mours: these betray nice wenches that would be betray'd without thefe, and make the men of note, (do you note men?) that are moft affected to these. Arm. How haft thou purchas'd this experience? Moth. By my pen of observation.

Arm. But O,-but 0,

Moth. The hobby-horfe is forgot.[1]

Arm. Call'st thou my love, hobby-horse?

Moth. No, master; the hobby-horse is but a colt, and your love, perhaps, a hackney. But have you forgot your love?

Arm. Almost I had.

Moth. Negligent ftudent! learn her by heart.
Arm. By heart, and in heart, boy.
Moth. And out of heart, mafter

will prove.

Arm. What wilt thou prove?

all those three I

Moth. A man, if I live; and this by, in, and out of, upon the inftant: By heart you love her, because your heart cannot come by her: in heart you love her, be cause your heart is in love with her; and out of heart you love her, being out of heart, that you cannot enjoy her.

Arm. I am all these three.

Moth. And three times as much more, and yet nothing at all.

Arm. Fetch hither the fwain; he muft carry me a letter.

Moth. A meffage well fympathiz'd; a horfe to be ambaffador for an afs !

Arm. Ha, ha; what fay'ft thou?

Moth. Marry, fir, you must fend the ass upon the horfe, for he is very flow-gaited: But I go. Arm. The way is but fhort; away.

Moth. As fwift as lead, fir...

Arm. Thy meaning, pretty ingenious:

Is not lead a metal heavy, dull and flow?

[1] In the celebration of May-day, befides the sports now used of hanging a pole with garlands, and dancing round it, formerly a boy was dressed up reprefenting maid Marian; another like a friar; and another rode on a hobby-horfe, with bells gingling, and painted ftreamers. After the Refor mation took place, and precifians multiplied, thefe latter rites were looked upon to favour of paganifm; and then maid Marian, the friar, and the poor hobby-horfe, were turned out of the games. Some who were no fo wifely precife, but regretted the difufe of the hobby-horfe, no doubt fatirized this fufpicion of idolatry, and archly wrote the epitaph above alluded to. THEO.

Moth. Minime, honeft master; or rather, mafter, no.. Arm. I say, lead is flow.

Moth. You are too fwift, fir, to say so::

Is that lead flow, fit, which is fir'd from a gun?
Arm. Sweet fmoke of rhetoric !*

He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's he ::
I fhoot thee at the fwain.

Moth. Thump then, and I flee.

[Exit Arm. A most acute juvenal, voluble and free of grace; By thy favour, fweet welkin,[2] I muft figh in thy face: Moft rude melancholy, valour gives thee place. My herald is return'd.

Re-enter MOTH and COSTARD:

Moth. A wonder, master; here's a Coftard broken in a fhin..

Arm. Some enigma, fome riddle: come,-thy l'envoy; -begin.

Caft. No egma, no riddle, no l'envoy; no falve in the male, fir:[3] Ofir, plantain, a plain plantain ; no l'envoy, no l'envoy, or falve, fir, but plantain !

Arm. By virtue, thou enforceft laughter; thy filly thought, my fpleen; the heaving of my lungs provokes me to ridiculous fmiling: O pardon me, my ftars! Doth the inconfiderate take falve for l'envoy, and the word l'envoy for a falve?

Moth. Doth the wife think them other? is not l'envoy a falve?

Arm. No, page; it is an epilogue or difcourfe, to make plain

Some obfcure precedence that hath tofore been fain. P will example it. Now will I begin your moral, and do you follow with my l'envoy.

The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,

Were ftill at odds, being but three.

There's the moral: Now the l'envoy

Moth. I will add the l'envoy; Say the moral again. Arm. The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,

Were ftill at odds, being but three.

[2] Welkin is the fky, to which Armado, with the falfe dignity of a Spaniard, makes an apology for fighing in its face.

JOHNS.

[3] "The l'envoy' is a term borrowed from the old French poetry. It appeared always at the head of a few concluding verfes to each piece, which ferved to convey the moral, or to addrefs the poem to fome particular per fon, it was frequently adopted by the old English writers.

STEEV.

Moth. Until the goofe came out door,

Staying the odds by adding four.

A good l'envoy, ending in the goofe; would you defire more?

Caft. The boy hath fold him a bargain; a goofe, that's flat :

Sir, your penny-worth is good, an' your goose be fat. To fell a bargain well, is as cunning as faft and loose : Let me fee a fat l'envoy; ay, that's a fat goofe..

Arm. Come hither, come hither: How did this argument begin?

Moth. By faying, that a Coftard was broken in the shin. Then call'd you for the l'envoy.

Coft. True, and I for a plantain; thus came your argument in :

Then the boy's fat l'envoy, the goofe that you bought; And he ended the market..

Arm. But tell me how was there a Coftard broken in a fhin ?[4]

Moth. I will tell you fenfibly.

Coft. Thou haft no feeling of it, Moth: I will speak that l'envoy :

I, Coftard, running out, that was fafely within,
Fell over the threshold, and broke my shin.

Arm. We will talk no more of this matter.
Coft. Till there be more matter in the fhin.
Arm. Sirrah, Coftard, I will enfranchise thee.
Coft. O, marry me to one Frances; I fmell fome
Penvoy, fome goofe in this.

Arm. By my fweet foul, I mean, fetting thee at liberty, enfreedoming thy person; thou wert immur'd, rerained, captivated, bound.

Coft. True, true; and now you will be my purgation, and let me loofe.

Arm.. I give thee thy liberty, fet thee from durance: and in lieu thereof, impofe on thee nothing but this : Bear this fignificant to the country-maid Jaquenetta : there is remuneration; [Giving him fomething.] for the beft ward of mine honour, is rewarding my dependants. -Moth, follow.

[Exit.

Moth. Like the fequel, L[5] Signior Costard, adieu.

[Exits

[4] Coftard is the name of a fpecies of apple. JOHNS [5] Sequele,' in French, fignifies a great man's train. The joke is, that

a fingle page was all his train

WARB

Coft. My fweet ounce of man's flesh! my in-cony ~ Jew [6] Now will I look to his remuneration. Remuneration! O, that's the Latin word for three farthings: three farthings, remuneration.-What's the price of this incle? a penny-No, I'll give you a remuneration: why, it carries it.-Remuneration !—why, it is a fairer name than a French crown. I will never buy and fell out of ̈ ̄` this word. Enter BIRON.

Biron. O my good knave Coftard! exceedingly well met.. Coft. Pray you, fir, how much carnation ribbon may a man buy for a remuneration?

Biron. What is a remuneration ??

Coft. Marry, fir, half-penny farthing.

Biron. O, why then, three-farthing worth of filk.
Coft. I thank your worship: God be with you.
Biron. O ftay, flave; I muft employ thee:
As thou wilt win my favour, my good knave,
Do one thing for me that I fhall entreat.

Coft. When would you have it done, fir?
Biron. O, this afternoon.

Coft. Well, I will do it, fir: Fare you well.
Biron. O, thou knoweft not what it is.
Coft. I fhall know, fir, when I have done it.
Biron. Why, villain, thou must know first.

Coft. I will come to your worship to-morrow morning,
Biron. It must be done this afternoon.

Hark, flave, it is but this ;

The princefs comes to hunt here in the park :
And in her train there is a gentle lady;

When tongues speak fweetly, then they name her name,
And Rofaline they call her: afk for her;
And to her fweet hand fee thou doft commend
This feal'd-up counsel.. There's thy guerdon; go.
[Gives him a filling.

Coft. Guerdon,-O sweet guerdon! better than remuneration; eleven-pence farthing better: Most sweet guerdon !—I will do it, fir, in print.[7]-Guerdonrenumeration.

Biron. O and I, forsooth, in love!! I that have been love's whip;

[Exit.

(6) Incony' or 'kony' in the north fignifies, fine, delicate. WARB. (7) That is, exactly, with the utmost nicety, STEEV..

A very beadle to a humorous figh;
A critic; nay, a night-watch conftable;
A domineering pedant o'er the boy,

Than whom no mortal more magnificent!

This wimpled,[8] whining, purblind, wayward boy;
This fignior Junio's giant-dwarf,[9] Dan Cupid;
Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
The anointed fovereign of fighs and groans;
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents;
Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces;
Sole imperator and great general

Of trotting paritors [1] (O my little heart!)-
And I to be a corporal of his field,

And wear his colours, like a tumbler's hoop!
What? what? I love! I fue! I feek a wife!
A woman, that is like a German clock,[2]
Still a repairing; ever out of frame;
And never going aright, being a watch,
But being watch'd, that it may ftill go right?
Nay, to be perjur'd, which is worst of all;
And, among three, to love the worst of all:
A whitely wanton with a velvet brow,

With two pitch balls ftuck in her face for eyes;
Ay, and by heaven, one that will do the deed,
Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard :
And I to figh for her! to watch for her

To pray for her! Go to; it is a plague

(8) The 'wimple was a hood or veil, which fell over the face. Had Shakespeare been acquainted with the flammeurn of the Romans, or the gem which reprefents the marriage of Cupid and Pfyche, his choice of the epithet would have been much applauded by all the advocates in favour of his learning. In Ifaiah, chap. iii. v. 22, we find the mantles, and the swimples, and the crifping-pins." STEEV.

(9) Mr. Upton has made a very ingenious conjecture on this paffage. He reads, This fignior Julio's giant-dwarf.'-Shakefpeare, fays he, intended to compliment Julio Romano, who drew Cupid in the character of a giantdwarf. Dr. Warburton thinks, that by Junio' is meant youth in general. JOHNS.

(1) An 'apparitor,' or 'paritor,' is an officer of the bishop's court who carries out citations; as citations are most frequently iffued for fornication, the 'paritor' is put under Cupid's government. JOHNS.

[2] The following extract is taken from a book called The Artificial Clockmaker, 1714" Clock-making was fuppofed to have had its begin"ning in Germany within less than thefe two hundred years. It is very "probable, that our balance-clocks or watches, and fume other automata, "might have had their beginning there; &c."To the inartificial conAtruction of these first pieces of mechanifm, executed in Germany, we may fuppofe Shakespeare alludes. The clock at Hampton-Court, which was fet up in 1540, (as appears from the infcription affixed to it) is faid to be the firft ever fabricated in England. STEEV.