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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS of Rousillon, HELENA, and LAFEU, all in black</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>anew: but I must attend his majesty's command, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>You shall find of the king a husband, madam; you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>sir, a father: he that so generally is at all times</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>good must of necessity hold his virtue to you; whose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>worthiness would stir it up where it wanted rather</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>than lack it where there is such abundance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>What hope is there of his majesty's amendment?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>He hath abandoned his physicians, madam; under whose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>practises he hath persecuted time with hope, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>finds no other advantage in the process but only the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>losing of hope by time.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>This young gentlewoman had a father,--O, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>'had'! how sad a passage 'tis!--whose skill was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>far, would have made nature immortal, and death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>should have play for lack of work. Would, for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>king's sake, he were living! I think it would be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>the death of the king's disease.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>How called you the man you speak of, madam?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>his great right to be so: Gerard de Narbon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly: he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>could be set up against mortality.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>What is it, my good lord, the king languishes of?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>A fistula, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>I heard not of it before.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>I would it were not notorious. Was this gentlewoman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>the daughter of Gerard de Narbon?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>overlooking. I have those hopes of her good that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>her education promises; her dispositions she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer; for where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>commendations go with pity; they are virtues and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>traitors too; in her they are the better for their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>simpleness; she derives her honesty and achieves her goodness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>Your commendations, madam, get from her tears.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>in. The remembrance of her father never approaches</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.46>livelihood from her cheek. No more of this, Helena;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.47>go to, no more; lest it be rather thought you affect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.48>a sorrow than have it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.49>I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.50>Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.51>excessive grief the enemy to the living.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.52>If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.53>makes it soon mortal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.54>Madam, I desire your holy wishes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.55>How understand we that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.56>Be thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.57>In manners, as in shape! thy blood and virtue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.58>Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.59>Share with thy birthright! Love all, trust a few,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.60>Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.61>Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.62>Under thy own life's key: be cheque'd for silence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.63>But never tax'd for speech. What heaven more will,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.64>That thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.65>Fall on thy head! Farewell, my lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.66>'Tis an unseason'd courtier; good my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.67>Advise him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.68> He cannot want the best</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.69>That shall attend his love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.70>Heaven bless him! Farewell, Bertram.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.71>[To HELENA] The best wishes that can be forged in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.72>your thoughts be servants to you! Be comfortable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.73>to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.74>Farewell, pretty lady: you must hold the credit of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.75>your father.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt BERTRAM and LAFEU</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.76>O, were that all! I think not on my father;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.77>And these great tears grace his remembrance more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.78>Than those I shed for him. What was he like?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.79>I have forgot him: my imagination</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.80>Carries no favour in't but Bertram's.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.81>I am undone: there is no living, none,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.82>If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.83>That I should love a bright particular star</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.84>And think to wed it, he is so above me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.85>In his bright radiance and collateral light</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.86>Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.87>The ambition in my love thus plagues itself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.88>The hind that would be mated by the lion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.89>Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though plague,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.90>To see him every hour; to sit and draw</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.91>His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.92>In our heart's table; heart too capable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.93>Of every line and trick of his sweet favour:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.94>But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.95>Must sanctify his reliques. Who comes here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PAROLLES</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.96>One that goes with him: I love him for his sake;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.97>And yet I know him a notorious liar,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.98>Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.99>Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.100>That they take place, when virtue's steely bones</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.101>Look bleak i' the cold wind: withal, full oft we see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.102>Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.103>Save you, fair queen!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.104>And you, monarch!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.105>No.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.106>And no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.107>Are you meditating on virginity?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.108>Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you: let me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.109>ask you a question. Man is enemy to virginity; how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.110>may we barricado it against him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.111>Keep him out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.112>But he assails; and our virginity, though valiant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.113>in the defence yet is weak: unfold to us some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.114>warlike resistance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.115>There is none: man, sitting down before you, will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.116>undermine you and blow you up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.117>Bless our poor virginity from underminers and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.118>blowers up! Is there no military policy, how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.119>virgins might blow up men?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.120>Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.121>blown up: marry, in blowing him down again, with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.122>the breach yourselves made, you lose your city. It</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.123>is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.124>preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.125>increase and there was never virgin got till</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.126>virginity was first lost. That you were made of is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.127>metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.128>may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.129>ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with 't!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.130>I will stand for 't a little, though therefore I die a virgin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.131>There's little can be said in 't; 'tis against the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.132>rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.133>is to accuse your mothers; which is most infallible</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.134>disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.135>virginity murders itself and should be buried in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.136>highways out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.137>offendress against nature. Virginity breeds mites,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.138>much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.139>paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.140>Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.141>self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.142>canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but loose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.143>by't: out with 't! within ten year it will make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.144>itself ten, which is a goodly increase; and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.145>principal itself not much the worse: away with 't!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.146>How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.147>Let me see: marry, ill, to like him that ne'er it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.148>likes. 'Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.149>lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with 't</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.150>while 'tis vendible; answer the time of request.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.151>Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.152>of fashion: richly suited, but unsuitable: just</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.153>like the brooch and the tooth-pick, which wear not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.154>now. Your date is better in your pie and your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.155>porridge than in your cheek; and your virginity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.156>your old virginity, is like one of our French</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.157>withered pears, it looks ill, it eats drily; marry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.158>'tis a withered pear; it was formerly better;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.159>marry, yet 'tis a withered pear: will you anything with it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.160>Not my virginity yet [ ]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.161>There shall your master have a thousand loves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.162>A mother and a mistress and a friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.163>A phoenix, captain and an enemy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.164>A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.165>A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.166>His humble ambition, proud humility,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.167>His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.168>His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.169>Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.170>That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.171>I know not what he shall. God send him well!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.172>The court's a learning place, and he is one--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.173>What one, i' faith?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.174>That I wish well. 'Tis pity--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.175>What's pity?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.176>That wishing well had not a body in't,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.177>Which might be felt; that we, the poorer born,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.178>Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.179>Might with effects of them follow our friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.180>And show what we alone must think, which never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.181>Return us thanks.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Page</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>Page</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.182>Monsieur Parolles, my lord calls for you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.183>Little Helen, farewell; if I can remember thee, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.184>will think of thee at court.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.185>Monsieur Parolles, you were born under a charitable star.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.186>Under Mars, I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.187>I especially think, under Mars.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.188>Why under Mars?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.189>The wars have so kept you under that you must needs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.190>be born under Mars.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.191>When he was predominant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.192>When he was retrograde, I think, rather.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.193>Why think you so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.194>You go so much backward when you fight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.195>That's for advantage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.196>So is running away, when fear proposes the safety;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.197>but the composition that your valour and fear makes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.198>in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.199>I am so full of businesses, I cannot answer thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.200>acutely. I will return perfect courtier; in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.201>which, my instruction shall serve to naturalize</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.202>thee, so thou wilt be capable of a courtier's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.203>counsel and understand what advice shall thrust upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.204>thee; else thou diest in thine unthankfulness, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.205>thine ignorance makes thee away: farewell. When</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.206>thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when thou hast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.207>none, remember thy friends; get thee a good husband,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.208>and use him as he uses thee; so, farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.209>Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.210>Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.211>Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.212>Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.213>What power is it which mounts my love so high,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.214>That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.215>The mightiest space in fortune nature brings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.216>To join like likes and kiss like native things.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.217>Impossible be strange attempts to those</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.218>That weigh their pains in sense and do suppose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.219>What hath been cannot be: who ever strove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.220>So show her merit, that did miss her love?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.221>The king's disease--my project may deceive me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.222>But my intents are fix'd and will not leave me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Paris. The KING's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING of France, with letters, and divers Attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.1>The Florentines and Senoys are by the ears;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.2>Have fought with equal fortune and continue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.3>A braving war.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.4> So 'tis reported, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.5>Nay, 'tis most credible; we here received it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.6>A certainty, vouch'd from our cousin Austria,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.7>With caution that the Florentine will move us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.8>For speedy aid; wherein our dearest friend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.9>Prejudicates the business and would seem</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.10>To have us make denial.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.11>His love and wisdom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.12>Approved so to your majesty, may plead</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.13>For amplest credence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.14>He hath arm'd our answer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.15>And Florence is denied before he comes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.16>Yet, for our gentlemen that mean to see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.17>The Tuscan service, freely have they leave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.18>To stand on either part.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.19>It well may serve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.20>A nursery to our gentry, who are sick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.21>For breathing and exploit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.22>What's he comes here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.23>It is the Count Rousillon, my good lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.24>Young Bertram.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.25> Youth, thou bear'st thy father's face;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.26>Frank nature, rather curious than in haste,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.27>Hath well composed thee. Thy father's moral parts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.28>Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.29>My thanks and duty are your majesty's.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.30>I would I had that corporal soundness now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.31>As when thy father and myself in friendship</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.32>First tried our soldiership! He did look far</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.33>Into the service of the time and was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.34>Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.35>But on us both did haggish age steal on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.36>And wore us out of act. It much repairs me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.37>To talk of your good father. In his youth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.38>He had the wit which I can well observe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.39>To-day in our young lords; but they may jest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.40>Till their own scorn return to them unnoted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.41>Ere they can hide their levity in honour;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.42>So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.43>Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.44>His equal had awaked them, and his honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.45>Clock to itself, knew the true minute when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.46>Exception bid him speak, and at this time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.47>His tongue obey'd his hand: who were below him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.48>He used as creatures of another place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.49>And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.50>Making them proud of his humility,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.51>In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.52>Might be a copy to these younger times;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.53>Which, follow'd well, would demonstrate them now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.54>But goers backward.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.55>His good remembrance, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.56>Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.57>So in approof lives not his epitaph</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.58>As in your royal speech.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.59>Would I were with him! He would always say--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.60>Methinks I hear him now; his plausive words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.61>He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.62>To grow there and to bear,--'Let me not live,'--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.63>This his good melancholy oft began,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.64>On the catastrophe and heel of pastime,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.65>When it was out,--'Let me not live,' quoth he,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.66>'After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.67>Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.68>All but new things disdain; whose judgments are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.69>Mere fathers of their garments; whose constancies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.70>Expire before their fashions.' This he wish'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.71>I after him do after him wish too,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.72>Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.73>I quickly were dissolved from my hive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.74>To give some labourers room.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.75>You are loved, sir:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.76>They that least lend it you shall lack you first.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.77>I fill a place, I know't. How long is't, count,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.78>Since the physician at your father's died?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.79>He was much famed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.80> Some six months since, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.81>If he were living, I would try him yet.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.82>Lend me an arm; the rest have worn me out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.83>With several applications; nature and sickness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.84>Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, count;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.85>My son's no dearer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.86>Thank your majesty.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt. Flourish</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter COUNTESS, Steward, and Clown</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.1>I will now hear; what say you of this gentlewoman?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Steward</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.2>Madam, the care I have had to even your content, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.3>wish might be found in the calendar of my past</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.4>endeavours; for then we wound our modesty and make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.5>foul the clearness of our deservings, when of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.6>ourselves we publish them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.7>What does this knave here? Get you gone, sirrah:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.8>the complaints I have heard of you I do not all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.9>believe: 'tis my slowness that I do not; for I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.10>you lack not folly to commit them, and have ability</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.11>enough to make such knaveries yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.12>'Tis not unknown to you, madam, I am a poor fellow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.13>Well, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.14>No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor, though</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.15>many of the rich are damned: but, if I may have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.16>your ladyship's good will to go to the world, Isbel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.17>the woman and I will do as we may.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.18>Wilt thou needs be a beggar?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.19>I do beg your good will in this case.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.20>In what case?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.21>In Isbel's case and mine own. Service is no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.22>heritage: and I think I shall never have the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.23>blessing of God till I have issue o' my body; for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.24>they say barnes are blessings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.25>Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.26>My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.27>by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.28>Is this all your worship's reason?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.29>Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons such as they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.30>are.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.31>May the world know them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.32>I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.33>all flesh and blood are; and, indeed, I do marry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.34>that I may repent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.35>Thy marriage, sooner than thy wickedness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.36>I am out o' friends, madam; and I hope to have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.37>friends for my wife's sake.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.38>Such friends are thine enemies, knave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.39>You're shallow, madam, in great friends; for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.40>knaves come to do that for me which I am aweary of.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.41>He that ears my land spares my team and gives me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.42>leave to in the crop; if I be his cuckold, he's my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.43>drudge: he that comforts my wife is the cherisher</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.44>of my flesh and blood; he that cherishes my flesh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.45>and blood loves my flesh and blood; he that loves my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.46>flesh and blood is my friend: ergo, he that kisses</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.47>my wife is my friend. If men could be contented to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.48>be what they are, there were no fear in marriage;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.49>for young Charbon the Puritan and old Poysam the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.50>Papist, howsome'er their hearts are severed in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.51>religion, their heads are both one; they may jowl</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.52>horns together, like any deer i' the herd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.53>Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouthed and calumnious knave?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.54>A prophet I, madam; and I speak the truth the next</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.55>way:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.56>For I the ballad will repeat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.57>Which men full true shall find;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.58>Your marriage comes by destiny,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.59>Your cuckoo sings by kind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.60>Get you gone, sir; I'll talk with you more anon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Steward</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.61>May it please you, madam, that he bid Helen come to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.62>you: of her I am to speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.63>Sirrah, tell my gentlewoman I would speak with her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.64>Helen, I mean.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.65> Was this fair face the cause, quoth she,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.66>Why the Grecians sacked Troy?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.67>Fond done, done fond,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.68>Was this King Priam's joy?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.69>With that she sighed as she stood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.70>With that she sighed as she stood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.71>And gave this sentence then;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.72>Among nine bad if one be good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.73>Among nine bad if one be good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.74>There's yet one good in ten.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.75>What, one good in ten? you corrupt the song, sirrah.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.76>One good woman in ten, madam; which is a purifying</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.77>o' the song: would God would serve the world so all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.78>the year! we'ld find no fault with the tithe-woman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.79>if I were the parson. One in ten, quoth a'! An we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.80>might have a good woman born but one every blazing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.81>star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the lottery</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.82>well: a man may draw his heart out, ere a' pluck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.83>one.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.84>You'll be gone, sir knave, and do as I command you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.85>That man should be at woman's command, and yet no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.86>hurt done! Though honesty be no puritan, yet it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.87>will do no hurt; it will wear the surplice of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.88>humility over the black gown of a big heart. I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.89>going, forsooth: the business is for Helen to come hither.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.90>Well, now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>Steward</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.91>I know, madam, you love your gentlewoman entirely.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.92>Faith, I do: her father bequeathed her to me; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.93>she herself, without other advantage, may lawfully</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.94>make title to as much love as she finds: there is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.95>more owing her than is paid; and more shall be paid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.96>her than she'll demand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>Steward</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.97>Madam, I was very late more near her than I think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.98>she wished me: alone she was, and did communicate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.99>to herself her own words to her own ears; she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.100>thought, I dare vow for her, they touched not any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.101>stranger sense. Her matter was, she loved your son:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.102>Fortune, she said, was no goddess, that had put</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.103>such difference betwixt their two estates; Love no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.104>god, that would not extend his might, only where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.105>qualities were level; Dian no queen of virgins, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.106>would suffer her poor knight surprised, without</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.107>rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.108>This she delivered in the most bitter touch of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.109>sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim in: which I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.110>held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.111>sithence, in the loss that may happen, it concerns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.112>you something to know it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.113>You have discharged this honestly; keep it to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.114>yourself: many likelihoods informed me of this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.115>before, which hung so tottering in the balance that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.116>I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Pray you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.117>leave me: stall this in your bosom; and I thank you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.118>for your honest care: I will speak with you further anon.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Steward</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter HELENA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.119>Even so it was with me when I was young:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.120>If ever we are nature's, these are ours; this thorn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.121>Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.122>Our blood to us, this to our blood is born;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.123>It is the show and seal of nature's truth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.124>Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.125>By our remembrances of days foregone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.126>Such were our faults, or then we thought them none.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.127>Her eye is sick on't: I observe her now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.128>What is your pleasure, madam?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.129>You know, Helen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.130>I am a mother to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.131>Mine honourable mistress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.132>Nay, a mother:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.133>Why not a mother? When I said 'a mother,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.134>Methought you saw a serpent: what's in 'mother,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.135>That you start at it? I say, I am your mother;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.136>And put you in the catalogue of those</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.137>That were enwombed mine: 'tis often seen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.138>Adoption strives with nature and choice breeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.139>A native slip to us from foreign seeds:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.140>You ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.141>Yet I express to you a mother's care:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.142>God's mercy, maiden! does it curd thy blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.143>To say I am thy mother? What's the matter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.144>That this distemper'd messenger of wet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.145>The many-colour'd Iris, rounds thine eye?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.146>Why? that you are my daughter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.147>That I am not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.148>I say, I am your mother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.149>Pardon, madam;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.150>The Count Rousillon cannot be my brother:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.151>I am from humble, he from honour'd name;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.152>No note upon my parents, his all noble:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.153>My master, my dear lord he is; and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.154>His servant live, and will his vassal die:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.155>He must not be my brother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.156>Nor I your mother?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.157>You are my mother, madam; would you were,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.158>So that my lord your son were not my brother,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.159>Indeed my mother! or were you both our mothers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.160>I care no more for than I do for heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.161>So I were not his sister. Can't no other,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.162>But, I your daughter, he must be my brother?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.163>Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.164>God shield you mean it not! daughter and mother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.165>So strive upon your pulse. What, pale again?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.166>My fear hath catch'd your fondness: now I see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.167>The mystery of your loneliness, and find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.168>Your salt tears' head: now to all sense 'tis gross</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.169>You love my son; invention is ashamed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.170>Against the proclamation of thy passion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.171>To say thou dost not: therefore tell me true;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.172>But tell me then, 'tis so; for, look thy cheeks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.173>Confess it, th' one to th' other; and thine eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.174>See it so grossly shown in thy behaviors</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.175>That in their kind they speak it: only sin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.176>And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.177>That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.178>If it be so, you have wound a goodly clew;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.179>If it be not, forswear't: howe'er, I charge thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.180>As heaven shall work in me for thine avail,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.181>Tell me truly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.182> Good madam, pardon me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.183>Do you love my son?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.184>Your pardon, noble mistress!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.185>Love you my son?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.186> Do not you love him, madam?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.187>Go not about; my love hath in't a bond,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.188>Whereof the world takes note: come, come, disclose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.189>The state of your affection; for your passions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.190>Have to the full appeach'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.191>Then, I confess,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.192>Here on my knee, before high heaven and you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.193>That before you, and next unto high heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.194>I love your son.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.195>My friends were poor, but honest; so's my love:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.196>Be not offended; for it hurts not him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.197>That he is loved of me: I follow him not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.198>By any token of presumptuous suit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.199>Nor would I have him till I do deserve him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.200>Yet never know how that desert should be.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.201>I know I love in vain, strive against hope;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.202>Yet in this captious and intenible sieve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.203>I still pour in the waters of my love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.204>And lack not to lose still: thus, Indian-like,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.205>Religious in mine error, I adore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.206>The sun, that looks upon his worshipper,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.207>But knows of him no more. My dearest madam,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.208>Let not your hate encounter with my love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.209>For loving where you do: but if yourself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.210>Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.211>Did ever in so true a flame of liking</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.212>Wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.213>Was both herself and love: O, then, give pity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.214>To her, whose state is such that cannot choose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.215>But lend and give where she is sure to lose;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.216>That seeks not to find that her search implies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.217>But riddle-like lives sweetly where she dies!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.218>Had you not lately an intent,--speak truly,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.219>To go to Paris?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.220> Madam, I had.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.221>Wherefore? tell true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.222>I will tell truth; by grace itself I swear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.223>You know my father left me some prescriptions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.224>Of rare and proved effects, such as his reading</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.225>And manifest experience had collected</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.226>For general sovereignty; and that he will'd me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.227>In heedfull'st reservation to bestow them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.228>As notes whose faculties inclusive were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.229>More than they were in note: amongst the rest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.230>There is a remedy, approved, set down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.231>To cure the desperate languishings whereof</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.232>The king is render'd lost.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.233>This was your motive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.234>For Paris, was it? speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.235>My lord your son made me to think of this;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.236>Else Paris and the medicine and the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.237>Had from the conversation of my thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.238>Haply been absent then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.239>But think you, Helen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.240>If you should tender your supposed aid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.241>He would receive it? he and his physicians</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.242>Are of a mind; he, that they cannot help him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.243>They, that they cannot help: how shall they credit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.244>A poor unlearned virgin, when the schools,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.245>Embowell'd of their doctrine, have left off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.246>The danger to itself?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.247>There's something in't,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.248>More than my father's skill, which was the greatest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.249>Of his profession, that his good receipt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.250>Shall for my legacy be sanctified</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.251>By the luckiest stars in heaven: and, would your honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.252>But give me leave to try success, I'ld venture</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.253>The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.254>By such a day and hour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.255>Dost thou believe't?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.256>Ay, madam, knowingly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.257>Why, Helen, thou shalt have my leave and love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.258>Means and attendants and my loving greetings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.259>To those of mine in court: I'll stay at home</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.260>And pray God's blessing into thy attempt:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.261>Be gone to-morrow; and be sure of this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.262>What I can help thee to thou shalt not miss.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Paris. The KING's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING, attended with divers young Lords taking leave for the Florentine war; BERTRAM, and PAROLLES</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>Farewell, young lords; these warlike principles</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>Do not throw from you: and you, my lords, farewell:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain, all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>And is enough for both.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>'Tis our hope, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>After well enter'd soldiers, to return</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>And find your grace in health.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>No, no, it cannot be; and yet my heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>Will not confess he owes the malady</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>That doth my life besiege. Farewell, young lords;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>Whether I live or die, be you the sons</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>Of worthy Frenchmen: let higher Italy,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>Those bated that inherit but the fall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>Of the last monarchy,--see that you come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>Not to woo honour, but to wed it; when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>The bravest questant shrinks, find what you seek,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>That fame may cry you loud: I say, farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>Health, at your bidding, serve your majesty!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>Those girls of Italy, take heed of them:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>They say, our French lack language to deny,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>If they demand: beware of being captives,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>Before you serve.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Both</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24> Our hearts receive your warnings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>Farewell. Come hither to me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit, attended</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>O, my sweet lord, that you will stay behind us!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>'Tis not his fault, the spark.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>O, 'tis brave wars!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>Most admirable: I have seen those wars.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>I am commanded here, and kept a coil with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>'Too young' and 'the next year' and ''tis too early.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>An thy mind stand to't, boy, steal away bravely.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>Till honour be bought up and no sword worn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>But one to dance with! By heaven, I'll steal away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>There's honour in the theft.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>Commit it, count.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>I am your accessary; and so, farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured body.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>Farewell, captain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>Sweet Monsieur Parolles!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin. Good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>sparks and lustrous, a word, good metals: you shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>find in the regiment of the Spinii one Captain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>on his sinister cheek; it was this very sword</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>entrenched it: say to him, I live; and observe his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49>reports for me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>We shall, noble captain.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Lords</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>Mars dote on you for his novices! what will ye do?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>Stay: the king.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter KING. BERTRAM and PAROLLES retire</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>[To BERTRAM] Use a more spacious ceremony to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>noble lords; you have restrained yourself within the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>list of too cold an adieu: be more expressive to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56>them: for they wear themselves in the cap of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>time, there do muster true gait, eat, speak, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>move under the influence of the most received star;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>and though the devil lead the measure, such are to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>be followed: after them, and take a more dilated farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>And I will do so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>Worthy fellows; and like to prove most sinewy sword-men.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt BERTRAM and PAROLLES</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter LAFEU</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>[Kneeling] Pardon, my lord, for me and for my tidings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>I'll fee thee to stand up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>Then here's a man stands, that has brought his pardon.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>I would you had kneel'd, my lord, to ask me mercy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67>And that at my bidding you could so stand up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>I would I had; so I had broke thy pate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>And ask'd thee mercy for't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70>Good faith, across: but, my good lord 'tis thus;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>Will you be cured of your infirmity?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>No.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>O, will you eat no grapes, my royal fox?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.74>Yes, but you will my noble grapes, an if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.75>My royal fox could reach them: I have seen a medicine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.76>That's able to breathe life into a stone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.77>Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.78>With spritely fire and motion; whose simple touch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.79>Is powerful to araise King Pepin, nay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.80>To give great Charlemain a pen in's hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.81>And write to her a love-line.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.82>What 'her' is this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.83>Why, Doctor She: my lord, there's one arrived,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.84>If you will see her: now, by my faith and honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.85>If seriously I may convey my thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.86>In this my light deliverance, I have spoke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.87>With one that, in her sex, her years, profession,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.88>Wisdom and constancy, hath amazed me more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.89>Than I dare blame my weakness: will you see her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.90>For that is her demand, and know her business?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.91>That done, laugh well at me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.92>Now, good Lafeu,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.93>Bring in the admiration; that we with thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.94>May spend our wonder too, or take off thine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.95>By wondering how thou took'st it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.96>Nay, I'll fit you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.97>And not be all day neither.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.98>Thus he his special nothing ever prologues.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter LAFEU, with HELENA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.99>Nay, come your ways.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.100>This haste hath wings indeed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.101>Nay, come your ways:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.102>This is his majesty; say your mind to him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.103>A traitor you do look like; but such traitors</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.104>His majesty seldom fears: I am Cressid's uncle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.105>That dare leave two together; fare you well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.106>Now, fair one, does your business follow us?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.107>Ay, my good lord.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.108>Gerard de Narbon was my father;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.109>In what he did profess, well found.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.110>I knew him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.111>The rather will I spare my praises towards him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.112>Knowing him is enough. On's bed of death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.113>Many receipts he gave me: chiefly one.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.114>Which, as the dearest issue of his practise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.115>And of his old experience the oily darling,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.116>He bade me store up, as a triple eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.117>Safer than mine own two, more dear; I have so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.118>And hearing your high majesty is touch'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.119>With that malignant cause wherein the honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.120>Of my dear father's gift stands chief in power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.121>I come to tender it and my appliance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.122>With all bound humbleness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.123>We thank you, maiden;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.124>But may not be so credulous of cure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.125>When our most learned doctors leave us and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.126>The congregated college have concluded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.127>That labouring art can never ransom nature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.128>From her inaidible estate; I say we must not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.129>So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.130>To prostitute our past-cure malady</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.131>To empirics, or to dissever so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.132>Our great self and our credit, to esteem</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.133>A senseless help when help past sense we deem.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.134>My duty then shall pay me for my pains:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.135>I will no more enforce mine office on you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.136>Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.137>A modest one, to bear me back again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.138>I cannot give thee less, to be call'd grateful:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.139>Thou thought'st to help me; and such thanks I give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.140>As one near death to those that wish him live:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.141>But what at full I know, thou know'st no part,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.142>I knowing all my peril, thou no art.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.143>What I can do can do no hurt to try,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.144>Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.145>He that of greatest works is finisher</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.146>Oft does them by the weakest minister:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.147>So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.148>When judges have been babes; great floods have flown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.149>From simple sources, and great seas have dried</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.150>When miracles have by the greatest been denied.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.151>Oft expectation fails and most oft there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.152>Where most it promises, and oft it hits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.153>Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.154>I must not hear thee; fare thee well, kind maid;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.155>Thy pains not used must by thyself be paid:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.156>Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.157>Inspired merit so by breath is barr'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.158>It is not so with Him that all things knows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.159>As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.160>But most it is presumption in us when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.161>The help of heaven we count the act of men.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.162>Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.163>Of heaven, not me, make an experiment.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.164>I am not an impostor that proclaim</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.165>Myself against the level of mine aim;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.166>But know I think and think I know most sure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.167>My art is not past power nor you past cure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.168>Are thou so confident? within what space</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.169>Hopest thou my cure?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.170>The great'st grace lending grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.171>Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.172>Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.173>Ere twice in murk and occidental damp</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.174>Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.175>Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.176>Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.177>What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.178>Health shall live free and sickness freely die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.179>Upon thy certainty and confidence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.180>What darest thou venture?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.181>Tax of impudence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.182>A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.183>Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.184>Sear'd otherwise; nay, worse--if worse--extended</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.185>With vilest torture let my life be ended.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.186>Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.187>His powerful sound within an organ weak:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.188>And what impossibility would slay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.189>In common sense, sense saves another way.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.190>Thy life is dear; for all that life can rate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.191>Worth name of life in thee hath estimate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.192>Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.193>That happiness and prime can happy call:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.194>Thou this to hazard needs must intimate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.195>Skill infinite or monstrous desperate.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.196>Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.197>That ministers thine own death if I die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.198>If I break time, or flinch in property</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.199>Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.200>And well deserved: not helping, death's my fee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.201>But, if I help, what do you promise me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.202>Make thy demand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.203> But will you make it even?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.204>Ay, by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.205>Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.206>What husband in thy power I will command:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.207>Exempted be from me the arrogance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.208>To choose from forth the royal blood of France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.209>My low and humble name to propagate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.210>With any branch or image of thy state;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.211>But such a one, thy vassal, whom I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.212>Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.213>Here is my hand; the premises observed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.214>Thy will by my performance shall be served:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.215>So make the choice of thy own time, for I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.216>Thy resolved patient, on thee still rely.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.217>More should I question thee, and more I must,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.218>Though more to know could not be more to trust,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.219>From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.220>Unquestion'd welcome and undoubted blest.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.221>Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.222>As high as word, my deed shall match thy meed.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter COUNTESS and Clown</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.1>Come on, sir; I shall now put you to the height of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.2>your breeding.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.3>I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.4>know my business is but to the court.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.5>To the court! why, what place make you special,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.6>when you put off that with such contempt? But to the court!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.7>Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any manners, he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.8>may easily put it off at court: he that cannot make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.9>a leg, put off's cap, kiss his hand and say nothing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.10>has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap; and indeed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.11>such a fellow, to say precisely, were not for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.12>court; but for me, I have an answer will serve all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.13>men.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.14>Marry, that's a bountiful answer that fits all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.15>questions.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.16>It is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.17>the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.18>buttock, or any buttock.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.19>Will your answer serve fit to all questions?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.20>As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.21>as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as Tib's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.22>rush for Tom's forefinger, as a pancake for Shrove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.23>Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.24>hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding queen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.25>to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.26>friar's mouth, nay, as the pudding to his skin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.27>Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.28>questions?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.29>From below your duke to beneath your constable, it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.30>will fit any question.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.31>It must be an answer of most monstrous size that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.32>must fit all demands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.33>But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.34>should speak truth of it: here it is, and all that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.35>belongs to't. Ask me if I am a courtier: it shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.36>do you no harm to learn.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.37>To be young again, if we could: I will be a fool in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.38>question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.39>pray you, sir, are you a courtier?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.40>O Lord, sir! There's a simple putting off. More,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.41>more, a hundred of them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.42>Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.43>O Lord, sir! Thick, thick, spare not me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.44>I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely meat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.45>O Lord, sir! Nay, put me to't, I warrant you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.46>You were lately whipped, sir, as I think.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.47>O Lord, sir! spare not me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.48>Do you cry, 'O Lord, sir!' at your whipping, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.49>'spare not me?' Indeed your 'O Lord, sir!' is very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.50>sequent to your whipping: you would answer very well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.51>to a whipping, if you were but bound to't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.52>I ne'er had worse luck in my life in my 'O Lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.53>sir!' I see things may serve long, but not serve ever.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.54>I play the noble housewife with the time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.55>To entertain't so merrily with a fool.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.56>O Lord, sir! why, there't serves well again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.57>An end, sir; to your business. Give Helen this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.58>And urge her to a present answer back:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.59>Commend me to my kinsmen and my son:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.60>This is not much.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.61>Not much commendation to them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.62>Not much employment for you: you understand me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.63>Most fruitfully: I am there before my legs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.64>Haste you again.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt severally</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Paris. The KING's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.1>They say miracles are past; and we have our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.2>philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.3>things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.4>we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.5>into seeming knowledge, when we should submit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.6>ourselves to an unknown fear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.7>Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.8>shot out in our latter times.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.9>And so 'tis.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.10>To be relinquish'd of the artists,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.11>So I say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.12>Both of Galen and Paracelsus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.13>So I say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.14>Of all the learned and authentic fellows,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.15>Right; so I say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.16>That gave him out incurable,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.17>Why, there 'tis; so say I too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.18>Not to be helped,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.19>Right; as 'twere, a man assured of a--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.20>Uncertain life, and sure death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.21>Just, you say well; so would I have said.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.22>I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.23>It is, indeed: if you will have it in showing, you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.24>shall read it in--what do you call there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.25>A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.26>That's it; I would have said the very same.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.27>Why, your dolphin is not lustier: 'fore me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.28>I speak in respect--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.29>Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.30>brief and the tedious of it; and he's of a most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.31>facinerious spirit that will not acknowledge it to be the--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.32>Very hand of heaven.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.33>Ay, so I say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.34>In a most weak--</A><br> | |
| <p><i>pausing</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.35>and debile minister, great power, great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.36>transcendence: which should, indeed, give us a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.37>further use to be made than alone the recovery of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.38>the king, as to be--</A><br> | |
| <p><i>pausing</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.39>generally thankful.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.40>I would have said it; you say well. Here comes the king.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter KING, HELENA, and Attendants. LAFEU and PAROLLES retire</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.41>Lustig, as the Dutchman says: I'll like a maid the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.42>better, whilst I have a tooth in my head: why, he's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.43>able to lead her a coranto.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.44>Mort du vinaigre! is not this Helen?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.45>'Fore God, I think so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.46>Go, call before me all the lords in court.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.47>Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.48>And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.49>Thou hast repeal'd, a second time receive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.50>The confirmation of my promised gift,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.51>Which but attends thy naming.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter three or four Lords</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.52>Fair maid, send forth thine eye: this youthful parcel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.53>Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.54>O'er whom both sovereign power and father's voice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.55>I have to use: thy frank election make;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.56>Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.57>To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.58>Fall, when Love please! marry, to each, but one!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.59>I'ld give bay Curtal and his furniture,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.60>My mouth no more were broken than these boys',</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.61>And writ as little beard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.62>Peruse them well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.63>Not one of those but had a noble father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.64>Gentlemen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.65>Heaven hath through me restored the king to health.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.66>We understand it, and thank heaven for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.67>I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.68>That I protest I simply am a maid.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.69>Please it your majesty, I have done already:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.70>The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.71>'We blush that thou shouldst choose; but, be refused,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.72>Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.73>We'll ne'er come there again.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.74>Make choice; and, see,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.75>Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.76>Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.77>And to imperial Love, that god most high,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.78>Do my sighs stream. Sir, will you hear my suit?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.79>And grant it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.80> Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.81>I had rather be in this choice than throw ames-ace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.82>for my life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.83>The honour, sir, that flames in your fair eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.84>Before I speak, too threateningly replies:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.85>Love make your fortunes twenty times above</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.86>Her that so wishes and her humble love!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.87>No better, if you please.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.88>My wish receive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.89>Which great Love grant! and so, I take my leave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.90>Do all they deny her? An they were sons of mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.91>I'd have them whipped; or I would send them to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.92>Turk, to make eunuchs of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.93>Be not afraid that I your hand should take;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.94>I'll never do you wrong for your own sake:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.95>Blessing upon your vows! and in your bed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.96>Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.97>These boys are boys of ice, they'll none have her:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.98>sure, they are bastards to the English; the French</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.99>ne'er got 'em.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.100>You are too young, too happy, and too good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.101>To make yourself a son out of my blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>Fourth Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.102>Fair one, I think not so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.103>There's one grape yet; I am sure thy father drunk</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.104>wine: but if thou be'st not an ass, I am a youth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.105>of fourteen; I have known thee already.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.106>[To BERTRAM] I dare not say I take you; but I give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.107>Me and my service, ever whilst I live,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.108>Into your guiding power. This is the man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.109>Why, then, young Bertram, take her; she's thy wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.110>My wife, my liege! I shall beseech your highness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.111>In such a business give me leave to use</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.112>The help of mine own eyes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.113>Know'st thou not, Bertram,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.114>What she has done for me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.115>Yes, my good lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.116>But never hope to know why I should marry her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.117>Thou know'st she has raised me from my sickly bed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.118>But follows it, my lord, to bring me down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.119>Must answer for your raising? I know her well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.120>She had her breeding at my father's charge.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.121>A poor physician's daughter my wife! Disdain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.122>Rather corrupt me ever!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.123>'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.124>I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.125>Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.126>Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.127>In differences so mighty. If she be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.128>All that is virtuous, save what thou dislikest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.129>A poor physician's daughter, thou dislikest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.130>Of virtue for the name: but do not so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.131>From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.132>The place is dignified by the doer's deed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.133>Where great additions swell's, and virtue none,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.134>It is a dropsied honour. Good alone</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.135>Is good without a name. Vileness is so:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.136>The property by what it is should go,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.137>Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.138>In these to nature she's immediate heir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.139>And these breed honour: that is honour's scorn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.140>Which challenges itself as honour's born</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.141>And is not like the sire: honours thrive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.142>When rather from our acts we them derive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.143>Than our foregoers: the mere word's a slave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.144>Debosh'd on every tomb, on every grave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.145>A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.146>Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.147>Of honour'd bones indeed. What should be said?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.148>If thou canst like this creature as a maid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.149>I can create the rest: virtue and she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.150>Is her own dower; honour and wealth from me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.151>I cannot love her, nor will strive to do't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.152>Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou shouldst strive to choose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.153>That you are well restored, my lord, I'm glad:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.154>Let the rest go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.155>My honour's at the stake; which to defeat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.156>I must produce my power. Here, take her hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.157>Proud scornful boy, unworthy this good gift;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.158>That dost in vile misprision shackle up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.159>My love and her desert; that canst not dream,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.160>We, poising us in her defective scale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.161>Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.162>It is in us to plant thine honour where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.163>We please to have it grow. Cheque thy contempt:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.164>Obey our will, which travails in thy good:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.165>Believe not thy disdain, but presently</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.166>Do thine own fortunes that obedient right</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.167>Which both thy duty owes and our power claims;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.168>Or I will throw thee from my care for ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.169>Into the staggers and the careless lapse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.170>Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.171>Loosing upon thee, in the name of justice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.172>Without all terms of pity. Speak; thine answer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.173>Pardon, my gracious lord; for I submit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.174>My fancy to your eyes: when I consider</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.175>What great creation and what dole of honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.176>Flies where you bid it, I find that she, which late</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.177>Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.178>The praised of the king; who, so ennobled,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.179>Is as 'twere born so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.180>Take her by the hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.181>And tell her she is thine: to whom I promise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.182>A counterpoise, if not to thy estate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.183>A balance more replete.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.184>I take her hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.185>Good fortune and the favour of the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.186>Smile upon this contract; whose ceremony</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.187>Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.188>And be perform'd to-night: the solemn feast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.189>Shall more attend upon the coming space,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.190>Expecting absent friends. As thou lovest her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.191>Thy love's to me religious; else, does err.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but LAFEU and PAROLLES</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.192>[Advancing] Do you hear, monsieur? a word with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.193>Your pleasure, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.194>Your lord and master did well to make his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.195>recantation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.196>Recantation! My lord! my master!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.197>Ay; is it not a language I speak?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.198>A most harsh one, and not to be understood without</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.199>bloody succeeding. My master!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.200>Are you companion to the Count Rousillon?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.201>To any count, to all counts, to what is man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.202>To what is count's man: count's master is of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.203>another style.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.204>You are too old, sir; let it satisfy you, you are too old.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.205>I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.206>title age cannot bring thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.207>What I dare too well do, I dare not do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.208>I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.209>wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.210>travel; it might pass: yet the scarfs and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.211>bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.212>believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.213>have now found thee; when I lose thee again, I care</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.214>not: yet art thou good for nothing but taking up; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.215>that thou't scarce worth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.216>Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.217>Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.218>hasten thy trial; which if--Lord have mercy on thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.219>for a hen! So, my good window of lattice, fare thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.220>well: thy casement I need not open, for I look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.221>through thee. Give me thy hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.222>My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.223>Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.224>I have not, my lord, deserved it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.225>Yes, good faith, every dram of it; and I will not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.226>bate thee a scruple.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.227>Well, I shall be wiser.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.228>Even as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.229>a smack o' the contrary. If ever thou be'st bound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.230>in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.231>to be proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to hold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.232>my acquaintance with thee, or rather my knowledge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.233>that I may say in the default, he is a man I know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.234>My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.235>I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my poor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.236>doing eternal: for doing I am past: as I will by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.237>thee, in what motion age will give me leave.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.238>Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.239>me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord! Well, I must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.240>be patient; there is no fettering of authority.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.241>I'll beat him, by my life, if I can meet him with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.242>any convenience, an he were double and double a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.243>lord. I'll have no more pity of his age than I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.244>would of--I'll beat him, an if I could but meet him again.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter LAFEU</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.245>Sirrah, your lord and master's married; there's news</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.246>for you: you have a new mistress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.247>I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.248>some reservation of your wrongs: he is my good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.249>lord: whom I serve above is my master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.250>Who? God?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.251>Ay, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.252>The devil it is that's thy master. Why dost thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.253>garter up thy arms o' this fashion? dost make hose of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.254>sleeves? do other servants so? Thou wert best set</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.255>thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.256>honour, if I were but two hours younger, I'ld beat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.257>thee: methinks, thou art a general offence, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.258>every man should beat thee: I think thou wast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.259>created for men to breathe themselves upon thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.260>This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.261>Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.262>kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a vagabond and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.263>no true traveller: you are more saucy with lords</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.264>and honourable personages than the commission of your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.265>birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.266>worth another word, else I'ld call you knave. I leave you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.267>Good, very good; it is so then: good, very good;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.268>let it be concealed awhile.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter BERTRAM</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.269>Undone, and forfeited to cares for ever!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.270>What's the matter, sweet-heart?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.271>Although before the solemn priest I have sworn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.272>I will not bed her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.273>What, what, sweet-heart?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.274>O my Parolles, they have married me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.275>I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.276>France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.277>The tread of a man's foot: to the wars!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.278>There's letters from my mother: what the import is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.279>I know not yet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.280>Ay, that would be known. To the wars, my boy, to the wars!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.281>He wears his honour in a box unseen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.282>That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.283>Spending his manly marrow in her arms,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.284>Which should sustain the bound and high curvet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.285>Of Mars's fiery steed. To other regions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.286>France is a stable; we that dwell in't jades;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.287>Therefore, to the war!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.288>It shall be so: I'll send her to my house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.289>Acquaint my mother with my hate to her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.290>And wherefore I am fled; write to the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.291>That which I durst not speak; his present gift</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.292>Shall furnish me to those Italian fields,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.293>Where noble fellows strike: war is no strife</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.294>To the dark house and the detested wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.295>Will this capriccio hold in thee? art sure?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.296>Go with me to my chamber, and advise me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.297>I'll send her straight away: to-morrow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.298>I'll to the wars, she to her single sorrow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.299>Why, these balls bound; there's noise in it. 'Tis hard:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.300>A young man married is a man that's marr'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.301>Therefore away, and leave her bravely; go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.302>The king has done you wrong: but, hush, 'tis so.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Paris. The KING's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HELENA and Clown</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.1>My mother greets me kindly; is she well?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.2>She is not well; but yet she has her health: she's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.3>very merry; but yet she is not well: but thanks be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.4>given, she's very well and wants nothing i', the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.5>world; but yet she is not well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.6>If she be very well, what does she ail, that she's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.7>not very well?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.8>Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two things.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.9>What two things?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.10>One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.11>quickly! the other that she's in earth, from whence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.12>God send her quickly!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PAROLLES</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.13>Bless you, my fortunate lady!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.14>I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine own</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.15>good fortunes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.16>You had my prayers to lead them on; and to keep them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.17>on, have them still. O, my knave, how does my old lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.18>So that you had her wrinkles and I her money,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.19>I would she did as you say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.20>Why, I say nothing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.21>Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.22>tongue shakes out his master's undoing: to say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.23>nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.24>nothing, is to be a great part of your title; which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.25>is within a very little of nothing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.26>Away! thou'rt a knave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.27>You should have said, sir, before a knave thou'rt a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.28>knave; that's, before me thou'rt a knave: this had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.29>been truth, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.30>Go to, thou art a witty fool; I have found thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.31>Did you find me in yourself, sir? or were you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.32>taught to find me? The search, sir, was profitable;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.33>and much fool may you find in you, even to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.34>world's pleasure and the increase of laughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.35>A good knave, i' faith, and well fed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.36>Madam, my lord will go away to-night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.37>A very serious business calls on him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.38>The great prerogative and rite of love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.39>Which, as your due, time claims, he does acknowledge;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.40>But puts it off to a compell'd restraint;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.41>Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.42>Which they distil now in the curbed time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.43>To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.44>And pleasure drown the brim.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.45>What's his will else?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.46>That you will take your instant leave o' the king</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.47>And make this haste as your own good proceeding,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.48>Strengthen'd with what apology you think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.49>May make it probable need.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.50>What more commands he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.51>That, having this obtain'd, you presently</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.52>Attend his further pleasure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.53>In every thing I wait upon his will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.54>I shall report it so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.55>I pray you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit PAROLLES</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.56>Come, sirrah.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. Paris. The KING's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter LAFEU and BERTRAM</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.1>But I hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.2>Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.3>You have it from his own deliverance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.4>And by other warranted testimony.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.5>Then my dial goes not true: I took this lark for a bunting.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.6>I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.7>knowledge and accordingly valiant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.8>I have then sinned against his experience and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.9>transgressed against his valour; and my state that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.10>way is dangerous, since I cannot yet find in my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.11>heart to repent. Here he comes: I pray you, make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.12>us friends; I will pursue the amity.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PAROLLES</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.13>[To BERTRAM] These things shall be done, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.14>Pray you, sir, who's his tailor?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.15>Sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.16>O, I know him well, I, sir; he, sir, 's a good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.17>workman, a very good tailor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.18>[Aside to PAROLLES] Is she gone to the king?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.19>She is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.20>Will she away to-night?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.21>As you'll have her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.22>I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.23>Given order for our horses; and to-night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.24>When I should take possession of the bride,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.25>End ere I do begin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.26>A good traveller is something at the latter end of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.27>dinner; but one that lies three thirds and uses a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.28>known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.29>be once heard and thrice beaten. God save you, captain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.30>Is there any unkindness between my lord and you, monsieur?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.31>I know not how I have deserved to run into my lord's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.32>displeasure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.33>You have made shift to run into 't, boots and spurs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.34>and all, like him that leaped into the custard; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.35>out of it you'll run again, rather than suffer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.36>question for your residence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.37>It may be you have mistaken him, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.38>And shall do so ever, though I took him at 's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.39>prayers. Fare you well, my lord; and believe this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.40>of me, there can be no kernel in this light nut; the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.41>soul of this man is his clothes. Trust him not in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.42>matter of heavy consequence; I have kept of them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.43>tame, and know their natures. Farewell, monsieur:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.44>I have spoken better of you than you have or will to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.45>deserve at my hand; but we must do good against evil.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.46>An idle lord. I swear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.47>I think so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.48>Why, do you not know him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.49>Yes, I do know him well, and common speech</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.50>Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HELENA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.51>I have, sir, as I was commanded from you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.52>Spoke with the king and have procured his leave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.53>For present parting; only he desires</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.54>Some private speech with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.55>I shall obey his will.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.56>You must not marvel, Helen, at my course,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.57>Which holds not colour with the time, nor does</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.58>The ministration and required office</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.59>On my particular. Prepared I was not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.60>For such a business; therefore am I found</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.61>So much unsettled: this drives me to entreat you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.62>That presently you take our way for home;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.63>And rather muse than ask why I entreat you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.64>For my respects are better than they seem</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.65>And my appointments have in them a need</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.66>Greater than shows itself at the first view</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.67>To you that know them not. This to my mother:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Giving a letter</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.68>'Twill be two days ere I shall see you, so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.69>I leave you to your wisdom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.70>Sir, I can nothing say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.71>But that I am your most obedient servant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.72>Come, come, no more of that.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.73>And ever shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.74>With true observance seek to eke out that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.75>Wherein toward me my homely stars have fail'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.76>To equal my great fortune.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.77>Let that go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.78>My haste is very great: farewell; hie home.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.79>Pray, sir, your pardon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.80>Well, what would you say?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.81>I am not worthy of the wealth I owe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.82>Nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.83>But, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.84>What law does vouch mine own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.85>What would you have?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.86>Something; and scarce so much: nothing, indeed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.87>I would not tell you what I would, my lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.88>Faith yes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.89>Strangers and foes do sunder, and not kiss.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.90>I pray you, stay not, but in haste to horse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.91>I shall not break your bidding, good my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.92>Where are my other men, monsieur? Farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit HELENA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.93>Go thou toward home; where I will never come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.94>Whilst I can shake my sword or hear the drum.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.95>Away, and for our flight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.96>Bravely, coragio!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Florence. The DUKE's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence attended; the two Frenchmen, with a troop of soldiers.</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>So that from point to point now have you heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>The fundamental reasons of this war,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>Whose great decision hath much blood let forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>And more thirsts after.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>Holy seems the quarrel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>Upon your grace's part; black and fearful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>On the opposer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DUKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>Therefore we marvel much our cousin France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>Would in so just a business shut his bosom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>Against our borrowing prayers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>Good my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>The reasons of our state I cannot yield,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>But like a common and an outward man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>That the great figure of a council frames</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>By self-unable motion: therefore dare not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>Say what I think of it, since I have found</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>Myself in my incertain grounds to fail</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>As often as I guess'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>Be it his pleasure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>But I am sure the younger of our nature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>That surfeit on their ease, will day by day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22>Come here for physic.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DUKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>Welcome shall they be;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>And all the honours that can fly from us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>Shall on them settle. You know your places well;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>When better fall, for your avails they fell:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>To-morrow to the field.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish. Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter COUNTESS and Clown</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>It hath happened all as I would have had it, save</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>that he comes not along with her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>By my troth, I take my young lord to be a very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>melancholy man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>By what observance, I pray you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>Why, he will look upon his boot and sing; mend the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>ruff and sing; ask questions and sing; pick his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8>teeth and sing. I know a man that had this trick of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>Let me see what he writes, and when he means to come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Opening a letter</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>I have no mind to Isbel since I was at court: our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.12>old ling and our Isbels o' the country are nothing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.13>like your old ling and your Isbels o' the court:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.14>the brains of my Cupid's knocked out, and I begin to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.15>love, as an old man loves money, with no stomach.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.16>What have we here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.17>E'en that you have there.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.18>[Reads] I have sent you a daughter-in-law: she hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.19>recovered the king, and undone me. I have wedded</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.20>her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the 'not'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.21>eternal. You shall hear I am run away: know it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.22>before the report come. If there be breadth enough</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.23>in the world, I will hold a long distance. My duty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.24>to you. Your unfortunate son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.25>BERTRAM.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.26>This is not well, rash and unbridled boy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.27>To fly the favours of so good a king;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.28>To pluck his indignation on thy head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.29>By the misprising of a maid too virtuous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.30>For the contempt of empire.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Clown</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.31>O madam, yonder is heavy news within between two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.32>soldiers and my young lady!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.33>What is the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.34>Nay, there is some comfort in the news, some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.35>comfort; your son will not be killed so soon as I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.36>thought he would.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.37>Why should he be killed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.38>So say I, madam, if he run away, as I hear he does:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.39>the danger is in standing to't; that's the loss of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.40>men, though it be the getting of children. Here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.41>they come will tell you more: for my part, I only</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.42>hear your son was run away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter HELENA, and two Gentlemen</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.43>Save you, good madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.44>Madam, my lord is gone, for ever gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Second Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.45>Do not say so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.46>Think upon patience. Pray you, gentlemen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.47>I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.48>That the first face of neither, on the start,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.49>Can woman me unto't: where is my son, I pray you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Second Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.50>Madam, he's gone to serve the duke of Florence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.51>We met him thitherward; for thence we came,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.52>And, after some dispatch in hand at court,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.53>Thither we bend again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.54>Look on his letter, madam; here's my passport.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.55>When thou canst get the ring upon my finger which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.56>never shall come off, and show me a child begotten</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.57>of thy body that I am father to, then call me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.58>husband: but in such a 'then' I write a 'never.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.59>This is a dreadful sentence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.60>Brought you this letter, gentlemen?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.61>Ay, madam;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.62>And for the contents' sake are sorry for our pain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.63>I prithee, lady, have a better cheer;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.64>If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.65>Thou robb'st me of a moiety: he was my son;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.66>But I do wash his name out of my blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.67>And thou art all my child. Towards Florence is he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Second Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.68>Ay, madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.69> And to be a soldier?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Second Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.70>Such is his noble purpose; and believe 't,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.71>The duke will lay upon him all the honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.72>That good convenience claims.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.73>Return you thither?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.74>Ay, madam, with the swiftest wing of speed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.75>[Reads] Till I have no wife I have nothing in France.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.76>'Tis bitter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.77> Find you that there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.78>Ay, madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.79>'Tis but the boldness of his hand, haply, which his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.80>heart was not consenting to.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.81>Nothing in France, until he have no wife!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.82>There's nothing here that is too good for him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.83>But only she; and she deserves a lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.84>That twenty such rude boys might tend upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.85>And call her hourly mistress. Who was with him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.86>A servant only, and a gentleman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.87>Which I have sometime known.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.88>Parolles, was it not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.89>Ay, my good lady, he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.90>A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.91>My son corrupts a well-derived nature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.92>With his inducement.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>First Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.93>Indeed, good lady,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.94>The fellow has a deal of that too much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.95>Which holds him much to have.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.96>You're welcome, gentlemen.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.97>I will entreat you, when you see my son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.98>To tell him that his sword can never win</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.99>The honour that he loses: more I'll entreat you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.100>Written to bear along.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>Second Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.101>We serve you, madam,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.102>In that and all your worthiest affairs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.103>Not so, but as we change our courtesies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.104>Will you draw near!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt COUNTESS and Gentlemen</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.105>'Till I have no wife, I have nothing in France.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.106>Nothing in France, until he has no wife!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.107>Thou shalt have none, Rousillon, none in France;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.108>Then hast thou all again. Poor lord! is't I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.109>That chase thee from thy country and expose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.110>Those tender limbs of thine to the event</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.111>Of the none-sparing war? and is it I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.112>That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.113>Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.114>Of smoky muskets? O you leaden messengers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.115>That ride upon the violent speed of fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.116>Fly with false aim; move the still-peering air,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.117>That sings with piercing; do not touch my lord.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.118>Whoever shoots at him, I set him there;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.119>Whoever charges on his forward breast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.120>I am the caitiff that do hold him to't;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.121>And, though I kill him not, I am the cause</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.122>His death was so effected: better 'twere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.123>I met the ravin lion when he roar'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.124>With sharp constraint of hunger; better 'twere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.125>That all the miseries which nature owes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.126>Were mine at once. No, come thou home, Rousillon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.127>Whence honour but of danger wins a scar,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.128>As oft it loses all: I will be gone;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.129>My being here it is that holds thee hence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.130>Shall I stay here to do't? no, no, although</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.131>The air of paradise did fan the house</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.132>And angels officed all: I will be gone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.133>That pitiful rumour may report my flight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.134>To consolate thine ear. Come, night; end, day!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.135>For with the dark, poor thief, I'll steal away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Florence. Before the DUKE's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence, BERTRAM, PAROLLES, Soldiers, Drum, and Trumpets</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.1>The general of our horse thou art; and we,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.2>Great in our hope, lay our best love and credence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.3>Upon thy promising fortune.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.4>Sir, it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.5>A charge too heavy for my strength, but yet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.6>We'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.7>To the extreme edge of hazard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DUKE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.8>Then go thou forth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.9>And fortune play upon thy prosperous helm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.10>As thy auspicious mistress!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.11>This very day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.12>Great Mars, I put myself into thy file:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.13>Make me but like my thoughts, and I shall prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.14>A lover of thy drum, hater of love.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter COUNTESS and Steward</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.1>Alas! and would you take the letter of her?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.2>Might you not know she would do as she has done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.3>By sending me a letter? Read it again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Steward</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.4>[Reads]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.5>I am Saint Jaques' pilgrim, thither gone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.6>Ambitious love hath so in me offended,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.7>That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.8>With sainted vow my faults to have amended.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.9>Write, write, that from the bloody course of war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.10>My dearest master, your dear son, may hie:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.11>Bless him at home in peace, whilst I from far</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.12>His name with zealous fervor sanctify:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.13>His taken labours bid him me forgive;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.14>I, his despiteful Juno, sent him forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.15>From courtly friends, with camping foes to live,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.16>Where death and danger dogs the heels of worth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.17>He is too good and fair for death and me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.18>Whom I myself embrace, to set him free.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.19>Ah, what sharp stings are in her mildest words!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.20>Rinaldo, you did never lack advice so much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.21>As letting her pass so: had I spoke with her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.22>I could have well diverted her intents,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.23>Which thus she hath prevented.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Steward</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.24>Pardon me, madam:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.25>If I had given you this at over-night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.26>She might have been o'erta'en; and yet she writes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.27>Pursuit would be but vain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.28>What angel shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.29>Bless this unworthy husband? he cannot thrive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.30>Unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.31>And loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.32>Of greatest justice. Write, write, Rinaldo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.33>To this unworthy husband of his wife;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.34>Let every word weigh heavy of her worth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.35>That he does weigh too light: my greatest grief.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.36>Though little he do feel it, set down sharply.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.37>Dispatch the most convenient messenger:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.38>When haply he shall hear that she is gone,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.39>He will return; and hope I may that she,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.40>Hearing so much, will speed her foot again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.41>Led hither by pure love: which of them both</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.42>Is dearest to me. I have no skill in sense</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.43>To make distinction: provide this messenger:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.44>My heart is heavy and mine age is weak;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.45>Grief would have tears, and sorrow bids me speak.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. Florence. Without the walls. A tucket afar off.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter an old Widow of Florence, DIANA, VIOLENTA, and MARIANA, with other Citizens</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.1>Nay, come; for if they do approach the city, we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.2>shall lose all the sight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.3>They say the French count has done most honourable service.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.4>It is reported that he has taken their greatest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.5>commander; and that with his own hand he slew the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.6>duke's brother.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Tucket</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.7>We have lost our labour; they are gone a contrary</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.8>way: hark! you may know by their trumpets.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>MARIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.9>Come, let's return again, and suffice ourselves with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.10>the report of it. Well, Diana, take heed of this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.11>French earl: the honour of a maid is her name; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.12>no legacy is so rich as honesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.13>I have told my neighbour how you have been solicited</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.14>by a gentleman his companion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>MARIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.15>I know that knave; hang him! one Parolles: a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.16>filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.17>young earl. Beware of them, Diana; their promises,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.18>enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.19>lust, are not the things they go under: many a maid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.20>hath been seduced by them; and the misery is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.21>example, that so terrible shows in the wreck of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.22>maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade succession,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.23>but that they are limed with the twigs that threaten</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.24>them. I hope I need not to advise you further; but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.25>I hope your own grace will keep you where you are,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.26>though there were no further danger known but the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.27>modesty which is so lost.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.28>You shall not need to fear me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.29>I hope so.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter HELENA, disguised like a Pilgrim</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.30>Look, here comes a pilgrim: I know she will lie at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.31>my house; thither they send one another: I'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.32>question her. God save you, pilgrim! whither are you bound?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.33>To Saint Jaques le Grand.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.34>Where do the palmers lodge, I do beseech you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.35>At the Saint Francis here beside the port.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.36>Is this the way?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.37>Ay, marry, is't.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>A march afar</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.38>Hark you! they come this way.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.39>If you will tarry, holy pilgrim,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.40>But till the troops come by,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.41>I will conduct you where you shall be lodged;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.42>The rather, for I think I know your hostess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.43>As ample as myself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.44>Is it yourself?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.45>If you shall please so, pilgrim.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.46>I thank you, and will stay upon your leisure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.47>You came, I think, from France?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.48>I did so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.49>Here you shall see a countryman of yours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.50>That has done worthy service.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.51>His name, I pray you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.52>The Count Rousillon: know you such a one?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.53>But by the ear, that hears most nobly of him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.54>His face I know not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.55>Whatsome'er he is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.56>He's bravely taken here. He stole from France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.57>As 'tis reported, for the king had married him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.58>Against his liking: think you it is so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.59>Ay, surely, mere the truth: I know his lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.60>There is a gentleman that serves the count</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.61>Reports but coarsely of her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.62>What's his name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.63>Monsieur Parolles.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.64> O, I believe with him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.65>In argument of praise, or to the worth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.66>Of the great count himself, she is too mean</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.67>To have her name repeated: all her deserving</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.68>Is a reserved honesty, and that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.69>I have not heard examined.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.70>Alas, poor lady!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.71>'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.72>Of a detesting lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.73>I warrant, good creature, wheresoe'er she is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.74>Her heart weighs sadly: this young maid might do her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.75>A shrewd turn, if she pleased.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.76>How do you mean?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.77>May be the amorous count solicits her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.78>In the unlawful purpose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.79>He does indeed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.80>And brokes with all that can in such a suit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.81>Corrupt the tender honour of a maid:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.82>But she is arm'd for him and keeps her guard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.83>In honestest defence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>MARIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.84>The gods forbid else!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.85>So, now they come:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drum and Colours</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and the whole army</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.86>That is Antonio, the duke's eldest son;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.87>That, Escalus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.88> Which is the Frenchman?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.89>He;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.90>That with the plume: 'tis a most gallant fellow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.91>I would he loved his wife: if he were honester</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.92>He were much goodlier: is't not a handsome gentleman?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.93>I like him well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.94>'Tis pity he is not honest: yond's that same knave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.95>That leads him to these places: were I his lady,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.96>I would Poison that vile rascal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.97>Which is he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.98>That jack-an-apes with scarfs: why is he melancholy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.99>Perchance he's hurt i' the battle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.100>Lose our drum! well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>MARIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.101>He's shrewdly vexed at something: look, he has spied us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.102>Marry, hang you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>MARIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.103>And your courtesy, for a ring-carrier!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and army</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.104>The troop is past. Come, pilgrim, I will bring you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.105>Where you shall host: of enjoin'd penitents</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.106>There's four or five, to great Saint Jaques bound,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.107>Already at my house.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.108>I humbly thank you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.109>Please it this matron and this gentle maid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.110>To eat with us to-night, the charge and thanking</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.111>Shall be for me; and, to requite you further,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.112>I will bestow some precepts of this virgin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.113>Worthy the note.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>BOTH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.114> We'll take your offer kindly.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VI. Camp before Florence.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter BERTRAM and the two French Lords</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.1>Nay, good my lord, put him to't; let him have his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.2>way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.3>If your lordship find him not a hilding, hold me no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.4>more in your respect.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.5>On my life, my lord, a bubble.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.6>Do you think I am so far deceived in him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.7>Believe it, my lord, in mine own direct knowledge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.8>without any malice, but to speak of him as my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.9>kinsman, he's a most notable coward, an infinite and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.10>endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.11>of no one good quality worthy your lordship's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.12>entertainment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.13>It were fit you knew him; lest, reposing too far in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.14>his virtue, which he hath not, he might at some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.15>great and trusty business in a main danger fail you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.16>I would I knew in what particular action to try him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.17>None better than to let him fetch off his drum,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.18>which you hear him so confidently undertake to do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.19>I, with a troop of Florentines, will suddenly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.20>surprise him; such I will have, whom I am sure he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.21>knows not from the enemy: we will bind and hoodwink</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.22>him so, that he shall suppose no other but that he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.23>is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries, when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.24>we bring him to our own tents. Be but your lordship</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.25>present at his examination: if he do not, for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.26>promise of his life and in the highest compulsion of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.27>base fear, offer to betray you and deliver all the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.28>intelligence in his power against you, and that with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.29>the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath, never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.30>trust my judgment in any thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.31>O, for the love of laughter, let him fetch his drum;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.32>he says he has a stratagem for't: when your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.33>lordship sees the bottom of his success in't, and to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.34>what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.35>melted, if you give him not John Drum's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.36>entertainment, your inclining cannot be removed.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.37>Here he comes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PAROLLES</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.38>[Aside to BERTRAM] O, for the love of laughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.39>hinder not the honour of his design: let him fetch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.40>off his drum in any hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.41>How now, monsieur! this drum sticks sorely in your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.42>disposition.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.43>A pox on't, let it go; 'tis but a drum.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.44>'But a drum'! is't 'but a drum'? A drum so lost!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.45>There was excellent command,--to charge in with our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.46>horse upon our own wings, and to rend our own soldiers!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.47>That was not to be blamed in the command of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.48>service: it was a disaster of war that Caesar</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.49>himself could not have prevented, if he had been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.50>there to command.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.51>Well, we cannot greatly condemn our success: some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.52>dishonour we had in the loss of that drum; but it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.53>not to be recovered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.54>It might have been recovered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.55>It might; but it is not now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.56>It is to be recovered: but that the merit of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.57>service is seldom attributed to the true and exact</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.58>performer, I would have that drum or another, or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.59>'hic jacet.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.60>Why, if you have a stomach, to't, monsieur: if you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.61>think your mystery in stratagem can bring this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.62>instrument of honour again into his native quarter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.63>be magnanimous in the enterprise and go on; I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.64>grace the attempt for a worthy exploit: if you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.65>speed well in it, the duke shall both speak of it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.66>and extend to you what further becomes his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.67>greatness, even to the utmost syllable of your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.68>worthiness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.69>By the hand of a soldier, I will undertake it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.70>But you must not now slumber in it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.71>I'll about it this evening: and I will presently</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.72>pen down my dilemmas, encourage myself in my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.73>certainty, put myself into my mortal preparation;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.74>and by midnight look to hear further from me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.75>May I be bold to acquaint his grace you are gone about it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.76>I know not what the success will be, my lord; but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.77>the attempt I vow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.78>I know thou'rt valiant; and, to the possibility of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.79>thy soldiership, will subscribe for thee. Farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.80>I love not many words.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.81>No more than a fish loves water. Is not this a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.82>strange fellow, my lord, that so confidently seems</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.83>to undertake this business, which he knows is not to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.84>be done; damns himself to do and dares better be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.85>damned than to do't?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.86>You do not know him, my lord, as we do: certain it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.87>is that he will steal himself into a man's favour and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.88>for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.89>when you find him out, you have him ever after.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.90>Why, do you think he will make no deed at all of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.91>this that so seriously he does address himself unto?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.92>None in the world; but return with an invention and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.93>clap upon you two or three probable lies: but we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.94>have almost embossed him; you shall see his fall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.95>to-night; for indeed he is not for your lordship's respect.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.96>We'll make you some sport with the fox ere we case</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.97>him. He was first smoked by the old lord Lafeu:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.98>when his disguise and he is parted, tell me what a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.99>sprat you shall find him; which you shall see this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.100>very night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.101>I must go look my twigs: he shall be caught.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.102>Your brother he shall go along with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.103>As't please your lordship: I'll leave you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.104>Now will I lead you to the house, and show you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.105>The lass I spoke of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.106>But you say she's honest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.107>That's all the fault: I spoke with her but once</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.108>And found her wondrous cold; but I sent to her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.109>By this same coxcomb that we have i' the wind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.110>Tokens and letters which she did re-send;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.111>And this is all I have done. She's a fair creature:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.112>Will you go see her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.6.113>With all my heart, my lord.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE VII. Florence. The Widow's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HELENA and Widow</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.1>If you misdoubt me that I am not she,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.2>I know not how I shall assure you further,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.3>But I shall lose the grounds I work upon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.4>Though my estate be fallen, I was well born,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.5>Nothing acquainted with these businesses;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.6>And would not put my reputation now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.7>In any staining act.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.8>Nor would I wish you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.9>First, give me trust, the count he is my husband,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.10>And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.11>Is so from word to word; and then you cannot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.12>By the good aid that I of you shall borrow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.13>Err in bestowing it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.14>I should believe you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.15>For you have show'd me that which well approves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.16>You're great in fortune.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.17>Take this purse of gold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.18>And let me buy your friendly help thus far,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.19>Which I will over-pay and pay again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.20>When I have found it. The count he wooes your daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.21>Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.22>Resolved to carry her: let her in fine consent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.23>As we'll direct her how 'tis best to bear it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.24>Now his important blood will nought deny</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.25>That she'll demand: a ring the county wears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.26>That downward hath succeeded in his house</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.27>From son to son, some four or five descents</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.28>Since the first father wore it: this ring he holds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.29>In most rich choice; yet in his idle fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.30>To buy his will, it would not seem too dear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.31>Howe'er repented after.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.32>Now I see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.33>The bottom of your purpose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.34>You see it lawful, then: it is no more,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.35>But that your daughter, ere she seems as won,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.36>Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.37>In fine, delivers me to fill the time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.38>Herself most chastely absent: after this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.39>To marry her, I'll add three thousand crowns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.40>To what is passed already.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.41>I have yielded:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.42>Instruct my daughter how she shall persever,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.43>That time and place with this deceit so lawful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.44>May prove coherent. Every night he comes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.45>With musics of all sorts and songs composed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.46>To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.47>To chide him from our eaves; for he persists</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.48>As if his life lay on't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.49>Why then to-night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.50>Let us assay our plot; which, if it speed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.51>Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.52>And lawful meaning in a lawful act,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.53>Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.7.54>But let's about it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Without the Florentine camp.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter Second French Lord, with five or six other Soldiers in ambush</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>He can come no other way but by this hedge-corner.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>When you sally upon him, speak what terrible</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>language you will: though you understand it not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>yourselves, no matter; for we must not seem to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>understand him, unless some one among us whom we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>must produce for an interpreter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>Good captain, let me be the interpreter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>Art not acquainted with him? knows he not thy voice?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>No, sir, I warrant you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>E'en such as you speak to me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>He must think us some band of strangers i' the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>adversary's entertainment. Now he hath a smack of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>all neighbouring languages; therefore we must every</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>one be a man of his own fancy, not to know what we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>speak one to another; so we seem to know, is to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17>know straight our purpose: choughs' language,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>gabble enough, and good enough. As for you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>interpreter, you must seem very politic. But couch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>ho! here he comes, to beguile two hours in a sleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>and then to return and swear the lies he forges.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PAROLLES</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>Ten o'clock: within these three hours 'twill be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>time enough to go home. What shall I say I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>done? It must be a very plausive invention that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>carries it: they begin to smoke me; and disgraces</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>have of late knocked too often at my door. I find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>my tongue is too foolhardy; but my heart hath the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>fear of Mars before it and of his creatures, not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>daring the reports of my tongue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>This is the first truth that e'er thine own tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>was guilty of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>What the devil should move me to undertake the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>recovery of this drum, being not ignorant of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose? I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>must give myself some hurts, and say I got them in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>exploit: yet slight ones will not carry it; they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>will say, 'Came you off with so little?' and great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>ones I dare not give. Wherefore, what's the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>instance? Tongue, I must put you into a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>butter-woman's mouth and buy myself another of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>Bajazet's mule, if you prattle me into these perils.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>Is it possible he should know what he is, and be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>that he is?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44>I would the cutting of my garments would serve the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>turn, or the breaking of my Spanish sword.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>We cannot afford you so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>Or the baring of my beard; and to say it was in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>stratagem.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>'Twould not do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>Hardly serve.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>Though I swore I leaped from the window of the citadel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>How deep?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>Thirty fathom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>I would I had any drum of the enemy's: I would swear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>I recovered it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>You shall hear one anon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>A drum now of the enemy's,--</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Alarum within</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>All</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>Cargo, cargo, cargo, villiando par corbo, cargo.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62>O, ransom, ransom! do not hide mine eyes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They seize and blindfold him</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.63>Boskos thromuldo boskos.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.64>I know you are the Muskos' regiment:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.65>And I shall lose my life for want of language;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.66>If there be here German, or Dane, low Dutch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.67>Italian, or French, let him speak to me; I'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.68>Discover that which shall undo the Florentine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.69>Boskos vauvado: I understand thee, and can speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.70>thy tongue. Kerely bonto, sir, betake thee to thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.71>faith, for seventeen poniards are at thy bosom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.72>O!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.73>O, pray, pray, pray! Manka revania dulche.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.74>Oscorbidulchos volivorco.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.75>The general is content to spare thee yet;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.76>And, hoodwink'd as thou art, will lead thee on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.77>To gather from thee: haply thou mayst inform</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.78>Something to save thy life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.79>O, let me live!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.80>And all the secrets of our camp I'll show,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.81>Their force, their purposes; nay, I'll speak that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.82>Which you will wonder at.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.83>But wilt thou faithfully?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.84>If I do not, damn me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.85>Acordo linta.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.86>Come on; thou art granted space.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit, with PAROLLES guarded. A short alarum within</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.87>Go, tell the Count Rousillon, and my brother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.88>We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.89>Till we do hear from them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>Second Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.90>Captain, I will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.91>A' will betray us all unto ourselves:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.92>Inform on that.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>Second Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.93> So I will, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.94>Till then I'll keep him dark and safely lock'd.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Florence. The Widow's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter BERTRAM and DIANA</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>They told me that your name was Fontibell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>No, my good lord, Diana.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>Titled goddess;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4>And worth it, with addition! But, fair soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>In your fine frame hath love no quality?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>If quick fire of youth light not your mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>You are no maiden, but a monument:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>When you are dead, you should be such a one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>As you are now, for you are cold and stem;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>And now you should be as your mother was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>When your sweet self was got.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>She then was honest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>So should you be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>No:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>My mother did but duty; such, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>As you owe to your wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>No more o' that;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18>I prithee, do not strive against my vows:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>I was compell'd to her; but I love thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.20>By love's own sweet constraint, and will for ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.21>Do thee all rights of service.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.22>Ay, so you serve us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.23>Till we serve you; but when you have our roses,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.24>You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.25>And mock us with our bareness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.26>How have I sworn!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.27>'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.28>But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.29>What is not holy, that we swear not by,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.30>But take the High'st to witness: then, pray you, tell me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.31>If I should swear by God's great attributes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.32>I loved you dearly, would you believe my oaths,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.33>When I did love you ill? This has no holding,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.34>To swear by him whom I protest to love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.35>That I will work against him: therefore your oaths</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.36>Are words and poor conditions, but unseal'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.37>At least in my opinion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.38>Change it, change it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.39>Be not so holy-cruel: love is holy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.40>And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.41>That you do charge men with. Stand no more off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.42>But give thyself unto my sick desires,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.43>Who then recover: say thou art mine, and ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.44>My love as it begins shall so persever.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.45>I see that men make ropes in such a scarre</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.46>That we'll forsake ourselves. Give me that ring.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.47>I'll lend it thee, my dear; but have no power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.48>To give it from me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.49>Will you not, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.50>It is an honour 'longing to our house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.51>Bequeathed down from many ancestors;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.52>Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.53>In me to lose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.54> Mine honour's such a ring:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.55>My chastity's the jewel of our house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.56>Bequeathed down from many ancestors;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.57>Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.58>In me to lose: thus your own proper wisdom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.59>Brings in the champion Honour on my part,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.60>Against your vain assault.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.61>Here, take my ring:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.62>My house, mine honour, yea, my life, be thine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.63>And I'll be bid by thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.64>When midnight comes, knock at my chamber-window:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.65>I'll order take my mother shall not hear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.66>Now will I charge you in the band of truth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.67>When you have conquer'd my yet maiden bed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.68>Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.69>My reasons are most strong; and you shall know them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.70>When back again this ring shall be deliver'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.71>And on your finger in the night I'll put</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.72>Another ring, that what in time proceeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.73>May token to the future our past deeds.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.74>Adieu, till then; then, fail not. You have won</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.75>A wife of me, though there my hope be done.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.76>A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.77>For which live long to thank both heaven and me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.78>You may so in the end.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.79>My mother told me just how he would woo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.80>As if she sat in 's heart; she says all men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.81>Have the like oaths: he had sworn to marry me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.82>When his wife's dead; therefore I'll lie with him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.83>When I am buried. Since Frenchmen are so braid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.84>Marry that will, I live and die a maid:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.85>Only in this disguise I think't no sin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.86>To cozen him that would unjustly win.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The Florentine camp.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter the two French Lords and some two or three Soldiers</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.1>You have not given him his mother's letter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.2>I have delivered it an hour since: there is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.3>something in't that stings his nature; for on the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.4>reading it he changed almost into another man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.5>He has much worthy blame laid upon him for shaking</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.6>off so good a wife and so sweet a lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.7>Especially he hath incurred the everlasting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.8>displeasure of the king, who had even tuned his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.9>bounty to sing happiness to him. I will tell you a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.10>thing, but you shall let it dwell darkly with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.11>When you have spoken it, 'tis dead, and I am the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.12>grave of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.13>He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.14>Florence, of a most chaste renown; and this night he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.15>fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour: he hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.16>given her his monumental ring, and thinks himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.17>made in the unchaste composition.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.18>Now, God delay our rebellion! as we are ourselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.19>what things are we!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.20>Merely our own traitors. And as in the common course</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.21>of all treasons, we still see them reveal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.22>themselves, till they attain to their abhorred ends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.23>so he that in this action contrives against his own</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.24>nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.25>Is it not meant damnable in us, to be trumpeters of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.26>our unlawful intents? We shall not then have his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.27>company to-night?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.28>Not till after midnight; for he is dieted to his hour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.29>That approaches apace; I would gladly have him see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.30>his company anatomized, that he might take a measure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.31>of his own judgments, wherein so curiously he had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.32>set this counterfeit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.33>We will not meddle with him till he come; for his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.34>presence must be the whip of the other.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.35>In the mean time, what hear you of these wars?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.36>I hear there is an overture of peace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.37>Nay, I assure you, a peace concluded.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.38>What will Count Rousillon do then? will he travel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.39>higher, or return again into France?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.40>I perceive, by this demand, you are not altogether</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.41>of his council.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.42>Let it be forbid, sir; so should I be a great deal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.43>of his act.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.44>Sir, his wife some two months since fled from his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.45>house: her pretence is a pilgrimage to Saint Jaques</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.46>le Grand; which holy undertaking with most austere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.47>sanctimony she accomplished; and, there residing the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.48>tenderness of her nature became as a prey to her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.49>grief; in fine, made a groan of her last breath, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.50>now she sings in heaven.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.51>How is this justified?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.52>The stronger part of it by her own letters, which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.53>makes her story true, even to the point of her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.54>death: her death itself, which could not be her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.55>office to say is come, was faithfully confirmed by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.56>the rector of the place.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.57>Hath the count all this intelligence?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.58>Ay, and the particular confirmations, point from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.59>point, so to the full arming of the verity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.60>I am heartily sorry that he'll be glad of this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.61>How mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our losses!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.62>And how mightily some other times we drown our gain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.63>in tears! The great dignity that his valour hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.64>here acquired for him shall at home be encountered</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.65>with a shame as ample.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.66>The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.67>ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.68>faults whipped them not; and our crimes would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.69>despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.70>How now! where's your master?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.71>He met the duke in the street, sir, of whom he hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.72>taken a solemn leave: his lordship will next</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.73>morning for France. The duke hath offered him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.74>letters of commendations to the king.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.75>They shall be no more than needful there, if they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.76>were more than they can commend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.77>They cannot be too sweet for the king's tartness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.78>Here's his lordship now.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BERTRAM</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.79>How now, my lord! is't not after midnight?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.80>I have to-night dispatched sixteen businesses, a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.81>month's length a-piece, by an abstract of success:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.82>I have congied with the duke, done my adieu with his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.83>nearest; buried a wife, mourned for her; writ to my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.84>lady mother I am returning; entertained my convoy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.85>and between these main parcels of dispatch effected</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.86>many nicer needs; the last was the greatest, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.87>that I have not ended yet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.88>If the business be of any difficulty, and this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.89>morning your departure hence, it requires haste of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.90>your lordship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.91>I mean, the business is not ended, as fearing to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.92>hear of it hereafter. But shall we have this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.93>dialogue between the fool and the soldier? Come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.94>bring forth this counterfeit module, he has deceived</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.95>me, like a double-meaning prophesier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.96>Bring him forth: has sat i' the stocks all night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.97>poor gallant knave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.98>No matter: his heels have deserved it, in usurping</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.99>his spurs so long. How does he carry himself?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.100>I have told your lordship already, the stocks carry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.101>him. But to answer you as you would be understood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.102>he weeps like a wench that had shed her milk: he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.103>hath confessed himself to Morgan, whom he supposes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.104>to be a friar, from the time of his remembrance to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.105>this very instant disaster of his setting i' the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.106>stocks: and what think you he hath confessed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.107>Nothing of me, has a'?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.108>His confession is taken, and it shall be read to his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.109>face: if your lordship be in't, as I believe you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.110>are, you must have the patience to hear it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PAROLLES guarded, and First Soldier</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.111>A plague upon him! muffled! he can say nothing of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.112>me: hush, hush!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.113>Hoodman comes! Portotartarosa</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.114>He calls for the tortures: what will you say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.115>without 'em?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.116>I will confess what I know without constraint: if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.117>ye pinch me like a pasty, I can say no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.118>Bosko chimurcho.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.119>Boblibindo chicurmurco.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.120>You are a merciful general. Our general bids you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.121>answer to what I shall ask you out of a note.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.122>And truly, as I hope to live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.123>[Reads] 'First demand of him how many horse the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.124>duke is strong.' What say you to that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.125>Five or six thousand; but very weak and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.126>unserviceable: the troops are all scattered, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.127>the commanders very poor rogues, upon my reputation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.128>and credit and as I hope to live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.129>Shall I set down your answer so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.130>Do: I'll take the sacrament on't, how and which way you will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.131>All's one to him. What a past-saving slave is this!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.132>You're deceived, my lord: this is Monsieur</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.133>Parolles, the gallant militarist,--that was his own</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.134>phrase,--that had the whole theoric of war in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.135>knot of his scarf, and the practise in the chape of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.136>his dagger.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.137>I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.138>clean. nor believe he can have every thing in him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.139>by wearing his apparel neatly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.140>Well, that's set down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.141>Five or six thousand horse, I said,-- I will say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.142>true,--or thereabouts, set down, for I'll speak truth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.143>He's very near the truth in this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.144>But I con him no thanks for't, in the nature he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.145>delivers it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.146>Poor rogues, I pray you, say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.147>Well, that's set down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.148>I humbly thank you, sir: a truth's a truth, the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.149>rogues are marvellous poor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.150>[Reads] 'Demand of him, of what strength they are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.151>a-foot.' What say you to that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.152>By my troth, sir, if I were to live this present</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.153>hour, I will tell true. Let me see: Spurio, a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.154>hundred and fifty; Sebastian, so many; Corambus, so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.155>many; Jaques, so many; Guiltian, Cosmo, Lodowick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.156>and Gratii, two hundred and fifty each; mine own</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.157>company, Chitopher, Vaumond, Bentii, two hundred and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.158>fifty each: so that the muster-file, rotten and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.159>sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.160>poll; half of the which dare not shake snow from off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.161>their cassocks, lest they shake themselves to pieces.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.162>What shall be done to him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.163>Nothing, but let him have thanks. Demand of him my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.164>condition, and what credit I have with the duke.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.165>Well, that's set down.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.166>'You shall demand of him, whether one Captain Dumain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.167>be i' the camp, a Frenchman; what his reputation is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.168>with the duke; what his valour, honesty, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.169>expertness in wars; or whether he thinks it were not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.170>possible, with well-weighing sums of gold, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.171>corrupt him to revolt.' What say you to this? what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.172>do you know of it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.173>I beseech you, let me answer to the particular of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.174>the inter'gatories: demand them singly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.175>Do you know this Captain Dumain?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.176>I know him: a' was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.177>from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.178>fool with child,--a dumb innocent, that could not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.179>say him nay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.180>Nay, by your leave, hold your hands; though I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.181>his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.182>Well, is this captain in the duke of Florence's camp?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.183>Upon my knowledge, he is, and lousy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.184>Nay look not so upon me; we shall hear of your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.185>lordship anon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.186>What is his reputation with the duke?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.187>The duke knows him for no other but a poor officer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.188>of mine; and writ to me this other day to turn him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.189>out o' the band: I think I have his letter in my pocket.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.190>Marry, we'll search.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.191>In good sadness, I do not know; either it is there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.192>or it is upon a file with the duke's other letters</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.193>in my tent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.194>Here 'tis; here's a paper: shall I read it to you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.195>I do not know if it be it or no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.196>Our interpreter does it well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.197>Excellently.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.198>[Reads] 'Dian, the count's a fool, and full of gold,'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.199>That is not the duke's letter, sir; that is an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.200>advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.201>Diana, to take heed of the allurement of one Count</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.202>Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.203>ruttish: I pray you, sir, put it up again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.204>Nay, I'll read it first, by your favour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.205>My meaning in't, I protest, was very honest in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.206>behalf of the maid; for I knew the young count to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.207>a dangerous and lascivious boy, who is a whale to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.208>virginity and devours up all the fry it finds.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.209>Damnable both-sides rogue!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.210>[Reads] 'When he swears oaths, bid him drop gold, and take it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.211>After he scores, he never pays the score:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.212>Half won is match well made; match, and well make it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.213>He ne'er pays after-debts, take it before;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.214>And say a soldier, Dian, told thee this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.215>Men are to mell with, boys are not to kiss:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.216>For count of this, the count's a fool, I know it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.217>Who pays before, but not when he does owe it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.218>Thine, as he vowed to thee in thine ear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.219>PAROLLES.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.220>He shall be whipped through the army with this rhyme</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.221>in's forehead.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.222>This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.223>linguist and the armipotent soldier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.224>I could endure any thing before but a cat, and now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.225>he's a cat to me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.226>I perceive, sir, by the general's looks, we shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.227>fain to hang you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.228>My life, sir, in any case: not that I am afraid to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.229>die; but that, my offences being many, I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.230>repent out the remainder of nature: let me live,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.231>sir, in a dungeon, i' the stocks, or any where, so I may live.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.232>We'll see what may be done, so you confess freely;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.233>therefore, once more to this Captain Dumain: you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.234>have answered to his reputation with the duke and to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.235>his valour: what is his honesty?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.236>He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister: for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.237>rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus: he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.238>professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking 'em he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.239>is stronger than Hercules: he will lie, sir, with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.240>such volubility, that you would think truth were a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.241>fool: drunkenness is his best virtue, for he will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.242>be swine-drunk; and in his sleep he does little</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.243>harm, save to his bed-clothes about him; but they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.244>know his conditions and lay him in straw. I have but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.245>little more to say, sir, of his honesty: he has</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.246>every thing that an honest man should not have; what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.247>an honest man should have, he has nothing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.248>I begin to love him for this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.249>For this description of thine honesty? A pox upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.250>him for me, he's more and more a cat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.251>What say you to his expertness in war?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.252>Faith, sir, he has led the drum before the English</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.253>tragedians; to belie him, I will not, and more of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.254>his soldiership I know not; except, in that country</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.255>he had the honour to be the officer at a place there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.256>called Mile-end, to instruct for the doubling of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.257>files: I would do the man what honour I can, but of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.258>this I am not certain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.259>He hath out-villained villany so far, that the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.260>rarity redeems him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.261>A pox on him, he's a cat still.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.262>His qualities being at this poor price, I need not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.263>to ask you if gold will corrupt him to revolt.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.264>Sir, for a quart d'ecu he will sell the fee-simple</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.265>of his salvation, the inheritance of it; and cut the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.266>entail from all remainders, and a perpetual</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.267>succession for it perpetually.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.268>What's his brother, the other Captain Dumain?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.269>Why does be ask him of me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.270>What's he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.271>E'en a crow o' the same nest; not altogether so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.272>great as the first in goodness, but greater a great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.273>deal in evil: he excels his brother for a coward,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.274>yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.275>in a retreat he outruns any lackey; marry, in coming</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.276>on he has the cramp.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.277>If your life be saved, will you undertake to betray</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.278>the Florentine?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.279>Ay, and the captain of his horse, Count Rousillon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.280>I'll whisper with the general, and know his pleasure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.281>[Aside] I'll no more drumming; a plague of all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.282>drums! Only to seem to deserve well, and to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.283>beguile the supposition of that lascivious young boy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.284>the count, have I run into this danger. Yet who</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.285>would have suspected an ambush where I was taken?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.286>There is no remedy, sir, but you must die: the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.287>general says, you that have so traitorously</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.288>discovered the secrets of your army and made such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.289>pestiferous reports of men very nobly held, can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.290>serve the world for no honest use; therefore you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.291>must die. Come, headsman, off with his head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.292>O Lord, sir, let me live, or let me see my death!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.293>That shall you, and take your leave of all your friends.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Unblinding him</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.294>So, look about you: know you any here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.295>Good morrow, noble captain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.296>God bless you, Captain Parolles.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.297>God save you, noble captain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech116><b>Second Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.298>Captain, what greeting will you to my Lord Lafeu?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.299>I am for France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech117><b>First Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.300>Good captain, will you give me a copy of the sonnet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.301>you writ to Diana in behalf of the Count Rousillon?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.302>an I were not a very coward, I'ld compel it of you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.303>but fare you well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt BERTRAM and Lords</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech118><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.304>You are undone, captain, all but your scarf; that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.305>has a knot on't yet</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech119><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.306>Who cannot be crushed with a plot?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech120><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.307>If you could find out a country where but women were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.308>that had received so much shame, you might begin an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.309>impudent nation. Fare ye well, sir; I am for France</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.310>too: we shall speak of you there.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit with Soldiers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech121><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.311>Yet am I thankful: if my heart were great,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.312>'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.313>But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.314>As captain shall: simply the thing I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.315>Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.316>Let him fear this, for it will come to pass</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.317>that every braggart shall be found an ass.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.318>Rust, sword? cool, blushes! and, Parolles, live</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.319>Safest in shame! being fool'd, by foolery thrive!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.320>There's place and means for every man alive.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.321>I'll after them.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. Florence. The Widow's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.1>That you may well perceive I have not wrong'd you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.2>One of the greatest in the Christian world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.3>Shall be my surety; 'fore whose throne 'tis needful,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.4>Ere I can perfect mine intents, to kneel:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.5>Time was, I did him a desired office,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.6>Dear almost as his life; which gratitude</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.7>Through flinty Tartar's bosom would peep forth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.8>And answer, thanks: I duly am inform'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.9>His grace is at Marseilles; to which place</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.10>We have convenient convoy. You must know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.11>I am supposed dead: the army breaking,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.12>My husband hies him home; where, heaven aiding,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.13>And by the leave of my good lord the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.14>We'll be before our welcome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.15>Gentle madam,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.16>You never had a servant to whose trust</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.17>Your business was more welcome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.18>Nor you, mistress,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.19>Ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.20>To recompense your love: doubt not but heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.21>Hath brought me up to be your daughter's dower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.22>As it hath fated her to be my motive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.23>And helper to a husband. But, O strange men!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.24>That can such sweet use make of what they hate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.25>When saucy trusting of the cozen'd thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.26>Defiles the pitchy night: so lust doth play</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.27>With what it loathes for that which is away.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.28>But more of this hereafter. You, Diana,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.29>Under my poor instructions yet must suffer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.30>Something in my behalf.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.31>Let death and honesty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.32>Go with your impositions, I am yours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.33>Upon your will to suffer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.34>Yet, I pray you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.35>But with the word the time will bring on summer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.36>When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.37>And be as sweet as sharp. We must away;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.38>Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.39>All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.4.40>Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter COUNTESS, LAFEU, and Clown</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.1>No, no, no, your son was misled with a snipt-taffeta</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.2>fellow there, whose villanous saffron would have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.3>made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.4>his colour: your daughter-in-law had been alive at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.5>this hour, and your son here at home, more advanced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.6>by the king than by that red-tailed humble-bee I speak of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.7>I would I had not known him; it was the death of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.8>most virtuous gentlewoman that ever nature had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.9>praise for creating. If she had partaken of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.10>flesh, and cost me the dearest groans of a mother, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.11>could not have owed her a more rooted love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.12>'Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.13>thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.14>Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.15>salad, or rather, the herb of grace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.16>They are not herbs, you knave; they are nose-herbs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.17>I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir; I have not much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.18>skill in grass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.19>Whether dost thou profess thyself, a knave or a fool?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.20>A fool, sir, at a woman's service, and a knave at a man's.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.21>Your distinction?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.22>I would cozen the man of his wife and do his service.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.23>So you were a knave at his service, indeed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.24>And I would give his wife my bauble, sir, to do her service.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.25>I will subscribe for thee, thou art both knave and fool.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.26>At your service.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.27>No, no, no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.28>Why, sir, if I cannot serve you, I can serve as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.29>great a prince as you are.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.30>Who's that? a Frenchman?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.31>Faith, sir, a' has an English name; but his fisnomy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.32>is more hotter in France than there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.33>What prince is that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.34>The black prince, sir; alias, the prince of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.35>darkness; alias, the devil.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.36>Hold thee, there's my purse: I give thee not this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.37>to suggest thee from thy master thou talkest of;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.38>serve him still.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.39>I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always loved a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.40>great fire; and the master I speak of ever keeps a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.41>good fire. But, sure, he is the prince of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.42>world; let his nobility remain in's court. I am for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.43>the house with the narrow gate, which I take to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.44>too little for pomp to enter: some that humble</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.45>themselves may; but the many will be too chill and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.46>tender, and they'll be for the flowery way that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.47>leads to the broad gate and the great fire.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.48>Go thy ways, I begin to be aweary of thee; and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.49>tell thee so before, because I would not fall out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.50>with thee. Go thy ways: let my horses be well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.51>looked to, without any tricks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.52>If I put any tricks upon 'em, sir, they shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.53>jades' tricks; which are their own right by the law of nature.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.54>A shrewd knave and an unhappy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.55>So he is. My lord that's gone made himself much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.56>sport out of him: by his authority he remains here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.57>which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness; and,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.58>indeed, he has no pace, but runs where he will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.59>I like him well; 'tis not amiss. And I was about to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.60>tell you, since I heard of the good lady's death and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.61>that my lord your son was upon his return home, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.62>moved the king my master to speak in the behalf of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.63>my daughter; which, in the minority of them both,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.64>his majesty, out of a self-gracious remembrance, did</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.65>first propose: his highness hath promised me to do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.66>it: and, to stop up the displeasure he hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.67>conceived against your son, there is no fitter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.68>matter. How does your ladyship like it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.69>With very much content, my lord; and I wish it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.70>happily effected.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.71>His highness comes post from Marseilles, of as able</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.72>body as when he numbered thirty: he will be here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.73>to-morrow, or I am deceived by him that in such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.74>intelligence hath seldom failed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.75>It rejoices me, that I hope I shall see him ere I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.76>die. I have letters that my son will be here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.77>to-night: I shall beseech your lordship to remain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.78>with me till they meet together.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.79>Madam, I was thinking with what manners I might</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.80>safely be admitted.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.81>You need but plead your honourable privilege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.82>Lady, of that I have made a bold charter; but I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.83>thank my God it holds yet.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Clown</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.84>O madam, yonder's my lord your son with a patch of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.85>velvet on's face: whether there be a scar under't</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.86>or no, the velvet knows; but 'tis a goodly patch of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.87>velvet: his left cheek is a cheek of two pile and a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.88>half, but his right cheek is worn bare.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.89>A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.90>of honour; so belike is that.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.91>But it is your carbonadoed face.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.92>Let us go see your son, I pray you: I long to talk</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.93>with the young noble soldier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.94>Faith there's a dozen of 'em, with delicate fine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.95>hats and most courteous feathers, which bow the head</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.5.96>and nod at every man.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Marseilles. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA, with two Attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>But this exceeding posting day and night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>Must wear your spirits low; we cannot help it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>But since you have made the days and nights as one,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>Be bold you do so grow in my requital</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>As nothing can unroot you. In happy time;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Gentleman</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>This man may help me to his majesty's ear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>If he would spend his power. God save you, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>And you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>Sir, I have seen you in the court of France.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>I have been sometimes there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>I do presume, sir, that you are not fallen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>From the report that goes upon your goodness;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>An therefore, goaded with most sharp occasions,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>Which lay nice manners by, I put you to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>The use of your own virtues, for the which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>I shall continue thankful.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>What's your will?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>That it will please you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>To give this poor petition to the king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>And aid me with that store of power you have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>To come into his presence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>The king's not here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>Not here, sir!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>Not, indeed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>He hence removed last night and with more haste</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>Than is his use.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28> Lord, how we lose our pains!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL yet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.30>Though time seem so adverse and means unfit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.31>I do beseech you, whither is he gone?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.32>Marry, as I take it, to Rousillon;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.33>Whither I am going.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.34>I do beseech you, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.35>Since you are like to see the king before me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.36>Commend the paper to his gracious hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.37>Which I presume shall render you no blame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.38>But rather make you thank your pains for it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.39>I will come after you with what good speed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.40>Our means will make us means.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.41>This I'll do for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.42>And you shall find yourself to be well thank'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.43>Whate'er falls more. We must to horse again.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.44>Go, go, provide.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. Rousillon. Before the COUNT's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter Clown, and PAROLLES, following</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.1>Good Monsieur Lavache, give my Lord Lafeu this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.2>letter: I have ere now, sir, been better known to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.3>you, when I have held familiarity with fresher</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.4>clothes; but I am now, sir, muddied in fortune's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.5>mood, and smell somewhat strong of her strong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.6>displeasure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.7>Truly, fortune's displeasure is but sluttish, if it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.8>smell so strongly as thou speakest of: I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.9>henceforth eat no fish of fortune's buttering.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.10>Prithee, allow the wind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.11>Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir; I spake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.12>but by a metaphor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.13>Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.14>nose; or against any man's metaphor. Prithee, get</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.15>thee further.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.16>Pray you, sir, deliver me this paper.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.17>Foh! prithee, stand away: a paper from fortune's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.18>close-stool to give to a nobleman! Look, here he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.19>comes himself.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter LAFEU</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.20>Here is a purr of fortune's, sir, or of fortune's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.21>cat,--but not a musk-cat,--that has fallen into the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.22>unclean fishpond of her displeasure, and, as he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.23>says, is muddied withal: pray you, sir, use the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.24>carp as you may; for he looks like a poor, decayed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.25>ingenious, foolish, rascally knave. I do pity his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.26>distress in my similes of comfort and leave him to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.27>your lordship.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.28>My lord, I am a man whom fortune hath cruelly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.29>scratched.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.30>And what would you have me to do? 'Tis too late to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.31>pare her nails now. Wherein have you played the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.32>knave with fortune, that she should scratch you, who</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.33>of herself is a good lady and would not have knaves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.34>thrive long under her? There's a quart d'ecu for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.35>you: let the justices make you and fortune friends:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.36>I am for other business.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.37>I beseech your honour to hear me one single word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.38>You beg a single penny more: come, you shall ha't;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.39>save your word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.40>My name, my good lord, is Parolles.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.41>You beg more than 'word,' then. Cox my passion!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.42>give me your hand. How does your drum?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.43>O my good lord, you were the first that found me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.44>Was I, in sooth? and I was the first that lost thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.45>It lies in you, my lord, to bring me in some grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.46>for you did bring me out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.47>Out upon thee, knave! dost thou put upon me at once</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.48>both the office of God and the devil? One brings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.49>thee in grace and the other brings thee out.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Trumpets sound</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.50>The king's coming; I know by his trumpets. Sirrah,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.51>inquire further after me; I had talk of you last</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.52>night: though you are a fool and a knave, you shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.53>eat; go to, follow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.54>I praise God for you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Flourish. Enter KING, COUNTESS, LAFEU, the two French Lords, with Attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.1>We lost a jewel of her; and our esteem</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.2>Was made much poorer by it: but your son,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.3>As mad in folly, lack'd the sense to know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.4>Her estimation home.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.5>'Tis past, my liege;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.6>And I beseech your majesty to make it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.7>Natural rebellion, done i' the blaze of youth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.8>When oil and fire, too strong for reason's force,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.9>O'erbears it and burns on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.10>My honour'd lady,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.11>I have forgiven and forgotten all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.12>Though my revenges were high bent upon him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.13>And watch'd the time to shoot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.14>This I must say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.15>But first I beg my pardon, the young lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.16>Did to his majesty, his mother and his lady</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.17>Offence of mighty note; but to himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.18>The greatest wrong of all. He lost a wife</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.19>Whose beauty did astonish the survey</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.20>Of richest eyes, whose words all ears took captive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.21>Whose dear perfection hearts that scorn'd to serve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.22>Humbly call'd mistress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.23>Praising what is lost</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.24>Makes the remembrance dear. Well, call him hither;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.25>We are reconciled, and the first view shall kill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.26>All repetition: let him not ask our pardon;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.27>The nature of his great offence is dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.28>And deeper than oblivion we do bury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.29>The incensing relics of it: let him approach,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.30>A stranger, no offender; and inform him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.31>So 'tis our will he should.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.32>I shall, my liege.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.33>What says he to your daughter? have you spoke?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.34>All that he is hath reference to your highness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.35>Then shall we have a match. I have letters sent me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.36>That set him high in fame.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BERTRAM</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.37>He looks well on't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.38>I am not a day of season,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.39>For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.40>In me at once: but to the brightest beams</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.41>Distracted clouds give way; so stand thou forth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.42>The time is fair again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.43>My high-repented blames,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.44>Dear sovereign, pardon to me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.45>All is whole;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.46>Not one word more of the consumed time.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.47>Let's take the instant by the forward top;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.48>For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.49>The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.50>Steals ere we can effect them. You remember</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.51>The daughter of this lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.52>Admiringly, my liege, at first</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.53>I stuck my choice upon her, ere my heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.54>Durst make too bold a herald of my tongue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.55>Where the impression of mine eye infixing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.56>Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.57>Which warp'd the line of every other favour;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.58>Scorn'd a fair colour, or express'd it stolen;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.59>Extended or contracted all proportions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.60>To a most hideous object: thence it came</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.61>That she whom all men praised and whom myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.62>Since I have lost, have loved, was in mine eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.63>The dust that did offend it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.64>Well excused:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.65>That thou didst love her, strikes some scores away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.66>From the great compt: but love that comes too late,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.67>Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.68>To the great sender turns a sour offence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.69>Crying, 'That's good that's gone.' Our rash faults</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.70>Make trivial price of serious things we have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.71>Not knowing them until we know their grave:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.72>Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.73>Destroy our friends and after weep their dust</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.74>Our own love waking cries to see what's done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.75>While shame full late sleeps out the afternoon.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.76>Be this sweet Helen's knell, and now forget her.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.77>Send forth your amorous token for fair Maudlin:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.78>The main consents are had; and here we'll stay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.79>To see our widower's second marriage-day.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.80>Which better than the first, O dear heaven, bless!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.81>Or, ere they meet, in me, O nature, cesse!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.82>Come on, my son, in whom my house's name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.83>Must be digested, give a favour from you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.84>To sparkle in the spirits of my daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.85>That she may quickly come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>BERTRAM gives a ring</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.86>By my old beard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.87>And every hair that's on't, Helen, that's dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.88>Was a sweet creature: such a ring as this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.89>The last that e'er I took her at court,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.90>I saw upon her finger.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.91>Hers it was not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.92>Now, pray you, let me see it; for mine eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.93>While I was speaking, oft was fasten'd to't.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.94>This ring was mine; and, when I gave it Helen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.95>I bade her, if her fortunes ever stood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.96>Necessitied to help, that by this token</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.97>I would relieve her. Had you that craft, to reave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.98>her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.99>Of what should stead her most?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.100>My gracious sovereign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.101>Howe'er it pleases you to take it so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.102>The ring was never hers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.103>Son, on my life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.104>I have seen her wear it; and she reckon'd it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.105>At her life's rate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.106>I am sure I saw her wear it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.107>You are deceived, my lord; she never saw it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.108>In Florence was it from a casement thrown me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.109>Wrapp'd in a paper, which contain'd the name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.110>Of her that threw it: noble she was, and thought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.111>I stood engaged: but when I had subscribed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.112>To mine own fortune and inform'd her fully</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.113>I could not answer in that course of honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.114>As she had made the overture, she ceased</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.115>In heavy satisfaction and would never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.116>Receive the ring again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.117>Plutus himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.118>That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.119>Hath not in nature's mystery more science</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.120>Than I have in this ring: 'twas mine, 'twas Helen's,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.121>Whoever gave it you. Then, if you know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.122>That you are well acquainted with yourself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.123>Confess 'twas hers, and by what rough enforcement</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.124>You got it from her: she call'd the saints to surety</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.125>That she would never put it from her finger,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.126>Unless she gave it to yourself in bed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.127>Where you have never come, or sent it us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.128>Upon her great disaster.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.129>She never saw it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.130>Thou speak'st it falsely, as I love mine honour;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.131>And makest conjectural fears to come into me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.132>Which I would fain shut out. If it should prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.133>That thou art so inhuman,--'twill not prove so;--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.134>And yet I know not: thou didst hate her deadly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.135>And she is dead; which nothing, but to close</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.136>Her eyes myself, could win me to believe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.137>More than to see this ring. Take him away.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Guards seize BERTRAM</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.138>My fore-past proofs, howe'er the matter fall,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.139>Shall tax my fears of little vanity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.140>Having vainly fear'd too little. Away with him!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.141>We'll sift this matter further.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.142>If you shall prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.143>This ring was ever hers, you shall as easy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.144>Prove that I husbanded her bed in Florence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.145>Where yet she never was.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit, guarded</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.146>I am wrapp'd in dismal thinkings.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Gentleman</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>Gentleman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.147>Gracious sovereign,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.148>Whether I have been to blame or no, I know not:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.149>Here's a petition from a Florentine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.150>Who hath for four or five removes come short</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.151>To tender it herself. I undertook it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.152>Vanquish'd thereto by the fair grace and speech</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.153>Of the poor suppliant, who by this I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.154>Is here attending: her business looks in her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.155>With an importing visage; and she told me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.156>In a sweet verbal brief, it did concern</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.157>Your highness with herself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.158>[Reads] Upon his many protestations to marry me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.159>when his wife was dead, I blush to say it, he won</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.160>me. Now is the Count Rousillon a widower: his vows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.161>are forfeited to me, and my honour's paid to him. He</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.162>stole from Florence, taking no leave, and I follow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.163>him to his country for justice: grant it me, O</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.164>king! in you it best lies; otherwise a seducer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.165>flourishes, and a poor maid is undone.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.166>DIANA CAPILET.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.167>I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.168>this: I'll none of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.169>The heavens have thought well on thee Lafeu,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.170>To bring forth this discovery. Seek these suitors:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.171>Go speedily and bring again the count.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.172>I am afeard the life of Helen, lady,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.173>Was foully snatch'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.174>Now, justice on the doers!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter BERTRAM, guarded</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.175>I wonder, sir, sith wives are monsters to you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.176>And that you fly them as you swear them lordship,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.177>Yet you desire to marry.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Widow and DIANA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.178>What woman's that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.179>I am, my lord, a wretched Florentine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.180>Derived from the ancient Capilet:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.181>My suit, as I do understand, you know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.182>And therefore know how far I may be pitied.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>Widow</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.183>I am her mother, sir, whose age and honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.184>Both suffer under this complaint we bring,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.185>And both shall cease, without your remedy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.186>Come hither, count; do you know these women?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.187>My lord, I neither can nor will deny</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.188>But that I know them: do they charge me further?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.189>Why do you look so strange upon your wife?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.190>She's none of mine, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.191>If you shall marry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.192>You give away this hand, and that is mine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.193>You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.194>You give away myself, which is known mine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.195>For I by vow am so embodied yours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.196>That she which marries you must marry me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.197>Either both or none.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.198>Your reputation comes too short for my daughter; you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.199>are no husband for her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.200>My lord, this is a fond and desperate creature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.201>Whom sometime I have laugh'd with: let your highness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.202>Lay a more noble thought upon mine honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.203>Than for to think that I would sink it here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.204>Sir, for my thoughts, you have them ill to friend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.205>Till your deeds gain them: fairer prove your honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.206>Than in my thought it lies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.207>Good my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.208>Ask him upon his oath, if he does think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.209>He had not my virginity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.210>What say'st thou to her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.211>She's impudent, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.212>And was a common gamester to the camp.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.213>He does me wrong, my lord; if I were so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.214>He might have bought me at a common price:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.215>Do not believe him. O, behold this ring,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.216>Whose high respect and rich validity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.217>Did lack a parallel; yet for all that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.218>He gave it to a commoner o' the camp,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.219>If I be one.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>COUNTESS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.220> He blushes, and 'tis it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.221>Of six preceding ancestors, that gem,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.222>Conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.223>Hath it been owed and worn. This is his wife;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.224>That ring's a thousand proofs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.225>Methought you said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.226>You saw one here in court could witness it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.227>I did, my lord, but loath am to produce</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.228>So bad an instrument: his name's Parolles.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.229>I saw the man to-day, if man he be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.230>Find him, and bring him hither.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit an Attendant</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.231>What of him?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.232>He's quoted for a most perfidious slave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.233>With all the spots o' the world tax'd and debosh'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.234>Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.235>Am I or that or this for what he'll utter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.236>That will speak any thing?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.237>She hath that ring of yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.238>I think she has: certain it is I liked her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.239>And boarded her i' the wanton way of youth:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.240>She knew her distance and did angle for me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.241>Madding my eagerness with her restraint,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.242>As all impediments in fancy's course</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.243>Are motives of more fancy; and, in fine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.244>Her infinite cunning, with her modern grace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.245>Subdued me to her rate: she got the ring;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.246>And I had that which any inferior might</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.247>At market-price have bought.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.248>I must be patient:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.249>You, that have turn'd off a first so noble wife,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.250>May justly diet me. I pray you yet;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.251>Since you lack virtue, I will lose a husband;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.252>Send for your ring, I will return it home,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.253>And give me mine again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.254>I have it not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.255>What ring was yours, I pray you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.256>Sir, much like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.257>The same upon your finger.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.258>Know you this ring? this ring was his of late.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.259>And this was it I gave him, being abed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.260>The story then goes false, you threw it him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.261>Out of a casement.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.262> I have spoke the truth.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter PAROLLES</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.263>My lord, I do confess the ring was hers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.264>You boggle shrewdly, every feather stars you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.265>Is this the man you speak of?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.266>Ay, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.267>Tell me, sirrah, but tell me true, I charge you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.268>Not fearing the displeasure of your master,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.269>Which on your just proceeding I'll keep off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.270>By him and by this woman here what know you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.271>So please your majesty, my master hath been an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.272>honourable gentleman: tricks he hath had in him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.273>which gentlemen have.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.274>Come, come, to the purpose: did he love this woman?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.275>Faith, sir, he did love her; but how?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.276>How, I pray you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.277>He did love her, sir, as a gentleman loves a woman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.278>How is that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.279>He loved her, sir, and loved her not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.280>As thou art a knave, and no knave. What an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.281>equivocal companion is this!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.282>I am a poor man, and at your majesty's command.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.283>He's a good drum, my lord, but a naughty orator.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.284>Do you know he promised me marriage?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.285>Faith, I know more than I'll speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.286>But wilt thou not speak all thou knowest?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>PAROLLES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.287>Yes, so please your majesty. I did go between them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.288>as I said; but more than that, he loved her: for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.289>indeed he was mad for her, and talked of Satan and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.290>of Limbo and of Furies and I know not what: yet I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.291>was in that credit with them at that time that I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.292>knew of their going to bed, and of other motions,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.293>as promising her marriage, and things which would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.294>derive me ill will to speak of; therefore I will not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.295>speak what I know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.296>Thou hast spoken all already, unless thou canst say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.297>they are married: but thou art too fine in thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.298>evidence; therefore stand aside.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.299>This ring, you say, was yours?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.300>Ay, my good lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.301>Where did you buy it? or who gave it you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.302>It was not given me, nor I did not buy it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.303>Who lent it you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.304> It was not lent me neither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.305>Where did you find it, then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.306>I found it not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.307>If it were yours by none of all these ways,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.308>How could you give it him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.309>I never gave it him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.310>This woman's an easy glove, my lord; she goes off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.311>and on at pleasure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.312>This ring was mine; I gave it his first wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.313>It might be yours or hers, for aught I know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.314>Take her away; I do not like her now;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.315>To prison with her: and away with him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.316>Unless thou tell'st me where thou hadst this ring,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.317>Thou diest within this hour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.318>I'll never tell you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.319>Take her away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.320> I'll put in bail, my liege.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.321>I think thee now some common customer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.322>By Jove, if ever I knew man, 'twas you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.323>Wherefore hast thou accused him all this while?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.324>Because he's guilty, and he is not guilty:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.325>He knows I am no maid, and he'll swear to't;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.326>I'll swear I am a maid, and he knows not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.327>Great king, I am no strumpet, by my life;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.328>I am either maid, or else this old man's wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.329>She does abuse our ears: to prison with her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>DIANA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.330>Good mother, fetch my bail. Stay, royal sir:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Widow</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.331>The jeweller that owes the ring is sent for,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.332>And he shall surety me. But for this lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.333>Who hath abused me, as he knows himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.334>Though yet he never harm'd me, here I quit him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.335>He knows himself my bed he hath defiled;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.336>And at that time he got his wife with child:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.337>Dead though she be, she feels her young one kick:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.338>So there's my riddle: one that's dead is quick:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.339>And now behold the meaning.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Widow, with HELENA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.340>Is there no exorcist</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.341>Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.342>Is't real that I see?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.343>No, my good lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.344>'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.345>The name and not the thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.346>Both, both. O, pardon!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.347>O my good lord, when I was like this maid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.348>I found you wondrous kind. There is your ring;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.349>And, look you, here's your letter; this it says:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.350>'When from my finger you can get this ring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.351>And are by me with child,' & c. This is done:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.352>Will you be mine, now you are doubly won?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>BERTRAM</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.353>If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.354>I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>HELENA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.355>If it appear not plain and prove untrue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.356>Deadly divorce step between me and you!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.357>O my dear mother, do I see you living?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>LAFEU</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.358>Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To PAROLLES</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.359>Good Tom Drum, lend me a handkercher: so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.360>I thank thee: wait on me home, I'll make sport with thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.361>Let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.362>Let us from point to point this story know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.363>To make the even truth in pleasure flow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To DIANA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.364>If thou be'st yet a fresh uncropped flower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.365>Choose thou thy husband, and I'll pay thy dower;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.366>For I can guess that by thy honest aid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.367>Thou keep'st a wife herself, thyself a maid.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.368>Of that and all the progress, more or less,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.369>Resolvedly more leisure shall express:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.370>All yet seems well; and if it end so meet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.371>The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Flourish</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.372>EPILOGUE</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>KING</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.373>The king's a beggar, now the play is done:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.374>All is well ended, if this suit be won,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.375>That you express content; which we will pay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.376>With strife to please you, day exceeding day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.377>Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.378>Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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