Bil. Take heed, he’s very valiant; I have known him fight eight quarrels in five days, believe it.
Pass. O, is he so great a quarreller? why, then, he’s an arrant coward.
Bil. How prove you that?
Pass. Why, thus. He that quarrels seeks to fight; and he that seeks to fight seeks to die; and he that seeks to die seeks never to fight more; and he that will quarrel, and seeks means never to answer a man more, I think he’s a coward. 52
Bil. Thou canst prove anything.
Pass. Anything but a rich knave; for I can flatter no man.
Bil. Well, be not drunk, good fool: I shall see you anon in the presence.
[Exeunt.
[528] This scene was added in ed. 2.
[529] Reed suggests that this word may be derived from old Fr. coisser (= incommoder) or coiter (= presser, exciter). Nares explains coistered to mean “coiled up into a small compass.”