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been sworn brother to him; and I'll be sworn a'

never saw him but once in the Tilt-yard, and

then he burst his head for crowding among the

marshal's men. I saw it and told John a Gaunt

he beat his own name; for you might have thrust

him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the

case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him,

a court; and now has he land and beefs. Well,

I'll be acquainted with him, if I return; and

it shall go hard but I'll make him a philoso-

pher's two stones to me. If the young dace be a

bait for the old pike, I see no reason in the law

of nature but I may snap at him. Let time

shape, and there an end.

 

Arch. What is this forest call'd?

Hast. 'Tis Gaultree Forest, an 't shall please your Grace.

Arch. Here stand, my lords, and send discoverers forth,

To know the numbers of our enemies.

Hast. We have sent forth already.

Arch.'Tis well done.

My friends and brethren in these great affairs,

I must acquaint you that I have receiv'd

New-dated letters from Northumberland;

 354 hautboy: slender reed instrument, oboe

357 philosopher's two stones; cf. n. 