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Forty thousand; forty times five, five times forty; two hundred days kills them all up by computation. And this will I venture by poor gentleman-like carcase to perform, provided there be no treason practised upon us, by fair and discreet manhood; that is, civilly by the sword. EDWARD KNOWELL. Why! are you so sure of your hand, Captain, at all times?
Some of the parts which he is said to have played are the ghost in Hamlet, Adam in As You Like It, and Old Knowell in Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humor. In 1616, at the age of fifty-two, this master-singer of the world, who, in De Quincey's phrase, was "a little lower than the angels," died and was buried in the parish church at Stratford.
BOBADILL. Tut! never miss thrust, upon my reputation with you. EDWARD KNOWELL. I would not stand in Downright's state then, an you meet him, for the wealth of any one street in London." *This and the following are names of various passes and thrusts used in fencing. Punto is a direct hit, reverso a backward blow, and so on. "BOBADILL. Why, sir, you mistake me.
If he were here now, by this welkin, I would not draw my weapon on him. Let this gentleman do his mind; but I will bastinado him, by the bright sun, wherever I meet him. MATTHEW. Faith, and I'll have a fling at him, at my distance. DOWNRIGHT. What peevish luck have I, I cannot meet with these bragging rascals? BOBADILL. It is not he, is it? EDWARD KNOWELL. Yes, faith, it is he.
MATTHEW. I'll be hanged then if that were he. EDWARD KNOWELL. Sir, keep your hanging good for some greater matter, for I assure you that was he. STEPHEN. Upon my reputation, it was he. BOBADILL. Had I thought it had been he, he must not have gone so. But I can hardly be induced to believe it was he yet. DOWNRIGHT. O, Pharaoh's foot, have I found you? Come, draw, to your tools.
DOWNRIGHT. Prate again, as you like this, you foist* you. Your consort is gone. BOBADILL. Well, gentlemen, bear witness, I was bound to the peace, by this good day. EDWARD KNOWELL. No, fait, it's an ill day, Captain, never reckon it other. But, say you were bound to the peace, the law allows you to defend yourself. That will prove but a poor excuse. BOBADILL. I cannot tell, sir.
Some could scarcely conceive how they could so blunder in accent and emphasis. However, most things require learning, even advocacy and acting. Eliot Yorke was stage-manager, and wrote a very excellent prologue. It must have been good, it was so heartily applauded, and the same may be said of all of us. I think Radcliffe studied the part of Old Knowell, while I played Young Knowell.
My hose also gave me great satisfaction and some little annoyance. I thought if I could walk into court without changing my costume, what a sensation I should create! What would Campbell or Jervis say to Young Knowell?
EDWARD KNOWELL. Nay, I know not, nor can I conceive. BOBADILL. Why thus, sir. I would select nineteen more, to myself, throughout the land. Gentlemen, they should be of good spirit, strong and able constitution. I would choose them by an instinct, a character that I have.
I desire good construction in fair sort. I never sustained the like disgrace, by heaven! Sure I was struck with a planet thence, for I had no power to touch my weapon. EDWARD KNOWELL. Ay, like enough, I have heard of many that have been beaten under a planet. Go, get you to a surgeon! 'Slid! and these be your tricks, your passadoes, and your montantos, I'll none of them." *Fraud.
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