Cost. As it shall follow in my correction: and God defend the right!
210 King. Will you hear this letter with attention?
Biron. As we would hear an oracle.
Cost. Such is the simplicity of man to hearken after the flesh.
King. [reads]. ‘Great deputy, the welkin’s vicegerent, and sole 215 dominator of Navarre, my soul’s earth’s god, and body’s fostering patron.’—
Cost. Not a word of Costard yet.
King. [reads]. ‘So it is,’—
Cost. It may be so: but if he say it is so, he is, in telling [220] true, but so.
King. Peace!
Cost. Be to me, and every man that dares not fight!