the heaven; and anon falleth like a crab on the
face of terra, the soil, the land, the earth.
Nath. Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets 8
are sweetly varied, like a scholar at the least: but,
sir, I assure ye, it was a buck of the first head.
Hol. Sir Nathaniel, haud credo.
Dull. 'Twas not a haud credo; 'twas a pricket. 12
Hol. Most barbarous intimation! yet a kind
of insinuation, as it were, in via, in way, of ex-
plication; facere, as it were, replication, or,
rather, ostentare, to show, as it were, his inclina- 16
tion,—after his undressed, unpolished, unedu-
cated, unpruned, untrained, or, rather, un-
lettered, or, ratherest, unconfirmed fashion,—to
insert again my haud credo for a deer. 20
Dull. I said the deer was not a haud credo;
'twas a pricket.
Hol. Twice sod simplicity, bis coctus!
O thou monster Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look! 24
Nath. Sir, he hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book.
He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not
drunk ink: his intellect is not replenished; he is
only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts: 28
And such barren plants are set before us, that we thankful should be,
Which we [of] taste and feeling are, for those parts that do fructify in us more than he;
10 first head: fifth year
11 haud credo: I do not think so
12 pricket: buck of the second year
15 facere . . . replication: to make reply
19 unconfirmed: ignorant
23 sod: sodden
bis coctus: twice cooked, insipid
30 Which we: we who
than he: i.e. than in him
