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This Interlude is in no connection with the course of the dramatic action. One of them, Androgyno, must be held to be SHAKSPERE.
But not on thine own forbid meats hast thou ventured. Androgyno. On fish, when first a Carthusian I entered. Nano. Why, then thy dogmatical silence hath left thee? Androgyno. Of that an obstreperous lawyer bereft me. Nano. O wonderful change, when sir lawyer forsook thee! For Pythagore's sake, what body then took thee? Androgyno. A good dull mule. Nano.
To the question of Nano, as to whether he likes remaining a hermaphrodite in order to 'vary the delight of each sex, Androgyno replies: Alas, those pleasures be stale and forsaken; No 't is your fool wherewith I am so taken, The only one creature that I can called blessed; For all other forms I have proved most distressed. Nano. Spoke true, as thou wert in Pythagoras still.
Into a very strange beast, by some writers called an ass; By others, a precise, pure, illuminate brother, Of those devour flesh, and sometimes one another; And will drop you forth a libel, or a sanctified lie, Betwixt every spoonful of a Nativity pie. Nano then admonishes Androgyno to quit that profane nation. Androgyno answers that he gladly remains in the shape of a fool and a hermaphrodite.
And how! by that means Thou wert brought to allow of the eating of beans? Androgyno. Yes. Nano. But from the mule into whom didst thou pass? Androgyno.
But I come not here to discourse of that matter, Or his one, two, or three, or his great oath, BY QUATER, His musics, his trigon, his golden thigh, Or his telling how elements shift: but I Would ask, how of late thou hast suffered translation And shifted thy coat in these days of Reformation. Androgyno. Like one of the reformed, a fool, as you see, COUNTING ALL OLD DOCTRINE HERESIE. Nano.
Nano, the dwarf, coming in with Androgyno and Castrone, asks for room for the new gamesters or players, and says to the public: They do bring you neither play, nor university show; And therefore do intreat you that whatsoever they rehearse, May not fare a whit the worse, for the false pace of the verse.
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