And if the stronger liquors more invite ye, But should you call for Falstaff, where to find him, at home. ( As for the learned critics, grave and deep, A vintner once acquir'd both praise and gain, Come fill a bumper, Jack-I will, my Lord--"Here's cream!-damn'd fine !- -immense! 66 ---upon my word!" Sir William, what say you ?- The best, believe me-- In this--- Eh Jack !---the devil can't deceive me. Thus the wise Critic too, mistakes his wine, Cries out with lifted hands, 'tis great !--- Divine! Then jogs his neighbour as the wonders strike him; This Shakspear! Shakspear!-Oh there's nothing like him! In this night's various and enchanted cup, The five long acts, from which our three are taken, TH BAPTISTA. NHUS have I, 'gainst my own self-interest,. Repeated all the worst you are to expect From my shrew'd daughter, Catherine; if you'll venture Maugre my plain and honest declaration, You knew him well, and knowing him, know me, And every day I cannot come to woo. Let specialties be therefore drawn between us, That cov'nants may be kept on either hand. Bap. Yes, when the special thing is well obtain'd, My daughter's love, for that is all in all. Pet. Why, that is nothing; for I tell you, father, I am as peremptory as she proud-minded; "Grum. Nay, look you sir, he tells you flatly "what his mind is: Why give him gold enough, "and marry him to a puppet, or an old trot with "ne'er a tooth in her head. Though she have "as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.. Bap. As I have shew'd you, sir, the coarser side, 66 Now let me tell you, she is young and beauteous, If that you can away with, she is yours. "Grum. I pray you, sir, let him see her "while the humour lasts. O'my word an' she |