For that fame fcrubbed boy, the Doctor's clerk, Gra. Why, this is like the mending of high-ways It comes from Padua, from Bellario: There you fhall find, that Portia was the Doctor; You fhall not know by what ftrange accident Ant. I am dumb. Baff. Were you the Doctor, and I knew you not? Gra. Were you the clerk, that is to make me cuckold? Ner. Ay, but the clerk, that never means to do it, Unless he live until he be a man. Baff. Sweet Doctor, you shall be my bedfellow; When I am abfent, then lye with my wife. Ant. Sweet Lady, you have giv'n me life and living; For here I read for certain, that my ships Are fafely come to road. Por. How now, Lorenzo ? My clerk hath fome good comforts too for you. From the rich few, a fpecial Deed of Gift, Lor. Fair Ladies, you drop Manna in the way Of ftarved people. Por. It is almoft morning, And yet, I'm fure, you are not satisfy'd VOL. II. H And And charge us there upon interr'gatories, Gra. Let it be fo: the firft interr'gatory, [Exeunt omnes. Boyet, Lords, attending upon the Princess of France. Don Adriano de Armado, a fantastical Spaniard. Dull, a Conftable. Holofernes, a Schoolmaster. Coftard, a Clown. Moth, Page to Don Adriano de Armado. Maria, Catharine, Ladies, attending on the Princess. Jaquenetta, a Country Wench. Officers, and others, Attendants upon the King and Princefs SCENE, the King of Navarre's Palace, and the Country near it. |