Page 1422 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Win me and wear me; let him answer me.
Come, follow me, boy; come, sir boy, come, follow me;
Sir boy, I’ll whip you from your foining fence;
Nay, as I am a gentleman, I will. [85]

LEONATO
Brother −

ANTONIO
Content yourself. God knows I loved my niece;
And she is dead, slandered to death by villains,
That dare as well answer a man indeed
As I dare take a serpent by the tongue. [90]

Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks’ milksops!

LEONATO
Brother Antony −

ANTONIO
Hold you content. What, man! I know them, yea,
And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple −
Scambling, out-facing, fashion-monging boys,

That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander, [95]
Go anticly, show outward hideousness,
And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,
How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;

And this is all.

LEONATO
But, brother Antony −

ANTONIO
Come, ’tis no matter; [100]
Do not you meddle, let me deal in this.

DON PEDRO
Gentlemen both, we will not wake your patience.