PROTEUS.
I do.
SPEED.
Why then, my horns are his horns, whether I wake or sleep.
PROTEUS.
A silly answer, and fitting well a sheep.
SPEED.
This proves me still a sheep.
PROTEUS.
True, and thy master a shepherd.
SPEED.
Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance.
PROTEUS.
It shall go hard but I’ll prove it by another.
SPEED.
The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master seeks not me. Therefore I am no sheep.
PROTEUS.
The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd; the shepherd for food follows not the sheep. Thou for wages followest thy master; thy master for wages follows not thee. Therefore thou art a sheep.
SPEED.
Such another proof will make me cry “baa”.