Excerpt from Shakspere and Company: A Comedy in Five Acts 1st Serv. Will her Majesty ride forth to-day? 2nd Serv. Ask me whence the wind will blow o' th' morrow - whether it will rain or shine on this day se'nnight, for an I tell you these, expect from me an answer to your query. Will her Majesty ride forth to-day? Marry, will she! i' chance her horse shall carry her! 1st Serv. Every ass kws this. 2nd Serv. Then the ass kws more than the horse's master. To school, and take lesson of 't, for he's t born shall tell you when next her horse shall carry her. Yet have I my shrewd guess on't. 1st Serv. Ha! when? 2nd Serv. When next she wills to mount him. Now, this same will of hers, that makes her horse to go - perchance against his will, albeit a willing creature - is the one thing I never yet could reckon on. If it hath likeness, 'tis in the steed unbridled; walk with it, trot with it, gallop with it, 'tis odds against us we keep up with it. 1st Serv. Hush! our mistress' will being all her own, is t for us to question. But, for her humours - 2nd Serv. Don't hint at them. A very woman in her love and hate: she'll do you more kindness in half an hour than a whole lifetime can requite; but, once ruffle her vanity, and - God save her grace! she's out of humour with us all; herself into the bargain! 1st Serv. Then her whims and fancies, though t for me to speak of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.