Dick, but the slaves are somewhat proud; and
besides, it's a good sport in a part to see them never speak in their
walk, but at the end of the stage; just as though, in walking with a
fellow, we should never speak but at a stile, a gate, or a ditch, where
a man can go no further. I was once at a comedy in Cambridge, and there
I saw a parasite make faces and mouths of all sorts on this fashion.

BURBAGE.
A little teaching will mend these faults; and it may be, besides, they
will be able to pen a part.

KEMP.
Few of the university pen play well; they smell too much of that writer
Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpina and
Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down--ay, and
Ben Jonson too. O, that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow; he brought up
Horace, giving the poets a pill;[119] but our fellow Shakespeare hath
given him a purge that made him bewray his credit.

BURBAGE.
It's a shrewd fellow, indeed. I wonder these scholars stay so long; they
appointed to be here presently, that we might try them. O, here they
come.

STUDIOSO.
Take heart, these lets our clouded thoughts refine;
The sun shines brightest when it 'gins decline.

BURBAGE.
Master Philomusus and Master Studioso, God save you.

KEMP.
Master Philomusus and Master Otioso,[120] well-met.

PHILOMUSUS.
The same to you, good Master Burbage. What, Master Kemp, how doth the
Emperor of Germany?[121]

STUDIOSO.
God save you, Master Kemp; welcome, Master Kemp, from dancing the morris
over the Alps.

KEMP.
Well, you merry knaves, you may come to the honour of it one day. Is it
not better to make a fool of the world as I have done, than to be fooled
of the world, as you scholars are? But be merry, my lads; you have
happened upon the most excellent vocation in the world for money. They
come north and south to bring it to our playhouse; and for honours, who
of more report than Dick Burbage and Will Kemp? He is not counted a
gentleman that knows not Dick Burbage and Will Kemp. There's not a
country wench that can dance Sellenger's round,[122] but can talk of
Dick Burbage and Will Kemp.

PHILOMUSUS.
Indeed, Master Kemp, you are very famous; but that is as well for works
in print, as your part in cue.[123]

KEMP.
You are at Cambridge still with size cue, and be lusty humorous poets.
You must untruss; I rode this my last circuit purposely, because I would
be judge of your actions.

BURBAGE.
Master Studioso