ACT FIFTH
Scene One
[The King of Navarre's Park]
Enter the Pedant [Holofernes], the Curate [Nathaniel], and Dull.
Hol. Satis quod sufficit.
Nath. I praise God for you, sir: your reasons
at dinner have been sharp and sententious;
pleasant without scurrility, witty without affec- 4
tion, audacious without impudency, learned
without opinion, and strange without heresy. I
did converse this quondam day with a com-
panion of the king's, who is intituled, nomi- 8
nated, or called, Don Adriano de Armado.
Hol. Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour
is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue
filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and 2
his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and
thrasonical. He is too picked, too spruce, too
affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate, as
I may call it. 16
Nath. A most singular and choice epithet.
Draw out his table-book.
Hol. He draweth out the thread of his verbo-
sity finer than the staple of his argument. I
abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insoci- 20
1 Satis quod sufficit: Enough is as good as a feast
2 reasons: arguments, discourse
4 affection: affectation
6 opinion: self-conceit
strange: novel, original
10 Novi . . . te: I know the man as well as I know you
12 filed: polished
14 thrasonical: boastful
picked: fastidious
15 peregrinate: traveled, foreign
19 staple: fiber
