BIRON By Jove, I always took three threes for nine.
COSTARD O Lord, sir, it were pity you should get your living
by reckoning, sir.
BIRON How much is it?
COSTARD O Lord, sir, the parties themselves, the actors,
sir, will show whereuntil it doth amount: for mine
own part, I am, as they say, but to parfect one man
in one poor man, Pompion the Great, sir.
BIRON Art thou one of the Worthies?
COSTARD It pleased them to think me worthy of Pompion the
Great: for mine own part, I know not the degree of
the Worthy, but I am to stand for him.
BIRON Go, bid them prepare.
COSTARD We will turn it finely off, sir; we will take
some care.
[Exit]
FERDINAND Biron, they will shame us: let them not approach.
BIRON We are shame-proof, my lord: and tis some policy
To have one show worse than the king's and his company.
FERDINAND I say they shall not come.
PRINCESS Nay, my good lord, let me o'errule you now:
That sport best pleases that doth least know how:
Where zeal strives to content, and the contents
Dies in the zeal of that which it presents:
Their form confounded makes most form in mirth,
When great things labouring perish in their birth.
BIRON A right description of our sport, my lord.
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