Page:Love's Labour's Lost (1925) Yale.djvu/77

Love's Labour's Lost, V. i 

Hol. Satis quod sufficit.

Nath. I praise God for you, sir: your reasons

at dinner have been sharp and sententious;

pleasant without scurrility, witty without affec-

tion, audacious without impudency, learned

without opinion, and strange without heresy. I

did converse this quondam day with a com-

panion of the king's, who is intituled, nomi-

nated, or called, Don Adriano de Armado.

Hol. Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour

is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue

filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and

his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and

thrasonical. He is too picked, too spruce, too

affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate, as

I may call it.

Nath. A most singular and choice epithet.

Draw out his table-book.

Hol. He draweth out the thread of his verbo-

sity finer than the staple of his argument. I

abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insoci-

 1 Satis quod sufficit: Enough is as good as a feast

2 reasons: arguments, discourse

4 affection: affectation

6 opinion: self-conceit

strange: novel, original

10 Novi te: I know the man as well as I know you

12 filed: polished

14 thrasonical: boastful

picked: fastidious

15 peregrinate: traveled, foreign

19 staple: fiber

