I abhor such
fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and
point-devise companions; such rackers of
orthography, as to speak dout, fine, when he should
say doubt; det, when he should pronounce debt,--d,
e, b, t, not d, e, t: he clepeth a calf, cauf;
half, hauf; neighbour vocatur nebor; neigh
abbreviated ne. This is abhominable,--which he
would call abbominable: it insinuateth me of
insanie: anne intelligis, domine? to make frantic, lunatic.
SIR NATHANIEL Laus Deo, bene intelligo.
HOLOFERNES Bon, bon, fort bon, Priscian! a little scratch'd,
'twill serve.
SIR NATHANIEL Videsne quis venit?
HOLOFERNES Video, et gaudeo.
[Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO, MOTH, and COSTARD]
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO Chirrah!
[To MOTH]
HOLOFERNES Quare chirrah, not sirrah?
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO Men of peace, well encountered.
HOLOFERNES Most military sir, salutation.
MOTH [Aside to COSTARD] They have been at a great feast
of languages, and stolen the scraps.
COSTARD O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.
I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;
for thou art not so long by the head as
honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier
swallowed than a flap-dragon.
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