Cost. The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that's flat.
Sir, your pennyworth is good, an your goose be fat. 108
To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose.
Let me see: a fat l'envoy; ay, that's a fat goose.
Arm. Come hither, come hither. How did this argument begin?
Moth. By saying that a costard was broken in a shin. 112
Then call'd you for the l'envoy.
Cost. True, and I for a plantain: thus came your argument in;
Then the boy's fat l'envoy, the goose that you bought;
And he ended the market. 116
Arm. But tell me: how was there a costard
broken in a shin?
Moth. I will tell you sensibly.
Cost. Thou hast no feeling of it, Moth: I will 120
speak that l'envoy:
I, Costard, running out, that was safely within,
Fell over the threshold and broke my shin.
Arm. We will talk no more of this matter. 124
Cost. Till there be more matter in the shin.
Arm. Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee.
Cost. O! marry me to one Frances: I smell
some l'envoy, some goose, in this. 128
Arm. By my sweet soul, I mean setting thee
at liberty, enfreedoming thy person: thou wert
immured, restrained, captivated, bound.
Cost. True, true, and now you will be my pur- 132
gation and let me loose.
Arm. I give thee thy liberty, set thee from
107 hath . . . bargain; cf. n.
116 market; cf. n.
119 sensibly: feelingly
