Wor. Yea, but a little charge will trench him here
And on this north side win this cape of land;
And then he runs straight and even.[2649]
Hot. I'll have it so: a little charge will do it.115
Glend. I'll not have it alter'd.[2650]
Hot. Will not you?
Glend. No, nor you shall not.
Hot. Who shall say me nay?
Glend. Why, that will I.
Hot. Let me not understand you, then; speak it in[2651][2652]
Welsh.[2651]120
Glend. I can speak English, lord, as well as you;
For I was train'd up in the English court;
Where, being but young, I framed to the harp[2653]
Many an English ditty lovely well
And gave the tongue a helpful ornament,125
A virtue that was never seen in you.
Hot. Marry,[2654]
And I am glad of it with all my heart:[2654]
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers;[2655]130
I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd,[2656]
Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree;
And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,[2657]
Nothing so much as mincing poetry:
'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.135