ere be a couple of fine tame parrots!
CLOVE. Now, sir, whereas the ingenuity of the time and the soul's
synderisis are but embrions in nature, added to the panch of Esquiline, and
the inter-vallum of the zodiac, besides the ecliptic line being optic, and
not mental, but by the contemplative and theoric part thereof, doth
demonstrate to us the vegetable circumference, and the ventosity of the
tropics, and whereas our intellectual, or mincing capreal (according to the
metaphysicks) as you may read in Plato's Histriomastix -- You conceive me
sir?
ORANGE. O lord, sir!
CLOVE. Then coming to the pretty animal, as reason long since is fled to
animals, you know, or indeed for the more modelising, or enamelling, or
rather diamondising of your subject, you shall perceive the hypothesis, or
galaxia, (whereof the meteors long since had their initial inceptions and
notions,) to be merely Pythagorical, mathematical, and aristocratical --
For, look you, sir, there is ever a kind of concinnity and species -- Let
us turn to our former discourse, for they mark us not.
FAST. Mass, yonder's the knight Puntarvolo.
DELI. And my cousin Sogliardo, methinks.
MACI. Ay, and his familiar that haunts him, the devil with the shining face.
DELI. Let 'em alone, observe 'em not.
[SOGLIARDO, PUNTARVOLO, AND CARLO, WALK TOGETHER.
SOG. Nay, I will have him, I am resolute for that. By this parchment,
gentlemen, I have been so toiled among the harrots yonder, you will not
believe! they do speak in the strangest language, and give a man the
hardest terms for his money, that ever you knew.
CAR. But have you arms, have you arms?
SOG. I'faith, I thank them; I can write myself gentleman now; here's my
patent, it cost me thirty pound, by this breath.
PUNT. A very fair coat, well charged, and full of armory.
SOG. Nay, it has as much variety of colours in it, as you have seen a coat
have; how like you the crest, sir?
PUNT. I understand it not well, what is't?
SOG. Marry, sir, it is your boar without a head, rampant. A boar without
a head, that's very rare!
CAR. Ay, and rampant too! troth, I commend the herald's wit, he has
decyphered him well: a swine without a head, without brain, wit, anything
indeed, ramping to gentility. You can blazon the rest, signior, can you
not?
SOG. O, ay, I have it in
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