WILL.
Why, master, whither [a]way? what haste? am I no body?
INSTRUCTION.
What, Will, we may not miss thee for no money.
WIT.
Welcome, good Will, and do as thou art bid;
This day or never must Tediousness be rid.
WILL.
God speed us well, I will make one at all assays.
INSTRUCTION.
Thou shalt watch to take him at certain bays,
Come not in the throng, but save thyself always.
You twain on either side first with your sword and buckler;
After the first conflict, fight with your sword and daggers;
You, sir, with a javelin and your target in your hand,
See how ye can his deadly strokes withstand.
Keep at the foin;[438] come not within his reach,
Until you see, what good advantage you may catch.
Then hardily leave him not, till time you strike him dead,
And, of all other parts, especially save your head.
WIT.
Is this all, for I would fain have done?
WILL.
I would we were at it, I care not how soon.
INSTRUCTION.
Now, when ye please; I have no more to tell,
But heartily to pray for you, and wish you well.
WIT.
I thank you; go thou, and bid the battle, Will.
WILL.
Come out, thou monster fell, that hast desire to spill
The knot and linked love of Science and of Wit,
Come, try the quarrel in the field, and fight with us a fit.
ACT V., SCAENA 5.
TEDIOUSNESS, WIT, WILL, INSTRUCTION, STUDY, DILIGENCE.
TEDIOUSNESS.
A doughty dust[439] these four boys will do:
I will eat them by morsels, two and two!
Thou fightest for a wife! a rod, a rod!
Had I wist this, I would have laid on load,
And beat thy brain and this my club together,
And made thee safe enough for returning hither.
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