BULLER.
Knight is a ninny on the Single Combat. In all the previous circumstances regarding it, Turnus behaved ill—now that he must fight, he fights well: 'tis as fair a fight as ever was fought in the field of old Epic Poetry: tutelary interposition alternates in favour of either Prince: the bare notion of either outliving defeat never entered any mind but Payne Knight's: nor did any other fingers ever fumble such a charge against the hero of an Epic as "Stabbing while begging for quarter"—but a momentary weakness in Turnus which was not without its effect on Æneas, till at sight of that Belt, he sheathed the steel.
TALBOYS.
Payne works himself up, in the conclusion of the passage, into an absolute maniac.
NORTH.
Good manners, Talboys—no insult—remember Mr Knight has been long dead.
TALBOYS.
So has Æneas—so has Virgil.
NORTH.
True. Young gentlemen, I have listened with much pleasure to your animated and judicious dialogue. Shall I now give Judgment?