passado

I do affect the very ground ( which is base )
where her shoe ( which is baser ) guided by her foot
( which is basest ) doth tread . I shall be forsworn
( which is a great argument of falsehood ) if I love .
And how can that be true love which is falsely
attempted ? Love is a familiar ; love is a devil . There is
no evil angel but love , yet was Samson so tempted ,
and he had an excellent strength ; yet was Solomon
so seduced , and he had a very good wit . Cupid’s
butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules’ club , and therefore
too much odds for a Spaniard’s rapier . The first
and second cause will not serve my turn ; the
passado he respects not , the duello he regards not .
His disgrace is to be called boy , but his glory is to
subdue men . Adieu , valor ; rust , rapier ; be still ,
drum , for your manager is in love . Yea , he loveth .
Assist me , some extemporal god of rhyme , for I am
sure I shall turn sonnet . Devise wit , write pen , for I
am for whole volumes in folio .

More than prince of cats . O , he’s the courageous
captain of compliments . He fights as you sing
prick-song , keeps time , distance , and proportion .
He rests his minim rests , one , two , and the third in
your bosom — the very butcher of a silk button , a
duelist , a duelist , a gentleman of the very first house
of the first and second cause . Ah , the immortal
passado , the punto reverso , the hay !

Come , sir , your passado .