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Love's Labour's Lost, IV. ii

greatly under you: you are a good member of

the commonwealth.

Hol. Mehercle! if their sons be ingenuous, they

shall want no instruction; if their daughters be

capable, I will put it to them. But, vir sapit qui

pauca loquitur. A soul feminine saluteth us.

Jaq. God give you good morrow, Master parson.

Hol. Master parson, quasi pers-on? And if

one should be pierced, which is the one?

Cost. Marry, Master schoolmaster, he that is

likest to a hogshead.

Hol. Of piercing a hogshead! a good lustre of

conceit in a turf of earth; fire enough for a flint,

pearl enough for a swine: 'tis pretty; it is well.

Jaq. Good Master parson [giving a letter to

Nathaniel], be so good as read me this letter:

it was given me by Costard, and sent me from

Don Armado: I beseech you, read it.

Hol. Fauste, precor gelida quando pecus

omne sub umbra Ruminat, and so forth. Ah!

good old Mantuan. I may speak of thee as the

traveller doth of Venice:

—Venetia, Venetia,

Chi non te vede, non te pretia.

Old Mantuan! old Mantuan! Who under-

standeth thee not, loves thee not. Ut, re, sol,

la, mi, fa. Under pardon, sir, what are the con-

tents? or, rather, as Horace says in his—What,

my soul, verses?

 80 Mehercle: a small oath

82 vir sapit, etc.; cf. n.

86 pierced: pronounced 'persed'

89 Of: in reference to

96–98 Fauste Mantuan; cf. n.

100, 101 Venetia pretia; cf. n.

103, 104 Ut fa; cf. n.

105 Horace; cf. n.

