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He was brought in to please the mob. He is the Fool of the piece, fulfilling the functions of Touchstone, and Launce, and Launcelot, and Costard. As the gravediggers were brought into "Hamlet" for the sake of the groundlings, so Thersites came into "Troilus and Cressida."
Is it said of her because she is the cleverest, and does Berowne really share the common prejudice of the male against a superior woman or only pretend to? Does the Princess guess the truth of the matter when Costard delivers the wrong letter for Rosaline? What relation has the second scene of Act IV to the Play? Of what use to the preceding action, and to the present?
Moreover, he was already twisting and turning the terms of the notice which his seconds must have inserted in the Figaro, hesitating between two or three equally startling beginnings: "Another famous duel," or "Yesterday, after a scandalous scene, an encounter," etc., etc. Unfortunately, he did not meet either M. Costard or the Viscount de Serpillon.
Indeed, he barely tolerated them; and if he did allow her to embrace him, it was only because he did not know how to refuse. "Will she never have done?" he thought. "This is a pretty state of things! I must be very attractive. How Costard and Serpillon would laugh if they saw me now." Costard and Serpillon were his intimate friends, the co-proprietors of the famous steeplechaser.
And if Costard, Trinculo, Touchstone, Jaques and Mercutio had lived in Salem in Sixteen Hundred Ninety-two, there would have been not only a flashing of merry jests, but a flashing of rapiers as well, and every gray hair of every old dame's head would have been safe so long as there was a striped leg on which to stand. Lincoln, liberator of men, loved the motley.
Sometimes through- out a whole season all the swarms would alight on the lowest attainable bough such as part of a currant-bush or espalier apple-tree; next year they would, with just the same unanimity, make straight off to the uppermost member of some tall, gaunt costard, or quarrenden, and there defy all invaders who did not come armed with ladders and staves to take them.
Six weeks before, Bouvet de Lozier had taken, through Mme. Costard de Saint-Léger, his mistress, an isolated house at Chaillot near the Seine. He had put there as concierge, a man named Daniel and his wife, both of whom he knew to be devoted to him. A porch with fourteen steps led to the front hall of the house. This served as dining-room.
At length, I suppose the lad either guessed the secret of his birth or something of it was communicated to him; and the disgust which the paughty Hieland varlet had always shown for my honest trade became more manifest; so that I dared not so much as lay my staff over his costard, for fear of receiving a stab with a dirk, as an answer in Gaelic to a Saxon remark.
But when they had heard all I could tell them, they looked at one another, and the Dean said, `The maid is no doubt of high blood in her own land scarce a mate for a London butcher or currier." "`It were matching an Arab mare with a costard monger's colt, said my master, `or Angelica with Ralph Roister-Doister."
By my sweet soul, I mean setting thee at liberty, enfreedoming thy person: thou wert immured, captivated, bound. Costard. True, true, and now you will be my purgation, and let me loose. Armado. I give thee thy liberty, set thee free from durance; and in lieu thereof impose on thee nothing but this. By the time the court had concluded its session it was eight o'clock in the evening.
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