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the heaven; and anon falleth like a crab on the

face of terra, the soil, the land, the earth.

Nath. Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets

are sweetly varied, like a scholar at the least: but,

sir, I assure ye, it was a buck of the first head.

Hol. Sir Nathaniel, haud credo.

Dull. 'Twas not a haud credo; 'twas a pricket.

Hol. Most barbarous intimation! yet a kind

of insinuation, as it were, in via, in way, of ex-

plication; facere, as it were, replication, or,

rather, ostentare, to show, as it were, his inclina-

tion,—after his undressed, unpolished, unedu-

cated, unpruned, untrained, or, rather, un-

lettered, or, ratherest, unconfirmed fashion,—to

insert again my haud credo for a deer.

Dull. I said the deer was not a haud credo;

'twas a pricket.

Hol. Twice sod simplicity, bis coctus!

O thou monster Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!

Nath. Sir, he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book.

He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not

drunk ink: his intellect is not replenished; he is

only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts:

And such barren plants are set before us, that we thankful should be,

Which we [of] taste and feeling are, for those parts that do fructify in us more than he;

 10 first head: fifth year

11 haud credo: I do not think so

12 pricket: buck of the second year

15 facere replication: to make reply

19 unconfirmed: ignorant

23 sod: sodden

bis coctus: twice cooked, insipid

30 Which we: we who

than he: i.e. than in him

