Page 1416 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

DAUGHTER

You never saw him dance?

GAOLER
No.

DAUGHTER
I have often. [45]
He dances very finely, very comely,

And for a jig, come cut and long tail to him,
He turns ye like a top.

GAOLER
That’s fine indeed.

DAUGHTER
He’ll dance the morris twenty mile an hour,
And that will founder the best hobby-horse, [50]
If I have any skill, in all the parish;

And gallops to the tune of ‘Light o’Love’.
What think you of this horse?

GAOLER
Having these virtues,
I think he might be brought to play at tennis.

DAUGHTER

Alas, that’s nothing.

GAOLER

Can he write and read too? [55]

DAUGHTER
A very fair hand, and casts himself th’accounts
Of all his hay and provender; that ostler
Must rise betime that cozens him. You know
The chestnut mare the Duke has?