Balthazar.
But this will be a mere confusion,
And hardly shall we all be understood.
Hieronimo.
It must be so; for the conclusion
Shall prove the invention, and all was good:
And I myself in an oration,
And with a strange and wondrous show besides,
That I will have there behind a curtain,
Assure yourself, shall make the matter known:
And all shall be concluded in one scene,
For there's no pleasure ta'en in tediousness.
Balthazar.
How like you this?
Lorenzo.
Why thus, my lord, we must resolve
To soothe his humours up.
[Aside.