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l’envoy, the goose that you bought - and he ended the market.
ARMADO
But tell me, how was there a costard broken in a shin? [110]
MOTE
I will tell you sensibly.
COST ARD
Thou hast no feeling of it, Mote. I will speak that l’envoy:
I, Costard, running out, that was safely within,
Fell over the threshold and broke my shin. [115]
ARMADO
We will talk no more of this matter.
COST ARD
Till there be more matter in the shin.
ARMADO
Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee.
COST ARD
O, marry me to one Frances! I smell some l’envoy, some goose in this.
[120]
ARMADO
By my sweet soul, I mean setting thee at liberty, enfreedoming thy person.
Thou wert immured, restrained, captivated, bound.
COST ARD
True, true, and now you will be my purgation and let me loose. [125]
ARMADO
I give thee thy liberty, set thee from durance, and in lieu thereof impose on
thee nothing but this: (giving Costard a letter) bear this significant to the
country maid Jaquenetta. There is remuneration (giving him a coin), for
the best ward of mine honour is rewarding [130] my dependants. Mote,
follow.
