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Faire boy, or god, or what ever you bee, I would you knew these woods are to me so wel known, that I cannot stray though I would, and my minde so free, that to be melancholy I have no cause. There is none of Dianaes trayne that any can traine, either out of their waie, or out of their wits. Cupid. What is that Diana? a goddesse? what her Nimphes? virgins? what her pastimes? hunting? Nym.
"Now, Maude, take thou Lord Roger by the hand; and Nan, take thy sister. Nym, thou comest with me. Lead on, Sir Bertram; and mind all of you no bruit, not enough to wake a mouse!" "It would not wake Nym, then!" said little Roger. They crept down the stairs of the Beauchamp Tower as slowly and cautiously as they had come.
Sir Edward added, however, in a philosophizing vein, worthy of Corporal Nym, that, "seeing we cannot be so happy as to have a King to concur with us to do us any good, yet we are happy to have one that his humour serveth him not to concur with others to do us harm; and 'tis a wisdom for us to follow these humours, that we may keep him still in that humour, and from hearkening to others that may egg him on to worse."
The philosophy of the excellent Corporal Nym is the best after all; things must be as they may pauca verba."
In Act II a third under-intrigue that of Ford with Falstaffe is added to the two before introduced. Show how the Merry Wives reveal their separate personalities in their reception of the duplicate letters, and their plot to dupe Falstaffe. Contrast their two husbands as their natures and marital relations are shown by their different manner of taking the information given them by Nym and Pistol.
"Hush! make no bruit." The boy was sleeping too heavily to be roused at once; but his little brother Roger awoke, and looked up with two very bright, intelligent eyes. "Are we to be killed?" he wanted to know; but his query was not put in the frightened tone of his sister. "Not so, little one. Wake thy brother, and rise quickly." "'Tis no light gear to wake Nym," said little Roger.
To this it would be difficult to give any other reply, save that of Corporal Nym It was the humour or caprice of the time.
"The Mississippi pilot, homely, naive, arrogantly candid," says Mr. S. P. Sherman, "refuses to sink his identity in the object contemplated that, as Corporal Nym would have said, is the humour of it. He is the kind of travelling companion that makes you wonder why you went abroad.
Constance desired Maude to hasten the girls in dressing, which must be done by the fitful moonlight, as best it could, and went herself into the inner chamber. Both the boys were asleep. They were Edmund, the young Earl, whose age was nearly thirteen, and his little brother Roger, who was not yet eight. Constance laid her hand lightly on the shoulder of the future King. "Nym!" she said.
She tossed up her little head in conversation with me, and gave me to understand that this party was only an omnium gatherum, not one of the select parties, from which Heaven defend us. "We are Poins, and Nym, and Pistol," growled out George Warrington, as he strode away to finish the evening in Clive's painting- and smoking-room.
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