MOTH No, no; O Lord, sir, no.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, my
tender juvenal?
MOTH By a familiar demonstration of the working, my tough senior.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO Why tough senior? why tough senior?
MOTH Why tender juvenal? why tender juvenal?
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton
appertaining to thy young days, which we may
nominate tender.
MOTH And I, tough senior, as an appertinent title to your
old time, which we may name tough.
DON ADRIANO DE
ARMADO Pretty and apt.
MOTH How mean you, sir? I pretty, and my saying apt? or
I apt, and my saying pretty?
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO Thou pretty, because little.
MOTH Little pretty, because little. Wherefore apt?
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO And therefore apt, because quick.
MOTH Speak you this in my praise, master?
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO In thy condign praise.
MOTH I will praise an eel with the same praise.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO What, that an eel is ingenious?
MOTH That an eel is quick.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO I do say thou art quick in answers: thou heatest my blood.
MOTH I am answered, sir.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO I love not to be crossed.
MOTH [Aside] He speaks the mere contrary; crosses love not him.
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