DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO I have promised to study three years with the duke.
MOTH You may do it in an hour, sir.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO Impossible.
MOTH How many is one thrice told?
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO I am ill at reckoning; it fitteth the spirit of a tapster.
MOTH You are a gentleman and a gamester, sir.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO I confess both: they are both the varnish of a
complete man.
MOTH Then, I am sure, you know how much the gross sum of
deuce-ace amounts to.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO It doth amount to one more than two.
MOTH Which the base vulgar do call three.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO True.
MOTH Why, sir, is this such a piece of study? Now here
is three studied, ere ye'll thrice wink: and how
easy it is to put 'years' to the word 'three,' and
study three years in two words, the dancing horse
will tell you.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO A most fine figure!
MOTH To prove you a cipher.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO I will hereupon confess I am in love: and as it is
base for a soldier to love, so am I in love with a
base wench. If drawing my sword against the humour
of affection would deliver me from the reprobate
thought of it, I would take Desire prisoner, and
ransom him to any French courtier for a new-devised
courtesy.
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