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ARMADO
How hast thou purchased this experience?
MOTE
By my penny of observation. [25]
ARMADO
But O - but O -
MOTE
‘The hobby-horse is forgot.’
ARMADO
Callest thou my love ‘hobby-horse’?
MOTE
No, master. The hobby-horse is but a colt, ( aside) and your love perhaps a
hackney. (To him) But have you [30] forgot your love?
ARMADO
Almost I had.
MOTE
Negligent student! Learn her by heart.
ARMADO
By heart and in heart, boy.
MOTE
And out of heart, master. All those three I will [35] prove.
ARMADO
What wilt thou prove?
MOTE
A man, if I live; and this ‘by’, ‘in’, and ‘without’, upon the instant. ‘By’ heart
you love her, because your heart cannot come by her; ‘in’ heart you love
her, [40] because your heart is in love with her; and ‘out’ of heart you love
her, being out of heart that you cannot enjoy her.
