Gertrude. What then?

Boor. Nay, nothing. Do not think I am afraid,
Although, perhaps, you are.

Ger. I am not. Forward!

Boor. Sure but you are. Give me your hand; fear nothing.
There's one leg in the wood; do not fall backwards!
What a sweat one on's are in; you or I!
Pray God it do not prove the plague. Yet sure
It has infected me; for I sweat too:
It runs out at my knees. Feel, feel, I pray you!

Ger. What ails the fellow?

Boor. Hark! hark! I beseech you:
Do you hear nothing?

Ger. No.

Boor. List! a wild hog;
He grunts! now 'tis a bear; this wood is full of 'em!
And now a wolf, mistress; a wolf! a wolf!
It is the howling of a wolf.

Ger. The braying of an ass, is it not?

Boor. Oh, now one has me!
Oh my left ham! farewell!