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I am the last that will last keep his oath.

But is there no quick recreation granted?

King.

Ay, that there is. Our court you know is haunted

With a refined traveller of Spain,

A man in all the world’s new fashion planted,

That hath a mint of phrases in his brain;

One who the music of his own vain tongue

Doth ravish like enchanting harmony;

A man of complements, whom right and wrong

Have chose as umpeer of their mutiny.

This child of fancy, that Armado hight,

For interim to our studies shall relate,

In high-borne words, the worth of many a knight

From tawny Spain, lost in the world’s debate.

How you delight, my lords, I know not, I,

But I protest I love to hear him lie,

And I will use him for my minstrelsy.

Ber.

Armado is a most illustrious wight,

A man of fire-new words, fashion’s own knight.

Long.

Costard the swain and he shall be our sport,

And so to study three years is but short.

Enter a Constable [Dull] with a letter, with Costard.

Dull. Which is the Duke’s own person?

Ber. This, fellow. What wouldst?