Never let it be
said, when people say, SIR THOMAS WAS A POET WHEN HE WILL EDIT,--SO
IS BILL SHAKSPEARE! It beseemeth not that our names do go together
cheek by jowl in this familiar fashion, like an old beagle and a
whelp, in couples, where if the one would, the other would not."
SIR SILAS.
"Sir, while these thoughts are passing in your mind, remember there
is another pair of couples out of which it would be as well to keep
the cur's neck."
SIR THOMAS.
"Young man! dost thou understand Master Silas?"
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"But too well. Not those couples in which it might be apprehended
that your worship and my unworthiness should appear too close
together; but those sorrowfuller which peradventure might unite
Master Silas and me in our road to Warwick and upwards. But I
resign all right and title unto these as willingly as I did unto the
other, and am as ready to let him go alone."
SIR SILAS.
"If we keep wheeling and wheeling, like a flock of pigeons, and
rising again when we are within a foot of the ground, we shall never
fill the craw."
SIR THOMAS.
"Do thou then question him, Silas."
SIR SILAS.
"I am none of the quorum; the business is none of mine.
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