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| <H3>SCENE II. The same.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Very reverend sport, truly; and done in the testimony</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>of a good conscience.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=3>The deer was, as you know, sanguis, in blood; ripe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>as the pomewater, who now hangeth like a jewel in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>the ear of caelo, the sky, the welkin, the heaven;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>and anon falleth like a crab on the face of terra,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>the soil, the land, the earth.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=8>Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets are sweetly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>varied, like a scholar at the least: but, sir, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>assure ye, it was a buck of the first head.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=11>Sir Nathaniel, haud credo.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>DULL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=12>'Twas not a haud credo; 'twas a pricket.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=13>Most barbarous intimation! yet a kind of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>insinuation, as it were, in via, in way, of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>explication; facere, as it were, replication, or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>rather, ostentare, to show, as it were, his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>inclination, after his undressed, unpolished,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or rather,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>unlettered, or ratherest, unconfirmed fashion, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>insert again my haud credo for a deer.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>DULL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=21>I said the deer was not a haud credo; twas a pricket.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=22>Twice-sod simplicity, his coctus!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>O thou monster Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=24>Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>the duller parts:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>And such barren plants are set before us, that we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>thankful should be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>Which we of taste and feeling are, for those parts that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>do fructify in us more than he.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>For as it would ill become me to be vain, indiscreet, or a fool,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>So were there a patch set on learning, to see him in a school:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>But omne bene, say I; being of an old father's mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>DULL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=37>You two are book-men: can you tell me by your wit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>What was a month old at Cain's birth, that's not five</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>weeks old as yet?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=40>Dictynna, goodman Dull; Dictynna, goodman Dull.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>DULL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=41>What is Dictynna?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=42>A title to Phoebe, to Luna, to the moon.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=43>The moon was a month old when Adam was no more,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>And raught not to five weeks when he came to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>five-score.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>The allusion holds in the exchange.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>DULL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=47>'Tis true indeed; the collusion holds in the exchange.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=48>God comfort thy capacity! I say, the allusion holds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>in the exchange.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>DULL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=50>And I say, the pollusion holds in the exchange; for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>the moon is never but a month old: and I say beside</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>that, 'twas a pricket that the princess killed.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=53>Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>on the death of the deer? And, to humour the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>ignorant, call I the deer the princess killed a pricket.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=56>Perge, good Master Holofernes, perge; so it shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>please you to abrogate scurrility.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech20><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=58>I will something affect the letter, for it argues facility.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>The preyful princess pierced and prick'd a pretty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>pleasing pricket;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>Some say a sore; but not a sore, till now made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>sore with shooting.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>The dogs did yell: put L to sore, then sorel jumps</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>from thicket;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>Or pricket sore, or else sorel; the people fall a-hooting.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>If sore be sore, then L to sore makes fifty sores</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>one sorel.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech21><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=69>A rare talent!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech22><b>DULL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=70>[Aside] If a talent be a claw, look how he claws</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>him with a talent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=72>This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>revolutions: these are begot in the ventricle of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=76>memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=77>delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. But the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=78>gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>thankful for it.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech24><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=80>Sir, I praise the Lord for you; and so may my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=81>parishioners; for their sons are well tutored by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=82>you, and their daughters profit very greatly under</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>you: you are a good member of the commonwealth.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech25><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=84>Mehercle, if their sons be ingenuous, they shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>want no instruction; if their daughters be capable,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=86>I will put it to them: but vir sapit qui pauca</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=87>loquitur; a soul feminine saluteth us.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech26><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=88>God give you good morrow, master Parson.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech27><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=89>Master Parson, quasi pers-on. An if one should be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=90>pierced, which is the one?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech28><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=91>Marry, master schoolmaster, he that is likest to a hogshead.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech29><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=92>Piercing a hogshead! a good lustre of conceit in a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=93>tuft of earth; fire enough for a flint, pearl enough</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=94>for a swine: 'tis pretty; it is well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=95>Good master Parson, be so good as read me this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=96>letter: it was given me by Costard, and sent me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=97>from Don Armado: I beseech you, read it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=98>Fauste, precor gelida quando pecus omne sub umbra</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=99>Ruminat,--and so forth. Ah, good old Mantuan! I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=100>may speak of thee as the traveller doth of Venice;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=101>Venetia, Venetia,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=102>Chi non ti vede non ti pretia.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=103>Old Mantuan, old Mantuan! who understandeth thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=104>not, loves thee not. Ut, re, sol, la, mi, fa.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=105>Under pardon, sir, what are the contents? or rather,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=106>as Horace says in his--What, my soul, verses?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech32><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=107>Ay, sir, and very learned.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=108>Let me hear a staff, a stanze, a verse; lege, domine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=109>[Reads]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=110>If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=111>Ah, never faith could hold, if not to beauty vow'd!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=112>Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll faithful prove:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=113>Those thoughts to me were oaks, to thee like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=114>osiers bow'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=115>Study his bias leaves and makes his book thine eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=116>Where all those pleasures live that art would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=117>comprehend:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=118>If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=119>Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=120>All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=121>Which is to me some praise that I thy parts admire:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=122>Thy eye Jove's lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful thunder,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=123>Which not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=124>Celestial as thou art, O, pardon, love, this wrong,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=125>That sings heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech35><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=126>You find not the apostraphas, and so miss the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=127>accent: let me supervise the canzonet. Here are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=128>only numbers ratified; but, for the elegancy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=129>facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=130>Ovidius Naso was the man: and why, indeed, Naso,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=131>but for smelling out the odouriferous flowers of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=132>fancy, the jerks of invention? Imitari is nothing:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=133>so doth the hound his master, the ape his keeper,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=134>the tired horse his rider. But, damosella virgin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=135>was this directed to you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=136>Ay, sir, from one Monsieur Biron, one of the strange</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=137>queen's lords.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech37><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=138>I will overglance the superscript: 'To the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=139>snow-white hand of the most beauteous Lady</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=140>Rosaline.' I will look again on the intellect of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=141>the letter, for the nomination of the party writing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=142>to the person written unto: 'Your ladyship's in all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=143>desired employment, BIRON.' Sir Nathaniel, this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=144>Biron is one of the votaries with the king; and here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=145>he hath framed a letter to a sequent of the stranger</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=146>queen's, which accidentally, or by the way of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=147>progression, hath miscarried. Trip and go, my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=148>sweet; deliver this paper into the royal hand of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=149>king: it may concern much. Stay not thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=150>compliment; I forgive thy duty; adieu.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>JAQUENETTA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=151>Good Costard, go with me. Sir, God save your life!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech39><b>COSTARD</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=152>Have with thee, my girl.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt COSTARD and JAQUENETTA</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech40><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=153>Sir, you have done this in the fear of God, very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=154>religiously; and, as a certain father saith,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=155>Sir tell me not of the father; I do fear colourable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=156>colours. But to return to the verses: did they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=157>please you, Sir Nathaniel?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=158>Marvellous well for the pen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=159>I do dine to-day at the father's of a certain pupil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=160>of mine; where, if, before repast, it shall please</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=161>you to gratify the table with a grace, I will, on my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=162>privilege I have with the parents of the foresaid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=163>child or pupil, undertake your ben venuto; where I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=164>will prove those verses to be very unlearned,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=165>neither savouring of poetry, wit, nor invention: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=166>beseech your society.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>SIR NATHANIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=167>And thank you too; for society, saith the text, is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=168>the happiness of life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>HOLOFERNES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=169>And, certes, the text most infallibly concludes it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To DULL</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=170>Sir, I do invite you too; you shall not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=171>say me nay: pauca verba. Away! the gentles are at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=172>their game, and we will to our recreation.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=173>LOVE'S LABOURS LOST</A><br> | |
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