se the Boy were kickt.
_Bes_.
I do suppose it.
_1_.
Has your Boy a sword?
_Bes_.
Surely no; I pray suppose a sword too.
_1_.
I do suppose it; you grant your Boy was kick't then.
_2_.
By no means Captain, let it be supposed still; the word grant,
makes not for us.
_1_.
I say this must be granted.
_2_
This must be granted brother?
_1_.
I, this must be granted.
_2_.
Still this must?
_1_.
I say this must be granted.
_2_.
I, give me the must again, brother, you palter.
_1_.
I will not hear you, wasp.
_2_.
Brother, I say you palter, the must three times together; I wear
as sharp Steel as another man, and my Fox bites as deep, musted,
my dear brother. But to the cause again.
_Bes_.
Nay look you Gentlemen.
_2_.
In a word, I ha' done.
_1_.
A tall man but intemperate, 'tis great pity;
Once more suppose the Boy kick'd.
_2_.
Forward.
_1_.
And being thorowly kick'd, laughs at the kicker.
_2_
So much for us; proceed.
_1_.
And in this beaten scorn, as I may call it,
Delivers up his weapon; where lies the error?
_Bes_.
It lies i'th' beating Sir, I found it four dayes since.
_2_.
The error, and a sore one as I take it,
Lies in the thing kicking.
_Bes_.
I understand that well, 'tis so indeed Sir.
_1_.
That is according to the man that did it.
_2_.
There springs a new branch, whose was the foot?
_Bes_.
A Lords.
_1_.
The cause is mighty, but had it been two Lords,
And both had kick'd you, if you laugh, 'tis clear.
_Bes_.
I did laugh,
But how will that help me, Gentlemen?
_2_.
Yes, it shall help you if you laught aloud.
_Bes_.
As loud as a kick'd man could laugh, I laught Sir.
_1_.
My reason now, the valiant man is known
By suffering and contemning; you have
Enough of both, and you are valiant.
_2_.
If he be sure he has been kick'd enough:
For that brave sufferance you speak of brother,
Consists not in a beating and away,
But in a cudgell'd body, from eighteen
To eight and thirty; in a head rebuk'd
With pots of all size, degrees, stools, and bed-staves,
This showes a valiant man.
_Bes_.
Then I am valiant, as valiant as the proudest,
For these are all familiar things to me;
Familiar as my sleep, or want of money,
All my whole body's but one bruise with beating,
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