Pro. There is no news, my lord; but that he writes Wishing me with him, partner of his fortune. Excuse it not, for I am peremptory. Pro. My lord, I cannot be so soon provided; Please you, deliberate a day or two. Ant. Look, what thou want'st, shall be sent after thee: No more of st stay; to-morrow thou must go. Come on, Panthino; you shall be employed To hasten on his expedition. [Exeunt ANT. and PANT. Pro. Thus have I shunn'd the fire, for fear of burning;150 And drench'd me in the s sea, sxil quos-ovel a dolles ot 4 i. e. wonder not. 5 Exhibition is allowance of money; it is still used in the Universities for a stipend. 6 Resembleth is pronounced as if written resembeleth, which makes it a quadrisyllable. 4 robin-red-breast; to walk alone, like one that had the pestilence; to sigh, like a school-boy that had lost his A. B. C; to weep, like a young wench that had buried her grandam; to fast, like one that takes diet2; to watch, like one that fears robbing; to speak puling, like a beggar at Hollowmas 3. You were wont, when you laugh'd, to crow like a cock; when you walked, to walk like one of the lions; when you fasted, it was presently after dinner; when you looked sadly, it was for want of money: and now you are metamorphosed with a mistress, that, when I look on you, I can hardly think you my master. Val. Are all these things perceived in me? Speed. Without you! nay, that's certain, for, without you were so simple, none else would: but you are so without these follies, that these follies are within you, and shine through you like the water in an urinal; that not an eye, that sees you, but is a physician to comment on your malady. Val. But, tell me, dost thou know my lady Silvia? Speed. She that you gaze on so, as she sits at supper?stal wulan art has Val. Hast thou observed that ? even she I mean. Speed. Why, sir, I know her not.T Val. Dost thou know her by my gazing on her, and yet know'st her not? Speed. Is she not hard-favour'd, sir? Val. Not so fair, boy, as well favour'd.adamı Speed. Sir, I know that well enough. Val. What dost thou know? 2 To take diet is to be under a regimen for a disease. The feast of All-hallows, or All Saints, at which time the poor in Staffordshire go from parish to parish a souling, as they call it; i. e. begging and puling (or singing small, as Bailey's Dictionary explains puling), for soul cakes, and singing what they call the souler's song. These terms point out the condition of this benevolence, which was, that the beggars should pray for the souls of the giver's departed friends. bed side |