ARMADO.
Almost I had.
MOTH.
Negligent student! Learn her by heart.
ARMADO.
By heart and in heart, boy.
MOTH.
And out of heart, master. All those three I will prove.
ARMADO.
What wilt thou prove?
MOTH.
A man, if I live; and this, “by, in, and without,” upon the instant: “by” heart you love her, because your heart cannot come by her; “in” heart you love her, because your heart is in love with her; and “out” of heart you love her, being out of heart that you cannot enjoy her.
ARMADO.
I am all these three.
MOTH.
And three times as much more, and yet nothing at all.
ARMADO.
Fetch hither the swain. He must carry me a letter.
MOTH.
A message well sympathized: a horse to be ambassador for an ass.