Now is he apt for knowledge; therefore know
It is a more direct and even way,
To train to virtue those of princely blood,
By examples than by precepts: if by examples,
Whom should he rather strive to imitate
Than his own father? be his pattern then,
Leave him a stock of virtue that may last,
Should fortune rend his sails, and split his mast.


Brach. Your hand, boy: growing to a soldier?


Giov. Give me a pike.


Fran. What, practising your pike so young, fair cousin?


Giov. Suppose me one of Homer's frogs, my lord,
Tossing my bulrush thus. Pray, sir, tell me,
Might not a child of good discretion
Be leader to an army?


Fran. Yes, cousin, a young prince
Of good discretion might.


Giov. Say you so?