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Love's Labour's Lost, I. ii

Boy. Little pretty, because little. Wherefore

apt?

Arm. And therefore apt, because quick.

Boy. Speak you this in my praise, master?

Arm. In thy condign praise.

Boy. I will praise an eel with the same

praise.

Arm. What! that an eel is ingenious?

Boy. That an eel is quick.

Arm. I do say thou art quick in answers:

thou heat'st my blood.

Boy. I am answered, sir.

Arm. I love not to be crossed.

Boy. [Aside.] He speaks the mere contrary:

crosses love not him.

Arm. I have promised to study three years

with the duke.

Boy. You may do it in an hour, sir.

Arm. Impossible.

Boy. How many is one thrice told?

Arm. I am ill at reckoning; it fitteth the

spirit of a tapster.

Boy. You are a gentleman and a gamester,

sir.

Arm. I confess both: they are both the var-

nish of a complete man.

Boy. Then, I am sure you know how much

the gross sum of deuce-ace amounts to.

Arm. It doth amount to one more than two.

Boy. Which the base vulgar do call three.

Arm. True.

Boy. Why, sir, is this such a piece of study?

Now, here is three studied, ere ye'll thrice wink;

 37 crosses: coins (which had crosses on them)

