Charg. And be careful, above all, that you please Master Waller.
He is a guest worth pleasing. He is a gentleman. Free order, quick
pay!
George. And such, I'll dare be sworn, is the other. A man of
mighty stores of knowledge--most learned in dogs and horses! Never
was I so edified by the discourse of mortal man.
[They go out severally.]
SCENE II.--A Room.
[MASTER WALLER, MASTER WILDRAKE, MASTER TRUEWORTH, MASTER NEVILLE,
and MASTER HUMPHREYS, sitting round a table.]
Wal. Well, Master Wildrake, speak you of the chase!
To hear you one doth feel the bounding steed;
You bring the hounds and game, and all to view -
All scudding to the jovial huntsman's cheer!
And yet I pity the poor crowned deer,
And always fancy 'tis by fortune's spite,
That lordly head of his, he bears so high -
Like Virtue, stately in calamity,
And hunted by the human, worldly hound -
Is made to fly before the pack, that straight
Burst into song at prospect of his death.
You say their cry is harmony; and yet
The chorus scarce is music to my ear,
When I bethink me what it sounds to his;
Nor deem I sweet the note that rings the knell
Of the once merry forester!
Nev. The same things
Please us or pain, according to the thought
We take of them.
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