Cost. The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that 's flat Sir, your pennyworth is good, an your goose be fat.To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose : Let me see a fat l'envoy; ay, that 's a fat goose. Arm. Come hither, come hither: How did this argument begin? Moth. By saying that a Costard was broken in a shin. Then call'd you for the l'envoy. Cost. True, and I for a plantain: Thus came your argument in ; Then the boy's fat l'envoy, the goose that you bought. And he ended the market. Arm. But tell me; how was there a Costard broken in a shin? Moth. I will tell you sensibly. Cost. Thou hast no feeling of it, Moth; I will speak that l'envoy. I, Costard, running out, that was safely within, Arm. We will talk no more of this matter. Arm. By my sweet soul, I mean, setting thee at liberty, enfreedoming thy person; thou wert immured, restrained, captivated, bound. Cost. True, true; and now you will be my purgation, and let me loose. Arm. I give thee thy liberty, set thee from durance; and, in lieu thereof, impose on thee nothing but this: Bear this significant to the country maid Jaquenetta: there is remuneration; [giving him money] for the best ward of mine honour is rewarding my dependents. Moth, follow. [Exit. Moth. Like the sequel, I.-Signor Costard, adieu. Now will I look to his remuneration. O, that's the Latin word for three farthings: three farthings-remuneration.-What's the price of this inkle? a penny :-No, I 'll give you a remuneration: why, it carries it.-Remuneration!-why, it is a fairer name than French crown. I will never buy and sell out of this word. Enter BIRON. Biron. O, my good knave Costard! exceedingly well met. Cost. Pray you, sir, how much carnation ribbon may a man buy for a remuneration? Biron. What is a remuneration? Cost. Marry, sir, halfpenny farthing. Biron. O, why then, three-farthings-worth of silk. Cost. When would you have it done, sir? Cost. Well, I will do it, sir: Fare you well. The princess comes to hunt here in the park, a Incony Jew. Incony is thought to be the same as the Scotch canny, which is our knowing-cunning. Jew is, perhaps, Costard's superlative notion of a clever fellow. When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name, And Rosaline they call her ask for her; And to her white hand see thou do commend This seal'd-up counsel. There's thy guerdon; go. [Gives him money. Cost. Gardon, O sweet gardon! better than remuneration; eleven-pence farthing better: Most sweet gardon!-I will do it, sir, in print.-Gardon-remu neration. [Exit. Biron. O! And I, forsooth, in love! I, that have been love's whip; A very beadle to a humorous sigh; This wimpled,a whining, purblind, wayward boy; Of trotting paritors.b O my little heart!— And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop! Wimpled-veiled. b Trotting paritors. The paritor, apparitor, is the officer of the ecclesiastical court who carries out citations. A corporal of the field was an officer in some degree resembling our aid-de-camp. A whitely wanton with a velvet brow, ACT IV. SCENE I.-Another part of the Park. Enter the PRINCESS, ROSALINE, MARIA, KATHARINE, BOYET, Lords, Attendants, and a Forester. Prin. Was that the king, that spurr'd his horse so hard Against the steep uprising of the hill? Boyet. I know not; but, I think, it was not he. Prin. Whoe'er he was, he show'd a mounting mind. Well, lords, to-day we shall have our despatch; On Saturday we will return to France.Then, forester, my friend, where is the bush That we must stand and play the murtherer in ? a For. Hereby, upon the edge of yonder coppice; A stand where you may make the fairest shoot. Prin. I thank my beauty, I am fair that shoot, And thereupon thou speak'st, the fairest shoot. For. Pardon me, madam, for I meant not so. Prin. What, what! first praise me, and then again say no? O short-liv'd pride! Not fair? alack for woe! For. Yes, madam, fair. [Giving him money. Royal and noble ladies, in the days of Elizabeth, delighted in the somewhat unrefined sport of shooting deer with a crossbow. b Good my glass. The Forester is the metaphorical glass of the Princess. |