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Scen: 5a.

Lepidus, Piscinus, Columella, Facetia,
Lepid:
Weele to ye busines nistantly I hope
Mr Piscinus yr freinde is perfecte

Piscinus:
—Claps his hande on his breste.


Lepidus:
O I conceive you he meanes he has it
By harte.

Facetia:
Pray heaven I holde my countenance
This is such A device an age cannot paralell
An interprter to A dumbe man, A com̄ent vpon silence.

Columella
[Columella] I am as much troubled to speake
This wt hout action or accent as if I were
To reade Hebrew wt hout poyntes,
But this muste be my posture.

Columella retyres to ye hangins stands vpright against one of ye pillars of ye stage.