BIRON A twelvemonth! well; befall what will befall,
I'll jest a twelvemonth in an hospital.
PRINCESS [To FERDINAND] Ay, sweet my lord; and so I take my leave.
FERDINAND No, madam; we will bring you on your way.
BIRON Our wooing doth not end like an old play;
Jack hath not Jill: these ladies' courtesy
Might well have made our sport a comedy.
FERDINAND Come, sir, it wants a twelvemonth and a day,
And then 'twill end.
BIRON That's too long for a play.
[Re-enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO]
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO Sweet majesty, vouchsafe me,--
PRINCESS Was not that Hector?
DUMAIN The worthy knight of Troy.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO I will kiss thy royal finger, and take leave. I am
a votary; I have vowed to Jaquenetta to hold the
plough for her sweet love three years. But, most
esteemed greatness, will you hear the dialogue that
the two learned men have compiled in praise of the
owl and the cuckoo? It should have followed in the
end of our show.
FERDINAND Call them forth quickly; we will do so.
DON
ADRIANO DE ARMADO Holla! approach.
[Re-enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, MOTH, COSTARD,
and others]
This side is Hiems, Winter, this Ver, the Spring;
the one maintained by the owl, the other by the
cuckoo.
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