Cost. When would you have it done, sir?
Ber. O, this afternoon. 164
Cost. Well, I will do it, sir. Fare you well.
Ber. O, thou knowest not what it is.
Cost. I shall know, sir, when I have done it.
Ber. Why, villain, thou must know first. 168
Cost. I will come to your worship to-morrow
morning.
Ber. It must be done this afternoon. Hark,
slave, it is but this: 172
The princess comes to hunt here in the park,
And in her train there is a gentle lady:
When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name,
And Rosaline they call her: ask for her 176
And to her white hand see thou do commend
This seal'd-up counsel. [Gives him a shilling.] There's thy guerdon: go.
Cost. Gardon, O sweet gardon! better than
remuneration; a 'leven-pence farthing better. 180
Most sweet gardon! I will do it, sir, in print.
Gardon! remuneration! Exit.
Ber. O! And I,—
Forsooth, in love! I, that have been love's whip; 184
A very beadle to a humorous sigh;
A critic, nay, a night-watch constable,
A domineering pedant o'er the boy,
Than whom no mortal so magnificent! 188
This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy,
This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
Regent of love-rimes, lord of folded arms,
178 counsel: private communication
guerdon: reward
181 in print: precisely
185 beadle . . . sigh; cf. n.
188 magnificent: pompous, overbearing
189 wimpled: veiled
purblind: totally blind
190 Cf. n.
