For you'll prove perjur'd, if you make me ftay. Biron. Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? Rof. Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? Biron. I know, you did. Rof. How needlefs was it then to ask the question? Biron. You must not be fo quick. Rof. 'Tis long of you, that fpur me with fuch questions. Biron. Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire. Rof. Not till it leave the rider in the mire. Biron. What time o' day? Rof. The hour, that fools should ask. King. Madam, your father here doth intimate But fay, that he, or we, (as neither have) On payment of a hundred thousand crowns, Dear princess, were not his requests fo far Prin. You do the King my father too much wrong, And wrong the reputation of your name, In fo unfeeming to confefs receipt Of that, which hath fo faithfully been paid. Prin. We arreft your word: Boyet, you can produce acquittances King. Satisfy me fo. Boyet. So please your Grace, the packet is not come, Where that and other fpecialties are bound: -and not demands One payment of a hundred thousand crowns, I have restored, I believe, the genuine fenfe of the paffage. Aquitain was pledged, it feems, to Navarre's father, for 200,000 crowns. The French king pretends to have paid one moiety of this debt, (which Navarre knows nothing of,) but demands this moiety back again: inftead whereof (fays Navarre) he should rather pay the remaining moiety and demand to have Aquitain redelivered up to him. This is plain and eafy reasoning upon the fact fuppos'd; and Navarre declares, he had rather receive the refidue of his debt, than detain the province mortgaged for fecurity of it. THEOBALD. ` For you'll prove perjur'd, if you make me stay. Biron. Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? Rof. Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? Biron. I know, you did. Rof. How needlefs was it then to afk the question? Biron. You must not be fo quick. Rof. 'Tis long of you, that fpur me with fuch questions. Biron. Your wit's too hot, it fpeeds too faft, 'twill tire. Rof. Not till it leave the rider in the mire. Rof. The hour, that fools should ask. King. Madam, your father here doth intimate The payment of a hundred thousand crowns; Being but the one half of an entire fum, Disbursed by my father in his wars. But fay, that he, or we, (as neither have) Boyet. A woman fometimes, an you faw her in the light. Long. Perchance, light in the light: I defire her name. Boyet. She hath but one for herself; to defire that, were a fhame. Long. Pray you, fir, whofe daughter? Boyet. Not unlike, fir; that may be. Biron. You are welcome, fir: adieu! [Exit Long. Boyet. Farewell to me, fir, and welcome to you. [Exit Biron. Mar. That laft is Biron, the merry mad-cap lord; Not a word with him but a jeft. Boyet. And every jest but a word. Prin. It was well done of you to take him at his word. Boyet. I was as willing to grapple as he was to board. Mar. Too hot fheeps, marry! Boyet. And wherefore not ships? No fheep, fweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips. Mar. You fheep, and I pafture; fhall that finish the jest? God's bleffing on your beard!] That is, mayft thou have fenfe and ferioufnefs more proportionate to thy beard, the length of which fuits ill with fuch idle catches of wit. JOHNSON. VOL. II. Bb Boyet. Boyet. So you grant pafture for me. Mar. Not fo, gentle beast; My lips are no common, though several they be." Boyet. Belonging to whom? Mar. To my fortunes and me. Prin. Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, The civil war of wits were much better us'd Prin. With what? Boyet. With that which we lovers intitle, affected. Boyet. Why, all his behaviours did make their re- To the court of his eye, peeping thorough defire: 7 My lips are no common, though feveral they be.] Several is an inclofed field of a private proprietor, fo Maria fays, her lips are private property. Of a lord that was newly married one obferved that he grew fat; Yes, faid fir Walter Raleigh, any beaft will grow fat, if you take him from the common and graze him in the Jeveral. JOHNSON. His tongue, all impatient to speak and not fee,] That is, bis tongue being impatiently defirous to fee as well as speak. JOHNSON. 9 To feel only looking -] Perhaps we may better read, To feed only by looking. JOHNSON. |