Alv. How could Virgil have it, when I tell you no soul was there but he and I?
Metaph. Virgil is a famous author, I quote his saying as a phrase more proper to the occasion than that you use, and not as one who was in the wood with you.
Alv. And I tell you, I hope to be as famous as any Virgil of 'em all, when I have been dead as long, and have no need of a better phrase than my own to tell you my meaning.
Metaph. You ought however to make choice of the words most us'd by the best authors. Tu vivendo bonos, as they say, scribendo sequare peritos.
Alv. Again!
Metaph. 'Tis Quintilian's own precept.
Alv. Oons——
Metaph. And he hath something very learned upon it, that may be of service to you to hear.
Alv. You son of a whore, will you hear me speak?