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Love's Labours Lost — Scene 2. (Part 26 of 34)

FERDINAND

I think Hector was not so clean-timbered.

LONGAVILLE

His leg is too big for Hector's.

DUMAIN

More calf, certain.

BOYET

No; he is best endued in the small.

BIRON

This cannot be Hector.

DUMAIN

He's a god or a painter; for he makes faces.

ADRIANO DE ARMADO

The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty,
Gave Hector a gift, –

DUMAIN

A gilt nutmeg.

BIRON

A lemon.

LONGAVILLE

Stuck with cloves.

DUMAIN

No, cloven.

ADRIANO DE ARMADO

Peace!–
The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty
Gave Hector a gift, the heir of Ilion;
A man so breathed, that certain he would fight; yea
From morn till night, out of his pavilion.
I am that flower, –

DUMAIN

That mint.

LONGAVILLE

That columbine.