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Nevertheless, noble R , come in, and take your seat here, between Armado and Quisada: for in true courtesy, in gravity, in fantastic smiling to thyself, in courteous smiling upon others, in the goodly ornature of well-apparelled speech, and the commendation of wise sentences, thou art nothing inferior to those accomplished Dons of Spain.
I abhor such fanatical phantasms," etc. Should further proof be needed that Florio, Holofernes, and Armado form a dramatic trinity in unity, we can find it in the personal appearance of the Italian. There was something amiss with the face of the Resolute, which could not escape the observation of his friends, much less his enemies. A friend and former pupil of his own, Sir Wm.
Holden's friends also at last took a sorrowful leave, and the mittimus being made out, it was handed to Basset, to remove the prisoner to the place of destination. For the sake of greater security, Basset now produced a pair of handcuffs, which he put on the condemned man's hands, who offered no objection, but calmly submitted to his fate. Armado.
Why does the Princess discount Boyet's remarks and accuse him of joking? Does she give any clew to her own feelings? Why is it in keeping with the Play that Berowne should be the first of the Lords to be foresworn? In making Armado the keeper of Costard, the Clown's breaking of the vow has already been satirized by the King's own act.
When Armado tells the 'country lass' he is wooing, that he will 'tell her wonders, she exclaims, 'skittish female' that she is, 'What, with that face? And when Holofernes, nettled with the ridicule showered on his abortive impersonation of Judas Maccabaeus, says, 'I will not be put out of countenance, Byron replies, 'Because thou hast no face. The indignant pedant justifies, and, pointing to his physiognomy, inquires, 'What is this? Whereupon the waggish courtiers proceed to define it: it is 'a cittern-head, 'the head of a bodkin, 'a death's-face in a ring, 'the face of an old Roman coin, scarce seen, and so forth.
But Regan's stern school-master is abroad in this play, enforcing the philosophic subtleties, bringing home to the senses the neglected lessons of nature; full of errands to 'wilful men, charged with coarse lessons to those who will learn through the senses only great Nature's lore that 'slave Heaven's ordinance that will not SEE, because they do not FEEL. Armado.
"This answer," says Fulke Greville, in a style worthy of Don Adriano de Armado, "did, like a bellows, blowing up the sparks of excess already kindled, make my lord scornfully call Sir Philip by the name of puppy.
Thus, Armado, describing Holofernes, says, "That's all one, my fair, sweet, honey monarch; for I protest the schoolmaster is exceeding fantastical, too, too vain, too, too vain; but we will put it, as they say, to fortuna della guerra"; whilst Holofernes, not behind his counterpart in self-esteem, sees in the other the defects which he cannot detect in himself.
What is a vulgarity in Holofernes, and a caricature in Armado, refines itself with him into the expression of a nature truly and inwardly bent upon a form of delicate perfection, and is accompanied by a real insight into the laws which determine what is exquisite in language, and their root in the nature of things. He can appreciate quite the opposite style In russet yeas, and honest kersey noes;
'The gentles were at their games, and the soul of new ages was beginning its re-creations. For this is but the beginning of that 'Armada' that this Don Armado who fights with sword and pen, in ambush and in the open field will sweep his old enemy from the seas with yet. O like a book of sports thou'lt read me o'er, But there's more in me than thou'lt understand.
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