1.
I say this must be granted.
2
This must be granted brother?
1.
I, this must be granted.
2.
Still this must?
1.
I say this must be granted.
2.
I, give me the must again, brother, you palter.
1.
I will not hear you, wasp.
2.
Brother, I say you palter, the must three
times together; I wear
as sharp Steel as another man, and my
Fox bites as deep, musted,
my dear brother. But to the cause
again.
Bes.
Nay look you Gentlemen.
2.
In a word, I ha’ done.
1.
A tall man but intemperate, ’tis
great pity;
Once more suppose the Boy kick’d.
2.
Forward.
1.
And being thorowly kick’d, laughs at the kicker.
2
So much for us; proceed.
1.
And in this beaten scorn, as I may call
it,
Delivers up his weapon; where lies the
error?
Bes.
It lies i’th’ beating Sir, I found it four dayes since.
2.
The error, and a sore one as I take it,
Lies in the thing kicking.
Bes.
I understand that well, ’tis so indeed Sir.
1.
That is according to the man that did it.
2.
There springs a new branch, whose was the foot?
Bes.
A Lords.
1.
The cause is mighty, but had it been two
Lords,
And both had kick’d you, if you
laugh, ’tis clear.
Bes.
I did laugh,
But how will that help me, Gentlemen?
2.
Yes, it shall help you if you laught aloud.
Bes.
As loud as a kick’d man could laugh, I laught Sir.
1.
My reason now, the valiant man is known
By suffering and contemning; you have
Enough of both, and you are valiant.
2.
If he be sure he has been kick’d
enough:
For that brave sufferance you speak of
brother,
Consists not in a beating and away,
But in a cudgell’d body, from eighteen
To eight and thirty; in a head rebuk’d
With pots of all size, degrees, stools,
and bed-staves,
This showes a valiant man.
Bes.
Then I am valiant, as valiant as the proudest,
For these are all familiar things to me;
Familiar as my sleep, or want of money,
All my whole body’s but one bruise
with beating,
I think I have been cudgell’d with
all nations,
And almost all Religions.
2.
Embrace him brother, this man is valiant,
I know it by my self, he’s valiant.