SCENE III.—A Room in Candido’s House. Candido, the Bride and Guests discovered at dinner; Prentices waiting on them.
Enter Lodovico, Carolo, and Astolfo.
Cand. O gentlemen, so late, you are very welcome, pray sit down.
Lod. Carolo, did’st e’er see such a nest of caps?[241]
Ast. Methinks it’s a most civil and most comely sight.
Lod. What does he i’th’ middle look like?
Ast. Troth, like a spire steeple in a country village overpeering so many thatched houses.
Lod. It’s rather a long pike-staff against so many bucklers without pikes;[242] they sit for all the world like a pair of organs, and he’s the tall great roaring pipe i’ th’ midst.
Ast. Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Cand. What’s that you laugh at, signors?