall I haue audience: he shall present Hercu­les

[1755]

in minoritie: his enter and exit shall bee strangling a

Snake; and I will haue an Apologie for that purpose.

Pag.

An excellent deuice: so if any of the audience

hisse, you may cry, Well done Hercules, now thou cru­

shest the Snake; that is the way to make an offence gra­

[1760]

cious, though few haue the grace to doe it.

 Brag.

For the rest of the Worthies?

 Peda.

I will play three my selfe.

 Pag.

Thrice worthy Gentleman.

 Brag. Shall I tell you a thing? Peda.
[1765]

We attend.

 Brag.

We will haue, if this fadge not, an Antique. I

beseech you follow.

Ped.

Via good‑man Dull, thou hast spoken no word

all this while.

 Dull.
[1770]
Nor vnderstood none neither sir. Ped.

Alone, we will employ thee.

 Dull. Ile make one in a dance, or so: or I will play on

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Actus Quartus. [Act 5, Scene 1] Conventionally, this is start of Act 5, rather than Act 4, as printed. Enter the Pedant, Curate and Dull. Pedant.
[1630]
Satis quid sufficit. Curat.

I praise God for you sir, your reasons at dinner

haue beene sharpe & sententious: pleasant without scur­

rillity, witty without affection, audacious without im­

pudency, learned without opinion, and strange without

[1635]

heresie: I did conuerse this quondam day with a compa­

nion of the Kings, who is intituled, nominated, or called,

Don Adriano de Armatho.

Ped.

Noui hominum tanquam te, His humour is lofty,

his discourse peremptorie: his tongue filed, his eye

[1640]

ambitious, his gate maiesticall, and his generall behaui­

our vaine, ridiculous, and thrasonicall. He is too picked,

too spruce, too affected, too odde, as it were, too pere­

grinat, as I may call it.

 Curat. A most singular and choise Epithat, Draw out his Table‑booke. Peda.
[1645]

He draweth out the thred of his verbositie, fi­

ner then the staple of his argument. I abhor such pha­

naticall phantasims, such insociable and poynt deuise

companions, such rackers of ortagriphie, as to speake

dout fine, when he should say doubt; det, when he shold

[1650]

pronounce debt; debt, not det: he clepeth a Calf, Caufe:

halfe, haufe: neighbour vocatur nebour; neigh abreuiated

ne: this is abhominable, which he would call abhomi­

nable: it insinuateth me of infamie: ne inteligis domine , to

make franticke, lunaticke?

 Cura.
[1655]

Laus deo, bene intelligo

Peda.

Bome boon for boon prescian, a little scratcht, 'twil

serue.

 Enter Bragart, Boy. Curat.

Vides ne quis venit?

Peda.

Video, & gaudio.

Brag.
[1660]

Chirra.

 Peda.

Quari Chirra, not Sirra?

Brag.

Men of peace well incountred.

 Ped.

Most millitarie sir salutation.

 Boy.

They haue beene at a great feast of Languages,

[1665]

and stolne the scraps.

Clow.

O they haue liu'd long on the almes‑basket of

words. I maruell thy M. hath not eaten thee for a word,

for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitu­

dinitatibus: Thou art easier swallowed then a flapdra­

[1670]

gon.

 Page.

Peace, the peale begins.

 Brag.

Mounsier, are you not lettred?

 Page.

Yes, yes, he teaches boyes the Horne‑booke:

What is Ab speld backward with the horn on his head?

 Peda.
[1675]

Ba, puericia with a horne added.

Pag.

Ba most seely Sheepe, with a horne: you heare

his learning.

 Peda.

Quis quis, thou Consonant?

Pag.

The last of the fiue Vowels if You repeat them,

[1680]

or the fift if I.

Peda.

I will repeat them: a e I.

 Pag.

The Sheepe, the other two concludes it o u.

 Brag.

Now by the salt waue of the mediteranium, a

sweet tutch, a quicke vene we of wit, snip snap, quick &

[1685]

home, it reioyceth my intellect, true wit.

Page.

Offered by a childe to an olde man: which is

wit‑old.

 Peda.

What is the figure? What is the figure?

 Page.

Hornes.

 Peda.
[1690]

Thou disputes like an Infant: goe whip thy

Gigge.

 Pag.

Lend me your Horne to make one, and I will

whip about your Infamie vnum cita a gigge of a Cuck­

olds horne.

 Clow.
[1695]

And I had but one penny in the world, thou

shouldst haue it to buy Ginger bread: Hold, there is the

very Remuneration I had of thy Maister, thou halfpenny

purse of wit, thou Pidgeon‑egge of discretion. O & the

heauens were so pleased, that thou wert but my Bastard;

[1700]

What a ioyfull father wouldst thou make mee? Goe to,

thou hast it ad dungil, at the fingers ends, as they say.

Peda.

Oh I smell false Latine, dunghel for vnguem.

Brag.

Arts‑man preambulat, we will bee singled from

the barbarous. Do you not educate youth at the Charg‑

[1705]

house on the top of the Mountaine?

 Peda. Or Mons the hill. Brag.

At your sweet pleasure, for the Mountaine.

 Peda.

I doe sans question.

Bra.

Sir, it is the Kings most sweet pleasure and af­

[1710]

fection, to congratulate the Princesse at her Pauilion, in

the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call

the after‑noone.

 Ped.

The posterior of the day, most generous sir, is lia­

ble, congruent, and measurable for the after‑noone: the

[1715]

word is well culd, chose, sweet, and apt I doe assure you

sir, I doe assure.

 Brag.

Sir, the King is a noble Gentleman, and my fa­

miliar, I doe assure ye very good friend: for what is in­

ward betweene vs, let it passe. I doe beseech thee re­

[1720]

member thy curtesie. I beseech thee apparell thy head:

and among other importunate & most serious designes,

and of great import indeed too: but let that passe, for I

must tell thee it will please his Grace (by the world)

sometime to leane vpon my poore shoulder, and with

[1725]

his royall finger thus dallie with my excrement, with my

mustachio: but sweet heart let that passe. By the world

I recount no fable, some certaine speciall honours it

pleaseth his greatnesse to impart to Armado a Souldier,

a man of trauell, that hath seene the world: but let that

[1730]

passe; the very all of all is: but sweet heart I do implore

secrecie, that the King would haue mee present the

Princesse (sweet chucke) with some delightfull ostenta­

tion, or show, or pageant, or anticke, or fire‑worke:

Now, vnderstanding that the Curate and your sweet self

[1735]

are good at such eruptions, and sodaine breaking out of

myrth (as it were) I haue acquainted you withall, to

the end to craue your assistance.

 Peda.

Sir, you shall present before her the Nine Wor­

thies. Sir Holofernes, as concerning some entertainment

[1740]

of time, some show in the posterior of this day, to bee

rendred by our assistants the Kings command: and this

most gallant, illustrate and learned Gentleman, before

the Princesse: I say none so fit as to present the Nine

Worthies.

 Curat.
[1745]

Where will you finde men worthy enough to

present them?

 Peda.

Iosua, your selfe: my selfe, and this gallant gen­

tleman Iudas Machabeus; this Swaine (because of his

great limme or ioynt) shall passe Pompey the great, the

[1750]

Page Hercules.

Brag.

Pardon sir, error: He is not quantitie enough

for that Worthies thumb, hee is not so big as the end of

his Club.

 Peda.

Shall I haue audience: he shall present Hercu­les

[1755]

in minoritie: his enter and exit shall bee strangling a

Snake; and I will haue an Apologie for that purpose.

Pag.

An excellent deuice: so if any of the audience

hisse, you may cry, Well done Hercules, now thou cru­

shest the Snake; that is the way to make an offence gra­

[1760]

cious, though few haue the grace to doe it.

 Brag.

For the rest of the Worthies?

 Peda.

I will play three my selfe.

 Pag.

Thrice worthy Gentleman.

 Brag. Shall I tell you a thing? Peda.
[1765]

We attend.

 Brag.

We will haue, if this fadge not, an Antique. I

beseech you follow.

Ped.

Via good‑man Dull, thou hast spoken no word

all this while.

 Dull.
[1770]
Nor vnderstood none neither sir. Ped.

Alone, we will employ thee.

 Dull. Ile make one in a dance, or so: or I will play On the taber to the Worthies, & let them dance the hey. Ped. Most Dull, honest Dull, to our sport away. Exit.
 

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   <sp who="#F-lll-adr">
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      <p n="1689">Hornes.</p>
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   <sp who="#F-lll-cos">
      <speaker rend="italic">Clow.</speaker>
      <p n="1695">And I had but one penny in the world, thou
      <lb n="1696"/>shouldst haue it to buy Ginger bread: Hold, there is the
      <lb n="1697"/>very Remuneration I had of thy Maister, thou halfpenny
      <lb n="1698"/>purse of wit, thou Pidgeon‑egge of discretion. O &amp; the
      <lb n="1699"/>heauens were so pleased, that thou wert but my Bastard;
      <lb n="1700"/>What a ioyfull father wouldst thou make mee? Goe to,
      <lb n="1701"/>thou hast it<hi rend="italic">ad dungil</hi>, at the fingers ends, as they say.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-hol">
      <speaker rend="italic">Peda.</speaker>
      <p n="1702">Oh I smell false Latine,<hi rend="italic">dunghel</hi>for<hi rend="italic">vnguem</hi>.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-adr">
      <speaker rend="italic">Brag.</speaker>
      <p n="1703">
         <hi rend="italic">Arts‑man preambulat</hi>, we will bee singled from
      <lb n="1704"/>the barbarous. Do you not educate youth at the Charg‑
      <lb n="1705"/>house on the top of the Mountaine?</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-hol">
      <speaker rend="italic">Peda.</speaker>
      <l n="1706">Or<hi rend="italic">Mons</hi>the hill.</l>
   </sp>
   <cb n="2"/>
   <sp who="#F-lll-adr">
      <speaker rend="italic">Brag.</speaker>
      <p n="1707">At your sweet pleasure, for the Mountaine.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-hol">
      <speaker rend="italic">Peda.</speaker>
      <p n="1708">I doe<hi rend="italic">sans question</hi>.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-adr">
      <speaker rend="italic">Bra.</speaker>
      <p n="1709">Sir, it is the Kings most sweet pleasure and af­
      <lb n="1710"/>fection, to congratulate the Princesse at her Pauilion, in
      <lb n="1711"/>the<hi rend="italic">posteriors</hi>of this day, which the rude multitude call
      <lb n="1712"/>the after‑noone.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-hol">
      <speaker rend="italic">Ped.</speaker>
      <p n="1713">The<hi rend="italic">posterior</hi>of the day, most generous sir, is lia­
      <lb n="1714"/>ble, congruent, and measurable for the after‑noone: the
      <lb n="1715"/>word is well culd, chose, sweet, and apt I doe assure you
      <lb n="1716"/>sir, I doe assure.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-adr">
      <speaker rend="italic">Brag.</speaker>
      <p n="1717">Sir, the King is a noble Gentleman, and my fa­
      <lb n="1718"/>miliar, I doe assure ye very good friend: for what is in­
      <lb n="1719"/>ward betweene vs, let it passe. I doe beseech thee re­
      <lb n="1720"/>member thy curtesie. I beseech thee apparell thy head:
      <lb n="1721"/>and among other importunate &amp; most serious designes,
      <lb n="1722"/>and of great import indeed too: but let that passe, for I
      <lb n="1723"/>must tell thee it will please his Grace (by the world)
      <lb n="1724"/>sometime to leane vpon my poore shoulder, and with
      <lb n="1725"/>his royall finger thus dallie with my excrement, with my
      <lb n="1726"/>mustachio: but sweet heart let that passe. By the world
      <lb n="1727"/>I recount no fable, some certaine speciall honours it
      <lb n="1728"/>pleaseth his greatnesse to impart to<hi rend="italic">Armado</hi>a Souldier,
      <lb n="1729"/>a man of trauell, that hath seene the world: but let that
      <lb n="1730"/>passe; the very all of all is: but sweet heart I do implore
      <lb n="1731"/>secrecie, that the King would haue mee present the
      <lb n="1732"/>Princesse (sweet chucke) with some delightfull ostenta­
      <lb n="1733"/>tion, or show, or pageant, or anticke, or fire‑worke:
      <lb n="1734"/>Now, vnderstanding that the Curate and your sweet self
      <lb n="1735"/>are good at such eruptions, and sodaine breaking out of
      <lb n="1736"/>myrth (as it were) I haue acquainted you withall, to
      <lb n="1737"/>the end to craue your assistance.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-hol">
      <speaker rend="italic">Peda.</speaker>
      <p n="1738">Sir, you shall present before her the Nine Wor­
      <lb n="1739"/>thies. Sir<hi rend="italic">Holofernes</hi>, as concerning some entertainment
      <lb n="1740"/>of time, some show in the posterior of this day, to bee
      <lb n="1741"/>rendred by our assistants the Kings command: and this
      <lb n="1742"/>most gallant, illustrate and learned Gentleman, before
      <lb n="1743"/>the Princesse: I say none so fit as to present the Nine
      <lb n="1744"/>Worthies.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-nat">
      <speaker rend="italic">Curat.</speaker>
      <p n="1745">Where will you finde men worthy enough to
      <lb n="1746"/>present them?</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-hol">
      <speaker rend="italic">Peda.</speaker>
      <p n="1747">
         <hi rend="italic">Iosua</hi>, your selfe: my selfe, and this gallant gen­
      <lb n="1748"/>tleman<hi rend="italic">Iudas Machabeus</hi>; this Swaine (because of his
      <lb n="1749"/>great limme or ioynt) shall passe<hi rend="italic">Pompey</hi>the great, the
      <lb n="1750"/>Page<hi rend="italic">Hercules</hi>.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-adr">
      <speaker rend="italic">Brag.</speaker>
      <p n="1751">Pardon sir, error: He is not quantitie enough
      <lb n="1752"/>for that Worthies thumb, hee is not so big as the end of
      <lb n="1753"/>his Club.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-hol">
      <speaker rend="italic">Peda.</speaker>
      <p n="1754">Shall I haue audience: he shall present<hi rend="italic">Hercu­les</hi>
         
      <lb n="1755"/>in minoritie: his<hi rend="italic">enter</hi>and<hi rend="italic">exit</hi>shall bee strangling a
      <lb n="1756"/>Snake; and I will haue an Apologie for that purpose.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-mot">
      <speaker rend="italic">Pag.</speaker>
      <p n="1757">An excellent deuice: so if any of the audience
      <lb n="1758"/>hisse, you may cry, Well done<hi rend="italic">Hercules</hi>, now thou cru­
      <lb n="1759"/>shest the Snake; that is the way to make an offence gra­
      <lb n="1760"/>cious, though few haue the grace to doe it.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-adr">
      <speaker rend="italic">Brag.</speaker>
      <p n="1761">For the rest of the Worthies?</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-hol">
      <speaker rend="italic">Peda.</speaker>
      <p n="1762">I will play three my selfe.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-mot">
      <speaker rend="italic">Pag.</speaker>
      <p n="1763">Thrice worthy Gentleman.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-adr">
      <speaker rend="italic">Brag.</speaker>
      <l n="1764">Shall I tell you a thing?</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-hol">
      <speaker rend="italic">Peda.</speaker>
      <p n="1765">We attend.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-adr">
      <speaker rend="italic">Brag.</speaker>
      <p n="1766">We will haue, if this fadge not, an Antique. I
      <lb n="1767"/>beseech you follow.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-hol">
      <speaker rend="italic">Ped.</speaker>
      <p n="1768">
         <hi rend="italic">Via</hi>good‑man<hi rend="italic">Dull</hi>, thou hast spoken no word
      <lb n="1769"/>all this while.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-dul">
      <speaker rend="italic">Dull.</speaker>
      <l n="1770">Nor vnderstood none neither sir.</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-hol">
      <speaker rend="italic">Ped.</speaker>
      <p n="1771">Alone, we will employ thee.</p>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-dul">
      <speaker rend="italic">Dull.</speaker>
      <l n="1772">Ile make one in a dance, or so: or I will play</l>
      <pb facs="FFimg:axc0157-0.jpg" n="137"/>
      <cb n="1"/>
      <l n="1773">On the taber to the Worthies, &amp; let them dance the hey.</l>
   </sp>
   <sp who="#F-lll-hol">
      <speaker rend="italic">Ped.</speaker>
      <l n="1774">Most<hi rend="italic">Dull</hi>, honest<hi rend="italic">Dull</hi>, to our sport away.</l>
   </sp>
   <stage rend="italic inline" type="exit">Exit.</stage>
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