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Cost. Me?

King [Reads.] “that unlettered small-knowing soul”—

Cost. Me?

King [Reads.] “that shallow vassal”—

Cost. Still me?

King [Reads.] “which, as I remember, hight Costard”—

Cost. O! me.

King [Reads.] “sorted and consorted, contrary to thy established proclaimed edict and continent canon; which with—O, with—but with this I passion to say wherewith”—

Cost. With a wench.

King [Reads.] “with a child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. Him I (as my ever-esteemed duty pricks me on) have sent to thee, to receive the meed of punishment, by thy sweet Grace’s officer, Anthony Dull, a man of good repute, carriage, bearing, and estimation.”

Dull. Me, an’t shall please you: I am Anthony Dull.

King [Reads.] “For Jaquenetta (so is the weaker vessel called), which I apprehended with the aforesaid swain, I keep her as a vessel of thy law’s fury, and shall, at the least of thy sweet notice, bring her to trial. Thine, in all complements of devoted and heart-burning heat of duty,