[035] Dull. What is Dictynna?
[036] Nath. A title to Phœbe, to Luna, to the moon.
Hol. The moon was a month old when Adam was no more,
[038] And raught not to five weeks when he came to five-score.
The allusion holds in the exchange.
040 Dull. ’Tis true indeed; the collusion holds in the exchange.
Hol. God comfort thy capacity! I say, the allusion holds in the exchange.
[044] Dull. And I say, the pollusion holds in the exchange; 045 for the moon is never but a month old: and I say beside that, ’twas a pricket that the princess killed.
[047] Hol. Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph [048] on the death of the deer? And, to humour the ignorant, [049] call I the deer the princess killed a pricket.
050 Nath. Perge, good Master Holofernes, perge; so it [051] shall please you to abrogate scurrility.