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Love's Labour's Lost, I. ii
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Boy. Little pretty, because little. Wherefore
apt? 24

Arm. And therefore apt, because quick.

Boy. Speak you this in my praise, master?

Arm. In thy condign praise.

Boy. I will praise an eel with the same 28
praise.

Arm. What! that an eel is ingenious?

Boy. That an eel is quick.

Arm. I do say thou art quick in answers: 32
thou heat'st my blood.

Boy. I am answered, sir.

Arm. I love not to be crossed.

Boy. [Aside.] He speaks the mere contrary: 36
crosses love not him.

Arm. I have promised to study three years
with the duke.

Boy. You may do it in an hour, sir. 40

Arm. Impossible.

Boy. How many is one thrice told?

Arm. I am ill at reckoning; it fitteth the
spirit of a tapster. 44

Boy. You are a gentleman and a gamester,
sir.

Arm. I confess both: they are both the var-
nish of a complete man. 48

Boy. Then, I am sure you know how much
the gross sum of deuce-ace amounts to.

Arm. It doth amount to one more than two.

Boy. Which the base vulgar do call three. 52

Arm. True.

Boy. Why, sir, is this such a piece of study?
Now, here is three studied, ere ye'll thrice wink;

37 crosses: coins (which had crosses on them)