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Hol.

The moon was a month old when Adam was no more,

And raught not to five weeks when he came to five-score.

Th’ allusion holds in the exchange.

Dull. ’Tis true indeed, the collusion holds in the exchange.

Hol. God comfort thy capacity! I say, th’ allusion holds in the exchange.

Dull. And I say, the pollution holds in the exchange, for the moon is never but a month old; and I say beside that, ’twas a pricket that the Princess kill’d.

Hol. Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer? And to humor the [ignorant, call I] the deer the Princess kill’d a pricket.

Nath. Perge, good Master Holofernes, perge, so it shall please you to abrogate squirility.

Hol.

I will something affect the letter, for it argues facility.

The preyful Princess pierc’d and prick’d a pretty pleasing pricket;

Some say a sore, but not a sore, till now made sore with shooting.

The dogs did yell: put l to sore, then sorel jumps from thicket,

Or pricket sore, or else sorel; the people fall a-hooting.