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If the Duke, with the other dukes, come not to composition with the King of Hungary

Lucio
If the Duke, with the other dukes, come not to
composition with the King of Hungary, why then all
the dukes fall upon the King.
First Gentleman
Heaven grant us its peace, but not
the King of Hungary’s!Paronomasia

Grace is grace, despite of all
controversy; as, for example, thou thyself
art a wicked villain, despite of all grace

Second Gentleman
Amen.
Lucio
Thou conclud’st like the sanctimonious pirate
that went to sea with the ten commandments but
scraped one out of the table.Simile

Second Gentleman
“Thou shalt not steal”?
Lucio
Ay, that he razed.
First Gentleman
Why, ’twas a commandment to command
the Captain and all the rest from their functions!
They put forth to steal. There’s not a soldier of
us all that in the thanksgiving before meat do relish
the petition well that prays for peace.
Second Gentleman
I never heard any soldier dislike it.
Lucio
I believe thee, for I think thou never wast where
grace was said.
Second Gentleman
No? A dozen times at least.
First Gentleman
What? In meter?
Lucio
In any proportion or in any language.
First Gentleman
I think, or in any religion.
Lucio
Ay, why not? Grace is grace, despite of all
controversy; as, for example, thou thyself art a
wicked villain, despite of all grace.Epanalepsis

First Gentleman
Well, there went but a pair of shears between us.Metaphor
Lucio
I grant, as there may between the lists and the
velvet. Thou art the list.
First Gentleman
And thou the velvet. Thou art good
velvet; thou ’rt a three-piled piece, I warrant thee.
AlliosisI had as lief be a list of an English kersey as be piled,
as thou art piled, for a French velvet.Analogy & Paronomasia
Do I speak
feelingly now?
Lucio
I think thou dost, and indeed with most painful
feeling of thy speech. I will, out of thine own
confession, learn to begin thy health, but, whilst I
live, forget to drink after thee.
First Gentleman
I think I have done myself wrong,
have I not?
Second Gentleman
Yes, that thou hast, whether thou
art tainted or free.