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<title>The Globe Shakespeare</title> |
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<head>DRAMATIS PERSONÆ</head> |
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<castItem type="role"><role id="aww-3"></role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role id="aww-4"></role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role id="aww-5"></role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role id="aww-6"></role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role id="aww-9"></role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>KING OF FRANCE</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>DUKE OF FLORENCE</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>BERTRAM</role><roleDesc>Count of Rousillon</roleDesc></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>LAFEU</role><roleDesc>an old lord</roleDesc></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>PAROLLES</role><roleDesc>a follower of Bertram</roleDesc></castItem> |
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<head rend="braced">servants to the Countess of Rousillon.</head> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>Steward</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>Clown</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>A Page</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>COUNTESS OF ROUSILLON</role><roleDesc>mother to Bertram</roleDesc></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>HELENA</role><roleDesc>a gentlewoman protected by the Countess</roleDesc></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>An old Widow of Florence</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>DIANA</role><roleDesc>daughter to the Widow</roleDesc></castItem> |
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<head rend="braced">neighbors and friends to the Widow.</head> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>VIOLENTA</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>MARIANA</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>Gentleman</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>First Gentleman</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>Second Gentleman</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>First Lord</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>Second Lord</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>Fourth Lord</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>First Soldier</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>Second Soldier</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>All</role></castItem> |
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<castItem type="role"><role>Servant</role><roleDesc>a Messenger</roleDesc></castItem> |
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<castItem type="list"><roleDesc>Lords,</roleDesc><roleDesc>Officers,</roleDesc><roleDesc>Soldiers, etc.</roleDesc></castItem> |
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<head>ACT I</head> |
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<head>SCENE I</head> |
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<stage type="setting">Rousillon. The COUNT'S palace.</stage> |
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<lb n="3" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS OF ROUSILLON, <lb n="4" ed="F1"/>HELENA, and LAFEU, all in black.</stage> |
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<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> In delivering my son from me, I |
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<lb ed="G"/>bury a second <lb n="6" ed="F1"/>husband. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="7" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> And I in going, madam, weep o'er |
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<lb ed="G"/>my <lb n="8" ed="F1"/>father's death anew: but I must attend |
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<lb ed="G"/>his majesty's <lb n="9" ed="F1"/>command, to whom I am now |
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<lb ed="G"/>in ward, evermore <lb n="10" ed="F1"/>in subjection. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="11" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> You shall find of the king a husband, |
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<lb ed="G"/>madam; <lb n="12" ed="F1"/>you, sir, a father: he that so generally |
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<lb ed="G"/> is at all times good <lb n="13" ed="F1"/>must of necessity |
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<lb ed="G"/>hold his virtue to you; whose worthiness |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="14" ed="F1"/>would stir it up where it wanted rather than |
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<lb ed="G"/>lack <lb n="15" ed="F1"/>it where there is such abundance. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="16" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>What hope is there of his majesty's |
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<lb ed="G"/>amendment? |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="17" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> He hath abandoned his physicians, |
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<lb ed="G"/>madam; under <lb n="18" ed="F1"/>whose practices he hath persecuted |
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<lb ed="G"/>time with hope, <lb n="19" ed="F1"/>and finds no other advantage |
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<lb ed="G"/>in the process but only <lb n="20" ed="F1"/>the losing |
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<lb ed="G"/>of hope by time. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="21" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> This young gentlewoman had a father,--O |
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<lb ed="G"/>that <lb n="22" ed="F1"/>'had'! how sad a passage 'tis!-- |
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<lb ed="G"/>whose skill was almost as <lb n="23" ed="F1"/>great as his honesty; |
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<lb ed="G"/>had it stretched so far, would have <lb n="24" ed="F1"/>made |
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<lb ed="G"/>nature immortal, and death should have play for |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="25" ed="F1"/>lack of work. Would, for the king's sake, he |
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<lb ed="G"/>were living! <lb n="26" ed="F1"/>I think it would be the death |
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<lb ed="G"/>of the king's disease. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="27" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> How called you the man you speak |
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<lb ed="G"/>of, madam? |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="28" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> He was famous, sir, in his profession, |
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<lb ed="G"/>and it was <lb n="29" ed="F1"/>his great right to be so: |
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<lb n="31" ed="G"/>Gerard de Narbon. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="30" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> He was excellent indeed, madam: the |
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<lb ed="G"/>king very <lb n="31" ed="F1"/>lately spoke of him admiringly and |
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<lb ed="G"/>mourningly: he <lb n="32" ed="F1"/>was skilful enough to have |
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<lb ed="G"/>lived still, if knowledge could <lb n="33" ed="F1"/>be set up |
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<lb ed="G"/>against mortality. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="34" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> What is it, my good lord, the king |
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<lb ed="G"/>languishes <lb n="35" ed="F1"/>of? |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="36" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> A fistula, my lord. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="37" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> I heard not of it before. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="38" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> I would it were not notorious. Was |
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<lb ed="G"/>this gentlewoman <lb n="39" ed="F1"/>the daughter of Gerard de Narbon? |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="40" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed |
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<lb ed="G"/>to my <lb n="41" ed="F1"/>overlooking. I have those |
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<lb ed="G"/>hopes of her good that her <lb n="42" ed="F1"/>education promises; |
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<lb ed="G"/>her dispositions she inherits, which |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="43" ed="F1"/>makes fair gifts fairer; for where an unclean mind |
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<lb ed="G"/>carries <lb n="44" ed="F1"/>virtuous qualities, there commendations |
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<lb ed="G"/>go with <lb n="45" ed="F1"/>pity; they are virtues and traitors too; |
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<lb ed="G"/>in her they are <lb n="46" ed="F1"/>the better for their simpleness; |
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<lb ed="G"/>she derives her honesty <lb n="47" ed="F1"/>and achieves her goodness. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="48" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Your commendations, madam, get |
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<lb ed="G"/>from her <lb n="49" ed="F1"/>tears. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="50" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> 'Tis the best brine a maiden can |
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<lb ed="G"/>season her praise <lb n="51" ed="F1"/>in. The remembrance of her |
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<lb ed="G"/>father never approaches her <lb n="52" ed="F1"/>heart but the tyranny |
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<lb ed="G"/>of her sorrows takes all livelihood <lb n="53" ed="F1"/>from |
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<lb ed="G"/>her cheek. No more of this, Helena; go to, no |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="54" ed="F1"/>more; lest it be rather thought you affect a |
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<lb n="61" ed="G"/>sorrow than <lb n="55" ed="F1"/>have it. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="56" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have |
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<lb ed="G"/>it too. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="57" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Moderate lamentation is the right of |
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<lb ed="G"/>the dead, <lb n="58" ed="F1"/>excessive grief the enemy to the living. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="59" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> If the living be enemy to the grief, |
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<lb ed="G"/>the excess <lb n="60" ed="F1"/>makes it soon mortal. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="61" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> Madam, I desire your holy wishes. |
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<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> How understand we that? |
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<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="63" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Be thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="64" ed="F1"/>in manners, as in shape! thy blood and virtue |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="65" ed="F1"/>Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="66" ed="F1"/>Share with thy birthright! Love all, trust a few, |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="67" ed="F1"/>Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="68" ed="F1"/>Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="69" ed="F1"/>Under thy own life's key; be check'd for silence, |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="70" ed="F1"/>But never tax'd for speech. What heaven more will, |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="71" ed="F1"/>That thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down, |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="72" ed="F1"/>Fall on thy head! Farewell, my lord; |
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<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="73" ed="F1"/>'Tis an unseason'd courtier; good my lord, |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="74" ed="F1"/>Advise him. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="75" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p>He cannot want the best |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="76" ed="F1"/>That shall attend his love. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="77" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Heavens bless him! Farewell, Bertram. <stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage> |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="78" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><stage>[To Helena]</stage><p> The best wishes that can |
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<lb ed="G"/>be forged in your thoughts <lb n="79" ed="F1"/>be servants to you! |
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<lb ed="G"/>Be comfortable to my mother, your <lb n="80" ed="F1"/>mistress, |
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<lb ed="G"/>and make much of her. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="81" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Farewell, pretty lady: you must hold |
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<lb ed="G"/>the credit <lb n="82" ed="F1"/>of your father. |
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<stage type="exit">[Exeunt Bertram and Lafeu.</stage> |
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<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="83" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
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<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> O, were that all! I think not on my father; |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="84" ed="F1"/>And these great tears grace his remembrance more |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="85" ed="F1"/>Than those I shed for him. What was he like? |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="86" ed="F1"/>I have forgot him: my imagination |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="87" ed="F1"/>Carries no favour in't but Bertram's. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="88" ed="F1"/>I am undone: there is no living, none, |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="89" ed="F1"/>If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="90" ed="F1"/>That I should love a bright particular star |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="91" ed="F1"/>And think to wed it, he is so above me: |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="92" ed="F1"/>In his bright radiance and collateral light |
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<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="93" ed="F1"/>Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="94" ed="F1"/>The ambition in my love thus plagues itself: |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="95" ed="F1"/>The hind that would be mated by the lion |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="96" ed="F1"/>Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though a plague, |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="97" ed="F1"/>To see him every hour; to sit and draw |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="98" ed="F1"/>His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls, |
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<lb ed="G"/><lb n="99" ed="F1"/>In our heart's table; heart too capable |
| 342 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="100" ed="F1"/>Of every line and trick of his sweet favour: |
| 343 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="101" ed="F1"/>But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy |
| 344 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="102" ed="F1"/>Must sanctify his reliques. Who comes here? |
| 345 |
<lb n="103" ed="F1"/><stage>Enter PAROLLES.</stage> |
| 346 |
<stage>[Aside]</stage><lb n="110" ed="G"/><lb n="104" ed="F1"/> One that goes with him: I love him for his sake; |
| 347 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="105" ed="F1"/>And yet I know him a notorious liar, |
| 348 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="106" ed="F1"/>Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; |
| 349 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="107" ed="F1"/>Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him, |
| 350 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="108" ed="F1"/>That they take place, when virtue's steely bones |
| 351 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="109" ed="F1"/>Look bleak i' the cold wind: withal, full oft we see |
| 352 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="110" ed="F1"/>Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. |
| 353 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="111" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 354 |
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| 355 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Save you, fair queen! |
| 356 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="112" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 357 |
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| 358 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> And you, monarch! |
| 359 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="113" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 360 |
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| 361 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> No. |
| 362 |
<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="114" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 363 |
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| 364 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> And no. |
| 365 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="115" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 366 |
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| 367 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Are you meditating on virginity? |
| 368 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="116" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 369 |
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| 370 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> Ay. You have some stain of soldier in |
| 371 |
<lb ed="G"/>you: let <lb n="117" ed="F1"/>me ask you a question. Man is enemy |
| 372 |
<lb ed="G"/>to virginity; <lb n="118" ed="F1"/>how may we barricado it against him? |
| 373 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="119" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 374 |
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| 375 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Keep him out. |
| 376 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="120" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 377 |
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| 378 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> But he assails; and our virginity, |
| 379 |
<lb ed="G"/>though valiant, <lb n="121" ed="F1"/>in the defence yet is weak: unfold |
| 380 |
<lb ed="G"/>to us some warlike <lb n="122" ed="F1"/>resistance. |
| 381 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="123" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 382 |
|
| 383 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> There is none: man, sitting down before |
| 384 |
<lb ed="G"/>you, <lb n="124" ed="F1"/>will undermine you and blow you up. |
| 385 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="125" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 386 |
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| 387 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> Bless our poor virginity from underminers |
| 388 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="126" ed="F1"/>and blowers up! Is there no military |
| 389 |
<lb ed="G"/>policy, how virgins <lb n="127" ed="F1"/>might blow up men? |
| 390 |
<lb n="134" ed="G"/><lb n="128" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 391 |
|
| 392 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Virginity being blown down, man will |
| 393 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="129" ed="F1"/>quicklier be blown up: marry, in blowing him |
| 394 |
<lb ed="G"/>down <lb n="130" ed="F1"/>again, with the breach yourselves made, |
| 395 |
<lb ed="G"/>you lose your <lb n="131" ed="F1"/>city. It is not politic in the commonwealth |
| 396 |
<lb ed="G"/>of <lb n="132" ed="F1"/>nature to preserve virginity. Loss |
| 397 |
<lb ed="G"/>of virginity is <lb n="133" ed="F1"/>rational increase and there was |
| 398 |
<lb ed="G"/>never virgin got till <lb n="134" ed="F1"/>virginity was first lost. |
| 399 |
<lb ed="G"/>That you were made of is metal <lb n="135" ed="F1"/>to make virgins. |
| 400 |
<lb ed="G"/>Virginity by being once lost <lb n="136" ed="F1"/>may be ten |
| 401 |
<lb ed="G"/>times found; by being ever kept, it is ever |
| 402 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="137" ed="F1"/>lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with 't! |
| 403 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="138" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 404 |
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| 405 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> I will stand for't a little, though |
| 406 |
<lb ed="G"/>therefore I die <lb n="139" ed="F1"/>a virgin. |
| 407 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="140" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 408 |
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| 409 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> There's little can be said in't; 'tis |
| 410 |
<lb ed="G"/>against the <lb n="141" ed="F1"/>rule of nature. To speak on the |
| 411 |
<lb ed="G"/>part of virginity, is <lb n="142" ed="F1"/>to accuse your mothers; |
| 412 |
<lb ed="G"/>which is most infallible disobedience. <lb n="143" ed="F1"/>He |
| 413 |
<lb ed="G"/>that hangs himself is a virgin; virginity <lb n="144" ed="F1"/>murders itself |
| 414 |
<lb ed="G"/>and should be buried in highways <lb n="145" ed="F1"/>out of |
| 415 |
<lb ed="G"/>all sanctified limit, as a desperate offendress |
| 416 |
<lb ed="G"/>against <lb n="146" ed="F1"/>nature. Virginity breeds mites, much |
| 417 |
<lb ed="G"/>like a <lb n="147" ed="F1"/>cheese; consumes itself to the very paring, |
| 418 |
<lb ed="G"/>and so dies <lb n="148" ed="F1"/>with feeding his own stomach. |
| 419 |
<lb ed="G"/>Besides, virginity <lb n="149" ed="F1"/>is peevish, proud, idle, made |
| 420 |
<lb ed="G"/>of self-love, which <lb n="150" ed="F1"/>is the most inhibited sin in |
| 421 |
<lb ed="G"/>the canon. Keep it not; <lb n="151" ed="F1"/>you cannot choose but |
| 422 |
<lb ed="G"/>lose by 't: out with't! within <lb n="152" ed="F1"/>ten year it will |
| 423 |
<lb ed="G"/>make itself ten, which is a goodly increase; |
| 424 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="153" ed="F1"/>and the principal itself not much the worse: |
| 425 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="154" ed="F1"/>away with 't! |
| 426 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="155" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 427 |
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| 428 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> How might one do, sir, to lose it to |
| 429 |
<lb ed="G"/>her own <lb n="156" ed="F1"/>liking? |
| 430 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="157" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 431 |
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| 432 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Let me see: marry, ill, to like him |
| 433 |
<lb ed="G"/>that ne'er <lb n="158" ed="F1"/>it likes. 'Tis a commodity will lose |
| 434 |
<lb ed="G"/>the gloss with lying; <lb n="159" ed="F1"/>the longer kept, the less |
| 435 |
<lb ed="G"/>worth: off with't while 'tis <lb n="160" ed="F1"/>vendible; answer |
| 436 |
<lb ed="G"/>the time of request. Virginity, like <lb n="161" ed="F1"/>an old courtier, |
| 437 |
<lb ed="G"/>wears her cap out of fashion: richly |
| 438 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="162" ed="F1"/>suited, but unsuitable: just like the brooch and |
| 439 |
<lb ed="G"/>the tooth-pick, <lb n="163" ed="F1"/>which wear not now. Your date |
| 440 |
<lb ed="G"/>is better in your <lb n="164" ed="F1"/>pie and your porridge than in |
| 441 |
<lb ed="G"/>your cheek: and your <lb n="165" ed="F1"/>virginity, your old virginity |
| 442 |
<lb ed="G"/>is like one of our French <lb n="166" ed="F1"/>withered |
| 443 |
<lb ed="G"/>pears, it looks ill, it eats drily; marry, 'tis a |
| 444 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="167" ed="F1"/>withered pear; it was formerly better; marry, |
| 445 |
<lb ed="G"/>yet 'tis a <lb n="168" ed="F1"/>withered pear: will you anything |
| 446 |
<lb ed="G"/>with it? |
| 447 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="169" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 448 |
|
| 449 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> Not my virginity yet. . . . |
| 450 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="170" ed="F1"/>There shall your master have a thousand loves, |
| 451 |
<lb n="181" ed="G"/><lb n="171" ed="F1"/>A mother and a mistress and a friend, |
| 452 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="172" ed="F1"/>A phoenix, captain and an enemy, |
| 453 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="173" ed="F1"/>A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign, |
| 454 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="174" ed="F1"/>A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear; |
| 455 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="175" ed="F1"/>His humble ambition, proud humility, |
| 456 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="176" ed="F1"/>His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet, |
| 457 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="177" ed="F1"/>His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world |
| 458 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="178" ed="F1"/>Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms, |
| 459 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="179" ed="F1"/>That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he-- |
| 460 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="180" ed="F1"/>I know not what he shall. God send him well! |
| 461 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="181" ed="F1"/>The court's a learning place, and he is one-- |
| 462 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="182" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 463 |
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| 464 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> What one, i' faith? |
| 465 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="183" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 466 |
|
| 467 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> That I wish well. 'Tis pity-- |
| 468 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="184" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 469 |
|
| 470 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> What's pity? |
| 471 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="185" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 472 |
|
| 473 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>That wishing well had not a body in 't, |
| 474 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="186" ed="F1"/>Which might be felt; that we, the poorer born, |
| 475 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="187" ed="F1"/>Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes, |
| 476 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="188" ed="F1"/>Might with effects of them follow our friends, |
| 477 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="189" ed="F1"/>And show what we alone must think, which never |
| 478 |
<lb n="200" ed="G"/><lb n="190" ed="F1"/>Return us thanks. |
| 479 |
<lb n="191" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter Page.</stage> |
| 480 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="192" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 481 |
|
| 482 |
<sp who="aww-5"><speaker>Page.</speaker><p> Monsieur Parolles, <lb n="193" ed="F1"/>my lord calls for you. <stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage> |
| 483 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="194" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 484 |
|
| 485 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Little Helen, farewell; if I can remember |
| 486 |
<lb ed="G"/>thee, I <lb n="195" ed="F1"/>will think of thee at court. |
| 487 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="196" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 488 |
|
| 489 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> Monsieur Parolles, you were born |
| 490 |
<lb ed="G"/>under a <lb n="197" ed="F1"/>charitable star. |
| 491 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="198" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 492 |
|
| 493 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Under Mars, I. |
| 494 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="199" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 495 |
|
| 496 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> I especially think, under Mars. |
| 497 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="200" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 498 |
|
| 499 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Why under Mars? |
| 500 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="201" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 501 |
|
| 502 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> The wars have so kept you under that |
| 503 |
<lb n="210" ed="G"/>you <lb n="202" ed="F1"/>must needs be born under Mars. |
| 504 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="203" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 505 |
|
| 506 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> When he was predominant. |
| 507 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="204" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 508 |
|
| 509 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> When he was retrograde, I think, rather. |
| 510 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="205" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 511 |
|
| 512 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Why think you so? |
| 513 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="206" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 514 |
|
| 515 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> You go so much backward when you fight. |
| 516 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="207" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 517 |
|
| 518 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> That's for advantage. |
| 519 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="208" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 520 |
|
| 521 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> So is running away, <lb n="209" ed="F1"/>when fear proposes |
| 522 |
<lb ed="G"/>the safety: <lb n="210" ed="F1"/>but the composition that your |
| 523 |
<lb ed="G"/>valour and fear makes <lb n="211" ed="F1"/>in you is a virtue of a |
| 524 |
<lb n="219" ed="G"/>good wing, and I like the <lb n="212" ed="F1"/>wear well. |
| 525 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="213" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 526 |
|
| 527 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> I am so full of businesses, I cannot |
| 528 |
<lb ed="G"/>answer <lb n="214" ed="F1"/>thee acutely. I will return perfect courtier; |
| 529 |
<lb ed="G"/>in the <lb n="215" ed="F1"/>which, my instruction shall serve |
| 530 |
<lb ed="G"/>to naturalize thee, so <lb n="216" ed="F1"/>thou wilt be capable of |
| 531 |
<lb ed="G"/>a courtier's counsel and understand <lb n="217" ed="F1"/>what advice |
| 532 |
<lb ed="G"/>shall thrust upon thee; else thou <lb n="218" ed="F1"/>diest |
| 533 |
<lb ed="G"/>in thine unthankfulness, and thine ignorance |
| 534 |
<lb ed="G"/>makes <lb n="219" ed="F1"/>thee away: farewell. When thou hast |
| 535 |
<lb ed="G"/>leisure, say thy <lb n="220" ed="F1"/>prayers; when thou hast none, |
| 536 |
<lb ed="G"/>remember thy friends: <lb n="221" ed="F1"/>get thee a good husband, |
| 537 |
<lb n="230" ed="G"/>and use him as he uses thee; <lb n="222" ed="F1"/>so farewell. |
| 538 |
<stage>[Exit.</stage> |
| 539 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="223" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 540 |
|
| 541 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. |
| 542 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="224" ed="F1"/>Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky |
| 543 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="225" ed="F1"/>Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull |
| 544 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="226" ed="F1"/>Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. |
| 545 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="227" ed="F1"/>What power is it which mounts my love so high, |
| 546 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="228" ed="F1"/>That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye? |
| 547 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="229" ed="F1"/>The mightiest space in fortune nature brings |
| 548 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="230" ed="F1"/>To join like likes and kiss like native things. |
| 549 |
<lb n="239" ed="G"/><lb n="231" ed="F1"/>Impossible be strange attempts to those |
| 550 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="232" ed="F1"/>That weigh their pains in sense and do suppose |
| 551 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="233" ed="F1"/>What hath been cannot be: who ever strove |
| 552 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="234" ed="F1"/>To show her merit, that did miss her love? |
| 553 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="235" ed="F1"/>The king's disease--my project may deceive me, |
| 554 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="236" ed="F1"/>But my intents are fix'd and will not leave me. |
| 555 |
<stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage></p></sp></div2> |
| 556 |
<div2 n="2" type="scene"> |
| 557 |
<head>SCENE II</head> |
| 558 |
<stage type="setting">Paris. The KING'S palace.</stage> |
| 559 |
<lb n="237" ed="F1"/><stage>Flourish of cornets.</stage><lb n="238" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the KING OF FRANCE, with letters, and <lb n="239" ed="F1"/>divers Attendants.</stage> |
| 560 |
|
| 561 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="240" ed="F1"/> |
| 562 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>The Florentines and Senoys are by the ears; |
| 563 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="241" ed="F1"/>Have fought with equal fortune and continue |
| 564 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="242" ed="F1"/></p><p>A braving war. |
| 565 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="243" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 566 |
|
| 567 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> So 'tis reported, sir. |
| 568 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="244" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 569 |
|
| 570 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Nay, 'tis most credible; we here receive it |
| 571 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="245" ed="F1"/>A certainty, vouch'd from our cousin Austria, |
| 572 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="246" ed="F1"/>With caution that the Florentine will move us |
| 573 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="247" ed="F1"/>For speedy aid; wherein our dearest friend |
| 574 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="248" ed="F1"/>Prejudicates the business and would seem |
| 575 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="249" ed="F1"/>To have us make denial. |
| 576 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="250" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 577 |
|
| 578 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p>His love and wisdom, |
| 579 |
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="251" ed="F1"/>Approved so to your majesty, may plead |
| 580 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="252" ed="F1"/>For amplest credence. |
| 581 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="253" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 582 |
|
| 583 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>He hath arm'd our answer, |
| 584 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="254" ed="F1"/>And Florence is denied before he comes: |
| 585 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="255" ed="F1"/>Yet, for our gentlemen that mean to see |
| 586 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="256" ed="F1"/>The Tuscan service, freely have they leave |
| 587 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="257" ed="F1"/>To stand on either part. |
| 588 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="258" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 589 |
|
| 590 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p>It well may serve |
| 591 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="259" ed="F1"/>A nursery to our gentry, who are sick |
| 592 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="260" ed="F1"/>For breathing and exploit. |
| 593 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="261" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 594 |
|
| 595 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>What's he comes here? |
| 596 |
<lb n="262" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES.</stage> |
| 597 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="263" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 598 |
|
| 599 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p>It is the Count Rousillon, my good lord, |
| 600 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="264" ed="F1"/>Young Bertram. |
| 601 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="265" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 602 |
|
| 603 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p> Youth, thou bear'st thy father's face; |
| 604 |
<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="266" ed="F1"/>Frank nature, rather curious than in haste, |
| 605 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="267" ed="F1"/>Hath well composed thee. Thy father's moral parts |
| 606 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="268" ed="F1"/>Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris. |
| 607 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="269" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 608 |
|
| 609 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> My thanks and duty are your majesty's. |
| 610 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="270" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 611 |
|
| 612 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p> I would I had that corporal soundness now, |
| 613 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="271" ed="F1"/>As when thy father and myself in friendship |
| 614 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="272" ed="F1"/>First tried our soldiership! He did look far |
| 615 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="273" ed="F1"/>Into the service of the time and was |
| 616 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="274" ed="F1"/>Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long; |
| 617 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="275" ed="F1"/>But on us both did haggish age steal on |
| 618 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="276" ed="F1"/>And wore us out of act. It much repairs me |
| 619 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="31" ed="G"/><lb n="277" ed="F1"/>To talk of your good father. In his youth |
| 620 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="278" ed="F1"/>He had the wit which I can well observe |
| 621 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="279" ed="F1"/>To-day in our young lords; but they may jest |
| 622 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="280" ed="F1"/>Till their own scorn return to them unnoted |
| 623 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="281" ed="F1"/>Ere they can hide their levity in honor: |
| 624 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="282" ed="F1"/>So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness |
| 625 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="283" ed="F1"/>Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were, |
| 626 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="284" ed="F1"/>His equal had awaked them, and his honour, |
| 627 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="285" ed="F1"/>Clock to itself, knew the true minute when |
| 628 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="286" ed="F1"/>Exception bid him speak, and at this time |
| 629 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="287" ed="F1"/>His tongue obey'd his hand: who were below him |
| 630 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="288" ed="F1"/>He used as creatures of another place |
| 631 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="289" ed="F1"/>And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks, |
| 632 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="290" ed="F1"/>Making them proud of his humility, |
| 633 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="291" ed="F1"/>In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man |
| 634 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="292" ed="F1"/>Might be a copy to these younger times; |
| 635 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="293" ed="F1"/>Which, follow'd well, would demonstrate them now |
| 636 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="294" ed="F1"/>But goers backward. |
| 637 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="295" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 638 |
|
| 639 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>His good remembrance, sir, |
| 640 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="296" ed="F1"/>Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb; |
| 641 |
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="297" ed="F1"/>So in approof lives not his epitaph |
| 642 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="298" ed="F1"/>As in your royal speech. |
| 643 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="299" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 644 |
|
| 645 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Would I were with him! He would always say-- |
| 646 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="300" ed="F1"/>Methinks I hear him now; his plausive words |
| 647 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="301" ed="F1"/>He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them, |
| 648 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="302" ed="F1"/>To grow there and to bear,--'Let me not live,'-- |
| 649 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="303" ed="F1"/>This his good melancholy oft began, |
| 650 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="304" ed="F1"/>On the catastrophe and heel of pastime, |
| 651 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="305" ed="F1"/>When it was out,--'Let me not live,' quoth he, |
| 652 |
<lb n="59" ed="G"/><lb n="306" ed="F1"/>'After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff |
| 653 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="307" ed="F1"/>Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses |
| 654 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="308" ed="F1"/>All but new things disdain; whose judgements are |
| 655 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="309" ed="F1"/>Mere fathers of their garments; whose constancies |
| 656 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="310"/>Expire before their fashions.' This he wish'd: |
| 657 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="311" ed="F1"/>I after him do after him wish too, |
| 658 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="312" ed="F1"/>Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home, |
| 659 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="313" ed="F1"/>I quickly were dissolved from my hive, |
| 660 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="314" ed="F1"/>To give some labourers room. |
| 661 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="315" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 662 |
|
| 663 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p>You are loved, sir: |
| 664 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="316" ed="F1"/>They that least lend it you shall lack you first. |
| 665 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="317" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 666 |
|
| 667 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p> I fill a place, I know't. How long is't, count, |
| 668 |
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="318" ed="F1"/>Since the physician at your father's died? |
| 669 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="319" ed="F1"/>He was much famed. |
| 670 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="320" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 671 |
|
| 672 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Some six months since, my lord. |
| 673 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="321" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 674 |
|
| 675 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>If he were living, I would try him yet. |
| 676 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="322" ed="F1"/>Lend me an arm; the rest have worn me out |
| 677 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="323" ed="F1"/>With several applications: nature and sickness |
| 678 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="324" ed="F1"/>Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, count; |
| 679 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="325" ed="F1"/>My son's no dearer. |
| 680 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="326" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 681 |
|
| 682 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Thank your majesty. |
| 683 |
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage> |
| 684 |
<lb n="327" ed="F1"/><stage>Flourish.</stage> |
| 685 |
</p></sp> |
| 686 |
|
| 687 |
</div2> |
| 688 |
|
| 689 |
<div2 n="3" type="scene"> |
| 690 |
<head>SCENE III</head> |
| 691 |
<stage type="setting">Rousillon. The COUNT'S palace.</stage> |
| 692 |
<lb n="328" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter COUNTESS, Steward, and Clown.</stage> |
| 693 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="329" ed="F1"/> |
| 694 |
|
| 695 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> I will now hear; what say you of |
| 696 |
<lb ed="G"/>this <lb n="330" ed="F1"/>gentlewoman? |
| 697 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="331" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 698 |
|
| 699 |
<sp who="aww-13"><speaker>Stew.</speaker><p> Madam, the care I have had to even |
| 700 |
<lb ed="G"/>your content, <lb n="332" ed="F1"/>I wish might be found in the calendar |
| 701 |
<lb ed="G"/>of my past <lb n="333" ed="F1"/>endeavours; for then we |
| 702 |
<lb ed="G"/>wound our modesty and make <lb n="334" ed="F1"/>foul the clearness |
| 703 |
<lb ed="G"/>of our deservings, when of ourselves <lb n="335" ed="F1"/>we |
| 704 |
<lb ed="G"/>publish them. |
| 705 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="336" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 706 |
|
| 707 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> What does this knave here? Get |
| 708 |
<lb ed="G"/>you gone, <lb n="337" ed="F1"/>sirrah: the complaints I have heard |
| 709 |
<lb ed="G"/>of you I do not all believe; <lb n="338" ed="F1"/>'tis my slowness |
| 710 |
<lb ed="G"/>that I do not; for I know you <lb n="339" ed="F1"/>lack not folly |
| 711 |
<lb ed="G"/>to commit them, and have ability enough <lb n="340" ed="F1"/>to |
| 712 |
<lb ed="G"/>make such knaveries yours. |
| 713 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="341" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 714 |
|
| 715 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> 'Tis not unknown to you, madam, I |
| 716 |
<lb ed="G"/>am a poor <lb n="342" ed="F1"/>fellow. |
| 717 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="343" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 718 |
|
| 719 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Well, sir. |
| 720 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="344" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 721 |
|
| 722 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> No, madam, <lb n="345" ed="F1"/>'tis not so well that I am |
| 723 |
<lb ed="G"/>poor, though many <lb n="346" ed="F1"/>of the rich are damned: |
| 724 |
<lb ed="G"/>but, if I may have your ladyship's <lb n="347" ed="F1"/>good will to |
| 725 |
<lb ed="G"/>go to the world, Isbel the woman and I <lb n="348" ed="F1"/>will |
| 726 |
<lb n="21" ed="G"/>do as we may. |
| 727 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="349" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 728 |
|
| 729 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Wilt thou needs be a beggar? |
| 730 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="350" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 731 |
|
| 732 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> I do beg your good will in this case. |
| 733 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="351" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 734 |
|
| 735 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> In what case? |
| 736 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="352" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> In Isbel's case and mine own. Service |
| 737 |
<lb ed="G"/>is no heritage: <lb n="353" ed="F1"/>and I think I shall never have |
| 738 |
<lb ed="G"/>the blessing of God <lb n="354" ed="F1"/>till I have issue o' my |
| 739 |
<lb ed="G"/>body; for they say barnes are <lb n="355" ed="F1"/>blessings. |
| 740 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="356" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 741 |
|
| 742 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Tell me thy reason why thou wilt |
| 743 |
<lb n="29" ed="G"/>marry. |
| 744 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="357" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 745 |
|
| 746 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> My poor body, madam, requires it: I |
| 747 |
<lb ed="G"/>am driven <lb n="358" ed="F1"/>on by the flesh; and he must needs |
| 748 |
<lb ed="G"/>go that the devil <lb n="359" ed="F1"/>drives. |
| 749 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="360" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 750 |
|
| 751 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Is this all your worship's reason? |
| 752 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="361" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 753 |
|
| 754 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons, |
| 755 |
<lb ed="G"/>such as <lb n="362" ed="F1"/>they are. |
| 756 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="363" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 757 |
|
| 758 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> May the world know them? |
| 759 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="364" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 760 |
|
| 761 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> I have been, madam, a wicked creature, |
| 762 |
<lb ed="G"/>as you <lb n="365" ed="F1"/>and all flesh and blood are; and, |
| 763 |
<lb ed="G"/>indeed, I do marry that <lb n="366" ed="F1"/>I may repent. |
| 764 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="367" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 765 |
|
| 766 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Thy marriage, sooner than thy |
| 767 |
<lb n="41" ed="G"/>wickedness. |
| 768 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="368" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 769 |
|
| 770 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> I am out o' friends, madam; and I |
| 771 |
<lb ed="G"/>hope to have <lb n="369" ed="F1"/>friends for my wife's sake. |
| 772 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="370" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 773 |
|
| 774 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Such friends are thine enemies, knave. |
| 775 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="371" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 776 |
|
| 777 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> You're shallow, madam, in great |
| 778 |
<lb ed="G"/>friends; for the <lb n="372" ed="F1"/>knaves come to do that for |
| 779 |
<lb ed="G"/>me which I am aweary of. <lb n="373" ed="F1"/>He that ears my |
| 780 |
<lb ed="G"/>land spares my team and gives me <lb n="374" ed="F1"/>leave to in |
| 781 |
<lb ed="G"/>the crop; if I be his cuckold, he's my <lb n="375" ed="F1"/>drudge: |
| 782 |
<lb ed="G"/>he that comforts my wife is the cherisher of |
| 783 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="376" ed="F1"/>my flesh and blood; he that cherisheth my flesh |
| 784 |
<lb ed="G"/>and <lb n="377" ed="F1"/>blood loves my flesh and blood is my friend: ergo, |
| 785 |
<lb ed="G"/>blood; he that loves my flesh <lb n="378" ed="F1"/>and blood is |
| 786 |
<lb ed="G"/>he that kisses my wife is my <lb n="379" ed="F1"/>friend. If men |
| 787 |
<lb ed="G"/>could be contented to be what they are, |
| 788 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="380" ed="F1"/>there were no fear in marriage; for young Charbon |
| 789 |
<lb ed="G"/>the <lb n="381" ed="F1"/>Puritan and old Poysam the papist, howsome'er |
| 790 |
<lb ed="G"/>their <lb n="382" ed="F1"/>hearts are severed in religion, |
| 791 |
<lb ed="G"/>their heads are both one; <lb n="383" ed="F1"/>they may joul horns |
| 792 |
<lb ed="G"/>together, like any deer i' the herd. |
| 793 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="384" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 794 |
|
| 795 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouthed |
| 796 |
<lb n="61" ed="G"/>and calumnious <lb n="385" ed="F1"/>knave? |
| 797 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="386" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 798 |
|
| 799 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> A prophet I, madam; and I speak the |
| 800 |
<lb ed="G"/>the truth the <lb n="387" ed="F1"/>next way: |
| 801 |
<lb ed="G"/>For I the ballad will repeat, |
| 802 |
<lb ed="G"/>Which men full <lb n="388" ed="F1"/>true shall find; |
| 803 |
<lb ed="G"/>Your marriage comes by dest'ny, |
| 804 |
<lb ed="G"/>Your <lb n="389" ed="F1"/>cuckoo sings by kind. |
| 805 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="390" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 806 |
|
| 807 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Get you gone, sir; I'll talk with you |
| 808 |
<lb ed="G"/>more anon. |
| 809 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="391" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 810 |
|
| 811 |
<sp who="aww-13"><speaker>Stew.</speaker><p> May it please you, madam, that he |
| 812 |
<lb ed="G"/>bid Helen <lb n="392" ed="F1"/>come to you: of her I am to speak. |
| 813 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="393" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 814 |
|
| 815 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Sirrah, tell my gentlewoman I |
| 816 |
<lb ed="G"/>would speak with <lb n="394" ed="F1"/>her; Helen, I mean. |
| 817 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="395" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 818 |
|
| 819 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Was this fair face the cause, quoth she, |
| 820 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="396" ed="F1"/>Why the Grecians sacked Troy? |
| 821 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="397" ed="F1"/>Fond done, done fond, |
| 822 |
<lb ed="G"/>Was this King Priam's joy? |
| 823 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="398" ed="F1"/>With that she sighed as she stood, |
| 824 |
<lb ed="G"/>With that she sighed as she stood, |
| 825 |
<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="399" ed="F1"/>And gave this sentence then; |
| 826 |
<lb ed="G"/>Among nine bad if one be <lb n="400" ed="F1"/>good, |
| 827 |
<lb ed="G"/>Among nine bad if one be good, |
| 828 |
<lb ed="G"/>There's yet one <lb n="401" ed="F1"/>good in ten. |
| 829 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="402" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 830 |
|
| 831 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> What, one good in ten? you corrupt |
| 832 |
<lb ed="G"/>the song, <lb n="403" ed="F1"/>sirrah. |
| 833 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="404" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 834 |
|
| 835 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> One good woman in ten, madam; |
| 836 |
<lb ed="G"/>which is a purifying <lb n="405" ed="F1"/>o' the song: would God |
| 837 |
<lb ed="G"/>would serve the world so <lb n="406" ed="F1"/>all the year; we'ld |
| 838 |
<lb ed="G"/>find no fault with the tithe-woman, <lb n="407" ed="F1"/>if I were |
| 839 |
<lb ed="G"/>the parson. One in ten, quoth a'! An we |
| 840 |
<lb ed="G"/>might <lb n="408" ed="F1"/>have a good woman born but one every |
| 841 |
<lb ed="G"/>blazing star, <lb n="409" ed="F1"/>or at an earthquake, 'twould |
| 842 |
<lb ed="G"/>mend the lottery well: a <lb n="410" ed="F1"/>man may draw his |
| 843 |
<lb ed="G"/>heart out, ere a' pluck one. |
| 844 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="411" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 845 |
|
| 846 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> You'll be gone, sir knave, and do |
| 847 |
<lb ed="G"/>as I command <lb n="412" ed="F1"/>you. |
| 848 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="413" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 849 |
|
| 850 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> That man should be at woman's <reg orig="com-mand,">command,</reg> |
| 851 |
<lb ed="G"/>and <lb n="414" ed="F1"/>yet no hurt done! Though honesty |
| 852 |
<lb ed="G"/>be no puritan, yet <lb n="415" ed="F1"/>it will do no hurt; it |
| 853 |
<lb ed="G"/>will wear the surplice of humility <lb n="416" ed="F1"/>over the |
| 854 |
<lb ed="G"/>black gown of a big heart. I am going, <lb n="417" ed="F1"/>forsooth: |
| 855 |
<lb ed="G"/>the business is for Helen to come hither. |
| 856 |
<lb n="418" ed="F1"/><stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage> |
| 857 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="419" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 858 |
|
| 859 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Well, now. |
| 860 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="420" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 861 |
|
| 862 |
<sp who="aww-13"><speaker>Stew.</speaker><p> I know, madam, you love your gentlewoman |
| 863 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="421" ed="F1"/>entirely. |
| 864 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="422" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 865 |
|
| 866 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Faith, I do: her father bequeathed |
| 867 |
<lb ed="G"/>her to me; <lb n="423" ed="F1"/>and she herself, without other advantage, |
| 868 |
<lb ed="G"/>may lawfully <lb n="424" ed="F1"/>make title to as much |
| 869 |
<lb ed="G"/>love as she finds: there is <lb n="425" ed="F1"/>more owing her |
| 870 |
<lb ed="G"/>than is paid; and more shall be paid <lb n="426" ed="F1"/>her than |
| 871 |
<lb n="109" ed="G"/>she'll demand. |
| 872 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="427" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 873 |
|
| 874 |
<sp who="aww-13"><speaker>Stew.</speaker><p> Madam, I was very late more near |
| 875 |
<lb ed="G"/>her than <lb n="428" ed="F1"/>I think she wished me: alone she was, |
| 876 |
<lb ed="G"/>and did <lb n="429" ed="F1"/>communicate to herself her own words |
| 877 |
<lb ed="G"/>to her <lb n="430" ed="F1"/>own ears; she thought, I dare vow for |
| 878 |
<lb ed="G"/>her, they <lb n="431" ed="F1"/>touched not any stranger sense. Her |
| 879 |
<lb ed="G"/>matter was, she <lb n="432" ed="F1"/>loved your son: Fortune, she |
| 880 |
<lb ed="G"/>said, was no goddess, <lb n="433" ed="F1"/>that had put such difference |
| 881 |
<lb ed="G"/>betwixt their two <lb n="434" ed="F1"/>estates; Love no god, |
| 882 |
<lb ed="G"/>that would not extend his might, <lb n="435" ed="F1"/>only where |
| 883 |
<lb ed="G"/>qualities were level; Dian no queen of virgins, |
| 884 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="436" ed="F1"/>that would suffer her poor knight surprised, |
| 885 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="437" ed="F1"/>without rescue in the first assault or ransom |
| 886 |
<lb ed="G"/>afterward. <lb n="438" ed="F1"/>This she delivered in the most bitter |
| 887 |
<lb ed="G"/>touch of <lb n="439" ed="F1"/>sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim |
| 888 |
<lb ed="G"/>in: which I held <lb n="440" ed="F1"/>my duty speedily to acquaint |
| 889 |
<lb ed="G"/>you withal; sithence, in <lb n="441" ed="F1"/>the loss that |
| 890 |
<lb ed="G"/>may happen, it concerns you something <lb n="442" ed="F1"/>to |
| 891 |
<lb ed="G"/>know it. |
| 892 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="443" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 893 |
|
| 894 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> You have discharged this honestly; |
| 895 |
<lb ed="G"/>keep it <lb n="444" ed="F1"/>to yourself: many likelihoods informed |
| 896 |
<lb ed="G"/>me of this <lb n="445" ed="F1"/>before, which hung so tottering in |
| 897 |
<lb ed="G"/>the balance that <lb n="446" ed="F1"/>I could neither believe nor |
| 898 |
<lb ed="G"/>misdoubt. Pray you, <lb n="447" ed="F1"/>leave me: stall this in |
| 899 |
<lb ed="G"/>your bosom; and I thank <lb n="448" ed="F1"/>you for your honest |
| 900 |
<lb ed="G"/>care: I will speak with you further <lb n="449" ed="F1"/>anon. |
| 901 |
<stage type="exit">[Exit Steward.</stage> |
| 902 |
<lb n="450" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter HELENA.</stage> |
| 903 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="451" ed="F1"/>Even so it was with me when I was young: |
| 904 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="452" ed="F1"/>If ever we are nature's, these are ours; this thorn |
| 905 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="453" ed="F1"/>Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong; |
| 906 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="454" ed="F1"/> Our blood to us, this to our blood is born; |
| 907 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="455" ed="F1"/>It is the show and seal of nature's truth, |
| 908 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="456" ed="F1"/>Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth: |
| 909 |
<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="457" ed="F1"/>By our remembrances of days foregone, |
| 910 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="458" ed="F1"/>Such were our faults, or then we thought them none. |
| 911 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="459" ed="F1"/>Her eye is sick on 't: I observe her now. |
| 912 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="460" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 913 |
|
| 914 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>What is your pleasure, madam? |
| 915 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="461" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 916 |
|
| 917 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>You know, Helen, |
| 918 |
<lb ed="G"/>I am a mother to you. |
| 919 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="462" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 920 |
|
| 921 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Mine honourable mistress. |
| 922 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="463" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 923 |
|
| 924 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Nay, a mother: |
| 925 |
<lb ed="G"/>Why not a mother? When I <lb n="464" ed="F1"/>said 'a mother,' |
| 926 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="465" ed="F1"/>Methought you saw a serpent: what's in 'mother,' |
| 927 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="466" ed="F1"/>That you start at it? I say, I am your mother; |
| 928 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="467" ed="F1"/>And put you in the catalogue of those |
| 929 |
<lb n="150" ed="G"/><lb n="468" ed="F1"/>That were enwombed mine: 'tis often seen |
| 930 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="469" ed="F1"/>Adoption strives with nature and choice breeds |
| 931 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="470" ed="F1"/>A native slip to us from foreign seeds: |
| 932 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="471" ed="F1"/>You ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan, |
| 933 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="472" ed="F1"/>Yet I express to you a mother's care: |
| 934 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="473" ed="F1"/>God's mercy, maiden! does it curd thy blood |
| 935 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="474" ed="F1"/>To say I am thy mother? What's the matter, |
| 936 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="475" ed="F1"/>That this distemper'd messenger of wet |
| 937 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="476" ed="F1"/>The many-colour'd Iris, rounds thine eyes? |
| 938 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="477" ed="F1"/>Why? that you are my daughter? |
| 939 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="478" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 940 |
|
| 941 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>That I am not. |
| 942 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="479" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 943 |
|
| 944 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>I say, I am your mother. |
| 945 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="480" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 946 |
|
| 947 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Pardon, madam; |
| 948 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="481" ed="F1"/>The Count Rousillon cannot be my brother: |
| 949 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="482" ed="F1"/>I am from humble, he from honour'd name; |
| 950 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="483" ed="F1"/>No note upon my parents, his all noble: |
| 951 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="484" ed="F1"/>My master, my dear lord he is; and I |
| 952 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="485" ed="F1"/>His servant live, and will his vassal die: |
| 953 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="486" ed="F1"/>He must not be my brother. |
| 954 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="487" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 955 |
|
| 956 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Nor I your mother? |
| 957 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="488" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 958 |
|
| 959 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>You are my mother, madam; would you were,-- |
| 960 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="489" ed="F1"/>So that my lord your son were not my brother,-- |
| 961 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="490" ed="F1"/>Indeed my mother or were you both our mothers, |
| 962 |
<lb n="170" ed="G"/><lb n="491" ed="F1"/>I care no more for than I do for heaven, |
| 963 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="492" ed="F1"/>So I were not his sister. Can't no other, |
| 964 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="493" ed="F1"/>But, I your daughter, he must be my brother? |
| 965 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="494" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 966 |
|
| 967 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law: |
| 968 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="495" ed="F1"/>God shield you mean it not! daughter and mother |
| 969 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="496" ed="F1"/>So strive upon your pulse. What, pale again? |
| 970 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="497" ed="F1"/>My fear hath catch'd your fondness: now I see |
| 971 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="498" ed="F1"/>The mystery of your loneliness, and find |
| 972 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="499" ed="F1"/>Your salt tears' head: now to all sense 'tis gross |
| 973 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="500" ed="F1"/>You love my son; invention is ashamed, |
| 974 |
<lb n="180" ed="G"/><lb n="501" ed="F1"/>Against the proclamation of thy passion, |
| 975 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="502" ed="F1"/>To say thou dost not: therefore tell me true; |
| 976 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="503" ed="F1"/>But, tell me then, 'tis so; for, look, thy cheeks |
| 977 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="504" ed="F1"/>Confess it, th' one to th' other; and thine eyes |
| 978 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="505" ed="F1"/>See it so grossly shown in thy behaviours |
| 979 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="506" ed="F1"/>That in their kind they speak it: only sin |
| 980 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="507" ed="F1"/>And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue, |
| 981 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="508" ed="F1"/>That truth should be suspected. Speak, is 't so? |
| 982 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="509" ed="F1"/>If it be so, you have wound a goodly clew; |
| 983 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="510" ed="F1"/>If it be not, forswear 't: howe'er, I charge thee, |
| 984 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="511" ed="F1"/>As heaven shall work in me for thine avail, |
| 985 |
<lb n="191" ed="G"/><lb n="512" ed="F1"/>Tell me truly. |
| 986 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="513" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 987 |
|
| 988 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> Good madam, pardon me! |
| 989 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="514" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 990 |
|
| 991 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Do you love my son? |
| 992 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="515" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 993 |
|
| 994 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> Your pardon, noble mistress! |
| 995 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="516" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 996 |
|
| 997 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Love you my son? |
| 998 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="517" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 999 |
|
| 1000 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> Do not you love him, madam? |
| 1001 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="518" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1002 |
|
| 1003 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Go not about; my love hath in't a bond, |
| 1004 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="519" ed="F1"/>Whereof the world takes note: come, come, disclose |
| 1005 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="520" ed="F1"/>The state of your affection; for your passions |
| 1006 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="521" ed="F1"/>Have to the full appeach'd. |
| 1007 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="522" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1008 |
|
| 1009 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Then, I confess, |
| 1010 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="523" ed="F1"/>Here on my knee, before high heaven and you, |
| 1011 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="524" ed="F1"/>That before you, and next unto high heaven, |
| 1012 |
<lb n="200" ed="G"/>I love your <lb n="525" ed="F1"/>son. |
| 1013 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="526" ed="F1"/>My friends were poor, but honest; so's my love: |
| 1014 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="527" ed="F1"/>Be not offended; for it hurts not him |
| 1015 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="528" ed="F1"/>That he is loved of me: I follow him not |
| 1016 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="529" ed="F1"/>By any token of presumptuous suit; |
| 1017 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="530" ed="F1"/>Nor would I have him till I do deserve him; |
| 1018 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="531" ed="F1"/>Yet never know how that desert should be. |
| 1019 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="532" ed="F1"/>I know I love in vain, strive against hope; |
| 1020 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="533" ed="F1"/>Yet in this captious and intenible sieve |
| 1021 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="534" ed="F1"/>I still pour in the waters of my love |
| 1022 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="535" ed="F1"/>And lack not to lose still: thus, Indian-like, |
| 1023 |
<lb n="211" ed="G"/><lb n="536" ed="F1"/>Religious in mine error, I adore |
| 1024 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="537" ed="F1"/>The sun, that looks upon his worshipper, |
| 1025 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="538" ed="F1"/>But knows of him no more. My dearest madam, |
| 1026 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="539" ed="F1"/>Let not your hate encounter with my love |
| 1027 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="540" ed="F1"/>For loving where you do: but if yourself, |
| 1028 |
<lb n="220" ed="G"/><lb n="541" ed="F1"/>Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth, |
| 1029 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="542" ed="F1"/>Did ever in so true a flame of liking |
| 1030 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="543" ed="F1"/>Wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian |
| 1031 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="544" ed="F1"/>Was both herself and love; O, then, give pity |
| 1032 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="545" ed="F1"/>To her, whose state is such that cannot choose |
| 1033 |
<lb n="221" ed="G"/><lb n="546" ed="F1"/>But lend and give where she is sure to lose; |
| 1034 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="547" ed="F1"/>That seeks not to find that her search implies, |
| 1035 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="548" ed="F1"/>But riddle-like lives sweetly where she dies! |
| 1036 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="549" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1037 |
|
| 1038 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Had you not lately an intent, -- speak truly, -- |
| 1039 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="550" ed="F1"/>To go to Paris? |
| 1040 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="551" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1041 |
|
| 1042 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Madam, I had. |
| 1043 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="552" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1044 |
|
| 1045 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Wherefore? tell true. |
| 1046 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="553" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1047 |
|
| 1048 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>I will tell truth; by grace itself I swear. |
| 1049 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="554" ed="F1"/>You know my father left me some prescriptions |
| 1050 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="555" ed="F1"/>Of rare and proved effects, such as his reading |
| 1051 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="556" ed="F1"/>And manifest experience had collected |
| 1052 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="557" ed="F1"/>For general sovereignty; and that he will'd me |
| 1053 |
<lb n="231" ed="G"/><lb n="558" ed="F1"/>In heedfull'st reservation to bestow them, |
| 1054 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="559" ed="F1"/>As notes whose faculties inclusive were |
| 1055 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="560" ed="F1"/>More than they were in note: amongst the rest |
| 1056 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="561" ed="F1"/>There is a remedy, approved, set down, |
| 1057 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="562" ed="F1"/>To cure the desperate languishings whereof |
| 1058 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="563" ed="F1"/>The king is render'd lost. |
| 1059 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="564" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1060 |
|
| 1061 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>This was your motive |
| 1062 |
<lb ed="G"/>For Paris, was it? speak. |
| 1063 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="565" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1064 |
|
| 1065 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>My lord your son made me to think of this; |
| 1066 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="566" ed="F1"/>Else Paris and the medicine and the king |
| 1067 |
<lb n="240" ed="G"/><lb n="567" ed="F1"/>Had from the conversation of my thoughts |
| 1068 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="568" ed="F1"/>Haply been absent then. |
| 1069 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="569" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1070 |
|
| 1071 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>But think you, Helen, |
| 1072 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="570" ed="F1"/>If you should tender your supposed aid, |
| 1073 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="571" ed="F1"/>He would receive it? he and his physicians |
| 1074 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="572" ed="F1"/>Are of a mind; he, that they cannot help him, |
| 1075 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="573" ed="F1"/>They, that they cannot help: how shall they credit |
| 1076 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="574" ed="F1"/>A poor unlearned virgin, when the schools, |
| 1077 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="575" ed="F1"/>Embowell'd of their doctrine, have left off |
| 1078 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="576" ed="F1"/>The danger to itself? |
| 1079 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="577" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1080 |
|
| 1081 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>There's something in't, |
| 1082 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="578" ed="F1"/>More than my father's skill, which was the greatest |
| 1083 |
<lb n="250" ed="G"/><lb n="579" ed="F1"/>Of his profession, that his good receipt |
| 1084 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="580" ed="F1"/>Shall for my legacy be sanctified |
| 1085 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="581" ed="F1"/>By the luckiest stars in heaven: and, would your honour |
| 1086 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="582" ed="F1"/>But give me leave to try success, I'ld venture |
| 1087 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="583" ed="F1"/>The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure |
| 1088 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="584" ed="F1"/>By such a day and hour. |
| 1089 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="585" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1090 |
|
| 1091 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Dost thou believe it? |
| 1092 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="586" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1093 |
|
| 1094 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> Ay, madam, knowingly. |
| 1095 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="587" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1096 |
|
| 1097 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Why, Helen, thou shalt have my leave and love, |
| 1098 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="588" ed="F1"/>Means and attendants and my loving greetings |
| 1099 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="589" ed="F1"/>To those of mine in court: I'll stay at home |
| 1100 |
<lb n="260" ed="G"/><lb n="590" ed="F1"/>And pray God's blessing into thy attempt: |
| 1101 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="591" ed="F1"/>Be gone to-morrow; and be sure of this, |
| 1102 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="592" ed="F1"/>What I can help thee to thou shalt not miss. |
| 1103 |
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage> |
| 1104 |
|
| 1105 |
</p></sp> |
| 1106 |
|
| 1107 |
</div2> |
| 1108 |
</div1> |
| 1109 |
|
| 1110 |
<div1 n="2" type="act"> |
| 1111 |
<head>ACT II</head> |
| 1112 |
<lb n="593" ed="F1"/> |
| 1113 |
<div2 n="1" type="scene"> |
| 1114 |
<head>SCENE I</head> |
| 1115 |
<stage type="setting">Paris. The KING'S palace.</stage> |
| 1116 |
<stage>Flourish of cornets.</stage> |
| 1117 |
<lb n="594" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the KING, attended with divers young Lords taking leave for <lb n="595" ed="F1"/>the Florentine war; BERTRAM, and <lb n="596" ed="F1"/>PAROLLES.</stage> |
| 1118 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="597" ed="F1"/> |
| 1119 |
|
| 1120 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Farewell, young lords; these warlike principles |
| 1121 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="598" ed="F1"/>Do not throw from you: and you, my lords, farewell: |
| 1122 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="599" ed="F1"/>Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain, all |
| 1123 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="600" ed="F1"/>The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received, |
| 1124 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="601" ed="F1"/>And is enough for both. |
| 1125 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="602" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1126 |
|
| 1127 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p>'Tis our hope, sir, |
| 1128 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="603" ed="F1"/>After well enter'd soldiers, to return |
| 1129 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="604" ed="F1"/>And find your grace in health. |
| 1130 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="605" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1131 |
|
| 1132 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>No, no, it cannot be; and yet my heart |
| 1133 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="606" ed="F1"/>Will not confess he owes the malady |
| 1134 |
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="607" ed="F1"/>That doth my life besiege. Farewell, young lords; |
| 1135 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="608" ed="F1"/>Whether I live or die, be you the sons |
| 1136 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="609" ed="F1"/>Of worthy Frenchmen: let higher Italy,-- |
| 1137 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="610" ed="F1"/>Those bated that inherit but the fall |
| 1138 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="611" ed="F1"/>Of the last monarchy,--see that you come |
| 1139 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="612" ed="F1"/>Not to woo honour, but to wed it: when |
| 1140 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="613" ed="F1"/>The bravest questant shrinks, find what you seek, |
| 1141 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="614" ed="F1"/>That fame may cry you loud: I say, farewell. |
| 1142 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="615" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1143 |
|
| 1144 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> Health, at your bidding, serve your majesty! |
| 1145 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="616" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1146 |
|
| 1147 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Those girls of Italy, take heed of them: |
| 1148 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="617" ed="F1"/>They say, our French lack language to deny, |
| 1149 |
<lb n="21" ed="G"/><lb n="618" ed="F1"/>If they demand: beware of being captives, |
| 1150 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="619" ed="F1"/>Before you serve. |
| 1151 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="620" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1152 |
|
| 1153 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Both.</speaker><p>Our hearts receive your warnings. |
| 1154 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="621" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1155 |
|
| 1156 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Farewell. Come hither to me. |
| 1157 |
<stage type="exit">[Exit, attended.</stage> |
| 1158 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="622" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1159 |
|
| 1160 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> O my sweet lord, that you will stay behind us! |
| 1161 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="623" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1162 |
|
| 1163 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>'Tis not his fault, the spark. |
| 1164 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="624" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1165 |
|
| 1166 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p>O, 'tis brave wars! |
| 1167 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="625" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1168 |
|
| 1169 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Most admirable: I have seen those wars. |
| 1170 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="626" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1171 |
|
| 1172 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>I am commanded here, and kept a coil with |
| 1173 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="627" ed="F1"/>'Too young' and 'the next year' and 'tis too early.' |
| 1174 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="628" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1175 |
|
| 1176 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> An thy mind stand to't boy, <lb n="629" ed="F1"/>steal away bravely. |
| 1177 |
<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="630" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1178 |
|
| 1179 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock, |
| 1180 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="631" ed="F1"/>Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry, |
| 1181 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="632" ed="F1"/>Till honour be bought up and no sword worn |
| 1182 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="633" ed="F1"/>But one to dance with! By heaven, I'll steal away. |
| 1183 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="634" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1184 |
|
| 1185 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p>There's honour in the theft. |
| 1186 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="635" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1187 |
|
| 1188 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>Commit it, count. |
| 1189 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="636" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1190 |
|
| 1191 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> I am your accessary; and so, farewell. |
| 1192 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="637" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1193 |
|
| 1194 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> I grow to you, and our parting is a |
| 1195 |
<lb ed="G"/>tortured body. |
| 1196 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="638" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1197 |
|
| 1198 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> Farewell, captain. |
| 1199 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="639" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1200 |
|
| 1201 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> Sweet Monsieur Parolles! |
| 1202 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="640" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1203 |
|
| 1204 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Noble heroes, my sword and yours are |
| 1205 |
<lb ed="G"/>kin. <lb n="641" ed="F1"/>Good sparks and lustrous, a word, good |
| 1206 |
<lb ed="G"/>metals: you <lb n="642" ed="F1"/>shall find in the regiment of the |
| 1207 |
<lb ed="G"/>Spinii one Captain <lb n="643" ed="F1"/>Spurio, with his cicatrice, |
| 1208 |
<lb ed="G"/>an emblem of war, here on <lb n="644" ed="F1"/>his sinister cheek; |
| 1209 |
<lb ed="G"/>it was this very sword entrenched it: <lb n="645" ed="F1"/>say to |
| 1210 |
<lb ed="G"/>him, I live; and observe his reports for me. |
| 1211 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="646" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1212 |
|
| 1213 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p>We shall, noble captain. |
| 1214 |
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt Lords.</stage> |
| 1215 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="647" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1216 |
|
| 1217 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Mars dote on you for his novices! |
| 1218 |
<lb ed="G"/>what will <lb n="648" ed="F1"/>ye do? |
| 1219 |
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="649" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1220 |
|
| 1221 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> Stay: the king. |
| 1222 |
<stage type="entrance">Re-enter KING. BERTRAM and PAROLLES retire.</stage> |
| 1223 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="650" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1224 |
|
| 1225 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><stage>[To Ber.]</stage><p> Use a more spacious ceremony |
| 1226 |
<lb ed="G"/>to the noble <lb n="651" ed="F1"/>lords; you have restrained |
| 1227 |
<lb ed="G"/>yourself within the list of <lb n="652" ed="F1"/>too cold an adieu: |
| 1228 |
<lb ed="G"/>be more expressive to them: for they <lb n="653" ed="F1"/>wear |
| 1229 |
<lb ed="G"/>themselves in the cap of the time, there do |
| 1230 |
<lb ed="G"/>muster <lb n="654" ed="F1"/>true gait, eat, speak, and move under |
| 1231 |
<lb ed="G"/>the influence of <lb n="655" ed="F1"/>the most received star; and |
| 1232 |
<lb ed="G"/>though the devil lead the <lb n="656" ed="F1"/>measure, such are |
| 1233 |
<lb ed="G"/>to be followed: after them, and take a <lb n="657" ed="F1"/>more dilated |
| 1234 |
<lb ed="G"/>farewell. |
| 1235 |
<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="658" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1236 |
|
| 1237 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> And I will do so. |
| 1238 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="659" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1239 |
|
| 1240 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Worthy fellows; and like to prove |
| 1241 |
<lb ed="G"/>most sinewy <lb n="660" ed="F1"/>sword-men. |
| 1242 |
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt Bertram and Parolles.</stage> |
| 1243 |
<lb n="661" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter LAFEU.</stage> |
| 1244 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="662" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1245 |
|
| 1246 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><stage>[Kneeling.]</stage><p>Pardon, my lord, for me and for my tidings. |
| 1247 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="663" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1248 |
|
| 1249 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>I'll fee thee to stand up. |
| 1250 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="664" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1251 |
|
| 1252 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p>Then here's a man stands, that has brought his pardon. |
| 1253 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="665" ed="F1"/>I would you had kneel'd, my lord, to ask me mercy, |
| 1254 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="666" ed="F1"/>And that at my bidding you could so stand up. |
| 1255 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="667" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1256 |
|
| 1257 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>I would I had; so I had broke thy pate, |
| 1258 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="668" ed="F1"/>And ask'd thee mercy for't. |
| 1259 |
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="669" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1260 |
|
| 1261 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p>Good faith, across: but, my good lord, 'tis thus; |
| 1262 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="670" ed="F1"/>Will you be cured of your infirmity? |
| 1263 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="671" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1264 |
|
| 1265 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p> No. |
| 1266 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="672" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1267 |
|
| 1268 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p>O, will you eat no grapes, my royal fox? |
| 1269 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="673" ed="F1"/>Yes, but you will my noble grapes, an if |
| 1270 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="674" ed="F1"/>My royal fox could reach them: I have seen a medicine |
| 1271 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="675" ed="F1"/>That's able to breathe life into a stone, |
| 1272 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="676" ed="F1"/>Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary |
| 1273 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="677" ed="F1"/>With spritely fire and motion; whose simple touch |
| 1274 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="678" ed="F1"/>Is powerful to araise King Pepin, nay, |
| 1275 |
<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="679" ed="F1"/>To give great Charlemain a pen in's hand |
| 1276 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="680" ed="F1"/>And write to her a love-line. |
| 1277 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="681" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1278 |
|
| 1279 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>What 'her' is this? |
| 1280 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="682" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1281 |
|
| 1282 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p>Why, Doctor She: my lord, there's one arrived, |
| 1283 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="683" ed="F1"/>If you will see her: now, by my faith and honour, |
| 1284 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="684" ed="F1"/>If seriously I may convey my thoughts |
| 1285 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="685" ed="F1"/>In this my light deliverance, I have spoke |
| 1286 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="686" ed="F1"/>With one that, in her sex, her years, profession, |
| 1287 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="687"/>Wisdom and constancy, hath amazed me more |
| 1288 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="688" ed="F1"/>That I dare blame my weakness: will you see her, |
| 1289 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="689" ed="F1"/>For that is her demand, and know her business? |
| 1290 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="690" ed="F1"/>That done, laugh well at me. |
| 1291 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="691" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1292 |
|
| 1293 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Now, good Lafeu, |
| 1294 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="692" ed="F1"/>Bring in the admiration; that we with thee |
| 1295 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="693" ed="F1"/>May spend our wonder too, or take off thine |
| 1296 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="694" ed="F1"/>By wondering how thou took'st it. |
| 1297 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="695" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1298 |
|
| 1299 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p>Nay, I'll fit you, |
| 1300 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="696" ed="F1"/>And not be all day neither. <stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage> |
| 1301 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="697" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1302 |
|
| 1303 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Thus he his special nothing ever prologues. |
| 1304 |
<stage type="entrance">Re-enter LAFEU, with HELENA.</stage> |
| 1305 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="698" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1306 |
|
| 1307 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p>Nay, come your ways. |
| 1308 |
<lb n="699" ed="F1"/> |
| 1309 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="700" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1310 |
|
| 1311 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>This haste hath wings indeed. |
| 1312 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="701" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1313 |
|
| 1314 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p>Nay, come your ways; |
| 1315 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="702" ed="F1"/>This is his majesty; say your mind to him: |
| 1316 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="703" ed="F1"/>A traitor you do look like; but such traitors |
| 1317 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="704" ed="F1"/>His majesty seldom fears: I am Cressid's uncle, |
| 1318 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="705" ed="F1"/>That dare leave two together; fare you well. |
| 1319 |
<stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage> |
| 1320 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="706" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1321 |
|
| 1322 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p> Now, fair one, does your business follow us? |
| 1323 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="707" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1324 |
|
| 1325 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Ay, my good lord. |
| 1326 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="708" ed="F1"/>Gerard de Narbon was my father; |
| 1327 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="709" ed="F1"/>In what he did profess, well found. |
| 1328 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="710" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1329 |
|
| 1330 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>I knew him. |
| 1331 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="711" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1332 |
|
| 1333 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>The rather will I spare my praises towards him; |
| 1334 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="712" ed="F1"/>Knowing him is enough. On's bed of death |
| 1335 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="713" ed="F1"/>Many receipts he gave me; chiefly one, |
| 1336 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="714" ed="F1"/>Which, as the dearest issue of his practice, |
| 1337 |
<lb n="110" ed="G"/><lb n="715" ed="F1"/>And of his old experience the only darling, |
| 1338 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="716" ed="F1"/>He bade me store up, as a triple eye, |
| 1339 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="717" ed="F1"/>Safer than mine own two, more dear; I have so; |
| 1340 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="718" ed="F1"/>And, hearing your high majesty is touch'd |
| 1341 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="719" ed="F1"/>With that malignant cause wherein the honour |
| 1342 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="720" ed="F1"/>Of my dear father's gift stands chief in power, |
| 1343 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="721" ed="F1"/>I come to tender it and my appliance |
| 1344 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="722" ed="F1"/>With all bound humbleness. |
| 1345 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="723" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1346 |
|
| 1347 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>We thank you, maiden; |
| 1348 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="724" ed="F1"/>But may not be so credulous of cure, |
| 1349 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="725" ed="F1"/>When our most learned doctors leave us and |
| 1350 |
<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="726" ed="F1"/>The congregated college have concluded |
| 1351 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="727" ed="F1"/>That labouring art can never ransom nature |
| 1352 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="728" ed="F1"/>From her inaidible estate; I say we must not |
| 1353 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="729" ed="F1"/>So stain our judgement, or corrupt our hope, |
| 1354 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="730" ed="F1"/>To prostitute our past-cure malady |
| 1355 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="731" ed="F1"/>To empirics, or to dissever so |
| 1356 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="732" ed="F1"/>Our great self and our credit, to esteem |
| 1357 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="733" ed="F1"/>A senseless help which help past sense we deem. |
| 1358 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="734" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1359 |
|
| 1360 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>My duty then shall pay me for my pains: |
| 1361 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="735" ed="F1"/>I will no more enforce mine office on you; |
| 1362 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="736" ed="F1"/>Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts |
| 1363 |
<lb n="131" ed="G"/><lb n="737" ed="F1"/>A modest one, to bear me back again. |
| 1364 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="738" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1365 |
|
| 1366 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>I cannot give thee less, to be call'd grateful: |
| 1367 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="739" ed="F1"/>Thou thought'st to help me; and such thanks I give |
| 1368 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="740" ed="F1"/>As one near death to those that wish him live: |
| 1369 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="741" ed="F1"/>But what at full I know, thou know'st no part, |
| 1370 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="742" ed="F1"/>I knowing all my peril, thou no art. |
| 1371 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="743" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1372 |
|
| 1373 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>What I can do can do no hurt to try, |
| 1374 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="744" ed="F1"/>Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy. |
| 1375 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="745" ed="F1"/>He that of greatest works is finisher |
| 1376 |
<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="746" ed="F1"/>Oft does them by the weakest minister: |
| 1377 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="747" ed="F1"/>So holy writ in babes hath judgement shown, |
| 1378 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="748" ed="F1"/>When judges have been babes; great floods have flown |
| 1379 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="749" ed="F1"/>From simple sources, and great seas have dried |
| 1380 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="750" ed="F1"/>When miracles have by the greatest been denied. |
| 1381 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="751"/>Oft expectation fails and most oft there |
| 1382 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="752" ed="F1"/>Where most it promises, and oft it hits |
| 1383 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="753" ed="F1"/>Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. |
| 1384 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="754" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1385 |
|
| 1386 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>I must not hear thee; fare thee well, kind maid; |
| 1387 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="755" ed="F1"/>Thy pains not used must by thyself be paid: |
| 1388 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="756" ed="F1"/>Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward. |
| 1389 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="757" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1390 |
|
| 1391 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Inspired merit so by breath is barr'd: |
| 1392 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="758" ed="F1"/>It is not so with Him that all things knows |
| 1393 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="759" ed="F1"/>As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows; |
| 1394 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="760" ed="F1"/>But most it is presumption in us when |
| 1395 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="761" ed="F1"/>The help of heaven we count the act of men. |
| 1396 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="762" ed="F1"/>Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent; |
| 1397 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="763" ed="F1"/>Of heaven, not me, make an experiment. |
| 1398 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="764" ed="F1"/>I am not an impostor that proclaim |
| 1399 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="765" ed="F1"/>Myself against the level of mine aim; |
| 1400 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="766" ed="F1"/>But know I think and think I know most sure |
| 1401 |
<lb n="161" ed="G"/><lb n="767" ed="F1"/>My art is not past power nor you past cure. |
| 1402 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="768" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1403 |
|
| 1404 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Art thou so confident? within what space |
| 1405 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="769" ed="F1"/>Hopest thou my cure? |
| 1406 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="770" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1407 |
|
| 1408 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>The great'st grace lending grace, |
| 1409 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="771" ed="F1"/>Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring |
| 1410 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="772" ed="F1"/>Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring, |
| 1411 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="773" ed="F1"/>Ere twice in murk and occidental damp |
| 1412 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="774" ed="F1"/>Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp, |
| 1413 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="775" ed="F1"/>Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass |
| 1414 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="776" ed="F1"/>Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass. |
| 1415 |
<lb n="170" ed="G"/><lb n="777" ed="F1"/>What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly, |
| 1416 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="778" ed="F1"/>Health shall live free and sickness freely die. |
| 1417 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="779" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1418 |
|
| 1419 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Upon thy certainty and confidence |
| 1420 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="780" ed="F1"/>What darest thou venture? |
| 1421 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="781" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1422 |
|
| 1423 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Tax of impudence, |
| 1424 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="782" ed="F1"/>A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame |
| 1425 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="783" ed="F1"/>Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name |
| 1426 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="784" ed="F1"/>Sear'd otherwise; nay, worse--if worse--extended |
| 1427 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="785"/>With vilest torture let my life be ended. |
| 1428 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="786" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1429 |
|
| 1430 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak |
| 1431 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="787" ed="F1"/>His powerful sound within an organ weak: |
| 1432 |
<lb n="180" ed="G"/><lb n="788" ed="F1"/>And what impossibility would slay |
| 1433 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="789" ed="F1"/>In common sense, sense saves another way. |
| 1434 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="790" ed="F1"/>Thy life 's dear; for all that life can rate |
| 1435 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="791" ed="F1"/>Worth name of life in thee hath estimate, |
| 1436 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="792" ed="F1"/>Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all |
| 1437 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="793" ed="F1"/>That happiness and prime can happy call: |
| 1438 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="794" ed="F1"/>Thou this to hazard needs and must intimate |
| 1439 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="795" ed="F1"/>Skill infinite or monstrous desperate. |
| 1440 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="796" ed="F1"/>Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try, |
| 1441 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="797" ed="F1"/>That ministers thine own death if I die. |
| 1442 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="798" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1443 |
|
| 1444 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>If I break time, or flinch in property |
| 1445 |
<lb n="191" ed="G"/><lb n="799" ed="F1"/>Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die, |
| 1446 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="800" ed="F1"/>And well deserved: not helping, death's my fee; |
| 1447 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="801" ed="F1"/>But, if help, what do you promise me? |
| 1448 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="802" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1449 |
|
| 1450 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Make thy demand. |
| 1451 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="803" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1452 |
|
| 1453 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>But will you make it even? |
| 1454 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="804" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1455 |
|
| 1456 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p> Ay, by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven. |
| 1457 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="805" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1458 |
|
| 1459 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand |
| 1460 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="806" ed="F1"/>What husband in thy power I will command: |
| 1461 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="807" ed="F1"/>Exempted be from me the arrogance |
| 1462 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="808" ed="F1"/>To choose from forth the royal blood of France, |
| 1463 |
<lb n="200" ed="G"/><lb n="809" ed="F1"/>My low and humble name to propagate |
| 1464 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="810" ed="F1"/>With any branch or image of thy state; |
| 1465 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="811" ed="F1"/>But such a one, thy vassal, whom I know |
| 1466 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="812" ed="F1"/>Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow. |
| 1467 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="813" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1468 |
|
| 1469 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Here is my hand; the premises observed, |
| 1470 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="814"/>Thy will by my performance shall be served: |
| 1471 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="815" ed="F1"/>So make the choice of thy own time, for I, |
| 1472 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="816" ed="F1"/>Thy resolved patient, on thee still rely. |
| 1473 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="817" ed="F1"/>More should I question thee, and more I must, |
| 1474 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="818" ed="F1"/>Though more to know could not be more to trust, |
| 1475 |
<lb n="210" ed="G"/><lb n="819" ed="F1"/>From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest |
| 1476 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="820" ed="F1"/>Unquestion'd welcome and undoubted blest. |
| 1477 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="821" ed="F1"/>Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed |
| 1478 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="822" ed="F1"/>As high as word, my deed shall match thy meed. |
| 1479 |
<lb n="823" ed="F1"/><stage>[Flourish.</stage><stage type="exit">Exeunt.</stage></p></sp></div2> |
| 1480 |
|
| 1481 |
<div2 n="2" type="scene"> |
| 1482 |
<head>SCENE II</head> |
| 1483 |
<stage type="setting">Rousillon. The COUNT'S palace.</stage> |
| 1484 |
<lb n="824" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter COUNTESS and CLOWN.</stage> |
| 1485 |
|
| 1486 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="825" ed="F1"/> |
| 1487 |
|
| 1488 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Come on, sir; I shall now put you |
| 1489 |
<lb ed="G"/>to the height <lb n="826" ed="F1"/>of your breeding. |
| 1490 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="827" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1491 |
|
| 1492 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> I will show myself highly fed and |
| 1493 |
<lb ed="G"/>lowly <lb n="828" ed="F1"/>taught: I know my business is but to the |
| 1494 |
<lb ed="G"/>court. |
| 1495 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="829" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1496 |
|
| 1497 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> To the court! why, what place |
| 1498 |
<lb ed="G"/>make you special, <lb n="830" ed="F1"/>when you put off that with |
| 1499 |
<lb ed="G"/>such contempt? But to <lb n="831" ed="F1"/>the court! |
| 1500 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="832" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1501 |
|
| 1502 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> Truly, madam, if God have lent a |
| 1503 |
<lb ed="G"/>man any manners, <lb n="833" ed="F1"/>he may easily put it off at |
| 1504 |
<lb ed="G"/>court: he that cannot <lb n="834" ed="F1"/>make a leg, put off's |
| 1505 |
<lb ed="G"/>cap, kiss his hand and say nothing, <lb n="835" ed="F1"/>has neither |
| 1506 |
<lb ed="G"/>leg, hands, lip, nor cap; and indeed <lb n="836" ed="F1"/>such a |
| 1507 |
<lb ed="G"/>fellow, to say precisely, were not for the <lb n="837" ed="F1"/>court; |
| 1508 |
<lb ed="G"/>but for me, I have an answer will serve all |
| 1509 |
<lb ed="G"/>men. |
| 1510 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="838" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1511 |
|
| 1512 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Marry, that's a bountiful answer |
| 1513 |
<lb ed="G"/>that fits all <lb n="839" ed="F1"/>questions. |
| 1514 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="840" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1515 |
|
| 1516 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> It is like a barber's chair that fits all |
| 1517 |
<lb ed="G"/>buttocks, <lb n="841" ed="F1"/>the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, |
| 1518 |
<lb ed="G"/>the brawn buttock, <lb n="842" ed="F1"/>or any buttock. |
| 1519 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="843" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1520 |
|
| 1521 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Will your answer serve fit to all |
| 1522 |
<lb n="21" ed="G"/>questions? |
| 1523 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="844" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1524 |
|
| 1525 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> As fit as ten groats is for the hand of |
| 1526 |
<lb ed="G"/>an attorney, <lb n="845" ed="F1"/>as your French crown for your |
| 1527 |
<lb ed="G"/>taffeta punk, as <lb n="846" ed="F1"/>Tib's rush for Tom's <reg orig="fore-finger,">forefinger,</reg> |
| 1528 |
<lb ed="G"/>as a pancake for Shrove <lb n="847" ed="F1"/>Tuesday, a morris |
| 1529 |
<lb ed="G"/>for May-day, as the nail to his hole, <lb n="848" ed="F1"/>the |
| 1530 |
<lb ed="G"/>cuckold to his horn, as a scolding quean to a |
| 1531 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="849" ed="F1"/>wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the friar's |
| 1532 |
<lb ed="G"/>mouth, <lb n="850" ed="F1"/>nay, as the pudding to his skin. |
| 1533 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="851" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1534 |
|
| 1535 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Have you, I say, an answer of such |
| 1536 |
<lb n="31" ed="G"/>fitness for <lb n="852" ed="F1"/>all questions? |
| 1537 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="853" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1538 |
|
| 1539 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> From below your duke to beneath |
| 1540 |
<lb ed="G"/>your constable, <lb n="854" ed="F1"/>it will fit any question. |
| 1541 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="855" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1542 |
|
| 1543 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> It must be an answer of most <reg orig="mon-strous">monstrous</reg> |
| 1544 |
<lb ed="G"/>size <lb n="856" ed="F1"/>that must fit all demands. |
| 1545 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="857" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1546 |
|
| 1547 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> But a trifle neither, in good faith, if |
| 1548 |
<lb ed="G"/>the learned <lb n="858" ed="F1"/>should speak truth of it: here it |
| 1549 |
<lb ed="G"/>is, and all that belongs <lb n="859" ed="F1"/>to 't. Ask me if I am a |
| 1550 |
<lb n="39" ed="G"/>courtier: it shall do you no <lb n="860" ed="F1"/>harm to learn. |
| 1551 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="861" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1552 |
|
| 1553 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> To be young again, if we could: I |
| 1554 |
<lb ed="G"/>will be a <lb n="862" ed="F1"/>fool in question, hoping to be the |
| 1555 |
<lb ed="G"/>wiser by your <lb n="863" ed="F1"/>answer. <lb n="864" ed="F1"/>I pray you, sir, are |
| 1556 |
<lb ed="G"/>you a courtier? |
| 1557 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="865" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1558 |
|
| 1559 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> O Lord, sir! There's a simple putting |
| 1560 |
<lb ed="G"/>off. More, <lb n="866" ed="F1"/>more, a hundred of them. |
| 1561 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="867" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1562 |
|
| 1563 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, |
| 1564 |
<lb ed="G"/>that loves you. |
| 1565 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="868" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1566 |
|
| 1567 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> O Lord, sir! Thick, thick, spare not me. |
| 1568 |
|
| 1569 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="869" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1570 |
|
| 1571 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> I think, sir, you can eat none of |
| 1572 |
<lb ed="G"/>this homely <lb n="870" ed="F1"/>meat. |
| 1573 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="871" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1574 |
|
| 1575 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> O Lord, sir! Nay, put me to't, I warrant you. |
| 1576 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="872" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1577 |
|
| 1578 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> You were lately whipped, sir, as I think. |
| 1579 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="873" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1580 |
|
| 1581 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> O Lord, sir! spare not me. |
| 1582 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="874" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1583 |
|
| 1584 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Do not cry, 'O Lord, sir!' at your |
| 1585 |
<lb ed="G"/>whipping, and <lb n="875" ed="F1"/>'spare not me'? Indeed your |
| 1586 |
<lb ed="G"/>'O Lord, sir! ' is very sequent <lb n="876" ed="F1"/>to your <reg orig="whip-ping:">whipping:</reg> |
| 1587 |
<lb ed="G"/>you would answer very well to a <lb n="877" ed="F1"/>whipping, |
| 1588 |
<lb ed="G"/>if you were but bound to't. |
| 1589 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="878" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1590 |
|
| 1591 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> I ne'er had worse luck in my life in |
| 1592 |
<lb ed="G"/>my 'O Lord, <lb n="879" ed="F1"/>sir!' I see things may serve |
| 1593 |
<lb n="61" ed="G"/>long, but not serve ever. |
| 1594 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="880" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1595 |
|
| 1596 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>I play the noble housewife with the time, |
| 1597 |
<lb ed="G"/>To entertain <lb n="881" ed="F1"/>'t so merrily with a fool. |
| 1598 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="882" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1599 |
|
| 1600 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> O Lord, sir! why, there't serves well again. |
| 1601 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="883" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1602 |
|
| 1603 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>An end, sir; to your business. Give Helen this, |
| 1604 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="884" ed="F1"/>And urge her to a present answer back: |
| 1605 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="885" ed="F1"/>Commend me to my kinsmen and my son: |
| 1606 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="886" ed="F1"/>This is not much. |
| 1607 |
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="887" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1608 |
|
| 1609 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> Not much commendation to them. |
| 1610 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="888" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1611 |
|
| 1612 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Not much employment for you: |
| 1613 |
<lb ed="G"/>you understand <lb n="889" ed="F1"/>me? |
| 1614 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="890" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1615 |
|
| 1616 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> Most fruitfully: I am there before my legs. |
| 1617 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="891" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1618 |
|
| 1619 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Haste you again. <stage type="exit">[Exeunt severally.</stage></p></sp></div2> |
| 1620 |
|
| 1621 |
<div2 n="3" type="scene"> |
| 1622 |
<head>SCENE III</head> |
| 1623 |
<stage type="setting">Paris. The KING'S palace.</stage> |
| 1624 |
<lb n="892" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES.</stage> |
| 1625 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="893" ed="F1"/> |
| 1626 |
|
| 1627 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> They say miracles are past; and we |
| 1628 |
<lb ed="G"/>have our <lb n="894" ed="F1"/>philosophical persons, to make <reg orig="mod-ern">modern</reg> |
| 1629 |
<lb ed="G"/>and familiar, <lb n="895" ed="F1"/>things supernatural and |
| 1630 |
<lb ed="G"/>causeless. Hence it is that we <lb n="896" ed="F1"/>make trifles of |
| 1631 |
<lb ed="G"/>terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming |
| 1632 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="897" ed="F1"/>knowledge, when we should submit ourselves |
| 1633 |
<lb ed="G"/>to <lb n="898" ed="F1"/>an unknown fear. |
| 1634 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="899" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1635 |
|
| 1636 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Why, 'tis the rarest argument of <reg orig="won-der">wonder</reg> |
| 1637 |
<lb ed="G"/>that <lb n="900" ed="F1"/>hath shot out in our latter times. |
| 1638 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="901" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1639 |
|
| 1640 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> And so 'tis. |
| 1641 |
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="902" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1642 |
|
| 1643 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> To be relinquished of the artists,-- |
| 1644 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="903" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1645 |
|
| 1646 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> So I say. |
| 1647 |
<lb ed="G"/></p></sp> |
| 1648 |
|
| 1649 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Both of Galen and Paracelsus. |
| 1650 |
<lb ed="G"/></p></sp> |
| 1651 |
|
| 1652 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> So I say. |
| 1653 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="904" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1654 |
|
| 1655 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Of all the learned and authentic fellows,-- |
| 1656 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="905" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1657 |
|
| 1658 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Right; so I say. |
| 1659 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="906" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1660 |
|
| 1661 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> That gave him out incurable,-- |
| 1662 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="907" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1663 |
|
| 1664 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Why, there 'tis; so say I too. |
| 1665 |
|
| 1666 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="908" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1667 |
|
| 1668 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Not to be helped,-- |
| 1669 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="909" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1670 |
|
| 1671 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Right: as 'twere, a man assured of a-- |
| 1672 |
<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="910" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1673 |
|
| 1674 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Uncertain life, and sure death. |
| 1675 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="911" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1676 |
|
| 1677 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Just, you say well; so would I have said. |
| 1678 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="912" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1679 |
|
| 1680 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world. |
| 1681 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="913" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1682 |
|
| 1683 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> It is, indeed: if you will have it in |
| 1684 |
<lb ed="G"/>showing, you <lb n="914" ed="F1"/>shall read it in--what do ye |
| 1685 |
<lb ed="G"/>call there? |
| 1686 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="915" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1687 |
|
| 1688 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> A showing of a heavenly effect in an |
| 1689 |
<lb ed="G"/>earthly <lb n="916" ed="F1"/>actor. |
| 1690 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="917" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1691 |
|
| 1692 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> That's it; I would have said the very |
| 1693 |
<lb n="30" ed="G"/>same. |
| 1694 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="918" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1695 |
|
| 1696 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p>Why, your dolphin is not lustier: |
| 1697 |
<lb ed="G"/>'fore me, <lb n="919" ed="F1"/>I speak in respect-- |
| 1698 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="920" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1699 |
|
| 1700 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, |
| 1701 |
<lb ed="G"/>that is the <lb n="921" ed="F1"/>brief and the tedious of it; and |
| 1702 |
<lb ed="G"/>he's of a most facinerious <lb n="922" ed="F1"/>spirit that will not |
| 1703 |
<lb ed="G"/>acknowledge it to be the-- |
| 1704 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="923" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1705 |
|
| 1706 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Very hand of heaven. |
| 1707 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="924" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1708 |
|
| 1709 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Ay, so I say. |
| 1710 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="925" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1711 |
|
| 1712 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> In a most weak--<stage>[pausing]</stage><lb n="926" ed="F1"/>and debile |
| 1713 |
<lb ed="G"/>minister, great power, great transcendence: |
| 1714 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="927" ed="F1"/>which should, indeed, give us a further use to |
| 1715 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="928" ed="F1"/>be made than alone the recovery of the king, |
| 1716 |
<lb ed="G"/>as to be--<stage>[pausing]</stage><lb n="929" ed="F1"/>generally thankful. |
| 1717 |
<lb n="930" ed="F1"/> |
| 1718 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="931" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1719 |
|
| 1720 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>I would have said it; you say well. |
| 1721 |
<lb ed="G"/>Here comes <lb n="932" ed="F1"/>the king. |
| 1722 |
<stage type="entrance">Enter KING, HELENA, and Attendants.</stage> |
| 1723 |
<stage>LAFEU and PAROLLES retire.</stage> |
| 1724 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="933" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1725 |
|
| 1726 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Lustig, as the Dutchman says: I'll |
| 1727 |
<lb ed="G"/>like a <lb n="934" ed="F1"/>maid the better, whilst I have a tooth in |
| 1728 |
<lb ed="G"/>my head: why, <lb n="935" ed="F1"/>he's able to lead her a coranto. |
| 1729 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="936" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1730 |
|
| 1731 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Mort du vinaigre! is not this Helen? |
| 1732 |
<lb n="51" ed="G"/><lb n="937" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1733 |
|
| 1734 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> 'Fore God, I think so. |
| 1735 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="938" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1736 |
|
| 1737 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p> Go, call before me all the lords in court. |
| 1738 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="939" ed="F1"/>Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side; |
| 1739 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="940" ed="F1"/>And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense |
| 1740 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="941" ed="F1"/>Thou hast repeal'd, a second time receive |
| 1741 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="942" ed="F1"/>The confirmation of my promised gift, |
| 1742 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="943" ed="F1"/>Which but attends thy naming. |
| 1743 |
<lb n="944" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter three or four Lords.</stage> |
| 1744 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="945" ed="F1"/>Fair maid, send forth thine eye: this youthful parcel |
| 1745 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="946" ed="F1"/>Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing, |
| 1746 |
<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="947" ed="F1"/>O'er whom both sovereign power and father's voice |
| 1747 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="948" ed="F1"/>I have to use: thy frank election make; |
| 1748 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="949" ed="F1"/>Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake. |
| 1749 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="950" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1750 |
|
| 1751 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress |
| 1752 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="951" ed="F1"/>Fall, when Love please marry, to each, but one! |
| 1753 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="952" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1754 |
|
| 1755 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p>I'ld give bay Curtal and his furniture, |
| 1756 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="953" ed="F1"/>My mouth no more were broken than these boys', |
| 1757 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="954" ed="F1"/>And writ as little beard. |
| 1758 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="955" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1759 |
|
| 1760 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Peruse them well: |
| 1761 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="956" ed="F1"/>Not one of those but had a noble father. |
| 1762 |
<lb n="957" ed="F1"/> |
| 1763 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="958" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1764 |
|
| 1765 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Gentlemen, |
| 1766 |
<lb n="70" ed="G"/>Heaven hath through me restored <lb n="959" ed="F1"/>the king to health. |
| 1767 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="960" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1768 |
|
| 1769 |
<sp who="aww-0"><speaker>All.</speaker><p> We understand it, and thank heaven for you. |
| 1770 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="961" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1771 |
|
| 1772 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest, |
| 1773 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="962" ed="F1"/>That I protest I simply am a maid. |
| 1774 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="963" ed="F1"/>Please it your majesty, I have done already: |
| 1775 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="964" ed="F1"/>The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me, |
| 1776 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="965" ed="F1"/>'We blush that thou shouldst choose; but, be refused, |
| 1777 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="966" ed="F1"/>Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever; |
| 1778 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="967" ed="F1"/>We'll ne'er come there again.' |
| 1779 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="968" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1780 |
|
| 1781 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Make choice; and, see |
| 1782 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="969" ed="F1"/>Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me. |
| 1783 |
<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="970" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1784 |
|
| 1785 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly, |
| 1786 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="971" ed="F1"/>And to imperial Love, that god most high, |
| 1787 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="972" ed="F1"/>Do my sighs stream. Sir, will you hear my suit? |
| 1788 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="973" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1789 |
|
| 1790 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p>And grant it. |
| 1791 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="974" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1792 |
|
| 1793 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute. |
| 1794 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="975" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1795 |
|
| 1796 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> I had rather be in this choice than |
| 1797 |
<lb ed="G"/>throw <lb n="976" ed="F1"/>ames-ace for my life. |
| 1798 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="977" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1799 |
|
| 1800 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>The honour, sir, that flames in your fair eyes, |
| 1801 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="978" ed="F1"/>Before I speak, too threateningly replies: |
| 1802 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="979" ed="F1"/>Love make your fortunes twenty times above |
| 1803 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="980" ed="F1"/>Her that so wishes and her humble love! |
| 1804 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="981" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1805 |
|
| 1806 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p>No better, if you please. |
| 1807 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="982" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1808 |
|
| 1809 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>My wish receive, |
| 1810 |
<lb n="91" ed="G"/><lb n="983" ed="F1"/>Which great Love grant! and so, I take my |
| 1811 |
<lb ed="G"/>leave. |
| 1812 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="984" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1813 |
|
| 1814 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Do all they deny her? An they were |
| 1815 |
<lb ed="G"/>sons <lb n="985" ed="F1"/>of mine, I'd have them whipped; or I |
| 1816 |
<lb ed="G"/>would send them <lb n="986" ed="F1"/>to the Turk to make eunuchs |
| 1817 |
<lb ed="G"/>of. |
| 1818 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="987" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1819 |
|
| 1820 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Be not afraid that I your hand should take; |
| 1821 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="988" ed="F1"/>I'll never do you wrong for your own sake: |
| 1822 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="989" ed="F1"/>Blessing upon your vows! and in your bed |
| 1823 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="990" ed="F1"/>Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed! |
| 1824 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="991" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1825 |
|
| 1826 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> These boys are boys of ice, they'll |
| 1827 |
<lb ed="G"/>none <lb n="992" ed="F1"/>have her: sure, they are bastards to the |
| 1828 |
<lb n="101" ed="G"/>English; the <lb n="993" ed="F1"/>French ne'er got 'em. |
| 1829 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="994" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1830 |
|
| 1831 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>You are too young, too happy, and too good, |
| 1832 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="995" ed="F1"/>To make yourself a son out of my blood. |
| 1833 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="996" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1834 |
|
| 1835 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Fourth Lord.</speaker><p> Fair one, I think not so. |
| 1836 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="997" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1837 |
|
| 1838 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> There's one grape yet; I am sure thy |
| 1839 |
<lb ed="G"/>father <lb n="998" ed="F1"/>drunk wine; but if thou be'st not an |
| 1840 |
<lb ed="G"/>ass, I am a youth <lb n="999" ed="F1"/>of fourteen; I have known |
| 1841 |
<lb ed="G"/>thee already. |
| 1842 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1000" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1843 |
|
| 1844 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>I dare not say I take you; but I give |
| 1845 |
<lb n="110" ed="G"/><lb n="1001" ed="F1"/>Me and my service, ever whilst I live, |
| 1846 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1002" ed="F1"/>Into your guiding power. This is the man. |
| 1847 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1003" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1848 |
|
| 1849 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p> Why, then, young Bertram, take her; she's thy <lb n="1004" ed="F1"/>wife. |
| 1850 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1005" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1851 |
|
| 1852 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>My wife, my liege! I shall beseech your highness, |
| 1853 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1006" ed="F1"/>In such a business give me leave to use |
| 1854 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1007" ed="F1"/>The help of mine own eyes. |
| 1855 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1008" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1856 |
|
| 1857 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Know'st thou not, Bertram, |
| 1858 |
<lb ed="G"/>What she has <lb n="1009" ed="F1"/>done for me? |
| 1859 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1010" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1860 |
|
| 1861 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Yes, my good lord; |
| 1862 |
<lb ed="G"/>But never hope to know <lb n="1011" ed="F1"/>why I should marry her. |
| 1863 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1012" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1864 |
|
| 1865 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p> Thou know'st she has raised me |
| 1866 |
<lb ed="G"/>from my sickly <lb n="1013" ed="F1"/>bed. |
| 1867 |
<lb n="119" ed="G"/><lb n="1014" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1868 |
|
| 1869 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>But follows it, my lord, to bring me down |
| 1870 |
<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="1015" ed="F1"/>Must answer for your raising? I know her well: |
| 1871 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1016" ed="F1"/>She had her breeding at my father's charge. |
| 1872 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1017" ed="F1"/>A poor physician's daughter my wife! Disdain |
| 1873 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1018" ed="F1"/>Rather corrupt me ever! |
| 1874 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1019" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1875 |
|
| 1876 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the which |
| 1877 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1020" ed="F1"/>I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods, |
| 1878 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1021" ed="F1"/>Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together, |
| 1879 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1022" ed="F1"/>Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off |
| 1880 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1023" ed="F1"/>In differences so mighty. If she be |
| 1881 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1024" ed="F1"/>All that is virtuous, save what thou dislikest, |
| 1882 |
<lb n="130" ed="G"/><lb n="1025" ed="F1"/>A poor physician's daughter, thou dislikest |
| 1883 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1026" ed="F1"/>Of virtue for the name: but do not so: |
| 1884 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1027" ed="F1"/>From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, |
| 1885 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1028"/>The place is dignified by the doer's deed: |
| 1886 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1029" ed="F1"/>Where great additions swell's, and virtue none, |
| 1887 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1030" ed="F1"/>It is a dropsied honour. Good alone |
| 1888 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1031" ed="F1"/>Is good without a name. Vileness is so: |
| 1889 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1032" ed="F1"/>The property by what it is should go, |
| 1890 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1033" ed="F1"/>Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair; |
| 1891 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1034" ed="F1"/>In these to nature she's immediate heir, |
| 1892 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1035" ed="F1"/>And these breed honour: that is honour's scorn, |
| 1893 |
<lb n="141" ed="G"/><lb n="1036" ed="F1"/>Which challenges itself as honour's born |
| 1894 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1037" ed="F1"/>And is not like the sire: honours thrive, |
| 1895 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1038" ed="F1"/>When rather from our acts we them derive |
| 1896 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1039" ed="F1"/>Than our foregoers: the mere word's a slave |
| 1897 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1040" ed="F1"/>Debosh'd on every tomb; on every grave |
| 1898 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1041" ed="F1"/>A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb |
| 1899 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1042" ed="F1"/>Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb |
| 1900 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1043" ed="F1"/>Of honour'd bones indeed. What should be said? |
| 1901 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1044" ed="F1"/>If thou canst like this creature as a maid, |
| 1902 |
<lb n="150" ed="G"/><lb n="1045" ed="F1"/>I can create the rest: virtue and she |
| 1903 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1046" ed="F1"/>Is her own dower; honour and wealth from me. |
| 1904 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1047" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1905 |
|
| 1906 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> I cannot love her, nor will strive to do't. |
| 1907 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1048" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1908 |
|
| 1909 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p> Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou shouldst strive <lb n="1049" ed="F1"/>to choose. |
| 1910 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1050" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1911 |
|
| 1912 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>That you are well restored, my lord, I'm glad: |
| 1913 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1051" ed="F1"/>Let the rest go. |
| 1914 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1052" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1915 |
|
| 1916 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>My honour's at the stake; which to defeat, |
| 1917 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1053" ed="F1"/>I must produce my power. Here, take her hand, |
| 1918 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1054" ed="F1"/>Proud, scornful boy, unworthy this good gift; |
| 1919 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1055" ed="F1"/>Thou dost in vile misprision shackle up |
| 1920 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1056" ed="F1"/>My love and her desert; that canst not dream, |
| 1921 |
<lb n="161" ed="G"/><lb n="1057" ed="F1"/>We, poising us in her defective scale, |
| 1922 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1058" ed="F1"/>Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know, |
| 1923 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1059" ed="F1"/>It is in us to plant thine honour where |
| 1924 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1060" ed="F1"/>We please to have it grow. Check thy contempt: |
| 1925 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1061" ed="F1"/>Obey our will, which travails in thy good: |
| 1926 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1062" ed="F1"/>Believe not thy disdain, but presently |
| 1927 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1063" ed="F1"/>Do thine own fortunes that obedient right |
| 1928 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1064" ed="F1"/>Which both thy duty owes and our power claims; |
| 1929 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1065" ed="F1"/>Or I will throw thee from my care for ever |
| 1930 |
<lb n="170" ed="G"/><lb n="1066" ed="F1"/>Into the staggers and the careless lapse |
| 1931 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1067" ed="F1"/>Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate |
| 1932 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1068" ed="F1"/>Loosing upon thee, in the name of justice, |
| 1933 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1069" ed="F1"/>Without all terms of pity. Speak; thine answer. |
| 1934 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1070" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1935 |
|
| 1936 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Pardon, my gracious lord; for I submit |
| 1937 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1071" ed="F1"/>My fancy to your eyes: when I consider |
| 1938 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1072" ed="F1"/>What great creation and what dole of honour |
| 1939 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1073" ed="F1"/>Flies where you bid it, I find that she, which late |
| 1940 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1074" ed="F1"/>Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now |
| 1941 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1075" ed="F1"/>The praised of the king; who, so ennobled, |
| 1942 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1076" ed="F1"/>Is as 'twere born so. |
| 1943 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1077" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1944 |
|
| 1945 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Take her by the hand, |
| 1946 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1078" ed="F1"/>And tell her she is thine; to whom I promise |
| 1947 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1079" ed="F1"/>A counterpoise, if not to thy estate |
| 1948 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1080" ed="F1"/>A balance more replete. |
| 1949 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1081" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1950 |
|
| 1951 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>I take her hand. |
| 1952 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1082" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1953 |
|
| 1954 |
<sp who="aww-9"><speaker>King.</speaker><p>Good fortune and the favour of the king |
| 1955 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1083" ed="F1"/>Smile upon this contract; whose ceremony |
| 1956 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1084" ed="F1"/>Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief, |
| 1957 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1085" ed="F1"/>And be perform'd to-night: the solemn feast |
| 1958 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1086" ed="F1"/>Shall more attend upon the coming space, |
| 1959 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1087" ed="F1"/>Expecting absent friends. As thou lovest her, |
| 1960 |
<lb n="190" ed="G"/><lb n="1088" ed="F1"/>Thy love's to me religious; else, does err. |
| 1961 |
<lb n="1089" ed="F1"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt all but Lafeu and Parolles.</stage> |
| 1962 |
<lb n="1090" ed="F1"/> |
| 1963 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1091" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1964 |
|
| 1965 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><stage>[Advancing]</stage><p> Do you hear, monsieur? |
| 1966 |
<lb ed="G"/>a word with you. |
| 1967 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1092" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1968 |
|
| 1969 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Your pleasure, sir? |
| 1970 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1093" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1971 |
|
| 1972 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Your lord and master did well to |
| 1973 |
<lb ed="G"/>make his <lb n="1094" ed="F1"/>recantation. |
| 1974 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1095" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1975 |
|
| 1976 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Recantation! My lord! my master! |
| 1977 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1096" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1978 |
|
| 1979 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Ay; is it not a language I speak? |
| 1980 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1097" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1981 |
|
| 1982 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> A most harsh one, and not to be understood |
| 1983 |
<lb n="200" ed="G"/><lb n="1098" ed="F1"/>without bloody succeeding. My master! |
| 1984 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1099" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1985 |
|
| 1986 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p>Are you companion to the Count |
| 1987 |
<lb ed="G"/>Rousillon? |
| 1988 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1100" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1989 |
|
| 1990 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> To any count, to all counts, to what |
| 1991 |
<lb ed="G"/>is man. |
| 1992 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1101" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1993 |
|
| 1994 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> To what is count's man: count's master |
| 1995 |
<lb ed="G"/>is of <lb n="1102" ed="F1"/>another style. |
| 1996 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1103" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 1997 |
|
| 1998 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> You are too old, sir; let it satisfy |
| 1999 |
<lb ed="G"/>you, you are <lb n="1104" ed="F1"/>too old. |
| 2000 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1105" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2001 |
|
| 2002 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; |
| 2003 |
<lb n="209" ed="G"/>to which <lb n="1106" ed="F1"/>title age cannot bring thee. |
| 2004 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1107" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2005 |
|
| 2006 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> What I dare too well do, I dare not do. |
| 2007 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1108" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2008 |
|
| 2009 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> I did think thee, for two ordinaries, |
| 2010 |
<lb ed="G"/>to be a <lb n="1109" ed="F1"/>pretty wise fellow; thou didst make |
| 2011 |
<lb ed="G"/>tolerable vent of <lb n="1110" ed="F1"/>thy travel; it might pass: |
| 2012 |
<lb ed="G"/>yet the scarfs and the bannerets <lb n="1111" ed="F1"/>about thee did |
| 2013 |
<lb ed="G"/>manifoldly dissuade me from believing <lb n="1112" ed="F1"/>thee a |
| 2014 |
<lb ed="G"/>vessel of too great a burthen. I have now |
| 2015 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1113" ed="F1"/>found thee; when I lose thee again, I care |
| 2016 |
<lb ed="G"/>not: yet art <lb n="1114" ed="F1"/>thou good for nothing but taking |
| 2017 |
<lb ed="G"/>up; and that thou'rt <lb n="1115" ed="F1"/>scarce worth. |
| 2018 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1116" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2019 |
|
| 2020 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity |
| 2021 |
<lb n="221" ed="G"/>upon <lb n="1117" ed="F1"/>thee,-- |
| 2022 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1118" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2023 |
|
| 2024 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, |
| 2025 |
<lb ed="G"/>lest <lb n="1119" ed="F1"/>thou hasten thy trial; which if--Lord |
| 2026 |
<lb ed="G"/>have mercy on <lb n="1120" ed="F1"/>thee for a hen! So, my good |
| 2027 |
<lb ed="G"/>window of lattice, fare thee <lb n="1121" ed="F1"/>well: thy casement |
| 2028 |
<lb ed="G"/>I need not open, for I look through |
| 2029 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1122" ed="F1"/>thee. Give me thy hand. |
| 2030 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1123" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2031 |
|
| 2032 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> My lord, you give me most egregious |
| 2033 |
<lb ed="G"/>indignity. |
| 2034 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1124" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2035 |
|
| 2036 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Ay, with all my heart; and thou art |
| 2037 |
<lb n="231" ed="G"/>worthy of it. |
| 2038 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1125" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2039 |
|
| 2040 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> I have not, my lord, deserved it. |
| 2041 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1126" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2042 |
|
| 2043 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Yes, good faith, every dram of it; |
| 2044 |
<lb ed="G"/>and I will not <lb n="1127" ed="F1"/>bate thee a scruple. |
| 2045 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1128" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2046 |
|
| 2047 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Well, I shall be wiser. |
| 2048 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1129" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2049 |
|
| 2050 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Even as soon as thou canst, for thou |
| 2051 |
<lb ed="G"/>hast to pull <lb n="1130" ed="F1"/>at a smack o' the contrary. If |
| 2052 |
<lb ed="G"/>ever thou be'st bound <lb n="1131" ed="F1"/>in thy scarf and beaten, |
| 2053 |
<lb ed="G"/>thou shalt find what it is to be <lb n="1132" ed="F1"/>proud of thy |
| 2054 |
<lb ed="G"/>bondage. I have a desire to hold my acquaintance |
| 2055 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1133" ed="F1"/>with thee, or rather my knowledge, that |
| 2056 |
<lb ed="G"/>I <lb n="1134" ed="F1"/>may say in the default, he is a man I know. |
| 2057 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1135" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2058 |
|
| 2059 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> My lord, you do me most insupportable |
| 2060 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1136" ed="F1"/>vexation. |
| 2061 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1137" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2062 |
|
| 2063 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> I would it were hell-pains for thy |
| 2064 |
<lb ed="G"/>sake, and my <lb n="1138" ed="F1"/>poor doing eternal: for doing I |
| 2065 |
<lb ed="G"/>am past; as I will by <lb n="1139" ed="F1"/>thee, in what motion |
| 2066 |
<lb ed="G"/>age will give me leave. <stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage> |
| 2067 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1140" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2068 |
|
| 2069 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Well, thou hast a son shall take this |
| 2070 |
<lb ed="G"/>disgrace <lb n="1141" ed="F1"/>off me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy |
| 2071 |
<lb ed="G"/>lord! Well, I must <lb n="1142" ed="F1"/>be patient; there is no fettering |
| 2072 |
<lb ed="G"/>of authority. I'll beat <lb n="1143" ed="F1"/>him, by my life, |
| 2073 |
<lb ed="G"/>if I can meet him with any convenience, <lb n="1144" ed="F1"/>an |
| 2074 |
<lb n="251" ed="G"/>he were double and double a lord. I'll have |
| 2075 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1145" ed="F1"/>no more pity of his age than I would of-- |
| 2076 |
<lb ed="G"/>I'll <lb n="1146" ed="F1"/>beat him, an if I could but meet him again. |
| 2077 |
<lb n="1147" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter LAFEU.</stage> |
| 2078 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1148" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2079 |
|
| 2080 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Sirrah, your lord and master's married; |
| 2081 |
<lb ed="G"/>there's <lb n="1149" ed="F1"/>news for you: you have a new |
| 2082 |
<lb ed="G"/>mistress. |
| 2083 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1150" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2084 |
|
| 2085 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> I most unfeignedly beseech your <reg orig="lord-ship">lordship</reg> |
| 2086 |
<lb ed="G"/>to <lb n="1151" ed="F1"/>make some reservation of your |
| 2087 |
<lb ed="G"/>wrongs: he is my good <lb n="1152" ed="F1"/>lord: whom I serve |
| 2088 |
<lb n="261" ed="G"/>above is my master. |
| 2089 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1153" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2090 |
|
| 2091 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Who? God? |
| 2092 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1154" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2093 |
|
| 2094 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Ay, sir. |
| 2095 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1155" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2096 |
|
| 2097 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> The devil it is that's thy master. Why |
| 2098 |
<lb ed="G"/>dost <lb n="1156" ed="F1"/>thou garter up thy arms o' this fashion? |
| 2099 |
<lb ed="G"/>dost make hose <lb n="1157" ed="F1"/>of thy sleeves? do other servants |
| 2100 |
<lb ed="G"/>so? Thou wert best set <lb n="1158" ed="F1"/>thy lower part |
| 2101 |
<lb ed="G"/>where thy nose stands. By mine honor, <lb n="1159" ed="F1"/>if I |
| 2102 |
<lb ed="G"/>were but two hours younger, I'ld beat thee: |
| 2103 |
<lb ed="G"/>methinks, <lb n="1160" ed="F1"/>thou art a general offence, and every |
| 2104 |
<lb ed="G"/>man should <lb n="1161" ed="F1"/>beat thee: I think thou wast |
| 2105 |
<lb ed="G"/>created for men to breathe <lb n="1162" ed="F1"/>themselves upon |
| 2106 |
<lb ed="G"/>thee. |
| 2107 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1163" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2108 |
|
| 2109 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> This is hard and undeserved measure, |
| 2110 |
<lb ed="G"/>my lord. |
| 2111 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1164" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2112 |
|
| 2113 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy |
| 2114 |
<lb ed="G"/>for picking <lb n="1165" ed="F1"/>a kernel out of a pomegranate: |
| 2115 |
<lb ed="G"/>you are a vagabond and <lb n="1166" ed="F1"/>no true traveller: you |
| 2116 |
<lb ed="G"/>you are more saucy with lords and <lb n="1167" ed="F1"/>honourable personages |
| 2117 |
<lb ed="G"/>than the commission of your <lb n="1168" ed="F1"/>birth and |
| 2118 |
<lb ed="G"/>virtue gives you heraldry. You are not worth |
| 2119 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1169" ed="F1"/>another word, else I'ld call you knave. I leave |
| 2120 |
<lb ed="G"/>you. <lb n="1170" ed="F1"/><stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage> |
| 2121 |
<lb n="1171" ed="F1"/> |
| 2122 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1172" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2123 |
|
| 2124 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Good, very good; it is so then: good, |
| 2125 |
<lb ed="G"/>very <lb n="1173" ed="F1"/>good; let it be concealed awhile. |
| 2126 |
<stage type="entrance">Re-enter BERTRAM.</stage> |
| 2127 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1174" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2128 |
|
| 2129 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> Undone, and forfeited to cares for ever! |
| 2130 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1175" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2131 |
|
| 2132 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> What's the matter, sweet-heart? |
| 2133 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1176" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2134 |
|
| 2135 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Although before the solemn priest I |
| 2136 |
<lb ed="G"/>have <lb n="1177" ed="F1"/>sworn, |
| 2137 |
<lb ed="G"/>I will not bed her. |
| 2138 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1178" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2139 |
|
| 2140 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> What, what, sweet-heart? |
| 2141 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1179" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2142 |
|
| 2143 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>O my Parolles, they have married me! |
| 2144 |
<lb n="290" ed="G"/><lb n="1180" ed="F1"/>I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. |
| 2145 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1181" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2146 |
|
| 2147 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits |
| 2148 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1182" ed="F1"/>The tread of a man's foot: to the wars! |
| 2149 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1183" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2150 |
|
| 2151 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> There's letters from my mother: |
| 2152 |
<lb ed="G"/>what the import <lb n="1184" ed="F1"/>is, I know not yet. |
| 2153 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1185" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2154 |
|
| 2155 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>Ay, that would be known. To the |
| 2156 |
<lb ed="G"/>wars, my boy, <lb n="1186" ed="F1"/>to the wars! |
| 2157 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1187" ed="F1"/>He wears his honour in a box unseen, |
| 2158 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1188" ed="F1"/>That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home, |
| 2159 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1189" ed="F1"/>Spending his manly marrow in her arms, |
| 2160 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1190" ed="F1"/>Which should sustain the bound and high curvet |
| 2161 |
<lb n="300" ed="G"/><lb n="1191" ed="F1"/>Of Mars's fiery steed. To other regions |
| 2162 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1192" ed="F1"/>France is a stable; we that dwell in't jades; |
| 2163 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1193" ed="F1"/>Therefore, to the war! |
| 2164 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1194" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2165 |
|
| 2166 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>It shall be so: I'll send her to my house, |
| 2167 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1195" ed="F1"/>Acquaint my mother with my hate to her, |
| 2168 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1196" ed="F1"/>And wherefore I am fled; write to the king |
| 2169 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1198" ed="F1"/>Shall furnish me to those Italian fields, |
| 2170 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1197" ed="F1"/>That which I durst not speak: his present gift |
| 2171 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1199" ed="F1"/>Where noble fellows strike: war is no strife |
| 2172 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1200" ed="F1"/>To the dark house and the detested wife. |
| 2173 |
<lb n="310" ed="G"/><lb n="1201" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2174 |
|
| 2175 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Will this capriccio hold in thee? art sure? |
| 2176 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1202" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2177 |
|
| 2178 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Go with me to my chamber and advise me. |
| 2179 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1203" ed="F1"/>I'll send her straight away: to-morrow |
| 2180 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1204" ed="F1"/>I'll to the wars, she to her single sorrow. |
| 2181 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1205" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2182 |
|
| 2183 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>Why, these balls bound; there's noise in it. 'Tis hard: |
| 2184 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1206" ed="F1"/>A young man married is a man that's marr'd: |
| 2185 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1207" ed="F1"/>Therefore away, and leave her bravely; go: |
| 2186 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1208" ed="F1"/>The king has done you wrong: but, hush, 'tis so. |
| 2187 |
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage> |
| 2188 |
</p></sp></div2> |
| 2189 |
|
| 2190 |
<div2 n="4" type="scene"> |
| 2191 |
<head>SCENE IV</head> |
| 2192 |
<stage type="setting">Paris. The KING'S palace.</stage> |
| 2193 |
<lb n="1209" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter HELENA and CLOWN.</stage> |
| 2194 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1210" ed="F1"/> |
| 2195 |
|
| 2196 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>My mother greets me kindly: is she well? |
| 2197 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1211" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2198 |
|
| 2199 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> She is not well; but yet she has her |
| 2200 |
<lb ed="G"/>health: she's <lb n="1212" ed="F1"/>very merry; but yet she is not |
| 2201 |
<lb ed="G"/>well: but thanks be given, <lb n="1213" ed="F1"/>she's very well and |
| 2202 |
<lb ed="G"/>wants nothing i' the world; but <lb n="1214" ed="F1"/>she is not well. |
| 2203 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1215" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2204 |
|
| 2205 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> If she be very well, what does she ail |
| 2206 |
<lb ed="G"/>that she's <lb n="1216" ed="F1"/>not very well? |
| 2207 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1217" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2208 |
|
| 2209 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> Truly, she's very well indeed, but for |
| 2210 |
<lb ed="G"/>two things. |
| 2211 |
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="1218" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2212 |
|
| 2213 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> What two things? |
| 2214 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1219" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2215 |
|
| 2216 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> One, that she's not in heaven, whither |
| 2217 |
<lb ed="G"/>God send <lb n="1220" ed="F1"/>her quickly! the other, that she's in |
| 2218 |
<lb ed="G"/>earth, from whence <lb n="1221" ed="F1"/>God send her quickly! |
| 2219 |
<lb n="1222" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PAROLLES.</stage> |
| 2220 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1223" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2221 |
|
| 2222 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Bless you, my fortunate lady! |
| 2223 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1224" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2224 |
|
| 2225 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> I hope, sir, I have your good will to |
| 2226 |
<lb ed="G"/>have mine <lb n="1225" ed="F1"/>own good fortunes. |
| 2227 |
|
| 2228 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1226" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2229 |
|
| 2230 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> You had my prayers to lead them |
| 2231 |
<lb ed="G"/>on; and to <lb n="1227" ed="F1"/>keep them on, have them still. O, |
| 2232 |
<lb ed="G"/>my knave, how does <lb n="1228" ed="F1"/>my old lady? |
| 2233 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1229" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2234 |
|
| 2235 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> So that you had her wrinkles and I |
| 2236 |
<lb n="21" ed="G"/>her money, <lb n="1230" ed="F1"/>I would she did as you say. |
| 2237 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1231" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2238 |
|
| 2239 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Why, I say nothing. |
| 2240 |
|
| 2241 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1232" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> Marry, you are the wiser man; for |
| 2242 |
<lb ed="G"/>many a man's <lb n="1233" ed="F1"/>tongue shakes out his master's |
| 2243 |
<lb ed="G"/>undoing: to say nothing, <lb n="1234" ed="F1"/>to do nothing, to |
| 2244 |
<lb ed="G"/>know nothing, and to have nothing, <lb n="1235" ed="F1"/>is to be |
| 2245 |
<lb ed="G"/>a great part of your title; which is within a very |
| 2246 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1236" ed="F1"/>little of nothing. |
| 2247 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1237" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2248 |
|
| 2249 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Away! thou'rt a knave. |
| 2250 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1238" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2251 |
|
| 2252 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> You should have said, sir, before a |
| 2253 |
<lb ed="G"/>knave thou'rt a <lb n="1239" ed="F1"/>knave; that's, before me |
| 2254 |
<lb n="31" ed="G"/>thou'rt a knave: this had been <lb n="1240" ed="F1"/>truth, sir. |
| 2255 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1241" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2256 |
|
| 2257 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Go to, thou art a witty fool; I have |
| 2258 |
<lb ed="G"/>found <lb n="1242" ed="F1"/>thee. |
| 2259 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1243" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2260 |
|
| 2261 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> Did you find me in yourself, sir? or |
| 2262 |
<lb ed="G"/>were you <lb n="1244" ed="F1"/>taught to find me? <lb n="1245" ed="F1"/>The search, sir, |
| 2263 |
<lb ed="G"/>was profitable; and much fool <lb n="1246" ed="F1"/>may you find |
| 2264 |
<lb ed="G"/>in you, even to the world's pleasure and the |
| 2265 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1247" ed="F1"/>increase of laughter. |
| 2266 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1248" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2267 |
|
| 2268 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>A good knave, i' faith, and well fed. |
| 2269 |
<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="1249" ed="F1"/>Madam, my lord will go away to-night; |
| 2270 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1250" ed="F1"/>A very serious business calls on him. |
| 2271 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1251" ed="F1"/>The great prerogative and rite of love, |
| 2272 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1252" ed="F1"/>Which, as your due, time claims, he does acknowledge; |
| 2273 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1253"/>But puts it off to a compell'd restraint; |
| 2274 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1254" ed="F1"/>Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets, |
| 2275 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1255" ed="F1"/>Which they distil now in the curbed time, |
| 2276 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1256" ed="F1"/>To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy |
| 2277 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1257" ed="F1"/>And pleasure drown the brim. |
| 2278 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1258" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2279 |
|
| 2280 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>What's his will else? |
| 2281 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1259" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2282 |
|
| 2283 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>That you will take your instant leave o' the king, |
| 2284 |
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="1260" ed="F1"/>And make this haste as your own good proceeding, |
| 2285 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1261" ed="F1"/>Strengthen'd with what apology you think |
| 2286 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1262" ed="F1"/>May make it probable need. |
| 2287 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1263" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2288 |
|
| 2289 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>What more commands he? |
| 2290 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1264" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2291 |
|
| 2292 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>That, having this obtain'd, you presently |
| 2293 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1265" ed="F1"/>Attend his further pleasure. |
| 2294 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1266" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2295 |
|
| 2296 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> In every thing I wait upon his will. |
| 2297 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1267" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2298 |
|
| 2299 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>I shall report it so. |
| 2300 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1268" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2301 |
|
| 2302 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>I pray you. <stage type="exit">[Exit Parolles.</stage> Come, sirrah. <stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage></p></sp></div2> |
| 2303 |
<div2 n="5" type="scene"> |
| 2304 |
<head>SCENE V</head> |
| 2305 |
<stage type="setting">Paris. The KING'S palace.</stage> |
| 2306 |
<lb n="1269" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter LAFEU and BERTRAM.</stage> |
| 2307 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1270" ed="F1"/> |
| 2308 |
|
| 2309 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> But I hope your lordship thinks not |
| 2310 |
<lb ed="G"/>him a <lb n="1271" ed="F1"/>soldier. |
| 2311 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1272" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2312 |
|
| 2313 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof. |
| 2314 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1273" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2315 |
|
| 2316 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> You have it from his own deliverance. |
| 2317 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1274" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2318 |
|
| 2319 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> And by other warranted testimony. |
| 2320 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1275" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2321 |
|
| 2322 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Then my dial goes not true: I took |
| 2323 |
<lb ed="G"/>this lark <lb n="1276" ed="F1"/>for a bunting. |
| 2324 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1277" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2325 |
|
| 2326 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> I do assure you, my lord, he is very |
| 2327 |
<lb n="9" ed="G"/>great in knowledge <lb n="1278" ed="F1"/>and accordingly valiant. |
| 2328 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1279" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2329 |
|
| 2330 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> I have then sinned against his experience |
| 2331 |
<lb ed="G"/>and <lb n="1280" ed="F1"/>transgressed against his valour; and |
| 2332 |
<lb ed="G"/>my state that way is <lb n="1281" ed="F1"/>dangerous, since I cannot |
| 2333 |
<lb ed="G"/>yet find in my heart to repent. <lb n="1282" ed="F1"/>Here he |
| 2334 |
<lb ed="G"/>comes: I pray you, make us friends; I will |
| 2335 |
<lb ed="G"/>pursue <lb n="1283" ed="F1"/>the amity. |
| 2336 |
<lb n="1284" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PAROLLES.</stage> |
| 2337 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1285" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2338 |
|
| 2339 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><stage>[To Bertram]</stage><p> These things shall be |
| 2340 |
<lb ed="G"/>done, sir. |
| 2341 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1286" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2342 |
|
| 2343 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> Pray you, sir, who's his tailor? |
| 2344 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1287" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2345 |
|
| 2346 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Sir? |
| 2347 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1288" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2348 |
|
| 2349 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> O, I know him well, I, sir; he, sir, 's |
| 2350 |
<lb n="21" ed="G"/>a good workman, <lb n="1289" ed="F1"/>a very good tailor. |
| 2351 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1290" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2352 |
|
| 2353 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><stage>[Aside to Par.]</stage><p> Is she gone to the king? |
| 2354 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1291" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2355 |
|
| 2356 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> She is. |
| 2357 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1292" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2358 |
|
| 2359 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> Will she away to-night? |
| 2360 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1293" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2361 |
|
| 2362 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> As you'll have her. |
| 2363 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1294" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2364 |
|
| 2365 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure, |
| 2366 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1295" ed="F1"/>Given order for our horses; and to-night, |
| 2367 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1296" ed="F1"/>When I should take possession of the bride, |
| 2368 |
<lb n="29" ed="G"/><lb n="1297" ed="F1"/>End ere I do begin. |
| 2369 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1298" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2370 |
|
| 2371 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> A good traveller is something at the |
| 2372 |
<lb ed="G"/>latter end <lb n="1299" ed="F1"/>of a dinner; but one that lies three |
| 2373 |
<lb ed="G"/>thirds and uses a <lb n="1300" ed="F1"/>known truth to pass a thousand |
| 2374 |
<lb ed="G"/>nothings with, should <lb n="1301" ed="F1"/>be once heard and |
| 2375 |
<lb ed="G"/>thrice beaten. God save you, <lb n="1302" ed="F1"/>captain. |
| 2376 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1303" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2377 |
|
| 2378 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> Is there any unkindness between my |
| 2379 |
<lb ed="G"/>lord and <lb n="1304" ed="F1"/>you, monsieur? |
| 2380 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1305" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2381 |
|
| 2382 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> I know not how I have deserved to |
| 2383 |
<lb ed="G"/>run into my <lb n="1306" ed="F1"/>lord's displeasure. |
| 2384 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1307" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2385 |
|
| 2386 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> You have made shift to run into't, |
| 2387 |
<lb ed="G"/>boots and <lb n="1308" ed="F1"/>spurs and all, like him that leaped |
| 2388 |
<lb ed="G"/>into the custard; and <lb n="1309" ed="F1"/>out of it you'll run |
| 2389 |
<lb ed="G"/>again, rather than suffer question <lb n="1310" ed="F1"/>for your |
| 2390 |
<lb ed="G"/>residence. |
| 2391 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1311" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2392 |
|
| 2393 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> It may be you have mistaken him, my lord. |
| 2394 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1312" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2395 |
|
| 2396 |
<sp who="aww-4"><speaker>Laf.</speaker><p> And shall do so ever, though I took |
| 2397 |
<lb ed="G"/>him at's <lb n="1313" ed="F1"/>prayers. Fare you well, my lord; |
| 2398 |
<lb ed="G"/>and believe this of <lb n="1314" ed="F1"/>me, there can be no kernel |
| 2399 |
<lb ed="G"/>in this light nut; the soul <lb n="1315" ed="F1"/>of this man is his |
| 2400 |
<lb ed="G"/>clothes. Trust him not in matter of <lb n="1316" ed="F1"/>heavy consequence; |
| 2401 |
<lb ed="G"/>I have kept of them tame, and |
| 2402 |
<lb ed="G"/>know <lb n="1317" ed="F1"/>their natures. Farewell, monsieur: I |
| 2403 |
<lb ed="G"/>have spoken better <lb n="1318" ed="F1"/>of you than you have or |
| 2404 |
<lb ed="G"/>will to deserve at my hand; but <lb n="1319" ed="F1"/>we must do |
| 2405 |
<lb ed="G"/>good against evil. <stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage> |
| 2406 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1320" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2407 |
|
| 2408 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> An idle lord, I swear. |
| 2409 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1321" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2410 |
|
| 2411 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> I think so. |
| 2412 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1322" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2413 |
|
| 2414 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Why, do you not know him? |
| 2415 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1323" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2416 |
|
| 2417 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Yes, I do know him well, and common speech |
| 2418 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1324" ed="F1"/>Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog. |
| 2419 |
<lb n="1325" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter HELENA.</stage> |
| 2420 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1326" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2421 |
|
| 2422 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>I have, sir, as I was commanded from you, |
| 2423 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1327" ed="F1"/>Spoke with the king and have procured his leave |
| 2424 |
<lb n="61" ed="G"/><lb n="1328" ed="F1"/>For present parting; only he desires |
| 2425 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1329" ed="F1"/>Some private speech with you. |
| 2426 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1330" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2427 |
|
| 2428 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>I shall obey his will. |
| 2429 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1331" ed="F1"/>You must not marvel, Helen, at my course, |
| 2430 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1332" ed="F1"/>Which holds not colour with the time, nor does |
| 2431 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1333" ed="F1"/>The ministration and required office |
| 2432 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1334" ed="F1"/>On my particular. Prepared I was not |
| 2433 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1335" ed="F1"/>For such a business; therefore am I found |
| 2434 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1336" ed="F1"/>So much unsettled: this drives me to entreat you |
| 2435 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1337" ed="F1"/>That presently you take your way for home; |
| 2436 |
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="1338" ed="F1"/>And rather muse than ask why I entreat you, |
| 2437 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1339" ed="F1"/>For my respects are better than they seem |
| 2438 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1340" ed="F1"/>And my appointments have in them a need |
| 2439 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1341" ed="F1"/>Greater than shows itself at the first view |
| 2440 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1342" ed="F1"/>To you that know them not. This to my mother: <stage>[Giving a letter.</stage> |
| 2441 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1343" ed="F1"/>'Twill be two days ere I shall see you, so |
| 2442 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1344" ed="F1"/>I leave you to your wisdom. |
| 2443 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1345" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2444 |
|
| 2445 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Sir, I can nothing say, |
| 2446 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1346" ed="F1"/>But that I am your most obedient servant. |
| 2447 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1347" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2448 |
|
| 2449 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Come, come, no more of that. |
| 2450 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1348" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2451 |
|
| 2452 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>And ever shall |
| 2453 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1349" ed="F1"/>With true observance seek to eke out that |
| 2454 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1350" ed="F1"/>Wherein toward me my homely stars have fail'd |
| 2455 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1351" ed="F1"/>To equal my great fortune. |
| 2456 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1352" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2457 |
|
| 2458 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Let that go: |
| 2459 |
<lb ed="G"/>My haste is very great: farewell; <lb n="1353" ed="F1"/>hie home. |
| 2460 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1354" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2461 |
|
| 2462 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Pray, sir, your pardon. |
| 2463 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1355" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2464 |
|
| 2465 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Well, what would you say? |
| 2466 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1356" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2467 |
|
| 2468 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>I am not worthy of the wealth I owe, |
| 2469 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1357" ed="F1"/>Nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is; |
| 2470 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1358" ed="F1"/>But, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal |
| 2471 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1359" ed="F1"/>What law does vouch mine own. |
| 2472 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1360" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2473 |
|
| 2474 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>What would you have? |
| 2475 |
<lb ed="G"/></p></sp> |
| 2476 |
|
| 2477 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Something; and scarce so much: nothing, indeed. |
| 2478 |
<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="1362" ed="F1"/>I would not tell you what I would, my lord: Faith, yes; |
| 2479 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1363" ed="F1"/>Strangers and foes do sunder, and not kiss. |
| 2480 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1364" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2481 |
|
| 2482 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>I pray you, stay not, but in haste to horse. |
| 2483 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1365" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2484 |
|
| 2485 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>I shall not break your bidding, good my lord. |
| 2486 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1366" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2487 |
|
| 2488 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Where are my other men, monsieur? Farewell. <stage type="exit">[Exit Helena.</stage> |
| 2489 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1367" ed="F1"/>Go thou toward home; where I will never come |
| 2490 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1368" ed="F1"/>Whilst I can shake my sword or hear the drum. |
| 2491 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1369" ed="F1"/>Away, and for our flight. |
| 2492 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1370" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2493 |
|
| 2494 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>Bravely, coragio! <stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage> |
| 2495 |
</p></sp> |
| 2496 |
</div2> |
| 2497 |
</div1> |
| 2498 |
|
| 2499 |
<div1 n="3" type="act"> |
| 2500 |
<head>ACT III</head> |
| 2501 |
<lb n="1371" ed="F1"/> |
| 2502 |
|
| 2503 |
<div2 n="1" type="scene"> |
| 2504 |
<head>SCENE I</head> |
| 2505 |
<stage type="setting">Florence. The DUKE'S palace.</stage> |
| 2506 |
<stage>Flourish.</stage><lb n="1372" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the DUKE of Florence, attended; the two Frenchmen, <lb n="1373" ed="F1"/>with a troop of soldiers.</stage> |
| 2507 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1374" ed="F1"/> |
| 2508 |
|
| 2509 |
<sp who="aww-16"><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>So that from point to point now have you heard |
| 2510 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1375" ed="F1"/>The fundamental reasons of this war, |
| 2511 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1376" ed="F1"/>Whose great decision hath much blood let forth |
| 2512 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1377" ed="F1"/>And more thirsts after. |
| 2513 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1378" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2514 |
|
| 2515 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p>Holy seems the quarrel |
| 2516 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1379" ed="F1"/>Upon your grace's part; black and fearful |
| 2517 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1380" ed="F1"/>On the opposer. |
| 2518 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1381" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2519 |
|
| 2520 |
<sp who="aww-16"><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Therefore we marvel much our cousin France |
| 2521 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1382" ed="F1"/>Would in so just a business shut his bosom |
| 2522 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1383" ed="F1"/>Against our borrowing prayers. |
| 2523 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1384" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2524 |
|
| 2525 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p>Good, my lord, |
| 2526 |
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="1385" ed="F1"/>The reasons of our state I cannot yield, |
| 2527 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1386" ed="F1"/>But like a common and an outward man, |
| 2528 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1387" ed="F1"/>That the great figure of a council frames |
| 2529 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1388" ed="F1"/>By self-unable motion: therefore dare not |
| 2530 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1389" ed="F1"/>Say what I think of it, since I have found |
| 2531 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1390" ed="F1"/>Myself in my incertain grounds to fail |
| 2532 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1391" ed="F1"/>As often as I guess'd. |
| 2533 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1392" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2534 |
|
| 2535 |
<sp who="aww-16"><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Be it his pleasure. |
| 2536 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1393" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2537 |
|
| 2538 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p>But I am sure the younger of our nature, |
| 2539 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1394" ed="F1"/>That surfeit on their ease, will day by day |
| 2540 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1395" ed="F1"/>Come here for physic. |
| 2541 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1396" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2542 |
|
| 2543 |
<sp who="aww-16"><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Welcome shall they be; |
| 2544 |
<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="1397" ed="F1"/>And all the honours that can fly from us |
| 2545 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1398" ed="F1"/>Shall on them settle. You know your places well; |
| 2546 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1399" ed="F1"/>When better fall, for your avails they fell: |
| 2547 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1400" ed="F1"/>To-morrow to the field. <stage>[Flourish.</stage><stage type="exit">Exeunt.</stage> |
| 2548 |
</p></sp></div2> |
| 2549 |
|
| 2550 |
<div2 n="2" type="scene"> |
| 2551 |
<head>SCENE II</head> |
| 2552 |
<stage type="setting">Rousillon. The COUNT'S palace.</stage> |
| 2553 |
<lb n="1401" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter COUNTESS and CLOWN.</stage> |
| 2554 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1402" ed="F1"/> |
| 2555 |
|
| 2556 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> It hath happened all as I would |
| 2557 |
<lb ed="G"/>have had it, save <lb n="1403" ed="F1"/>that he comes not along |
| 2558 |
<lb ed="G"/>with her. |
| 2559 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1404" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2560 |
|
| 2561 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> By my troth, I take my young lord to |
| 2562 |
<lb ed="G"/>be a very <lb n="1405" ed="F1"/>melancholy man. |
| 2563 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1406" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2564 |
|
| 2565 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> By what observance, I pray you? |
| 2566 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1407" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2567 |
|
| 2568 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> Why, he will look upon his boot and |
| 2569 |
<lb ed="G"/>sing; <lb n="1408" ed="F1"/>mend the ruff and sing; ask questions |
| 2570 |
<lb ed="G"/>and sing; pick <lb n="1409" ed="F1"/>his teeth and sing. I know a |
| 2571 |
<lb ed="G"/>man that had this trick of <lb n="1410" ed="F1"/>melancholy sold a |
| 2572 |
<lb n="10" ed="G"/>goodly manor for a song. |
| 2573 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1411" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2574 |
|
| 2575 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Let me see what he writes, and |
| 2576 |
<lb ed="G"/>when he means <lb n="1412" ed="F1"/>to come. <stage>[Opening a letter.</stage> |
| 2577 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1413" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2578 |
|
| 2579 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> I have no mind to Isbel since I was |
| 2580 |
<lb ed="G"/>at court: <lb n="1414" ed="F1"/>our old ling and our Isbels o' the |
| 2581 |
<lb ed="G"/>country are nothing <lb n="1415" ed="F1"/>like your old ling and |
| 2582 |
<lb ed="G"/>your Isbels o' the court: the brains <lb n="1416" ed="F1"/>of my |
| 2583 |
<lb ed="G"/>Cupid's knocked out, and I begin to love, as |
| 2584 |
<lb ed="G"/>an <lb n="1417" ed="F1"/>old man loves money, with no stomach. |
| 2585 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1418" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2586 |
|
| 2587 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> What have we here? |
| 2588 |
<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="1419" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2589 |
|
| 2590 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> E'en that you have there. <stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage> |
| 2591 |
<lb n="1420" ed="F1"/> |
| 2592 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1421" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2593 |
|
| 2594 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><stage>[Reads]</stage><p> I have sent you a daughter-in-law: |
| 2595 |
<lb ed="G"/> she hath recovered the <lb n="1422" ed="F1"/>king, and undone |
| 2596 |
<lb ed="G"/>me. I have wedded her, not bedded her; |
| 2597 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1423" ed="F1"/>and sworn to make the 'not' eternal. You |
| 2598 |
<lb ed="G"/>shall hear I am <lb n="1424" ed="F1"/>run away: know it before the |
| 2599 |
<lb ed="G"/>report come. If there be <lb n="1425" ed="F1"/>breadth enough in |
| 2600 |
<lb ed="G"/>the world, I will hold a long distance. My <lb n="1426" ed="F1"/>duty |
| 2601 |
<lb ed="G"/>duty to you. Your unfortunate son, |
| 2602 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1427" ed="F1"/>BERTRAM. |
| 2603 |
<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="1428" ed="F1"/>This is not well, rash and unbridled boy, |
| 2604 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1429" ed="F1"/>To fly the favours of so good a king; |
| 2605 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1430" ed="F1"/>To pluck his indignation on thy head |
| 2606 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1431" ed="F1"/>By the misprising of a maid too virtuous |
| 2607 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1432" ed="F1"/>For the contempt of empire. |
| 2608 |
<lb n="1433" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter CLOWN.</stage> |
| 2609 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1434" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2610 |
|
| 2611 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> O madam, yonder is heavy news |
| 2612 |
<lb ed="G"/>within between <lb n="1435" ed="F1"/>two soldiers and my young lady! |
| 2613 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1436" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2614 |
|
| 2615 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> What is the matter? |
| 2616 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1437" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2617 |
|
| 2618 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> Nay, there is some comfort in the |
| 2619 |
<lb ed="G"/>news, some <lb n="1438" ed="F1"/>comfort; your son will not be |
| 2620 |
<lb n="40" ed="G"/>killed so soon as I thought <lb n="1439" ed="F1"/>he would. |
| 2621 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1440" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2622 |
|
| 2623 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Why should he be killed? |
| 2624 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1441" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2625 |
|
| 2626 |
<sp who="aww-12"><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p> So say I, madam, if he run away, as |
| 2627 |
<lb ed="G"/>I hear he <lb n="1442" ed="F1"/>does: the danger is in standing to 't; |
| 2628 |
<lb ed="G"/>that's the loss of <lb n="1443" ed="F1"/>men, though it be the getting |
| 2629 |
<lb ed="G"/>of children. Here they <lb n="1444" ed="F1"/>come will tell you |
| 2630 |
<lb ed="G"/>more: for my part, I only hear your <lb n="1445" ed="F1"/>son was |
| 2631 |
<lb ed="G"/>run away. <stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage> |
| 2632 |
<lb n="1446" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter HELENA and two Gentlemen.</stage> |
| 2633 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1447" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2634 |
|
| 2635 |
<sp who="aww-26"><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p> Save you, good madam. |
| 2636 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1448" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2637 |
|
| 2638 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> Madam, my lord is gone, for ever gone. |
| 2639 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1449" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2640 |
|
| 2641 |
<sp who="aww-26"><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><p> Do not say so. |
| 2642 |
|
| 2643 |
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="1450" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2644 |
|
| 2645 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Think upon patience. Pray you, gentlemen, |
| 2646 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1451" ed="F1"/>I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief, |
| 2647 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1452" ed="F1"/>That the first face of neither, on the start, |
| 2648 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1453" ed="F1"/>Can woman me unto't: where is my son, I pray you? |
| 2649 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1454" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2650 |
|
| 2651 |
<sp who="aww-26"><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><p>Madam, he's gone to serve the duke of <lb n="1455" ed="F1"/>Florence: |
| 2652 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1456" ed="F1"/>We met him thitherward; for thence we came, |
| 2653 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1457" ed="F1"/>And, after some dispatch in hand at court, |
| 2654 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1458" ed="F1"/>Thither we bend again. |
| 2655 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1459" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2656 |
|
| 2657 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> Look on his letter, madam; here's my passport. |
| 2658 |
<stage>[Reads]</stage><lb n="1460" ed="F1"/>When thou canst get the ring upon |
| 2659 |
<lb ed="G"/>my finger which never <lb n="1461" ed="F1"/>shall come off, and |
| 2660 |
<lb ed="G"/>show me a child begotten of thy body <lb n="1462" ed="F1"/>that I |
| 2661 |
<lb ed="G"/>am father to, then call me husband: but in |
| 2662 |
<lb ed="G"/>such a 'then' <lb n="1463" ed="F1"/>I write a 'never.' |
| 2663 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1464" ed="F1"/>This is a dreadful sentence. |
| 2664 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1465" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2665 |
|
| 2666 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Brought you this letter, gentlemen? |
| 2667 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1466" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2668 |
|
| 2669 |
<sp who="aww-26"><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p>Ay, madam; |
| 2670 |
<lb ed="G"/>And for the contents' sake are sorry <lb n="1467" ed="F1"/>for our pains. |
| 2671 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1468" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2672 |
|
| 2673 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>I prithee, lady, have a better cheer; |
| 2674 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1469" ed="F1"/>If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, |
| 2675 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1470" ed="F1"/>Thou robb'st me of a moiety: he was my son; |
| 2676 |
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="1471" ed="F1"/>But I do wash his name out of my blood, |
| 2677 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1472" ed="F1"/>And thou art all my child. Towards Florence is he? |
| 2678 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1473" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2679 |
|
| 2680 |
<sp who="aww-26"><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><p>Ay, madam. |
| 2681 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1474" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2682 |
|
| 2683 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>And to be a soldier? |
| 2684 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1475" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2685 |
|
| 2686 |
<sp who="aww-26"><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><p>Such is his noble purpose; and, believe 't, |
| 2687 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1476" ed="F1"/>The duke will lay upon him all the honour |
| 2688 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1477" ed="F1"/>That good convenience claims. |
| 2689 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1478" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2690 |
|
| 2691 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Return you thither? |
| 2692 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1479" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2693 |
|
| 2694 |
<sp who="aww-26"><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p> Ay, madam, with the swiftest wing of speed. |
| 2695 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1480" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2696 |
|
| 2697 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p><stage>[Reads.]</stage> Till I have no wife I have |
| 2698 |
<lb ed="G"/>nothing in France. |
| 2699 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1481" ed="F1"/>'Tis bitter. |
| 2700 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1482" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2701 |
|
| 2702 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p> Find you that there? |
| 2703 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1483" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2704 |
|
| 2705 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Ay, madam. |
| 2706 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1484" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2707 |
|
| 2708 |
<sp who="aww-26"><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p> 'Tis but the boldness of his |
| 2709 |
<lb n="80" ed="G"/>hand, haply, which <lb n="1485" ed="F1"/>his heart was not <reg orig="consent-ing">consenting</reg> to. |
| 2710 |
<lb n="81" ed="G"/><lb n="1486" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2711 |
|
| 2712 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Nothing in France, until he have no wife! |
| 2713 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1487" ed="F1"/>There's nothing here that is too good for him |
| 2714 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1488" ed="F1"/>But only she; and she deserves a lord |
| 2715 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1489" ed="F1"/>That twenty such rude boys might tend upon |
| 2716 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1490" ed="F1"/>And call her hourly mistress. Who was with him? |
| 2717 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1491" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2718 |
|
| 2719 |
<sp who="aww-26"><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p>A servant only, and a gentleman |
| 2720 |
<lb ed="G"/>Which I have <lb n="1492" ed="F1"/>some time known. |
| 2721 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1493" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2722 |
|
| 2723 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Parolles, was it not? |
| 2724 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1494" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2725 |
|
| 2726 |
<sp who="aww-26"><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p> Ay, my good lady, he. |
| 2727 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1495" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2728 |
|
| 2729 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness. |
| 2730 |
<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="1496" ed="F1"/>My son corrupts a well-derived nature |
| 2731 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1497" ed="F1"/>With his inducement. |
| 2732 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1498" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2733 |
|
| 2734 |
<sp who="aww-26"><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p>Indeed, good lady, |
| 2735 |
<lb ed="G"/>The fellow has a deal of <lb n="1499" ed="F1"/>that too much, |
| 2736 |
<lb ed="G"/>Which holds him much to have. |
| 2737 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1500" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2738 |
|
| 2739 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>You're welcome, gentlemen. |
| 2740 |
<lb ed="G"/>I will entreat you, <lb n="1501" ed="F1"/>when you see my son, |
| 2741 |
<lb ed="G"/>To tell him that his sword can <lb n="1502" ed="F1"/>never win |
| 2742 |
<lb ed="G"/>The honour that he loses: more I'll entreat <lb n="1503" ed="F1"/>you |
| 2743 |
<lb ed="G"/>Written to bear along. |
| 2744 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1504" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2745 |
|
| 2746 |
<sp who="aww-26"><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><p>We serve you, madam, |
| 2747 |
<lb ed="G"/>In that and all your <lb n="1505" ed="F1"/>worthiest affairs. |
| 2748 |
<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="1506" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2749 |
|
| 2750 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Not so, but as we change our courtesies. |
| 2751 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1507" ed="F1"/>Will you draw near? |
| 2752 |
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt Countess and Gentlemen.</stage> |
| 2753 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1508" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2754 |
|
| 2755 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>'Till I have no wife, I have nothing in France.' |
| 2756 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1509" ed="F1"/>Nothing in France, until he has no wife! |
| 2757 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1510" ed="F1"/>Thou shalt have none, Rousillon, none in France; |
| 2758 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1511" ed="F1"/>Then hast thou all again. Poor lord! is 't I |
| 2759 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1512" ed="F1"/>That chase thee from thy country and expose |
| 2760 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1513" ed="F1"/>Those tender limbs of thine to the event |
| 2761 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1514" ed="F1"/>Of the none-sparing war? and is it I |
| 2762 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1515" ed="F1"/>That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou |
| 2763 |
<lb n="110" ed="G"/><lb n="1516" ed="F1"/>Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark |
| 2764 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1517" ed="F1"/>Of smoky muskets? O you leaden messengers, |
| 2765 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1518" ed="F1"/>That ride upon the violent speed of fire, |
| 2766 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1519" ed="F1"/>Fly with false aim; move the still-peering air, |
| 2767 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1520" ed="F1"/>That sings with piercing; do not touch my lord |
| 2768 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1521" ed="F1"/>Whoever shoots at him, I set him there; |
| 2769 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1522" ed="F1"/>Whoever charges on his forward breast, |
| 2770 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1523" ed="F1"/>I am the caitiff that do hold him to't; |
| 2771 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1524" ed="F1"/>And, though I kill him not, I am the cause |
| 2772 |
<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="1526" ed="F1"/>I met the ravin lion when he roar'd |
| 2773 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1525" ed="F1"/>His death was so effected: better 'twere |
| 2774 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1527" ed="F1"/>With sharp constraint of hunger; better 'twere |
| 2775 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1528" ed="F1"/>That all the miseries which nature owes |
| 2776 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1529" ed="F1"/>Were mine at once. No, come thou home, Rousillon, |
| 2777 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1530" ed="F1"/>Whence honour but of danger wins a scar, |
| 2778 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1531" ed="F1"/>As oft it loses all: I will be gone; |
| 2779 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1532" ed="F1"/>My being here it is that holds thee hence: |
| 2780 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1533" ed="F1"/>Shall I stay here to do't? no, no, although |
| 2781 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1534" ed="F1"/>The air of paradise did fan the house |
| 2782 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1535" ed="F1"/>And angels officed all: I will be gone, |
| 2783 |
<lb n="130" ed="G"/><lb n="1536" ed="F1"/>That pitiful rumour may report my flight, |
| 2784 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1537" ed="F1"/>To consolate thine ear. Come, night; end, day! |
| 2785 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1538" ed="F1"/>For with the dark, poor thief, I'll steal away. |
| 2786 |
<stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage></p></sp></div2> |
| 2787 |
|
| 2788 |
<div2 n="3" type="scene"> |
| 2789 |
<head>SCENE III</head><stage type="setting">Florence. Before the DUKE'S palace.</stage> |
| 2790 |
<lb n="1539" ed="F1"/><stage>Flourish.</stage><stage type="entrance">Enter the DUKE of Florence, BERTRAM, PAROLLES, Soldiers, <lb n="1540" ed="F1"/>Drum, and Trumpets.</stage> |
| 2791 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1541" ed="F1"/> |
| 2792 |
|
| 2793 |
<sp who="aww-16"><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>The general of our horse thou art; and we, |
| 2794 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1542" ed="F1"/>Great in our hope, lay our best love and credence |
| 2795 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1543" ed="F1"/>Upon thy promising fortune. |
| 2796 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1544" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2797 |
|
| 2798 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Sir, it is |
| 2799 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1545" ed="F1"/>A charge too heavy for my strength, but yet |
| 2800 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1546" ed="F1"/>We'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake |
| 2801 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1547" ed="F1"/>To the extreme edge of hazard. |
| 2802 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1548" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2803 |
|
| 2804 |
<sp who="aww-16"><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Then go thou forth; |
| 2805 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1549" ed="F1"/>And fortune play upon thy prosperous helm, |
| 2806 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1550" ed="F1"/>As thy auspicious mistress! |
| 2807 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1551" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2808 |
|
| 2809 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>This very day, |
| 2810 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1552" ed="F1"/>Great Mars, I put myself into thy file: |
| 2811 |
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="1553" ed="F1"/>Make me but like my thoughts, and I shall prove |
| 2812 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1554" ed="F1"/>A lover of thy drum, hater of love. <stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage></p></sp></div2> |
| 2813 |
|
| 2814 |
<div2 n="4" type="scene"> |
| 2815 |
<head>SCENE IV</head> |
| 2816 |
<stage type="setting">Rousillon. The COUNT'S palace.</stage> |
| 2817 |
<lb n="1555" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter COUNTESS and Steward.</stage> |
| 2818 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1556" ed="F1"/> |
| 2819 |
|
| 2820 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Alas! and would you take the letter of her? |
| 2821 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1557" ed="F1"/>Might you not know she would do as she has done, |
| 2822 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1558" ed="F1"/>By sending me a letter? Read it again. |
| 2823 |
<lb n="1559" ed="F1"/> |
| 2824 |
</p></sp> |
| 2825 |
|
| 2826 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Steward.</speaker><p><stage>[Reads.]</stage> |
| 2827 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1560" ed="F1"/>I am Saint Jaques' pilgrim, thither gone: |
| 2828 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1561" ed="F1"/>Ambitious love hath so in me offended, |
| 2829 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1562" ed="F1"/>That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon, |
| 2830 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1563" ed="F1"/>With sainted vow my faults to have amended. |
| 2831 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1564" ed="F1"/>Write, write, that from the bloody course of war |
| 2832 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1565" ed="F1"/>My dearest master, your dear son, may hie: |
| 2833 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1566" ed="F1"/>Bless him at home in peace, whilst I from far |
| 2834 |
<lb n="11" ed="G"/><lb n="1567" ed="F1"/>His name with zealous fervour sanctify: |
| 2835 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1568" ed="F1"/>His taken labours bid him me forgive; |
| 2836 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1569" ed="F1"/>I, his despiteful Juno, sent him forth |
| 2837 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1570" ed="F1"/>From courtly friends, with camping foes to live, |
| 2838 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1571" ed="F1"/>Where death and danger dogs the heels of worth: |
| 2839 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1572" ed="F1"/>He is too good and fair for death and me; |
| 2840 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1573" ed="F1"/>Whom I myself embrace, to set him free. |
| 2841 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1574" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2842 |
|
| 2843 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>Ah, what sharp stings are in her mildest words! |
| 2844 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1575" ed="F1"/>Rinaldo, you did never lack advice so much, |
| 2845 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1576" ed="F1"/>As letting her pass so: had I spoke with her, |
| 2846 |
<lb n="21" ed="G"/><lb n="1577" ed="F1"/>I could have well diverted her intents, |
| 2847 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1578" ed="F1"/>Which thus she hath prevented. |
| 2848 |
</p></sp> |
| 2849 |
|
| 2850 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Steward.</speaker><p><stage>[Reads.]</stage> |
| 2851 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1579" ed="F1"/>Pardon me, madam: |
| 2852 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1580" ed="F1"/>If I had given you this at over-night, |
| 2853 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1581" ed="F1"/>She might have been o'erta'en; and yet she writes, |
| 2854 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1582" ed="F1"/>Pursuit would be but vain. |
| 2855 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1583" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2856 |
|
| 2857 |
<sp who="aww-2"><speaker>Count.</speaker><p>What angel shall |
| 2858 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1584" ed="F1"/>Bless this unworthy husband? he cannot thrive, |
| 2859 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1585" ed="F1"/>Unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear |
| 2860 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1586" ed="F1"/>And loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath |
| 2861 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1587" ed="F1"/>Of greatest justice. Write, write, Rinaldo, |
| 2862 |
<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="1588" ed="F1"/>To this unworthy husband of his wife; |
| 2863 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1589" ed="F1"/>Let every word weigh heavy of her worth |
| 2864 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1590" ed="F1"/>That he does weigh too light: my greatest grief, |
| 2865 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1591" ed="F1"/>Though little he do feel it, set down sharply. |
| 2866 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1592" ed="F1"/>Dispatch the most convenient messenger: |
| 2867 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1593" ed="F1"/>When haply he shall hear that she is gone, |
| 2868 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1594" ed="F1"/>He will return; and hope I may that she, |
| 2869 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1595" ed="F1"/>Hearing so much, will speed her foot again, |
| 2870 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1596" ed="F1"/>Led hither by pure love: which of them both |
| 2871 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1597" ed="F1"/>Is dearest to me, I have no skill in sense |
| 2872 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1598" ed="F1"/>To make distinction: provide this messenger: |
| 2873 |
<lb n="41" ed="G"/><lb n="1599" ed="F1"/>My heart is heavy and mine age is weak; |
| 2874 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1600" ed="F1"/>Grief would have tears, and sorrow bids me speak. |
| 2875 |
<lb n="1601" ed="F1"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage> |
| 2876 |
</p></sp></div2> |
| 2877 |
|
| 2878 |
<div2 n="5" type="scene"> |
| 2879 |
<head>SCENE V</head> |
| 2880 |
<stage type="setting">Florence. Without the walls. <lb n="1602" ed="F1"/>A tucket afar off.</stage> |
| 2881 |
<lb n="1603" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter an old Widow of Florence, DIANA, VIOLENTA, <lb n="1604" ed="F1"/>and MARIANA, with other <lb n="1605" ed="F1"/>Citizens.</stage> |
| 2882 |
|
| 2883 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1606" ed="F1"/><sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p> Nay, come; <lb n="1607" ed="F1"/>for if they do approach |
| 2884 |
<lb ed="G"/>the city, <lb n="1608" ed="F1"/>we shall lose all the sight. |
| 2885 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1609" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2886 |
|
| 2887 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p> They say the French count has done |
| 2888 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1610" ed="F1"/>most honourable service. |
| 2889 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1611" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2890 |
|
| 2891 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p> It is reported <lb n="1612" ed="F1"/>that he has taken their |
| 2892 |
<lb ed="G"/>greatest commander; <lb n="1613" ed="F1"/>and that with his own |
| 2893 |
<lb ed="G"/>hand he slew <lb n="1614" ed="F1"/>the duke's brother. <stage>[Tucket.]</stage> We |
| 2894 |
<lb ed="G"/>have lost our labour; <lb n="1615" ed="F1"/>they are gone a contrary |
| 2895 |
<lb ed="G"/>way: hark! <lb n="1616" ed="F1"/>you may know by their |
| 2896 |
<lb n="9" ed="G"/>trumpets. |
| 2897 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1617" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2898 |
|
| 2899 |
<sp who="aww-19"><speaker>Mar.</speaker><p> Come, let's return again, <lb n="1618" ed="F1"/>and suffice |
| 2900 |
<lb ed="G"/>ourselves with the report of it. <lb n="1619" ed="F1"/>Well, Diana, |
| 2901 |
<lb ed="G"/>take heed of this French earl: <lb n="1620" ed="F1"/>the honour of |
| 2902 |
<lb ed="G"/>a maid is her name; <lb n="1621" ed="F1"/>and no legacy is so rich |
| 2903 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1622" ed="F1"/>as honesty. |
| 2904 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1623" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2905 |
|
| 2906 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p> I have told my neighbour <lb n="1624" ed="F1"/>how you |
| 2907 |
<lb ed="G"/>have been solicited by a gentleman <lb n="1625" ed="F1"/>his companion. |
| 2908 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1626" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2909 |
|
| 2910 |
<sp who="aww-19"><speaker>Mar.</speaker><p> I know that knave; hang him! one |
| 2911 |
<lb ed="G"/>Parolles: <lb n="1627" ed="F1"/>a filthy officer he is in those suggestions |
| 2912 |
<lb ed="G"/>for the young <lb n="1628" ed="F1"/>earl. Beware of them, |
| 2913 |
<lb ed="G"/>Diana; their promises, enticements, <lb n="1629" ed="F1"/>oaths, tokens, |
| 2914 |
<lb ed="G"/>and all these engines of lust, are <lb n="1630" ed="F1"/>not the |
| 2915 |
<lb ed="G"/>things they go under: many a maid hath been |
| 2916 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1631" ed="F1"/>seduced by them; and the misery is, example, |
| 2917 |
<lb ed="G"/>that so <lb n="1632" ed="F1"/>terrible shows in the wreck of maiden- |
| 2918 |
<lb ed="G"/>hood, cannot <lb n="1633" ed="F1"/>for all that dissuade succession, |
| 2919 |
<lb ed="G"/>but that they are limed <lb n="1634" ed="F1"/>with the twigs that |
| 2920 |
<lb ed="G"/>threaten them. I hope I need <lb n="1635" ed="F1"/>not to advise you |
| 2921 |
<lb ed="G"/>further; but I hope your own grace <lb n="1636" ed="F1"/>will keep |
| 2922 |
<lb ed="G"/>you where you are, though there were no <lb n="1637" ed="F1"/>further |
| 2923 |
<lb ed="G"/>danger known but the modesty which is |
| 2924 |
<lb n="30" ed="G"/>so <lb n="1638" ed="F1"/>lost. |
| 2925 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1639" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2926 |
|
| 2927 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p> You shall not need to fear me. |
| 2928 |
<lb n="1640" ed="F1"/> |
| 2929 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1641" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2930 |
|
| 2931 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p> I hope so. |
| 2932 |
<stage type="entrance">Enter HELENA, disguised like a Pilgrim.</stage> |
| 2933 |
<lb ed="G"/>Look, here comes a pilgrim: I know <lb n="1642" ed="F1"/>she |
| 2934 |
<lb ed="G"/>will lie at my house; thither they send one another: |
| 2935 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1643" ed="F1"/>I'll question her. God save you, pilgrim! |
| 2936 |
<lb ed="G"/>whither are you <lb n="1644" ed="F1"/>bound? |
| 2937 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1645" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2938 |
|
| 2939 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>To Saint Jaques le Grand. |
| 2940 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1646" ed="F1"/>Where do the palmers lodge, I do beseech you? |
| 2941 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1647" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2942 |
|
| 2943 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p> At the Saint Francis here beside the port. |
| 2944 |
<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="1648" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2945 |
|
| 2946 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> Is this the way? |
| 2947 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1649" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2948 |
|
| 2949 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p>Ay, marry, is't. <stage>[A march afar.]</stage> Hark you! they come this way. |
| 2950 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1650" ed="F1"/>If you will tarry, holy pilgrim, |
| 2951 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1651" ed="F1"/>But till the troops come by, |
| 2952 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1652" ed="F1"/>I will conduct you where you shall be lodged; |
| 2953 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1653" ed="F1"/>The rather, for I think I know your hostess |
| 2954 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1654" ed="F1"/>As ample as myself. |
| 2955 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1655" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2956 |
|
| 2957 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Is it yourself? |
| 2958 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1656" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2959 |
|
| 2960 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p> If you shall please so, pilgrim. |
| 2961 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1657" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2962 |
|
| 2963 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> I thank you, and will stay upon your leisure. |
| 2964 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1658" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2965 |
|
| 2966 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p>You came, I think, from France? |
| 2967 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1659" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2968 |
|
| 2969 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>I did so. |
| 2970 |
<lb n="50" ed="G"/></p></sp> |
| 2971 |
|
| 2972 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p>Here you shall see a countryman of yours |
| 2973 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1661" ed="F1"/>That has done worthy service. |
| 2974 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1662" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2975 |
|
| 2976 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>His name, I pray you. |
| 2977 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1663" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2978 |
|
| 2979 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p> The Count Rousillon: know you such a one? |
| 2980 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1664" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2981 |
|
| 2982 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>But by the ear, that hears most nobly of him: |
| 2983 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1665" ed="F1"/>His face I know not. |
| 2984 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1666" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2985 |
|
| 2986 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p>Whatsome'er he is, |
| 2987 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1667" ed="F1"/>He's bravely taken here. He stole from France, |
| 2988 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1668" ed="F1"/>As 'tis reported, for the king had married him |
| 2989 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1669" ed="F1"/>Against his liking: think you it is so? |
| 2990 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1670" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2991 |
|
| 2992 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> Ay, surely, mere the truth: I know his lady. |
| 2993 |
<lb n="59" ed="G"/><lb n="1671" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2994 |
|
| 2995 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p>There is a gentleman that serves the count |
| 2996 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1672" ed="F1"/>Reports but coarsely of her. |
| 2997 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1673" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 2998 |
|
| 2999 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>What's his name? |
| 3000 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1674" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3001 |
|
| 3002 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p>Monsieur Parolles. |
| 3003 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1675" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3004 |
|
| 3005 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>O, I believe with him, |
| 3006 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1676" ed="F1"/>In argument of praise, or to the worth |
| 3007 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1677" ed="F1"/>Of the great count himself, she is too mean |
| 3008 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1678" ed="F1"/>To have her name repeated: all her deserving |
| 3009 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1679" ed="F1"/>Is a reserved honesty, and that |
| 3010 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1680" ed="F1"/>I have not heard examined. |
| 3011 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1681" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3012 |
|
| 3013 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p>Alas, poor lady! |
| 3014 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1682" ed="F1"/>'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife |
| 3015 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1683" ed="F1"/>Of a detesting lord. |
| 3016 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1684" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3017 |
|
| 3018 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p>I warrant, good creature, wheresoe'er she is, |
| 3019 |
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="1685" ed="F1"/>Her heart weighs sadly: this young maid might do her |
| 3020 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1686" ed="F1"/>A shrewd turn, if she pleased. |
| 3021 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1687" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3022 |
|
| 3023 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>How do you mean? |
| 3024 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1688" ed="F1"/>May be the amorous count solicits her |
| 3025 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1689" ed="F1"/>In the unlawful purpose. |
| 3026 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1690" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3027 |
|
| 3028 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p>He does indeed; |
| 3029 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1691" ed="F1"/>And brokes with all that can in such a suit |
| 3030 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1692" ed="F1"/>Corrupt the tender honour of a maid: |
| 3031 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1693" ed="F1"/>But she is arm'd for him and keeps her guard |
| 3032 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1694" ed="F1"/>In honestest defence. |
| 3033 |
<lb n="1695" ed="F1"/> |
| 3034 |
<lb n="1696" ed="F1"/> |
| 3035 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1697" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3036 |
|
| 3037 |
<sp who="aww-19"><speaker>Mar.</speaker><p>The gods forbid else! |
| 3038 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1698" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3039 |
|
| 3040 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p> So, now they come: |
| 3041 |
<lb ed="G"/><stage>Drum and Colours.</stage> |
| 3042 |
<stage type="entrance">Enter BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and the whole army.</stage> |
| 3043 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1699" ed="F1"/>That is Antonio, the duke's eldest son; |
| 3044 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1700" ed="F1"/>That, Escalus. |
| 3045 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1701" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3046 |
|
| 3047 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Which is the Frenchman? |
| 3048 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1702" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3049 |
|
| 3050 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p>He; |
| 3051 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1703" ed="F1"/>That with the plume: 'tis a most gallant fellow. |
| 3052 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1704" ed="F1"/>I would he loved his wife: if he were honester |
| 3053 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1705" ed="F1"/>He were much goodlier: is't not a handsome gentleman? |
| 3054 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1706" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3055 |
|
| 3056 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> I like him well. |
| 3057 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1707" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3058 |
|
| 3059 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p>Tis pity he is not honest: yond's that same knave |
| 3060 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1708" ed="F1"/>That leads him to these places: were I his lady, |
| 3061 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1709" ed="F1"/>I would poison that vile rascal. |
| 3062 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1710" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3063 |
|
| 3064 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Which is he? |
| 3065 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1711" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3066 |
|
| 3067 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p> That jack-an-apes with scarfs: why is |
| 3068 |
<lb ed="G"/>he <lb n="1712" ed="F1"/>melancholy? |
| 3069 |
<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="1713" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3070 |
|
| 3071 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p> Perchance he's hurt i' the battle. |
| 3072 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1714" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3073 |
|
| 3074 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Lose our drum! well. |
| 3075 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1715" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3076 |
|
| 3077 |
<sp who="aww-19"><speaker>Mar.</speaker><p> He's shrewdly vexed at something: |
| 3078 |
<lb ed="G"/>look, he <lb n="1716" ed="F1"/>has spied us. |
| 3079 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1717" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3080 |
|
| 3081 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p> Marry, hang you! |
| 3082 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1718" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3083 |
|
| 3084 |
<sp who="aww-19"><speaker>Mar.</speaker><p>And your courtesy, for a ring-carrier! |
| 3085 |
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt Bertram, Parolles, and army.</stage> |
| 3086 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1719" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3087 |
|
| 3088 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p>The troop is past. Come, pilgrim, I will bring <lb n="1720" ed="F1"/>you |
| 3089 |
<lb ed="G"/>Where you shall host: of enjoin'd penitents |
| 3090 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1721" ed="F1"/>There's four or five, to great Saint Jaques bound, |
| 3091 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1722" ed="F1"/>Already at my house. |
| 3092 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1723" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3093 |
|
| 3094 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>I humbly thank you: |
| 3095 |
<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="1724" ed="F1"/>Please it this matron and this gentle maid |
| 3096 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1725" ed="F1"/>To eat with us to-night, the charge and thanking |
| 3097 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1726" ed="F1"/>Shall be for me; and, to requite you further, |
| 3098 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1727" ed="F1"/>I will bestow some precepts of this virgin |
| 3099 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1728" ed="F1"/>Worthy the note. |
| 3100 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1729" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3101 |
|
| 3102 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Both.</speaker><p>We'll take your offer kindly. |
| 3103 |
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage></p></sp></div2> |
| 3104 |
|
| 3105 |
<div2 n="6" type="scene"> |
| 3106 |
<head>SCENE VI</head> |
| 3107 |
|
| 3108 |
<stage type="setting">Camp before Florence.</stage> |
| 3109 |
<lb n="1730" ed="F1"/><stage>Enter BERTRAM and the two French Lords.</stage> |
| 3110 |
<lb n="1731" ed="F1"/> |
| 3111 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1732" ed="F1"/> |
| 3112 |
|
| 3113 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> Nay, good my lord, put him |
| 3114 |
<lb ed="G"/>to't; let him <lb n="1733" ed="F1"/>have his way. |
| 3115 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1734" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3116 |
|
| 3117 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> If your lordship find him not a |
| 3118 |
<lb ed="G"/>hilding, <lb n="1735" ed="F1"/>hold me no more in your respect. |
| 3119 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1736" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3120 |
|
| 3121 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> On my life, my lord, a bubble. |
| 3122 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1737" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3123 |
|
| 3124 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> Do you think I am so far <lb n="1738" ed="F1"/>deceived in him? |
| 3125 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1739" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3126 |
|
| 3127 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> Believe it, my lord, in mine own |
| 3128 |
<lb ed="G"/>direct <lb n="1740" ed="F1"/>knowledge, without any malice, but to |
| 3129 |
<lb ed="G"/>speak of him <lb n="1741" ed="F1"/>as my kinsman, he's a most notable |
| 3130 |
<lb ed="G"/>coward, an infinite <lb n="1742" ed="F1"/>and endless liar, an |
| 3131 |
<lb ed="G"/>hourly promise-breaker, the <lb n="1743" ed="F1"/>owner of no one |
| 3132 |
<lb ed="G"/>good quality worthy your lordship's |
| 3133 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1744" ed="F1"/>entertainment. |
| 3134 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1745" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3135 |
|
| 3136 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> It were fit you knew him; lest, |
| 3137 |
<lb ed="G"/>reposing too <lb n="1746" ed="F1"/>far in his virtue, which he hath |
| 3138 |
<lb ed="G"/>not, he might at some <lb n="1747" ed="F1"/>great and trusty business |
| 3139 |
<lb ed="G"/>in a main danger fail <lb n="1748" ed="F1"/>you. |
| 3140 |
|
| 3141 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1749" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3142 |
|
| 3143 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> I would I knew in what particular action |
| 3144 |
<lb n="19" ed="G"/>to try <lb n="1750" ed="F1"/>him. |
| 3145 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1751" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3146 |
|
| 3147 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> None better than to let him |
| 3148 |
<lb ed="G"/>fetch off his <lb n="1752" ed="F1"/>drum, which you hear him so |
| 3149 |
<lb ed="G"/>confidently undertake <lb n="1753" ed="F1"/>to do. |
| 3150 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1754" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3151 |
|
| 3152 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> I, with a troop of Florentines, |
| 3153 |
<lb ed="G"/>will suddenly surprise <lb n="1755" ed="F1"/>him; such I will have, |
| 3154 |
<lb ed="G"/>whom I am sure he knows <lb n="1756" ed="F1"/>not from the enemy: |
| 3155 |
<lb ed="G"/>we will bind and hoodwink <lb n="1757" ed="F1"/>him so, that |
| 3156 |
<lb ed="G"/>he shall suppose no other but that he is carried |
| 3157 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1758" ed="F1"/>into the leaguer of the adversaries, when |
| 3158 |
<lb ed="G"/>we bring <lb n="1759" ed="F1"/>him to our own tents. Be but your |
| 3159 |
<lb ed="G"/>lordship present <lb n="1760" ed="F1"/>at his examination: if he do |
| 3160 |
<lb ed="G"/>not, for the promise of his <lb n="1761" ed="F1"/>life and in the highest |
| 3161 |
<lb ed="G"/>compulsion of base fear, offer to <lb n="1762" ed="F1"/>betray |
| 3162 |
<lb ed="G"/>you and deliver all the intelligence in his power |
| 3163 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1763" ed="F1"/>against you, and that with the divine forfeit |
| 3164 |
<lb ed="G"/>of his <lb n="1764" ed="F1"/>soul upon oath, never trust my judgement |
| 3165 |
<lb ed="G"/>in any <lb n="1765" ed="F1"/>thing. |
| 3166 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1766" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3167 |
|
| 3168 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> O, for the love of laughter, let |
| 3169 |
<lb ed="G"/>him fetch his <lb n="1767" ed="F1"/>drum; he says he has a stratagem |
| 3170 |
<lb ed="G"/>for't: when your <lb n="1768" ed="F1"/>lordship sees the bottom |
| 3171 |
<lb ed="G"/>of his success in't, and to <lb n="1769" ed="F1"/>what metal this |
| 3172 |
<lb ed="G"/>counterfeit lump of ore will be melted, <lb n="1770" ed="F1"/>if you |
| 3173 |
<lb ed="G"/>give him not John Drum's entertainment, <lb n="1771" ed="F1"/>your |
| 3174 |
<lb ed="G"/>inclining cannot be removed. Here he comes. |
| 3175 |
<lb n="1772" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PAROLLES.</stage> |
| 3176 |
</p></sp> |
| 3177 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><stage>[Aside to Ber.]</stage> |
| 3178 |
<lb n="1773" ed="F1"/><p> O, for the love |
| 3179 |
<lb ed="G"/>of laughter, hinder not the honour <lb n="1774" ed="F1"/>of his design: |
| 3180 |
<lb ed="G"/>let him fetch off his drum in any <lb n="1775" ed="F1"/>hand. |
| 3181 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1776" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3182 |
|
| 3183 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> How now, monsieur! this drum sticks |
| 3184 |
<lb ed="G"/>sorely <lb n="1777" ed="F1"/>in your disposition. |
| 3185 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1778" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3186 |
|
| 3187 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> A pox on't, let it go; 'tis but a |
| 3188 |
<lb n="49" ed="G"/>drum. |
| 3189 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1779" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3190 |
|
| 3191 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> 'But a drum'! is't 'but a drum'? A |
| 3192 |
<lb ed="G"/>drum so <lb n="1780" ed="F1"/>lost! There was excellent command, |
| 3193 |
<lb ed="G"/>--to charge in with <lb n="1781" ed="F1"/>our horse upon our own |
| 3194 |
<lb ed="G"/>wings, and to rend our own <lb n="1782" ed="F1"/>soldiers! |
| 3195 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1783" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3196 |
|
| 3197 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> That was not to be blamed in |
| 3198 |
<lb ed="G"/>the command <lb n="1784" ed="F1"/>of the service: it was a disaster |
| 3199 |
<lb ed="G"/>of war that Caesar himself <lb n="1785" ed="F1"/>could not have prevented, |
| 3200 |
<lb ed="G"/>if he had been there to <lb n="1786" ed="F1"/>command. |
| 3201 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1787" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3202 |
|
| 3203 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> Well, we cannot greatly condemn our |
| 3204 |
<lb ed="G"/>success: <lb n="1788" ed="F1"/>some dishonour we had in the loss of |
| 3205 |
<lb n="60" ed="G"/>that drum; <lb n="1789" ed="F1"/>but it is not to be recovered. |
| 3206 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1790" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3207 |
|
| 3208 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> It might have been recovered. |
| 3209 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1791" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3210 |
|
| 3211 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> It might; but it is not now. |
| 3212 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1792" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3213 |
|
| 3214 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> It is to be recovered: but that the |
| 3215 |
<lb ed="G"/>merit of service <lb n="1793" ed="F1"/>is seldom attributed to the true |
| 3216 |
<lb ed="G"/>and exact performer, <lb n="1794" ed="F1"/>I would have that drum |
| 3217 |
<lb ed="G"/>or another, or 'hic <lb n="1795" ed="F1"/>jacet.' |
| 3218 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1796" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3219 |
|
| 3220 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> Why, if you have a stomach, to't, |
| 3221 |
<lb ed="G"/>monsieur: if <lb n="1797" ed="F1"/>you think your mystery in <reg orig="strata-gem">stratagem</reg> |
| 3222 |
<lb ed="G"/>can bring this <lb n="1798" ed="F1"/>instrument of honour again |
| 3223 |
<lb ed="G"/>into his native quarter, be <lb n="1799" ed="F1"/>magnanimous in the |
| 3224 |
<lb ed="G"/>enterprise and go on; I will grace <lb n="1800" ed="F1"/>the attempt |
| 3225 |
<lb ed="G"/>for a worthy exploit: if you speed well in <lb n="1801" ed="F1"/>it, |
| 3226 |
<lb ed="G"/>the duke shall both speak of it, and extend to |
| 3227 |
<lb ed="G"/>you <lb n="1802" ed="F1"/>what further becomes his greatness, even |
| 3228 |
<lb ed="G"/>to the utmost <lb n="1803" ed="F1"/>syllable of your worthiness. |
| 3229 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1804" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3230 |
|
| 3231 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> By the hand of a soldier, I will undertake |
| 3232 |
<lb ed="G"/>it. |
| 3233 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1805" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3234 |
|
| 3235 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> But you must not now slumber in it. |
| 3236 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1806" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3237 |
|
| 3238 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> I'll about it this evening: and I will |
| 3239 |
<lb ed="G"/>presently <lb n="1807" ed="F1"/>pen down my dilemmas, encourage |
| 3240 |
<lb ed="G"/>myself in my <lb n="1808" ed="F1"/>certainty, put myself into my |
| 3241 |
<lb ed="G"/>mortal preparation; <lb n="1809" ed="F1"/>and by midnight look to |
| 3242 |
<lb ed="G"/>hear further from me. |
| 3243 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1810" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3244 |
|
| 3245 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> May I be bold to acquaint his grace |
| 3246 |
<lb ed="G"/>you are <lb n="1811" ed="F1"/>gone about it? |
| 3247 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1812" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3248 |
|
| 3249 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> I know not what the success will be, |
| 3250 |
<lb ed="G"/>my lord; <lb n="1813" ed="F1"/>but the attempt I vow. |
| 3251 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1814" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3252 |
|
| 3253 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> I know thou'rt valiant: <lb n="1815" ed="F1"/>and, to the |
| 3254 |
<lb ed="G"/>possibility of thy soldiership, <lb n="1816" ed="F1"/>will subscribe for |
| 3255 |
<lb n="90" ed="G"/>thee. Farewell. |
| 3256 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1817" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3257 |
|
| 3258 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> I love not many words. <stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage> |
| 3259 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1818" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3260 |
|
| 3261 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> No more than a fish loves water. |
| 3262 |
<lb ed="G"/>Is not this <lb n="1819" ed="F1"/>a strange fellow, my lord, that |
| 3263 |
<lb ed="G"/>so confidently seems to <lb n="1820" ed="F1"/>undertake this business, |
| 3264 |
<lb ed="G"/>which he knows is not to be <lb n="1821" ed="F1"/>done; damns himself |
| 3265 |
<lb ed="G"/>to do and dares better be damned <lb n="1822" ed="F1"/>than to |
| 3266 |
<lb ed="G"/>do't? |
| 3267 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1823" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3268 |
|
| 3269 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> You do not know him, my |
| 3270 |
<lb ed="G"/>lord, as we do: <lb n="1824" ed="F1"/>certain it is, that he will steal |
| 3271 |
<lb ed="G"/>himself into a man's favour <lb n="1825" ed="F1"/>and for a week escape |
| 3272 |
<lb ed="G"/>a great deal of discoveries; <lb n="1826" ed="F1"/>but when |
| 3273 |
<lb n="101" ed="G"/>you find him out, you have him ever <lb n="1827" ed="F1"/>after. |
| 3274 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1828" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3275 |
|
| 3276 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> Why, do you think he will make no |
| 3277 |
<lb ed="G"/>deed at <lb n="1829" ed="F1"/>all of this that so seriously he does address |
| 3278 |
<lb ed="G"/>himself <lb n="1830" ed="F1"/>unto? |
| 3279 |
|
| 3280 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1831" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3281 |
|
| 3282 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> None in the world; but return |
| 3283 |
<lb ed="G"/>with an invention <lb n="1832" ed="F1"/>and clap upon you two or |
| 3284 |
<lb ed="G"/>three probable lies: <lb n="1833" ed="F1"/>but we have almost <reg orig="em-bossed">embossed</reg> |
| 3285 |
<lb ed="G"/>him: you shall see his fall to-night; |
| 3286 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1834" ed="F1"/>for indeed he is not for your lordship's |
| 3287 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1835" ed="F1"/>respect. |
| 3288 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1836" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3289 |
|
| 3290 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> We'll make you some sport |
| 3291 |
<lb ed="G"/>with the fox <lb n="1837" ed="F1"/>ere we case him. He was first |
| 3292 |
<lb ed="G"/>smoked by the old lord <lb n="1838" ed="F1"/>Lafeu: when his disguise |
| 3293 |
<lb ed="G"/>and he is parted, tell me what <lb n="1839" ed="F1"/>a sprat |
| 3294 |
<lb ed="G"/>you shall find him; which you shall see this |
| 3295 |
<lb ed="G"/>very <lb n="1840" ed="F1"/>night. |
| 3296 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1841" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3297 |
|
| 3298 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> I must go look my twigs: <lb n="1842" ed="F1"/>he |
| 3299 |
<lb ed="G"/>shall be caught. |
| 3300 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1843" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3301 |
|
| 3302 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> Your brother he shall go along with me. |
| 3303 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1844" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3304 |
|
| 3305 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> As't please your lordship; I'll |
| 3306 |
<lb ed="G"/>leave you. <stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage> |
| 3307 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1845" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3308 |
|
| 3309 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Now will I lead you to the house, and show you |
| 3310 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1846" ed="F1"/>The lass I spoke of. |
| 3311 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1847" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3312 |
|
| 3313 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p>But you say she's honest. |
| 3314 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1848" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3315 |
|
| 3316 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>That's all the fault: I spoke with her but once |
| 3317 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1849" ed="F1"/>And found her wondrous cold; but I sent to her, |
| 3318 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1850" ed="F1"/>By this same coxcomb that we have i' the wind, |
| 3319 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1851" ed="F1"/>Tokens and letters which she did re-send; |
| 3320 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1852" ed="F1"/>And this is all I have done. She's a fair creature: |
| 3321 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1853" ed="F1"/>Will you go see her? |
| 3322 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1854" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3323 |
|
| 3324 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p>With all my heart, my lord. |
| 3325 |
<stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage></p></sp></div2> |
| 3326 |
<div2 n="7" type="scene"> |
| 3327 |
|
| 3328 |
<head>SCENE VII</head> |
| 3329 |
<stage type="setting">Florence. The Widow's house.</stage> |
| 3330 |
<lb n="1855" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter HELENA and Widow.</stage> |
| 3331 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1856" ed="F1"/> |
| 3332 |
|
| 3333 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>If you misdoubt me that I am not she, |
| 3334 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1857" ed="F1"/>I know not how I shall assure you further, |
| 3335 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1858" ed="F1"/>But I shall lose the grounds I work upon. |
| 3336 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1859" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3337 |
|
| 3338 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p>Though my estate be fallen, I was |
| 3339 |
<lb ed="G"/>well born, |
| 3340 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1860" ed="F1"/>Nothing acquainted with these businesses; |
| 3341 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1861" ed="F1"/>And would not put my reputation now |
| 3342 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1862" ed="F1"/>In any staining act. |
| 3343 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1863" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3344 |
|
| 3345 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Nor would I wish you. |
| 3346 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1864" ed="F1"/>First, give me trust, the count he is my husband, |
| 3347 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1865"/>And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken |
| 3348 |
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="1866" ed="F1"/>Is so from word to word; and then you cannot, |
| 3349 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1867" ed="F1"/>By the good aid that I of you shall borrow, |
| 3350 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1868" ed="F1"/>Err in bestowing it. |
| 3351 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1869" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3352 |
|
| 3353 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p>I should believe you; |
| 3354 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1870" ed="F1"/>For you have show'd me that which well approves |
| 3355 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1871"/>You're great in fortune, |
| 3356 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1872" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3357 |
|
| 3358 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Take this purse of gold, |
| 3359 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1873" ed="F1"/>And let me buy your friendly help thus far, |
| 3360 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1874" ed="F1"/>Which I will over-pay and pay again |
| 3361 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1875" ed="F1"/>When I have found it. The count he wooes |
| 3362 |
<lb ed="G"/>your <lb n="1876" ed="F1"/>daughter, |
| 3363 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1877" ed="F1"/>Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty, |
| 3364 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1878" ed="F1"/>Resolved to carry her: let her in fine consent, |
| 3365 |
<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="1879" ed="F1"/>As we'll direct her how 'tis best to bear it. |
| 3366 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1880" ed="F1"/>Now his important blood will nought deny |
| 3367 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1881" ed="F1"/>That she'll demand: a ring the county wears, |
| 3368 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1882" ed="F1"/>That downward hath succeeded in his house |
| 3369 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1883" ed="F1"/>From son to son, some four or five descents |
| 3370 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1884" ed="F1"/>Since the first father wore it: this ring he |
| 3371 |
<lb ed="G"/>holds |
| 3372 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1885" ed="F1"/>In most rich choice; yet in his idle fire, |
| 3373 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1886" ed="F1"/>To buy his will, it would not seem too dear, |
| 3374 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1887" ed="F1"/>Howe'er repented after. |
| 3375 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1888" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3376 |
|
| 3377 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p>Now I see |
| 3378 |
<lb ed="G"/>The bottom of your purpose. |
| 3379 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1889" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3380 |
|
| 3381 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>You see it lawful, then: it is no more, |
| 3382 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1890" ed="F1"/>But that your daughter, ere she seems as |
| 3383 |
<lb n="31" ed="G"/>won, |
| 3384 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1891" ed="F1"/>Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter; |
| 3385 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1892" ed="F1"/>In fine, delivers me to fill the time, |
| 3386 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1893" ed="F1"/>Herself most chastely absent: after this, |
| 3387 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1894" ed="F1"/>To marry her, I'll add three thousand crowns |
| 3388 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1895" ed="F1"/>To what is past already. |
| 3389 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1896" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3390 |
|
| 3391 |
<sp who="aww-21"><speaker>Wid.</speaker><p>I have yielded: |
| 3392 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1897" ed="F1"/>Instruct my daughter how she shall persever, |
| 3393 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1898" ed="F1"/>That time and place with this deceit so lawful |
| 3394 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1899" ed="F1"/>May prove coherent. Every night he comes |
| 3395 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1900" ed="F1"/>With musics of all sorts and songs composed |
| 3396 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1901" ed="F1"/>To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us |
| 3397 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1902" ed="F1"/>To chide him for our eaves; for he persists |
| 3398 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1903" ed="F1"/>As if his life lay on't. |
| 3399 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1904" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3400 |
|
| 3401 |
<sp who="aww-3"><speaker>Hel.</speaker><p>Why then to-night |
| 3402 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1905" ed="F1"/>Let us assay our plot; which, if it speed, |
| 3403 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1906" ed="F1"/>Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed |
| 3404 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1907" ed="F1"/>And lawful meaning in a lawful act, |
| 3405 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1908" ed="F1"/>Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact: |
| 3406 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1909" ed="F1"/>But let's about it. <stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage></p></sp> |
| 3407 |
</div2> |
| 3408 |
</div1> |
| 3409 |
|
| 3410 |
<div1 n="4" type="act"> |
| 3411 |
<head>ACT IV</head> |
| 3412 |
<lb n="1910" ed="F1"/> |
| 3413 |
<div2 n="1" type="scene"> |
| 3414 |
<head>SCENE I</head> |
| 3415 |
<stage type="setting">Without the Florentine camp.</stage> |
| 3416 |
<lb n="1911" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter Second French Lord, with five or six other <lb n="1912" ed="F1"/>Soldiers in ambush.</stage> |
| 3417 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1913" ed="F1"/> |
| 3418 |
|
| 3419 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> He can come no other way but |
| 3420 |
<lb ed="G"/>by this hedge-corner. <lb n="1914" ed="F1"/>When you sally upon |
| 3421 |
<lb ed="G"/>him, speak what terrible <lb n="1915" ed="F1"/>language you will: |
| 3422 |
<lb ed="G"/>though you understand it not yourselves, <lb n="1916" ed="F1"/>no |
| 3423 |
<lb ed="G"/>matter; for we must not seem to understand |
| 3424 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1917" ed="F1"/>him, unless some one among us whom we must |
| 3425 |
<lb ed="G"/>produce <lb n="1918" ed="F1"/>for an interpreter. |
| 3426 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1919" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3427 |
|
| 3428 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> Good captain, let me be the interpreter. |
| 3429 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1920" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3430 |
|
| 3431 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> Art not acquainted with him? |
| 3432 |
<lb n="11" ed="G"/>knows he not <lb n="1921" ed="F1"/>thy voice? |
| 3433 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1922" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3434 |
|
| 3435 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> No, sir, I warrant you. |
| 3436 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1923" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3437 |
|
| 3438 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> But what linsey-woolsey hast |
| 3439 |
<lb ed="G"/>thou to speak to us <lb n="1924" ed="F1"/>again? |
| 3440 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1925" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3441 |
|
| 3442 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> E'en such as you speak to me. |
| 3443 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1926" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3444 |
|
| 3445 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> He must think us some band of |
| 3446 |
<lb ed="G"/>strangers i' the <lb n="1927" ed="F1"/>adversary's entertainment. Now |
| 3447 |
<lb ed="G"/>he hath a smack of all <lb n="1928" ed="F1"/>neighbouring languages; |
| 3448 |
<lb ed="G"/>therefore we must every one <lb n="1929" ed="F1"/>be a man of his |
| 3449 |
<lb ed="G"/>own fancy, not to know what we speak <lb n="1930" ed="F1"/>one to |
| 3450 |
<lb ed="G"/>another; so we seem to know, is to know |
| 3451 |
<lb ed="G"/>straight <lb n="1931" ed="F1"/>our purpose: choughs' language, gabble |
| 3452 |
<lb ed="G"/>enough, and <lb n="1932" ed="F1"/>good enough. As for you, interpreter, |
| 3453 |
<lb ed="G"/>you must seem <lb n="1933" ed="F1"/>very politic. But |
| 3454 |
<lb ed="G"/>couch, ho! here he comes, to beguile <lb n="1934" ed="F1"/>two |
| 3455 |
<lb ed="G"/>hours in a sleep, and then to return and swear |
| 3456 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1935" ed="F1"/>the lies he forges. |
| 3457 |
<lb n="1936" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PAROLLES.</stage> |
| 3458 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1937" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3459 |
|
| 3460 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Ten o'clock: within these three hours |
| 3461 |
<lb ed="G"/>'twill <lb n="1938" ed="F1"/>be time enough to go home. What shall |
| 3462 |
<lb ed="G"/>I say I have <lb n="1939" ed="F1"/>done? It must be a very plausive |
| 3463 |
<lb ed="G"/>invention that carries <lb n="1940" ed="F1"/>it: they begin to smoke |
| 3464 |
<lb ed="G"/>me; and disgraces have of <lb n="1941" ed="F1"/>late knocked too |
| 3465 |
<lb ed="G"/>often at my door. I find my tongue <lb n="1942" ed="F1"/>is too foolhardy; |
| 3466 |
<lb ed="G"/>but my heart hath the fear of Mars |
| 3467 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1943" ed="F1"/>before it and of his creatures, not daring the |
| 3468 |
<lb ed="G"/>reports of <lb n="1944" ed="F1"/>my tongue. |
| 3469 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1945" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3470 |
|
| 3471 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> This is the first truth that e'er |
| 3472 |
<lb ed="G"/>thine own tongue <lb n="1946" ed="F1"/>was guilty of. |
| 3473 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1947" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3474 |
|
| 3475 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> What the devil should move me to undertake |
| 3476 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1948" ed="F1"/>the recovery of this drum, being not |
| 3477 |
<lb ed="G"/>ignorant of <lb n="1949" ed="F1"/>the impossibility, and knowing I |
| 3478 |
<lb ed="G"/>had no such purpose? I <lb n="1950" ed="F1"/>must give myself some |
| 3479 |
<lb ed="G"/>hurts, and say I got them in exploit: <lb n="1951" ed="F1"/>yet slight |
| 3480 |
<lb ed="G"/>ones will not carry it; they will say, <lb n="1952" ed="F1"/>'Came |
| 3481 |
<lb ed="G"/>you off with so little?' and great ones I dare |
| 3482 |
<lb ed="G"/>not <lb n="1953" ed="F1"/>give. Wherefore, what's the instance? |
| 3483 |
<lb ed="G"/>Tongue, I must put <lb n="1954" ed="F1"/>you into a butter-woman's |
| 3484 |
<lb ed="G"/>mouth and buy myself another <lb n="1955" ed="F1"/>of Bajazet's |
| 3485 |
<lb ed="G"/>mule, if you prattle me into these <lb n="1956" ed="F1"/>perils. |
| 3486 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1957" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3487 |
|
| 3488 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> Is it possible he should know |
| 3489 |
<lb n="49" ed="G"/>what he is, and <lb n="1958" ed="F1"/>be that he is? |
| 3490 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1959" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3491 |
|
| 3492 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> I would the cutting of my garments |
| 3493 |
<lb ed="G"/>would serve <lb n="1960" ed="F1"/>the turn, or the breaking of my |
| 3494 |
<lb ed="G"/>Spanish sword. |
| 3495 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1961" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3496 |
|
| 3497 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> We cannot afford you so. |
| 3498 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1962" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3499 |
|
| 3500 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Or the baring of my beard; and to |
| 3501 |
<lb ed="G"/>say it was in <lb n="1963" ed="F1"/>stratagem. |
| 3502 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1964" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3503 |
|
| 3504 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> 'Twould not do. |
| 3505 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1965" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3506 |
|
| 3507 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Or to drown my clothes, and say I |
| 3508 |
<lb ed="G"/>was stripped. |
| 3509 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1966" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3510 |
|
| 3511 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> Hardly serve. |
| 3512 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1967" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3513 |
|
| 3514 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Though I swore I leaped from the |
| 3515 |
<lb n="61" ed="G"/>window of the <lb n="1968" ed="F1"/>citadel-- |
| 3516 |
|
| 3517 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1969" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3518 |
|
| 3519 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> How deep? |
| 3520 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1970" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3521 |
|
| 3522 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Thirty fathom. |
| 3523 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1971" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3524 |
|
| 3525 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> Three great oaths would scarce |
| 3526 |
<lb ed="G"/>make that be <lb n="1972" ed="F1"/>believed. |
| 3527 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1973" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3528 |
|
| 3529 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>I would I had any drum of the enemy's: |
| 3530 |
<lb ed="G"/>I <lb n="1974" ed="F1"/>would swear I recovered it. |
| 3531 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1975" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3532 |
|
| 3533 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> You shall hear one anon. |
| 3534 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1976" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3535 |
|
| 3536 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>A drum now of the enemy's,-- |
| 3537 |
<lb n="1977" ed="F1"/><stage>[Alarum within.</stage> |
| 3538 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1978" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3539 |
|
| 3540 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, |
| 3541 |
<lb n="71" ed="G"/>cargo. |
| 3542 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1979" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3543 |
|
| 3544 |
<sp who="aww-0"><speaker>All.</speaker><p> Cargo, cargo, cargo, villiando par |
| 3545 |
<lb ed="G"/>corbo, cargo. |
| 3546 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1980" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3547 |
|
| 3548 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> O, ransom, ransom! <lb n="1981" ed="F1"/>do not hide mine |
| 3549 |
<lb ed="G"/>eyes. <stage>[They seize and blindfold him.</stage> |
| 3550 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1982" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3551 |
|
| 3552 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> Boskos thromuldo boskos. |
| 3553 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1983" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3554 |
|
| 3555 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>I know you are the Muskos' regiment: |
| 3556 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1984" ed="F1"/>And I shall lose my life for want of language: |
| 3557 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1985" ed="F1"/>If there be here German, or Dane, low Dutch, |
| 3558 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1986" ed="F1"/>Italian, or French, let him speak to me; I'll |
| 3559 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1987" ed="F1"/>Discover that which shall undo the Florentine. |
| 3560 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1988" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3561 |
|
| 3562 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> Boskos vauvado; I understand |
| 3563 |
<lb ed="G"/>thee, and can speak <lb n="1989" ed="F1"/>thy tongue. Kerely bonto, |
| 3564 |
<lb ed="G"/>sir, betake thee to thy faith, for <lb n="1990" ed="F1"/>seventeen |
| 3565 |
<lb ed="G"/>poniards are at thy bosom. |
| 3566 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1991" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3567 |
|
| 3568 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> O! |
| 3569 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1992" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3570 |
|
| 3571 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> O, pray, pray, pray! <lb n="1993" ed="F1"/>Manka |
| 3572 |
<lb ed="G"/>revania dulche. |
| 3573 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1994" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3574 |
|
| 3575 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>Sec. Sold.</speaker><p> Oscorbidulchos volivorco. |
| 3576 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1995" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3577 |
|
| 3578 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p>The general is content to spare thee yet; |
| 3579 |
<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="1996" ed="F1"/>And, hoodwink'd as thou art, will lead thee on |
| 3580 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1997" ed="F1"/>To gather from thee: haply thou mayst inform |
| 3581 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1998" ed="F1"/>Something to save thy life. |
| 3582 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1999" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3583 |
|
| 3584 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>O, let me live! |
| 3585 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2000" ed="F1"/>And all the secrets of our camp I'll show, |
| 3586 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2001" ed="F1"/>Their force, their purposes; nay, I'll speak that |
| 3587 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2002" ed="F1"/>Which you will wonder at. |
| 3588 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2003" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3589 |
|
| 3590 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p>But wilt thou faithfully? |
| 3591 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2004" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3592 |
|
| 3593 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> If I do not, damn me. |
| 3594 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2005" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3595 |
|
| 3596 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> Acordo linta. |
| 3597 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2006" ed="F1"/>Come on; thou art granted space. |
| 3598 |
<stage type="exit">[Exit, with Parolles guarded. <lb n="2007" ed="F1"/>A short |
| 3599 |
alarum within.</stage> |
| 3600 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2008" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3601 |
|
| 3602 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p>Go, tell the Count Rousillon, and my brother, |
| 3603 |
<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="2009" ed="F1"/>We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled |
| 3604 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2010" ed="F1"/>Till we do hear from them. |
| 3605 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2011" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3606 |
|
| 3607 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>Sec. Sold.</speaker><p>Captain, I will. |
| 3608 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2012" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3609 |
|
| 3610 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p>A' will betray us all unto ourselves: |
| 3611 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2013"/>Inform on that. |
| 3612 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2014" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3613 |
|
| 3614 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>Sec. Sold.</speaker><p> So I will, sir. |
| 3615 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2015" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3616 |
|
| 3617 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> Till then I'll keep him dark and |
| 3618 |
<lb ed="G"/>safely lock'd. <lb n="2016" ed="F1"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage></p></sp></div2> |
| 3619 |
|
| 3620 |
<div2 n="2" type="scene"> |
| 3621 |
<head>SCENE II</head> |
| 3622 |
<stage type="setting">Florence. The Widow's house.</stage> |
| 3623 |
<lb n="2017" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BERTRAM and <lb n="2018" ed="F1"/>DIANA.</stage> |
| 3624 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2019" ed="F1"/> |
| 3625 |
|
| 3626 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> They told me that your name was Fontibell. |
| 3627 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2020" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3628 |
|
| 3629 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p>No, my good lord, Diana. |
| 3630 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2021" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3631 |
|
| 3632 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Titled goddess; |
| 3633 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2022" ed="F1"/>And worth it, with addition! But, fair soul, |
| 3634 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2023" ed="F1"/>In your fine frame hath love no quality? |
| 3635 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2024" ed="F1"/>If the quick fire of youth light not your mind, |
| 3636 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2025" ed="F1"/>You are no maiden, but a monument: |
| 3637 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2027" ed="F1"/>As you are now, for you are cold and stern; |
| 3638 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2026" ed="F1"/>When you are dead, you should be such a one |
| 3639 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2028" ed="F1"/>And now you should be as your mother was |
| 3640 |
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="2029" ed="F1"/>When your sweet self was got. |
| 3641 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2030" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3642 |
|
| 3643 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p>She then was honest. |
| 3644 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2031" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3645 |
|
| 3646 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>So should you be. |
| 3647 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2032" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3648 |
|
| 3649 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p>No: |
| 3650 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2033" ed="F1"/>My mother did but duty; such, my lord, |
| 3651 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2034" ed="F1"/>As you owe to your wife. |
| 3652 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2035" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3653 |
|
| 3654 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>No more o' that; |
| 3655 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2036" ed="F1"/>I prithee, do not strive against my vows: |
| 3656 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2037" ed="F1"/>I was compell'd to her; but I love thee |
| 3657 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2038" ed="F1"/>By love's own sweet constraint, and will for ever |
| 3658 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2039" ed="F1"/>Do thee all rights of service. |
| 3659 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2040" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3660 |
|
| 3661 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p>Ay, so you serve us |
| 3662 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2041" ed="F1"/>Till we serve you; but when you have our |
| 3663 |
<lb ed="G"/>roses, |
| 3664 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2042" ed="F1"/>You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves |
| 3665 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2043" ed="F1"/>And mock us with our bareness. |
| 3666 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2044" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3667 |
|
| 3668 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>How have I sworn! |
| 3669 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2045" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3670 |
|
| 3671 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p>'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth, |
| 3672 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2046" ed="F1"/>But the plain single vow that is vow'd true. |
| 3673 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2047" ed="F1"/>What is not holy, that we swear not by, |
| 3674 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2048" ed="F1"/>But take the High'st to witness: then, pray you, tell me, |
| 3675 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2049" ed="F1"/>If I should swear by God's great attributes, |
| 3676 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2050" ed="F1"/>I loved you dearly, would you believe my oaths, |
| 3677 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2051" ed="F1"/>When I did love you ill? This has no holding, |
| 3678 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2052" ed="F1"/>To swear by him whom I protest to love, |
| 3679 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2053" ed="F1"/>That I will work against him: therefore your oaths |
| 3680 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2054" ed="F1"/>Are words and poor conditions, but unseal'd, |
| 3681 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2055" ed="F1"/>At least in my opinion. |
| 3682 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2056" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3683 |
|
| 3684 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Change it, change it; |
| 3685 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2057" ed="F1"/>Be not so holy-cruel: love is holy; |
| 3686 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2058" ed="F1"/>And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts |
| 3687 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2060" ed="F1"/>But give thyself unto my sick desires, |
| 3688 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2059" ed="F1"/>That you do charge men with. Stand no more off, |
| 3689 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2061" ed="F1"/>Who then recover: say thou art mine, and ever |
| 3690 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2062" ed="F1"/>My love as it begins shall persever. |
| 3691 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2063" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3692 |
|
| 3693 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p>I see that men make ropes in such a scarre |
| 3694 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2064" ed="F1"/>That we'll forsake ourselves. Give me that ring. |
| 3695 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2065" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3696 |
|
| 3697 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>I'll lend it thee, my dear; but have no power |
| 3698 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2066" ed="F1"/>To give it from me. |
| 3699 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2067" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3700 |
|
| 3701 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p>Will you not, my lord? |
| 3702 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2068" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3703 |
|
| 3704 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>It is an honour 'longing to our house, |
| 3705 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2069" ed="F1"/>Bequeathed down from many ancestors; |
| 3706 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2070" ed="F1"/>Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world |
| 3707 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2071" ed="F1"/>In me to lose. |
| 3708 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2072" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3709 |
|
| 3710 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p>Mine honour's such a ring: |
| 3711 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2073" ed="F1"/>My chastity's the jewel of our house, |
| 3712 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2074" ed="F1"/>Bequeathed down from many ancestors; |
| 3713 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2076" ed="F1"/>In me to lose: thus your own proper wisdom |
| 3714 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2075" ed="F1"/>Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world |
| 3715 |
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="2077" ed="F1"/>Brings in the champion Honour on my part, |
| 3716 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2078" ed="F1"/>Against your vain assault. |
| 3717 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2079" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3718 |
|
| 3719 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Here, take my ring: |
| 3720 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2080" ed="F1"/>My house, mine honour, yea, my life, be thine, |
| 3721 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2081" ed="F1"/>And I'll be bid by thee. |
| 3722 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2082" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3723 |
|
| 3724 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p>When midnight comes, knock at my <lb n="2083" ed="F1"/>chamber-window: |
| 3725 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2084" ed="F1"/>I'll order take my mother shall not hear. |
| 3726 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2085" ed="F1"/>Now will I charge you in the band of truth, |
| 3727 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2086" ed="F1"/>When you have conquer'd my yet maiden bed, |
| 3728 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2087" ed="F1"/>Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me: |
| 3729 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2088" ed="F1"/>My reasons are most strong; and you shall know them |
| 3730 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2089" ed="F1"/>When back again this ring shall be deliver'd: |
| 3731 |
<lb n="61" ed="G"/><lb n="2090" ed="F1"/>And on your finger in the night I'll put |
| 3732 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2091" ed="F1"/>Another ring, that what in time proceeds |
| 3733 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2092" ed="F1"/>May token to the future our past deeds. |
| 3734 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2093" ed="F1"/>Adieu, till then; then, fail not. You have won |
| 3735 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2094" ed="F1"/>A wife of me, though there my hope be done. |
| 3736 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2095" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3737 |
|
| 3738 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> A heaven on earth I have won by |
| 3739 |
<lb ed="G"/>wooing thee. <stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage> |
| 3740 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2096" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3741 |
|
| 3742 |
<sp who="aww-18"><speaker>Dia.</speaker><p>For which live long to thank both heaven and me! |
| 3743 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2097" ed="F1"/>You may so in the end. |
| 3744 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2098" ed="F1"/>My mother told me just how he would woo, |
| 3745 |
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="2099" ed="F1"/>As if she sat in's heart; she says all men |
| 3746 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2100" ed="F1"/>Have the like oaths: he had sworn to marry me |
| 3747 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2101" ed="F1"/>When his wife's dead; therefore I'll lie with him |
| 3748 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2102" ed="F1"/>When I am buried. Since Frenchmen are so braid, |
| 3749 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2103" ed="F1"/>Marry that will, I live and die a maid: |
| 3750 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2104" ed="F1"/>Only in this disguise I think 't no sin |
| 3751 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2105" ed="F1"/>To cozen him that would unjustly win. <stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage> |
| 3752 |
</p></sp></div2> |
| 3753 |
|
| 3754 |
<div2 n="3" type="scene"> |
| 3755 |
<head>SCENE III</head> |
| 3756 |
<stage type="setting">The Florentine camp.</stage> |
| 3757 |
<lb n="2106" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the two French Lords and some two or three <lb n="2107" ed="F1"/>Soldiers.</stage> |
| 3758 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2108" ed="F1"/> |
| 3759 |
|
| 3760 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> You have not given him his |
| 3761 |
<lb ed="G"/>mother's letter? |
| 3762 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2109" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3763 |
|
| 3764 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> I have delivered it an hour |
| 3765 |
<lb ed="G"/>since: there is something <lb n="2110" ed="F1"/>in't that stings his |
| 3766 |
<lb ed="G"/>nature; for on the reading it <lb n="2111" ed="F1"/>he changed almost |
| 3767 |
<lb ed="G"/>into another man. |
| 3768 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2112" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3769 |
|
| 3770 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> He has much worthy blame |
| 3771 |
<lb ed="G"/>laid upon him <lb n="2113" ed="F1"/>for shaking off so good a wife |
| 3772 |
<lb n="9" ed="G"/>and so sweet a lady. |
| 3773 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2114" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3774 |
|
| 3775 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> Especially he hath incurred the |
| 3776 |
<lb ed="G"/>everlasting <lb n="2115" ed="F1"/>displeasure of the king, who had |
| 3777 |
<lb ed="G"/>even tuned his bounty <lb n="2116" ed="F1"/>to sing happiness to him |
| 3778 |
<lb ed="G"/>I will tell you a thing, but <lb n="2117" ed="F1"/>you shall let it dwell |
| 3779 |
<lb ed="G"/>darkly with you. |
| 3780 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2118" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3781 |
|
| 3782 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> When you have spoken it, 'tis |
| 3783 |
<lb ed="G"/>dead, and I am <lb n="2119" ed="F1"/>the grave of it. |
| 3784 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2120" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3785 |
|
| 3786 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> He hath perverted a young gentlewoman |
| 3787 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2121" ed="F1"/>here in Florence, of a most chaste |
| 3788 |
<lb ed="G"/>renown; and this night <lb n="2122" ed="F1"/>he fleshes his will in |
| 3789 |
<lb ed="G"/>the spoil of her honour: he hath <lb n="2123" ed="F1"/>given her his |
| 3790 |
<lb ed="G"/>monumental ring, and thinks himself <lb n="2124" ed="F1"/>made in |
| 3791 |
<lb ed="G"/>the unchaste composition. |
| 3792 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2125" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3793 |
|
| 3794 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> Now, God delay our rebellion! |
| 3795 |
<lb ed="G"/>as we are ourselves. <lb n="2126" ed="F1"/>what things are we! |
| 3796 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2127" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3797 |
|
| 3798 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> Merely our own traitors. And |
| 3799 |
<lb ed="G"/>as in the <lb n="2128" ed="F1"/>common course of all treasons, we |
| 3800 |
<lb ed="G"/>still see them reveal <lb n="2129" ed="F1"/>themselves, till they attain |
| 3801 |
<lb ed="G"/>to their abhorred ends, so <lb n="2130" ed="F1"/>he that in this action |
| 3802 |
<lb ed="G"/>contrives against his own nobility, <lb n="2131" ed="F1"/>in his |
| 3803 |
<lb n="30" ed="G"/>proper stream o'erflows himself. |
| 3804 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2132" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3805 |
|
| 3806 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> Is it not meant damnable in |
| 3807 |
<lb ed="G"/>us, to be trumpeters <lb n="2133" ed="F1"/>of our unlawful intents? |
| 3808 |
<lb ed="G"/>We shall not then have <lb n="2134" ed="F1"/>his company to-night? |
| 3809 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2135" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3810 |
|
| 3811 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> Not till after midnight; for he |
| 3812 |
<lb ed="G"/>is dieted to <lb n="2136" ed="F1"/>his hour. |
| 3813 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2137" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3814 |
|
| 3815 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> That approaches apace; I |
| 3816 |
<lb ed="G"/>would gladly have <lb n="2138" ed="F1"/>him see his company anatomized, |
| 3817 |
<lb ed="G"/>that he might take <lb n="2139" ed="F1"/>a measure of his |
| 3818 |
<lb ed="G"/>his own judgements, wherein so curiously <lb n="2140" ed="F1"/>he had |
| 3819 |
<lb n="40" ed="G"/>set this counterfeit. |
| 3820 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2141" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3821 |
|
| 3822 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> We will not meddle with him |
| 3823 |
<lb ed="G"/>till he come; <lb n="2142" ed="F1"/>for his presence must be the |
| 3824 |
<lb ed="G"/>whip of the other. |
| 3825 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2143" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3826 |
|
| 3827 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> In the mean time, what hear |
| 3828 |
<lb ed="G"/>you of these <lb n="2144" ed="F1"/>wars? |
| 3829 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2145" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3830 |
|
| 3831 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> I hear there is an overture of |
| 3832 |
<lb ed="G"/>peace. |
| 3833 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2146" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3834 |
|
| 3835 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> Nay, I assure you, a peace |
| 3836 |
<lb ed="G"/>concluded. |
| 3837 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2147" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3838 |
|
| 3839 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> What will Count Rousillon do |
| 3840 |
<lb ed="G"/>then? will he <lb n="2148" ed="F1"/>travel higher, or return again |
| 3841 |
<lb n="51" ed="G"/>into France? |
| 3842 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2149" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3843 |
|
| 3844 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> I perceive, by this demand, |
| 3845 |
<lb ed="G"/>you are not altogether <lb n="2150" ed="F1"/>of his council. |
| 3846 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2151" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3847 |
|
| 3848 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p>Let it be forbid, sir; so should |
| 3849 |
<lb ed="G"/>I be a great <lb n="2152" ed="F1"/>deal of his act. |
| 3850 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2153" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3851 |
|
| 3852 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> Sir, his wife some two months |
| 3853 |
<lb ed="G"/>since fled <lb n="2154" ed="F1"/>from his house: her pretence is a |
| 3854 |
<lb ed="G"/>pilgrimage to Saint Jaques <lb n="2155" ed="F1"/>le Grand; which |
| 3855 |
<lb ed="G"/>holy undertaking with most austere <lb n="2156" ed="F1"/>sanctimony |
| 3856 |
<lb ed="G"/>she accomplished; and, there residing, |
| 3857 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2157" ed="F1"/>the tenderness of her nature became as a prey |
| 3858 |
<lb ed="G"/>to her <lb n="2158" ed="F1"/>grief; in fine, made a groan of her last |
| 3859 |
<lb ed="G"/>breath, and now <lb n="2159" ed="F1"/>she sings in heaven. |
| 3860 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2160" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3861 |
|
| 3862 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> How is this justified? |
| 3863 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2161" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3864 |
|
| 3865 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> The stronger part of it by her |
| 3866 |
<lb ed="G"/>own letters, <lb n="2162" ed="F1"/>which makes her story true, even |
| 3867 |
<lb ed="G"/>to the point of her <lb n="2163" ed="F1"/>death: her death itself, |
| 3868 |
<lb ed="G"/>which could not be her office <lb n="2164" ed="F1"/>to say is come, |
| 3869 |
<lb ed="G"/>was faithfully confirmed by the rector <lb n="2165" ed="F1"/>of |
| 3870 |
<lb n="60" ed="G"/>the place. |
| 3871 |
<lb n="70" ed="G"/></p></sp> |
| 3872 |
|
| 3873 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><lb n="2166" ed="F1"/><p> Hath the count all this intelligence? |
| 3874 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2167" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3875 |
|
| 3876 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> Ay, and the particular confirmations, |
| 3877 |
<lb ed="G"/>point <lb n="2168" ed="F1"/>from point, to the full arming |
| 3878 |
<lb ed="G"/>of the verity. |
| 3879 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2169" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3880 |
|
| 3881 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> I am heartily sorry that he'll |
| 3882 |
<lb ed="G"/>be glad of <lb n="2170" ed="F1"/>this. |
| 3883 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2171" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3884 |
|
| 3885 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> How mightily sometimes we |
| 3886 |
<lb ed="G"/>make us comforts <lb n="2172" ed="F1"/>of our losses! |
| 3887 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2173" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3888 |
|
| 3889 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> And how mightily some other |
| 3890 |
<lb ed="G"/>times we <lb n="2174" ed="F1"/>drown our gain in tears! The great |
| 3891 |
<lb ed="G"/>dignity that his <lb n="2175" ed="F1"/>valour hath here acquired for |
| 3892 |
<lb ed="G"/>him shall at home be encountered <lb n="2176" ed="F1"/>with a |
| 3893 |
<lb ed="G"/>shame as ample. |
| 3894 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2177" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3895 |
|
| 3896 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> The web of our life is of a |
| 3897 |
<lb ed="G"/>mingled yarn, <lb n="2178" ed="F1"/>good and ill together: our virtues |
| 3898 |
<lb ed="G"/>would be proud, if <lb n="2179" ed="F1"/>our faults whipped |
| 3899 |
<lb ed="G"/>them not; and our crimes would despair, <lb n="2180" ed="F1"/>if |
| 3900 |
<lb ed="G"/>they were not cherished by our virtues. |
| 3901 |
<lb n="2181" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter a Messenger.</stage> |
| 3902 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2182" ed="F1"/>How now! where's your master? |
| 3903 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2183" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3904 |
|
| 3905 |
<sp who="aww-24"><speaker>Serv.</speaker><p> He met the duke in the street, sir, |
| 3906 |
<lb ed="G"/>of whom he <lb n="2184" ed="F1"/>hath taken a solemn leave: his lordship |
| 3907 |
<lb ed="G"/>will next <lb n="2185" ed="F1"/>morning for France. The duke |
| 3908 |
<lb ed="G"/>hath offered him letters <lb n="2186" ed="F1"/>of commendations to |
| 3909 |
<lb ed="G"/>the king. |
| 3910 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2187" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3911 |
|
| 3912 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> They shall be no more than |
| 3913 |
<lb ed="G"/>needful there, <lb n="2188" ed="F1"/>if they were more than they can commend. |
| 3914 |
<lb n="2189" ed="F1"/> |
| 3915 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2190" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3916 |
|
| 3917 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> They cannot be too sweet for |
| 3918 |
<lb ed="G"/>the king's tartness. <lb n="2191" ed="F1"/>Here's his lordship now. |
| 3919 |
<stage type="entrance">Enter BERTRAM.</stage> |
| 3920 |
<lb ed="G"/>How now, my lord! <lb n="2192" ed="F1"/>is't not after midnight? |
| 3921 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2193" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3922 |
|
| 3923 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> I have to-night dispatched sixteen |
| 3924 |
<lb ed="G"/>businesses a <lb n="2194" ed="F1"/>month's length a-piece, by an abstract |
| 3925 |
<lb ed="G"/>of success: I <lb n="2195" ed="F1"/>have congied with the |
| 3926 |
<lb ed="G"/>duke, done my adieu with his <lb n="2196" ed="F1"/>nearest; buried |
| 3927 |
<lb ed="G"/>a wife, mourned for her; writ to my lady |
| 3928 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2197" ed="F1"/>mother I am returning; entertained my convoy; |
| 3929 |
<lb ed="G"/>and <lb n="2198" ed="F1"/>between these main parcels of dispatch |
| 3930 |
<lb ed="G"/>effected many <lb n="2199" ed="F1"/>nicer needs: the last was |
| 3931 |
<lb ed="G"/>the greatest, but that I have <lb n="2200" ed="F1"/>not ended yet. |
| 3932 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2201" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3933 |
|
| 3934 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> If the business be of any difficulty, |
| 3935 |
<lb ed="G"/>and this <lb n="2202" ed="F1"/>morning your departure hence, |
| 3936 |
<lb n="109" ed="G"/>it requires haste of your <lb n="2203" ed="F1"/>lordship. |
| 3937 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2204" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3938 |
|
| 3939 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> I mean, the business is not ended, as |
| 3940 |
<lb ed="G"/>fearing <lb n="2205" ed="F1"/>to hear of it hereafter. But shall we |
| 3941 |
<lb ed="G"/>have this dialogue <lb n="2206" ed="F1"/>between the fool and the |
| 3942 |
<lb ed="G"/>soldier? Come, bring <lb n="2207" ed="F1"/>forth this counterfeit |
| 3943 |
<lb ed="G"/>module, has deceived me, like a <lb n="2208" ed="F1"/>double-meaning |
| 3944 |
<lb ed="G"/>prophesier. |
| 3945 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2209" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3946 |
|
| 3947 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> Bring him forth: has sat i' the |
| 3948 |
<lb ed="G"/>stocks all night, <lb n="2210" ed="F1"/>poor gallant knave. |
| 3949 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2211" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3950 |
|
| 3951 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> No matter; his heels have deserved |
| 3952 |
<lb ed="G"/>it, in usurping <lb n="2212" ed="F1"/>his spurs so long. How does he |
| 3953 |
<lb n="120" ed="G"/>carry himself? |
| 3954 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2213" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3955 |
|
| 3956 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> I have told your lordship already |
| 3957 |
<lb ed="G"/>the <lb n="2214" ed="F1"/>stocks carry him. But to answer you |
| 3958 |
<lb ed="G"/>as you would be <lb n="2215" ed="F1"/>understood; he weeps like a |
| 3959 |
<lb ed="G"/>wench that had shed her <lb n="2216" ed="F1"/>milk: he hath confessed |
| 3960 |
<lb ed="G"/>himself to Morgan, whom he <lb n="2217" ed="F1"/>supposes |
| 3961 |
<lb ed="G"/>to be a friar, from the time of his remembrance |
| 3962 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2218" ed="F1"/>to this very instant disaster of his setting |
| 3963 |
<lb ed="G"/>i' the stocks: <lb n="2219" ed="F1"/>and what think you he hath |
| 3964 |
<lb ed="G"/>confessed? |
| 3965 |
<lb n="129" ed="G"/><lb n="2220" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3966 |
|
| 3967 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> Nothing of me, has a'? |
| 3968 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2221" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3969 |
|
| 3970 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> His confession is taken, and it |
| 3971 |
<lb ed="G"/>shall be read <lb n="2222" ed="F1"/>to his face: if your lordship be |
| 3972 |
<lb ed="G"/>in't, as I believe you <lb n="2223" ed="F1"/>are, you must have the |
| 3973 |
<lb ed="G"/>patience to hear it, |
| 3974 |
<lb n="2224" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PAROLLES guarded, and First Soldier.</stage> |
| 3975 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2225" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3976 |
|
| 3977 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> A plague upon him! muffled! he can |
| 3978 |
<lb ed="G"/>say nothing <lb n="2226" ed="F1"/>of me: hush, hush! |
| 3979 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2227" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3980 |
|
| 3981 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> Hoodman comes! |
| 3982 |
<lb ed="G"/>Portotartarosa. |
| 3983 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2228" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3984 |
|
| 3985 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> He calls for the tortures: what |
| 3986 |
<lb ed="G"/>will you say <lb n="2229" ed="F1"/>without 'em? |
| 3987 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2230" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3988 |
|
| 3989 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> I will confess what I know without |
| 3990 |
<lb ed="G"/>constraint: <lb n="2231" ed="F1"/>if ye pinch me like a pasty, I can |
| 3991 |
<lb n="141" ed="G"/>say no more. |
| 3992 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2232" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3993 |
|
| 3994 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> Bosko chimurcho. |
| 3995 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2233" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3996 |
|
| 3997 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> Boblibindo chicurmurco. |
| 3998 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2234" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 3999 |
|
| 4000 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> You are a merciful general. |
| 4001 |
<lb ed="G"/>Our general <lb n="2235" ed="F1"/>bids you answer to what I shall |
| 4002 |
<lb ed="G"/>ask you out of a note. |
| 4003 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2236" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4004 |
|
| 4005 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> And truly, as I hope to live. |
| 4006 |
</p></sp> |
| 4007 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><stage>[Reads]</stage><lb n="2237" ed="F1"/><p> 'First demand of him |
| 4008 |
<lb ed="G"/>how many horse the duke <lb n="2238" ed="F1"/>is strong.' What |
| 4009 |
<lb n="150" ed="G"/>say you to that? |
| 4010 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2239" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4011 |
|
| 4012 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Five or six thousand; but very weak |
| 4013 |
<lb ed="G"/>and unserviceable: <lb n="2240" ed="F1"/>the troops are all scattered, |
| 4014 |
<lb ed="G"/>and the commanders <lb n="2241" ed="F1"/>very poor rogues, |
| 4015 |
<lb ed="G"/>upon my reputation and <lb n="2242" ed="F1"/>credit and as I hope |
| 4016 |
<lb ed="G"/>to live. |
| 4017 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2243" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4018 |
|
| 4019 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> Shall I set down your answer |
| 4020 |
<lb ed="G"/>so? |
| 4021 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2244" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4022 |
|
| 4023 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Do: I'll take the sacrament on't, how |
| 4024 |
<lb ed="G"/>and which <lb n="2245" ed="F1"/>way you will. |
| 4025 |
</p></sp> |
| 4026 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> All's one to him. <lb n="2246" ed="F1"/>What a past-saving |
| 4027 |
<lb n="159" ed="G"/>slave is this! |
| 4028 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2247" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4029 |
|
| 4030 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> You're deceived, my lord: this |
| 4031 |
<lb ed="G"/>is Monsieur <lb n="2248" ed="F1"/>Parolles, the gallant militarist,-- |
| 4032 |
<lb ed="G"/>that was his own phrase,<lb n="2249" ed="F1"/>--that had the whole |
| 4033 |
<lb ed="G"/>theoric of war in the knot of his <lb n="2250" ed="F1"/>scarf, and the |
| 4034 |
<lb ed="G"/>practice in the chape of his dagger. |
| 4035 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2251" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4036 |
|
| 4037 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> I will never trust a man again |
| 4038 |
<lb ed="G"/>for keeping <lb n="2252" ed="F1"/>his sword clean, nor believe he |
| 4039 |
<lb ed="G"/>can have every thing <lb n="2253" ed="F1"/>in him by wearing his |
| 4040 |
<lb ed="G"/>apparel neatly. |
| 4041 |
<lb n="169" ed="G"/><lb n="2254" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4042 |
|
| 4043 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> Well, that's set down. |
| 4044 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2255" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4045 |
|
| 4046 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Five or six thousand horse, I said,-- |
| 4047 |
<lb ed="G"/>I will say true,<lb n="2256" ed="F1"/>--or thereabouts, set down, for |
| 4048 |
<lb ed="G"/>I'll speak truth. |
| 4049 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2257" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4050 |
|
| 4051 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> He's very near the truth in |
| 4052 |
<lb ed="G"/>this. |
| 4053 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2258" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4054 |
|
| 4055 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> But I con him no thanks for't, in the |
| 4056 |
<lb ed="G"/>nature he <lb n="2259" ed="F1"/>delivers it. |
| 4057 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2260" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4058 |
|
| 4059 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Poor rogues, I pray you, say. |
| 4060 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2261" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4061 |
|
| 4062 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> Well, that's set down. |
| 4063 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2262" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4064 |
|
| 4065 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> I humbly thank you, sir: a truth's a |
| 4066 |
<lb n="179" ed="G"/>truth, the <lb n="2263" ed="F1"/>rogues are marvellous poor. |
| 4067 |
</p></sp> |
| 4068 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><stage>[Reads]</stage><lb n="2264" ed="F1"/><p> 'Demand of him, of |
| 4069 |
<lb ed="G"/>what strength they are a-foot.' <lb n="2265" ed="F1"/>What say you |
| 4070 |
<lb ed="G"/>to that? |
| 4071 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2266" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4072 |
|
| 4073 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> By my troth, sir, if I were to live this |
| 4074 |
<lb ed="G"/>present <lb n="2267" ed="F1"/>hour, I will tell true. Let me see: |
| 4075 |
<lb ed="G"/>Spurio, a hundred and <lb n="2268" ed="F1"/>fifty; Sebastian, so |
| 4076 |
<lb ed="G"/>many; Corambus, so many; Jaques, so <lb n="2269" ed="F1"/>many; |
| 4077 |
<lb ed="G"/>Guiltian, Cosmo, Lodowick, and Gratii, two |
| 4078 |
<lb ed="G"/>hundred and <lb n="2270" ed="F1"/>fifty each; mine own company, |
| 4079 |
<lb ed="G"/>Chitopher, Vaumond, <lb n="2271" ed="F1"/>Bentii, two hundred and |
| 4080 |
<lb ed="G"/>fifty each; so that the muster-file, <lb n="2272" ed="F1"/>rotten and |
| 4081 |
<lb ed="G"/>sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen |
| 4082 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2273" ed="F1"/>thousand poll; half of the which dare not |
| 4083 |
<lb ed="G"/>shake <lb n="2274" ed="F1"/>the snow from off their cassocks, lest |
| 4084 |
<lb ed="G"/>they shake themselves <lb n="2275" ed="F1"/>to pieces. |
| 4085 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2276" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4086 |
|
| 4087 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> What shall be done to him? |
| 4088 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2277" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4089 |
|
| 4090 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> Nothing, but let him have |
| 4091 |
<lb ed="G"/>thanks. Demand <lb n="2278" ed="F1"/>of him my condition, and |
| 4092 |
<lb ed="G"/>what credit I have with the <lb n="2279" ed="F1"/>duke. |
| 4093 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2280" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4094 |
|
| 4095 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> Well, that's set down. <stage>[Reads]</stage> |
| 4096 |
<lb ed="G"/>'You shall demand of <lb n="2281" ed="F1"/>him, whether one Captain |
| 4097 |
<lb ed="G"/>Dumain be i' the camp, a <lb n="2282" ed="F1"/>Frenchman; |
| 4098 |
<lb ed="G"/>what his reputation is with the duke; what |
| 4099 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2283" ed="F1"/>his valour, honesty, and expertness in wars; or |
| 4100 |
<lb ed="G"/>whether <lb n="2284" ed="F1"/>he thinks it were not possible, with |
| 4101 |
<lb ed="G"/>well-weighing <lb n="2285" ed="F1"/>sums of gold, to corrupt him to |
| 4102 |
<lb ed="G"/>a revolt.' What say you <lb n="2286" ed="F1"/>to this? what do you |
| 4103 |
<lb ed="G"/>know of it? |
| 4104 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2287" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4105 |
|
| 4106 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> I beseech you, let me answer to the |
| 4107 |
<lb ed="G"/>particular of <lb n="2288" ed="F1"/>the inter'gatories: demand them |
| 4108 |
<lb ed="G"/>singly. |
| 4109 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2289" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4110 |
|
| 4111 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p>Do you know this Captain |
| 4112 |
<lb n="210" ed="G"/>Dumain? |
| 4113 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2290" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4114 |
|
| 4115 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> I know him: a' was a botcher's 'prentice |
| 4116 |
<lb ed="G"/>in Paris, <lb n="2291" ed="F1"/>from whence he was whipped for |
| 4117 |
<lb ed="G"/>getting the shrieve's fool <lb n="2292" ed="F1"/>with child,--a dumb |
| 4118 |
<lb ed="G"/>innocent, that could not say him <lb n="2293" ed="F1"/>nay. |
| 4119 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2294" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4120 |
|
| 4121 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> Nay, by your leave, hold your hands; |
| 4122 |
<lb ed="G"/>though I <lb n="2295" ed="F1"/>know his brains are forfeit to the |
| 4123 |
<lb ed="G"/>next tile that falls. |
| 4124 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2296" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4125 |
|
| 4126 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> Well, is the captain in the |
| 4127 |
<lb n="219" ed="G"/>duke of Florence's <lb n="2297" ed="F1"/>camp? |
| 4128 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2298" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4129 |
|
| 4130 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Upon my knowledge, he is, and lousy. |
| 4131 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2299" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4132 |
|
| 4133 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> Nay, look not so upon me; we |
| 4134 |
<lb ed="G"/>shall hear of <lb n="2300" ed="F1"/>your lordship anon. |
| 4135 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2301" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4136 |
|
| 4137 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> What is his reputation with the |
| 4138 |
<lb ed="G"/>duke? |
| 4139 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2302" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4140 |
|
| 4141 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> The duke knows him for no other but |
| 4142 |
<lb ed="G"/>a poor <lb n="2303" ed="F1"/>officer of mine; and writ to me this |
| 4143 |
<lb ed="G"/>other day to turn <lb n="2304" ed="F1"/>him out o' the band: I think |
| 4144 |
<lb ed="G"/>I have his letter in my <lb n="2305" ed="F1"/>pocket. |
| 4145 |
<lb n="229" ed="G"/><lb n="2306" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4146 |
|
| 4147 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> Marry, we'll search. |
| 4148 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2307" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4149 |
|
| 4150 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> In good sadness, I do not know; |
| 4151 |
<lb ed="G"/>either it is there, <lb n="2308" ed="F1"/>or it is upon a file with the |
| 4152 |
<lb ed="G"/>duke's other letters in my <lb n="2309" ed="F1"/>tent. |
| 4153 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2310" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4154 |
|
| 4155 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p>Here 'tis; here's a paper: shall |
| 4156 |
<lb ed="G"/>I read it to you? |
| 4157 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2311" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4158 |
|
| 4159 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> I do not know if it be it or no. |
| 4160 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2312" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4161 |
|
| 4162 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> Our interpreter does it well. |
| 4163 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2313" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4164 |
|
| 4165 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> Excellently. |
| 4166 |
</p></sp> |
| 4167 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><stage>[Reads]</stage><lb n="2314" ed="F1"/><p> 'Dian, the count's a |
| 4168 |
<lb ed="G"/>fool, and full of gold,'-- |
| 4169 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2315" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4170 |
|
| 4171 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> That is not the duke's letter, sir; that |
| 4172 |
<lb ed="G"/>is an advertisement <lb n="2316" ed="F1"/>to a proper maid in <reg orig="Flor-ence,">Florence,</reg> |
| 4173 |
<lb ed="G"/>one Diana, to <lb n="2317" ed="F1"/>take heed of the allurement |
| 4174 |
<lb ed="G"/>of one Count Rousillon, a <lb n="2318" ed="F1"/>foolish idle |
| 4175 |
<lb ed="G"/>boy, but for all that very ruttish: I pray you, |
| 4176 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2319" ed="F1"/>sir, put it up again. |
| 4177 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2320" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4178 |
|
| 4179 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> Nay, I'll read it first, by your |
| 4180 |
<lb ed="G"/>favour. |
| 4181 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2321" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4182 |
|
| 4183 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>My meaning in 't, I protest, was very |
| 4184 |
<lb ed="G"/>honest in the <lb n="2322" ed="F1"/>behalf of the maid; for I knew |
| 4185 |
<lb ed="G"/>the young count to be a <lb n="2323" ed="F1"/>dangerous and lascivious |
| 4186 |
<lb ed="G"/>boy, who is a whale to virginity <lb n="2324" ed="F1"/>and |
| 4187 |
<lb n="250" ed="G"/>devours up all the fry it finds. |
| 4188 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2325" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4189 |
|
| 4190 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p>Damnable both-sides rogue! |
| 4191 |
</p></sp> |
| 4192 |
|
| 4193 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p><stage>[Reads.]</stage><lb n="2326" ed="F1"/>'When he swears |
| 4194 |
<lb ed="G"/>oaths, bid him drop gold, and <lb n="2327" ed="F1"/>take it; |
| 4195 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2328" ed="F1"/>After he scores, he never pays the score: |
| 4196 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2329" ed="F1"/>Half won is match well made; match, and well make it; |
| 4197 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2330" ed="F1"/>He ne'er pays after-debts, take it before; |
| 4198 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2331" ed="F1"/>And say a soldier, Dian, told thee this, |
| 4199 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2332" ed="F1"/>Men are to mell with, boys are not to kiss: |
| 4200 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2333" ed="F1"/>For count of this, the count's a fool, I know it, |
| 4201 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2334" ed="F1"/>Who pays before, but not when he does owe it. |
| 4202 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2335" ed="F1"/>Thine, as he vowed to thee in thine ear, |
| 4203 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2336" ed="F1"/>PAROLLES.' |
| 4204 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2337" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4205 |
|
| 4206 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> He shall be whipped through the army |
| 4207 |
<lb ed="G"/>with this <lb n="2338" ed="F1"/>rhyme in's forehead. |
| 4208 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2339" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4209 |
|
| 4210 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> This is your devoted friend, sir, |
| 4211 |
<lb ed="G"/>the manifold <lb n="2340" ed="F1"/>linguist and the armipotent |
| 4212 |
<lb ed="G"/>soldier. |
| 4213 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2341" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4214 |
|
| 4215 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> I could endure any thing before but |
| 4216 |
<lb ed="G"/>a cat, and <lb n="2342" ed="F1"/>now he's a cat to me. |
| 4217 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2343" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4218 |
|
| 4219 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> I perceive, sir, by the general's |
| 4220 |
<lb n="269" ed="G"/>looks, we shall <lb n="2344" ed="F1"/>be fain to hang you. |
| 4221 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2345" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4222 |
|
| 4223 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> My life, sir, in any case: not that I |
| 4224 |
<lb ed="G"/>am afraid to <lb n="2346" ed="F1"/>die; but that, my offences being |
| 4225 |
<lb ed="G"/>many, I would repent <lb n="2347" ed="F1"/>out the remainder of |
| 4226 |
<lb ed="G"/>nature: let me live, sir, in a dungeon, <lb n="2348" ed="F1"/>i' the |
| 4227 |
<lb ed="G"/>stocks, or any where, so I may live. |
| 4228 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2349" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4229 |
|
| 4230 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> We'll see what may be done, |
| 4231 |
<lb ed="G"/>so you confess <lb n="2350" ed="F1"/>freely; therefore, once more to |
| 4232 |
<lb ed="G"/>this Captain Dumain: <lb n="2351" ed="F1"/>you have answered to |
| 4233 |
<lb ed="G"/>his reputation with the duke and <lb n="2352" ed="F1"/>to his valor: |
| 4234 |
<lb n="279" ed="G"/>what is his honesty? |
| 4235 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2353" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4236 |
|
| 4237 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> He will steal, sir, an egg out of a |
| 4238 |
<lb ed="G"/>cloister: for <lb n="2354" ed="F1"/>rapes and ravishments he parallels |
| 4239 |
<lb ed="G"/>Nessus: he professes <lb n="2355" ed="F1"/>not keeping of |
| 4240 |
<lb ed="G"/>oaths; in breaking 'em he is stronger than |
| 4241 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2356" ed="F1"/>Hercules: he will lie, sir, with such volubility, |
| 4242 |
<lb ed="G"/>that you <lb n="2357" ed="F1"/>would think truth were a fool; |
| 4243 |
<lb ed="G"/>drunkenness is his best <lb n="2358" ed="F1"/>virtue, for he will be |
| 4244 |
<lb ed="G"/>swine-drunk; and in his sleep he <lb n="2359" ed="F1"/>does little |
| 4245 |
<lb ed="G"/>harm, save to his bed-clothes about him; <lb n="2360" ed="F1"/>but |
| 4246 |
<lb ed="G"/>they know his conditions and lay him in straw. |
| 4247 |
<lb ed="G"/>I <lb n="2361" ed="F1"/>have but little more to say, sir, of his honesty: |
| 4248 |
<lb ed="G"/> he has every <lb n="2362" ed="F1"/>thing that an honest man |
| 4249 |
<lb ed="G"/>should not have; what an <lb n="2363" ed="F1"/>honest man should |
| 4250 |
<lb ed="G"/>have, he has nothing. |
| 4251 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2364" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4252 |
|
| 4253 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> I begin to love him for this. |
| 4254 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2365" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4255 |
|
| 4256 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> For this description of thine honesty? |
| 4257 |
<lb ed="G"/>A pox <lb n="2366" ed="F1"/>upon him for me, he's more and more |
| 4258 |
<lb ed="G"/>a cat. |
| 4259 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2367" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4260 |
|
| 4261 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> What say you to his expertness |
| 4262 |
<lb ed="G"/>in war? |
| 4263 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2368" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4264 |
|
| 4265 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Faith, sir, has led the drum before |
| 4266 |
<lb ed="G"/>the English <lb n="2369" ed="F1"/>tragedians; to belie him, I will not, |
| 4267 |
<lb ed="G"/>and more of his <lb n="2370" ed="F1"/>soldiership I know not; except, |
| 4268 |
<lb ed="G"/>in that country he had <lb n="2371" ed="F1"/>the honour to be |
| 4269 |
<lb ed="G"/>the officer at a place there called Mile-end, <lb n="2372" ed="F1"/>to |
| 4270 |
<lb ed="G"/>instruct for the doubling of files: I would do |
| 4271 |
<lb ed="G"/>the <lb n="2373" ed="F1"/>man what honour I can, but of this I am |
| 4272 |
<lb ed="G"/>not certain. |
| 4273 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2374" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4274 |
|
| 4275 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>First Lord.</speaker><p> He hath out-villained villany so |
| 4276 |
<lb ed="G"/>far, that the <lb n="2375" ed="F1"/>rarity redeems him. |
| 4277 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2376" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4278 |
|
| 4279 |
<sp who="aww-1"><speaker>Ber.</speaker><p> A pox on him, he's a cat still. |
| 4280 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2377" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4281 |
|
| 4282 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> His qualities being at this poor |
| 4283 |
<lb ed="G"/>price, I need <lb n="2378" ed="F1"/>not to ask you if gold will corrupt |
| 4284 |
<lb n="310" ed="G"/>him to revolt. |
| 4285 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2379" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4286 |
|
| 4287 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> Sir, for a quart d'ecu he will sell the |
| 4288 |
<lb ed="G"/>fee-simple of <lb n="2380" ed="F1"/>his salvation, the inheritance of |
| 4289 |
<lb ed="G"/>it; and cut the entail from <lb n="2381" ed="F1"/>all remainders, and |
| 4290 |
<lb ed="G"/>a perpetual succession for it <lb n="2382" ed="F1"/>perpetually. |
| 4291 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2383" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4292 |
|
| 4293 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p>What's his brother, the other |
| 4294 |
<lb ed="G"/>Captain Dumain? |
| 4295 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2384" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4296 |
|
| 4297 |
<sp who="aww-11"><speaker>Sec. Lord.</speaker><p> Why does he ask him of me? |
| 4298 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2385" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4299 |
|
| 4300 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> What's he? |
| 4301 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2386" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4302 |
|
| 4303 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p> E'en a crow o' the same nest; altogether |
| 4304 |
<lb ed="G"/>so <lb n="2387" ed="F1"/>great as the first in goodness, but |
| 4305 |
<lb ed="G"/>greater a great deal in <lb n="2388" ed="F1"/>evil: he excels his |
| 4306 |
<lb ed="G"/>brother for a coward, yet his brother <lb n="2389" ed="F1"/>is reputed |
| 4307 |
<lb ed="G"/>one of the best that is: in a retreat he |
| 4308 |
<lb ed="G"/>outruns <lb n="2390" ed="F1"/>any lackey; marry, in coming on he |
| 4309 |
<lb ed="G"/>has the <lb n="2391" ed="F1"/>cramp. |
| 4310 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2392" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4311 |
|
| 4312 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> If your life be saved, will you |
| 4313 |
<lb ed="G"/>undertake to betray <lb n="2393" ed="F1"/>the Florentine? |
| 4314 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2394" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4315 |
|
| 4316 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><p>Ay, and the captain of his horse, |
| 4317 |
<lb ed="G"/>Count Rousillon. |
| 4318 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2395" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4319 |
|
| 4320 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> I'll whisper with the general, |
| 4321 |
<lb n="330" ed="G"/>and know his <lb n="2396" ed="F1"/>pleasure. |
| 4322 |
</p></sp> |
| 4323 |
|
| 4324 |
<sp who="aww-6"><speaker>Par.</speaker><stage>[Aside]</stage><lb n="2397" ed="F1"/><p> I'll no more drumming; a |
| 4325 |
<lb ed="G"/>plague of all drums! <lb n="2398" ed="F1"/>Only to seem to deserve |
| 4326 |
<lb ed="G"/>well, and to beguile the supposition <lb n="2399" ed="F1"/>of that |
| 4327 |
<lb ed="G"/>lascivious young boy the count, have I run |
| 4328 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2400" ed="F1"/>into this danger. Yet who would have suspected |
| 4329 |
<lb ed="G"/>an ambush <lb n="2401" ed="F1"/>where I was taken? |
| 4330 |
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2402" ed="F1"/></p></sp> |
| 4331 |
|
| 4332 |
<sp who="aww-22"><speaker>First Sold.</speaker><p> There is no remedy, sir, bu
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