BIRON In what manner?
COSTARD In manner and form following, sir; all those three:
I was seen with her in the manor-house, sitting with
her upon the form, and taken following her into the
park; which, put together, is in manner and form
following. Now, sir, for the manner,--it is the
manner of a man to speak to a woman: for the form,--
in some form.
BIRON For the following, sir?
COSTARD As it shall follow in my correction: and God defend
the right!
FERDINAND Will you hear this letter with attention?
BIRON As we would hear an oracle.
COSTARD Such is the simplicity of man to hearken after the flesh.
FERDINAND [Reads] 'Great deputy, the welkin's vicegerent and
sole dominator of Navarre, my soul's earth's god,
and body's fostering patron.'
COSTARD Not a word of Costard yet.
FERDINAND [Reads] 'So it is,'--
COSTARD It may be so: but if he say it is so, he is, in
telling true, but so.
FERDINAND Peace!
COSTARD Be to me and every man that dares not fight!
FERDINAND No words!
COSTARD Of other men's secrets, I beseech you.
FERDINAND [Reads] 'So it is, besieged with sable-coloured
melancholy, I did commend the black-oppressing humour
to the most wholesome physic of thy health-giving
air; and, as I am a gentleman, betook myself to
walk.
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