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Sir Proteus! ’save you! Saw you my master?

Pro.

But now he parted hence to embark for Milan.

Speed.

Twenty to one then he is shipp’d already,

And I have play’d the sheep in losing him.

Pro.

Indeed a sheep doth very often stray,

And if the shepherd be awhile away.

Speed. You conclude that my master is a shepherd then, and I [a] sheep?

Pro. I do.

Speed. Why then my horns are his horns, whether I wake or sleep.

Pro. A silly answer, and fitting well a sheep.

Speed. This proves me still a sheep.

Pro. True; and thy master a shepherd.

Speed. Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance.

Pro. It shall go hard but I’ll prove it by another.

Speed. The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master seeks not me: therefore I am no sheep.

Pro. The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep; thou for wages followest thy master, thy master for wages follows not thee: therefore thou art a sheep.

Speed. Such another proof will make me cry “baa.”