134 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Speed. Twenty to one then he’s shipp’d already; 
and I have play’d the sheep in losing him. 
Proteus. Indeed a sheep doth very often stray, 
an if the shepherd be a while away. 
Speed. You conclude that my master is a shepherd 
then, and I a sheep ? 
Proteus. I do. 
Speed. Why then my horns are his horns, whether 
I wake or sleep. 
Proteus. A silly answer, and fitting well a sheep. 
Speed. This proves me still a sheep. 
Proteus. True; and thy master a shepherd. 
Speed. Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance. 
Pi'oteus. It shall go hard but I’ll prove it by 
another. 
Speed. The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the 
sheep the shepherd; but I seek my master, and my 
master seeks not me : therefore, I am no sheep. 
Proteus. The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, 
the shepherd for food follows not the sheep; thou 
or wages followest thy master, thy master for wages 
follows not thee; therefore thou art a sheep. 
Speed. Such another proof will make me cry baa. 
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act i. Scene i. 
Benedict. Now, Divine air! now is his soul ra¬ 
vished !—Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should 
hale souls out of men’s bodies?—Well, a horn for 
my money, when all’s done. 
Much Ado about Nothing, Act ii. Scene 3. 
Ai'mado (to Holofernes'). Monsieur, are you not 
lettered ? 
Moth . Yes, yes ; he teaches boys the horn-book ;— 
What is a, b, spelt backward, with a horn on his head ? 
