Page 2420 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

BOY ET

Here comes a member of the commonwealth.

COST ARD

God dig-you-den all! Pray you, which is the head lady?

PRINCESS

Thou shalt know her, fellow, by the rest that have no heads. [45]

COST ARD

Which is the greatest lady, the highest?

PRINCESS

The thickest and the tallest.

COST ARD

The thickest and the tallest! It is so - truth is truth.
An your waist, mistress, were as slender as my wit, [50]
One o’these maids’ girdles for your waist should be fit.
Are not you the chief woman? You are the thickest here.

PRINCESS

What’s your will, sir? What’s your will?

COST ARD

I have a letter from Monsieur Berowne to one Lady Rosaline. [55]

PRINCESS

O, thy letter, thy letter! He’s good friend of mine.
She takes the letter.

Stand aside, good bearer. Boyet, you can carve -
Break up this capon.

BOY ET

I am bound to serve.
He reads the superscript.

This letter is mistook; it importeth none here.
It is writ to Jaquenetta.

PRINCESS