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If sore be sore, then L to sore makes fifty sores o’ sorel:

Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L.

Nath. A rare talent!

Dull [Aside.] If a talent be a claw, look how he claws him with a talent.

[Hol.] This is a gift that I have, simple; simple, a foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions. These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourish’d in the womb of [pia mater], and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. But the gift is good in those [in] whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it.

[Nath.] Sir, I praise the Lord for you, and so may my parishioners, for their sons are well tutor’d by you, and their daughters profit very greatly under you. You are a good member of the commonwealth.

[Hol.] Mehercle, if their sons be [ingenious], they shall want no instruction; if their daughters be capable, I will put it to them: but vir [sapit] qui pauca loquitur. A soul feminine saluteth us.

Enter Jaquenetta and the Clown [Costard].