GOWER: O, 'tis a gallant king!
FLUELLEN; Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain Gower. What call you the town's name where Alexandesr the Pig was porn?
GOWER: Alexander the Great.
FLUELLEN; Why, I pray you, is not pig great? The pig, or the great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the magnanimous, are all one reckoning, save the phrase is a little variation.
GOWER: I think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon; his father was call'd Philip of Macedon, as I take it.
FLUELLEN: I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I tell you, captain, if you look in the maps of the 'orld, I warrant you sall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth: it is called Wye at Monmouth; but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.
--Shakespeare, Henry V IV viii
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