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The conqueror is dismayed. Proceed, good Alexander.
NATHANIEL as Alexander
When in the world I lived, I was the world’s commander - [565]
BOY ET
Most true, ’tis right - you were so, Alisander.
BEROWNE
Pompey the Great -
COST ARD
Your servant, and Costard.
BEROWNE
Take away the conqueror; take away Alisander.
COST ARD
(to Nathaniel) O, sir, you have overthrown [570] Alisander the conqueror.
You will be scraped out of the painted cloth for this. Your lion, that holds
his pole-axe sitting on a close-stool, will be given to Ajax. He will be the
ninth Worthy. A conqueror, and afeard to speak? Run away for shame,
Alisander. [575]
Nathaniel retires.
There, an’t shall please you, a foolish mild man; an honest man, look you,
and soon dashed. He is a marvellous good neighbour, faith, and a very
good bowler; but for Alisander, alas, you see how ’tis - a little o’erparted.
But there are Worthies a-coming will speak their mind in some [580] other
sort.
PRINCESS
Stand aside, good Pompey.
Enter Holofernes as Judas and Mote as Hercules.
HOLOFERNES as presenter
Great Hercules is presented by this imp,
Whose club killed Cerberus, that three-headed canus,
And when he was a babe, a child, a shrimp, [585]
Thus did he strangle serpents in his manus.
