Leonato: I would faine know what you haue to ſay.

You are putting too much English on the ball.

These boys are cast as heroes of American machodom, and machodom has a problem with gender. Perhaps because it is as ignorant as a post, machodom does not realize that armies and navies and sports teams from Achilles and Patroclus through Nelson's navy to the Gulf War have been built on homoeroticism.

When you went / Ambassador to the Emperor, you made bold / To carry into Flanders the great seal.