“Tarlton, I am one of thy friends, and none of thy foes,
Then I prethee tell me how cam'st by thy flat nose:
Had I beene present at that time on those banks,
I would have laid my short sword over his long shankes.”
The undumpisher of Queen Elizabeth made this tart reply:—
“Friend or foe, if thou wilt needs know, marke me well,
With parting dogs and bears, then by the ears, this chance
fell:
But what of that? though my nose be flat, my credit for to
save,