Enter Armado, the Braggart.
ARMADO.
Anointed, I implore so much expense of thy royal sweet breath as will utter a brace of words.
[Armado and King talk apart.]
PRINCESS.
Doth this man serve God?
BEROWNE.
Why ask you?
PRINCESS.
He speaks not like a man of God his making.
ARMADO.
That is all one, my fair, sweet, honey monarch; for, I protest, the schoolmaster is exceeding fantastical; too, too vain, too, too vain. But we will put it, as they say, to fortuna de la guerra. I wish you the peace of mind, most royal couplement!
[Exit.]
KING.
Here is like to be a good presence of Worthies. He presents Hector of Troy; the swain, Pompey the Great; the parish curate, Alexander; Armado’s page, Hercules; the pedant, Judas Maccabaeus.
And if these four Worthies in their first show thrive,
These four will change habits and present the other five.
BEROWNE.
There is five in the first show.