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scotched him and notched him like a carbonado.

SECOND SERVINGMAN
An he had been cannibally [195] given, he might have boiled and eaten him
too.

FIRST SERVINGMAN
But more of thy news!

THIRD SERVINGMAN
Why, he is so made on here within as if he were son and heir to Mars; set at
upper end o’th’table; no question asked him by any of the senators [200] but

they stand bald before him. Our general himself makes a mistress of him,
sanctifies himself with’s hand, and turns up the white o’th’eye to his
discourse. But the bottom of the news is, our general is cut i’th’middle and

but one half of what he was yesterday, for [205] the other has half by the
entreaty and grant of the whole table. He’ll go, he says, and sowl the porter
of Rome gates by th’ears. He will mow all down before him, and leave his
passage polled.

SECOND SERVINGMAN
And he’s as like to do’t as any [210] man I can imagine.

THIRD SERVINGMAN
Do’t! He will do’t, for look you, sir, he has as many friends as enemies; which

friends, sir, as it were, durst not − look you, sir − show themselves, as we
term it, his friends whilst he’s in directitude. [215]

FIRST SERVINGMAN
Directitude? What’s that?

THIRD SERVINGMAN
But when they shall see, sir, his crest up again and the man in blood, they

will out of their burrows like conies after rain, and revel all with him.

FIRST SERVINGMAN

But when goes this forward? [220]