; two rogues in buckram
suits. I tell thee what, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face;
call me a horse.--Thou knowest my old ward. Here I lay; and
thus I bore my point.--Four rogues in buckram let drive at me.
These four came all afront, and mainly thrust at me. I made no
more ado, but took all their seven points in my target, thus.
Then, these nine in buckram, that I told thee of, began to give
me ground. But I followed them close; came in foot and hand;
and, with a thought--seven of these eleven I paid.--A plague on
all cowards, say I!--Give me a cup of sack. [_Drinks_.

RIDICULE.

I can as well be hanged, as tell the manner of it; it was mere
foolery.--I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown; and, as I told you,
he put it by once--but, for all that, to my thinking, he would fain
have had it. Then he offered it to him again; then, he put it by
again--but, to my thinking, he was very loth to lay his fingers off
it. And then he offered it a third time; he put it the third time
by; and still as he refused it, the rabblement shouted, and clapt
their chopt hands, and threw by their sweaty night-caps, and uttered
such a deal of stinking breath, because Caesar refused the crown,
that it had almost choaked Caesar, for he swooned, and, fell down at
it; and for mine own part, I durst not laugh for fear of opening my
lips, and receiving the bad air.

Before he fell down, when he perceived the common herd were glad, he
refused the crown, he plucked me ope his doublet, and offered them
his throat to cut: an' I had been a man of any occupation, if I
would not have taken him at a word, I would I might go to hell among
the rogues!--and so he fell. When he came to himself again, he said,
"if he had done, or said any thing amiss, he desired their worships
to think it was his infirmity." Three or four wenches where I stood,
cried, Alas, good soul!--and forgave him with all their hearts. But
there's no heed to be taken of them: if Caesar had stabbed their
mothers they would have done no less.

PERTURBATION.

Vengeance! death! plague! confusion!
Fiery! what quality?---Why, Gloster, Gloster!
I'd speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife:
The King would speak with Cornwall---the dear father
Would with his daughter speak; commands her service.
Are they inform'd of this?---My b