Why, I meant nothing but a basolus manus.[417]
No? didst thou not mean to give me the privy stab?
Piston.
No, by my troth, sir.
Basilisco.
Nay, if thou hadst, I had not fear'd thee, I;
I tell thee, my skin holds out pistol-proof.
Piston.
Pistol-proof? I'll try if it will hold out pin-proof.
[Then he pricks him with a pin.