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Arm.

No, page, it is an epilogue or discourse, to make plain

Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain.

I will example it:

The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee

Were still at odds, being but three.

There’s the moral. Now the l’envoy.

Moth. I will add the l’envoy. Say the moral again.

Arm.

The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee

Were still at odds, being but three.

Moth.

Until the goose came out of door,

And stayed the odds by adding four.

Now will I begin your moral, and do you follow with my l’envoy:

The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee

Were still at odds, being but three.

Arm.

Until the goose came out of door,

Staying the odds by adding four.

Moth. A good l’envoy, ending in the goose; would you desire more?

Cost.

The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that’s flat.

Sir, your pennyworth is good, and your goose be fat.

To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose:

Let me see: a fat l’envoy—ay, that’s a fat goose.

Arm.

Come hither, come hither. How did this argument begin?