Holofernes.

Satis, quod sufficit.

Nath.

I praise God for you, Sir, your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy: I did converse this quondam-day with a companion of the King's, who is entituled, nominated, or called, Don Adriano de Armado.

Hol.

Novi hominem, tanquam te. His humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gate majestical, and his general behaviour

vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. He is too piqued, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were; too peregrinate, as I may call it.

Nath.

A most singular and choice epithet.

Hol.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor such phanatical phantasms, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography, as do speak dout fine, when he should say doubt; det, when he should pronounce debt; d, e, b, t; not d, e, t: he clepeth a calf, cauf: half, hauf: neighbour vocatur nebour; neigh abbreviated ne: ^{1 note}this is abominable, which we would call abhominable: ^{2 note}it insinuateth me of (a) ^note Insanity: Ne intelligis, Domine, to make frantick, lunatick?

Nath.

Laus deo, bone, intelligo.

Hol.

(b) ^noteBone?—bone, for benè; Priscian a little scratch'd; 'twill serve.