Act 1 - Scene 2

The same.

Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO and MOTH

ADRIANO DE ARMADO

Boy, what sign is it when a man of great spirit
grows melancholy?

MOTH

A great sign, sir, that he will look sad.

ADRIANO DE ARMADO

Why, sadness is one and the self-same thing, dear imp.

MOTH

No, no; O Lord, sir, no.

ADRIANO DE ARMADO

How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, my

MOTH

By a familiar demonstration of the working, my tough senior.

ADRIANO DE ARMADO

Why tough senior? why tough senior?

MOTH

Why tender juvenal? why tender juvenal?

ADRIANO DE ARMADO

I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton
appertaining to thy young days, which we may
nominate tender.

MOTH

And I, tough senior, as an appertinent title to your
old time, which we may name tough.

ARMADO

Pretty and apt.

MOTH

How mean you, sir? I pretty, and my saying apt? or
I apt, and my saying pretty?

ADRIANO DE ARMADO

Thou pretty, because little.