hain of pearl pendants, all I
have.
ASO. Nay then, by this pearl you make me a wanton.
CUP. Shall not she answer for this, to maintain him thus in
swearing?
MER. O no, there is a way to wean him from this, the gentleman may
be reclaim'd.
CUP. Ay, if you had the airing of his apparel, coz, I think.
ASO. Loving! 'twere pity an I should be living else, believe me.
Save you, sir, save you, sweet lady, save you, monsieur Anaides,
save you, dear madam.
ANA. Dost thou know him that saluted thee, Hedon?
HED. No, some idle Fungoso, that hath got above the cupboard since
yesterday.
ANA. 'Slud, I never saw him till this morning, and he salutes me
as familiarly as if we had known together since the deluge, or the
first year of Troy action.
AMO. A most right-handed and auspicious encounter. Confine
yourself to your fortunes.
PHI. For sport's sake let's have some Riddles or Purposes, ho!
PHA. No, faith, your Prophecies are best, the t'other are stale.
PHI. Prophecies! we cannot all sit in at them; we shall make a
confusion. No; what call'd you that we had in the forenoon?
PHA. Substantives, and adjectives, is it not, Hedon?
PHI. Ay that. Who begins?
PHA. I have thought; speak your adjectives, sirs.
PHI. But do not you change then.
PHA. Not I. Who says?
MOR. Odoriferous.
PHI. Popular.
ARG. Humble.
ANA. White-liver'd.
HED. Barbarous.
AMO. Pythagorical.
HED. Yours, signior.
ASO. What must I do, sir?
AMO. Give forth your adjective with the rest; as prosperous, good,
fair, sweet, well--
HED. Anything that hath not been spoken.
ASO. Yes, sir, well-spoken shall be mine.
PHA. What, have you all done?
ALL. Ay.
PHA. Then the substantive is Breeches. Why "odoriferous"
breeches, guardian?
MOR. Odoriferous,--because odoriferous: that which contains most
variety of savour and smell we say is most odoriferous; now
breeches, I presume, are incident to that variety, and therefore
odoriferous breeches.
PHA. Well, we must take it howsoever. Who's next? Philautia?
PHI. Popular.
PHA. Why "popular" breeches?
PHA. Marry, that is, when they are not content to be generally
noted in court, but will press forth on common stages and brokers'
stalls, to the public view of the w
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