A suitor. ’Tis stiff and dry with age. Bring me some oil:

If it be rubbed therewith and warmed the while,

’Twill ease it mightily.

Ant.Ay, do ye so.

[They take it to the fire.

Chorus—Wooers (inter se).

What was it, friend, I heard thee say?—

Seest thou the arms, that in the hall

Were wont to hang, are gone to-day?—

Ay, so they be, sir, one and all.—2450