FIRST GENTLEMAN.
What? in metre?
LUCIO.
In any proportion or in any language.
FIRST GENTLEMAN.
I think, or in any religion.
LUCIO.
Ay! why not? Grace is grace, despite of all controversy. As, for
example; — thou
thyself art a wicked villain, despite of all grace.
FIRST GENTLEMAN.
Well, there went but a pair of shears between us.
LUCIO.
I grant; as there may between the lists and the velvet. Thou art
the list.
FIRST GENTLEMAN.
And thou the velvet: thou art good velvet; thou'rt a three-piled
piece, I warrant thee: I had as lief be a list of an English
kersey as be piled, as thou art piled, for a French velvet.
Do I speak feelingly now?
LUCIO.
I think thou dost; and, indeed, with most painful feeling of thy
speech. I will, out of thine own confession, learn to begin thy
health; but, whilst I live, forget to drink after thee.
FIRST GENTLEMAN.
I think I have done myself wrong; have I not?
