By William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (editor)
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54 LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST. King. Blessed are clouds, to do as such clouds do! Vouchsafe, bright moon, and these thy stars, to shine (Those clouds remov'd,) upon our wat'ry eyne. Rosaline. 0 vain petitioner! beg a greater matter; Thou now request'st but moonshine in the water. King. Then, in our measure do but vouchsafe one change; Thou bid'st me beg; this begging is not strange. Rosaline. Play, musick, then: nay, you must do it soon. [Musick plays. Not yet;—no dance:—thus change I like the moon. King.
0 thou monster ignorance, how deformed dost thou look! Nathaniel. Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; 6 A species of apple. To render some of the allusions in this scene intelligible to persons who are not acquainted with the language of park-keepers and foresters, it may be necessary to mention that a fawn, when it is a year old, in called by them a pricket; when it is two years old, it is a sorel; when it is three years old, it is a sore; when it is* four years, it is a buck of the first head ; at five years, it is an old buck.
Holofernes. Most barbarous intimation! yet a kind of insinuation, as it were, in via, in way, of explication; facere, as it were, replication, or, rather, ostentare, to show, as it were, his inclination,—after his undressed, unpolished, uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or rather unlettered, or, ratherest, unconfirmed fashion,—to insert again my haud credo for a deer. Dull. I said, the deer was not a haud credo; 'twas a pricket. Holofernes. —0 thou monster ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!