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Jaq. God give you good morrow, Master Person.

[Hol.] Master Person, quasi [pers-one]. And if one should be pierc’d, which is the one?

Cost. Marry, Master Schoolmaster, he that is likel’est to a hogshead.

[Hol.] Of piercing a hogshead! a good lustre of conceit in a turf of earth; fire enough for a flint, pearl enough for a swine: ’tis pretty; it is well.

Jaq. Good Master Person, be so good as read me this letter. It was given me by Costard, and sent me from Don Armado. I beseech you read it.

[Hol.] Facile, precor gelida quando [pecus omne] sub umbra ruminat, and so forth. Ah, good old Mantuan! I may speak of thee as the traveller doth of Venice:

[Venechia, Venechia],

Che non te [vede], che non te [prechia].

Old Mantuan, old Mantuan! who understandeth thee not, loves thee not. Ut, re, sol, la, mi, fa. Under pardon, sir, what are the contents? or rather, as Horace says in his—What, my soul, verses?

[Nath.] Ay, sir, and very learned.

[Hol.] Let me hear a staff, a stanze, a verse; lege, domine.