War. Some scholar; and we'll ask him where Friar Bacon is.
Bacon. Why, thou arrant dunce, shall I never make thee a good scholar? doth not all the town cry out and say, Friar Bacon's subsizer is the greatest blockhead in all Oxford? why, thou canst not speak one word of true Latin.
Miles. No, sir? yes! what is this else? Ego sum tuus homo, "I am your man;" I warrant you, sir, as good Tully's phrase as any is in Oxford.
Bacon. Come on, sirrah; what part of speech is Ego?
Miles. Ego, that is "I"; marry, nomen substantivo.
Bacon. How prove you that?
Miles. Why, sir, let him prove himself an 'a will; I can be heard, felt and understood.
Bacon. O gross dunce! [Beats him.
P. Edw. Come, let us break off this dispute between these two.—Sirrah, where is Brazen-nose College?