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NAT HANIEL
Laus Deo, bone intelligo.
HOLOFERNES
Bone? ‘Bone’ for ‘bene’! Priscian a little scratched; ’twill serve.
Enter Armado, Mote, and Costard.
NAT HANIEL
Videsne quis venit?
HOLOFERNES
Video et gaudeo. [30]
ARMADO
Chirrah!
HOLOFERNES
Quare ‘chirrah’, not ‘sirrah’?
ARMADO
Men of peace, well encountered.
HOLOFERNES
Most military sir, salutation.
MOTE
(to Costard) They have been at a great feast of [35] languages and stolen
the scraps.
COST ARD
(to Mote) O, they have lived long on the almsbasket of words! I marvel thy
master hath not eaten thee for a word, for thou art not so long by the head
a s honorificabilitudinitatibus. Thou art easier swallowed [40] than a flap-
dragon.
MOTE
Peace! The peal begins.
ARMADO
