Hol. I will something affect the letter, for it argues facility.
[054] The preyful princess pierced and prickd a pretty pleasing pricket;
055 Some say a sore; but not a sore, till now made sore with shooting.
[056] The dogs did yell: put L to sore, then sorel jumps from thicket;
Or pricket sore, or else sorel; the people fall a-hooting.
[058] If sore be sore, then L to sore makes fifty sores one sorel.
Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L.
060 Nath. A rare talent!
Dull. [Aside] If a talent be a claw, look how he claws him with a talent.
[063] Hol. This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, 065 ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions: these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of [066] pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. But [068] the gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it.