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MOTE
Lend me your horn to make one, and I will whip about your infamy manu
cita. A gig of a cuckold’s horn!
COST ARD
An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst have it to buy
gingerbread. Hold, there is the [65] very remuneration I had of thy master,
thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion. O, an the
heavens were so pleased that thou wert but my bastard, what a joyful
father wouldst thou make me! Go to, thou hast it ad dunghill, at the
fingers’ ends, as they say. [70]
HOLOFERNES
O, I smell false Latin! ‘Dunghill’ for ‘unguem’.
ARMADO
Arts-man, preambulate. We will be singuled from the barbarous. Do you
not educate youth at the charge-house on the top of the mountain? [75]
HOLOFERNES
Or mons, the hill.
ARMADO
At your sweet pleasure, for the mountain.
HOLOFERNES
I do, sans question.
ARMADO
Sir, it is the King’s most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate the
Princess at her pavilion in [80] the posteriors of this day, which the rude
multitude call the afternoon.
HOLOFERNES
The posterior of the day, most generous sir, is liable, congruent, and
measurable for the afternoon. The word is well culled, choice, sweet, and
apt, I do [85] assure you, sir, I do assure.
ARMADO
Sir, the King is a noble gentleman, and my familiar, I do assure ye, very
