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Enter Pedant [Holofernes] for Judas, and the Boy [Moth] for Hercules.

Hol.

“Great Hercules is presented by this imp,

Whose club kill’d Cerberus, that three-headed canus;

And when he was a babe, a child, a shrimp,

Thus did he strangle serpents in his manus.

Quoniam he seemeth in minority,

Ergo I come with this apology.”

[Aside.]

Keep some state in thy exit, and vanish.

[Moth retires.]

“Judas I am”—

Dum. A Judas!

Hol. Not Iscariot, sir.

“Judas I am, ycliped Machabeus.”

Dum. Judas Machabeus clipt is plain Judas.

Ber. A kissing traitor. How art thou prov’d Judas?

Hol. “Judas I am”—

Dum. The more shame for you, Judas.

Hol. What mean you, sir?

Boyet. To make Judas hang himself.

Hol. Begin, sir, you are my elder.

Ber. Well follow’d: Judas was hang’d on an elder.

Hol. I will not be put out of countenance.

Ber. Because thou hast no face.

Hol. What is this?

Boyet. A cittern-head.

Dum. The head of a bodkin.

Ber. A death’s face in a ring.

Long. The face of an old Roman coin, scarce seen.

Boyet. The pommel of Caesar’s falchion.