1<html> 2<head> 3<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> 4<title>All's Well That Ends Well</title> 5</head> 6<body style=" 7 background-color: #000000; 8 "> 9<div style=" 10 position: absolute; 11 width: 100%; 12 font-family: Arial; 13 font-size: 10pt; 14 color: #cc6600; 15 "> 16 17<div style=" 18 padding: 2px; 19 padding-left: 1em; 20 font-size: 12pt; 21 background-color: #ff9900; 22 color: #000000; 23 ">All's Well That Ends Well</div> 24 25 26ASCII text placed in the public domain by Moby Lexical Tools, 1992. 27SGML markup by Jon Bosak, 1992-1994. 28XML version by Jon Bosak, 1996-1999. 29The XML markup in this version is Copyright © 1999 Jon Bosak. 30This work may freely be distributed on condition that it not be 31modified or altered in any way. 32 33 34 35Dramatis Personae 36 37KING OF FRANCE 38DUKE OF FLORENCE 39BERTRAM, Count of Rousillon. 40LAFEU, an old lord. 41PAROLLES, a follower of Bertram. 42 43 44Steward 45Clown 46servants to the Countess of Rousillon. 47 48 49A Page. 50COUNTESS OF ROUSILLON, mother to Bertram. 51HELENA, a gentlewoman protected by the Countess. 52An old Widow of Florence. 53DIANA, daughter to the Widow. 54 55 56VIOLENTA 57MARIANA 58neighbours and friends to the Widow. 59 60 61Lords, Officers, Soldiers, &c., French and Florentine. 62 63 64<div style=" 65 margin-bottom: 1em; 66 padding: 1px; 67 padding-left: 3em; 68 background-color: #cc6600; 69 color: #333333; 70 ">SCENE Rousillon; Paris; Florence; Marseilles.</div> 71 72ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL 73 74<div style=" 75 text-align: right; 76 "> 77<span style=" 78 width: 25%; 79 padding: 1px; 80 padding-right: 1em; 81 color: #000000; 82 background-color: #ff9900; 83 ">ACT I</span> 84</div> 85 86 87<div> 88<div style=" 89 margin-bottom: 1em; 90 padding-left: 1em; 91 border-color: #ff9900; 92 border-width: 1px; 93 border-bottom-style: solid; 94 border-top-style: solid; 95 background-color: #cc6600; 96 color: #000000; 97 ">SCENE I. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</div> 98 99<div style=" 100 position: relative; 101 width: 40%; 102 left: 50%; 103 text-align: right; 104 margin: 0.5em; 105 padding-right: 1em; 106 padding-left: 1em; 107 border-color: #ff9900; 108 border-width: 1px; 109 border-bottom-style: solid; 110 border-top-style: solid; 111 font-size: 9pt; 112 color: #9999cc; 113 ">Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS of Rousillon, HELENA, 114and LAFEU, all in black</div> 115 116 117 118<div style=" 119 color: #ff9900; 120 ">COUNTESS</div> 121 122<div style=" 123 margin-left: 3em; 124 color: #ccccff; 125 ">In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband.</div> 126 127 128 129 130<div style=" 131 color: #ff9900; 132 ">BERTRAM</div> 133 134<div style=" 135 margin-left: 3em; 136 color: #ccccff; 137 ">And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death</div> 138 139<div style=" 140 margin-left: 3em; 141 color: #ccccff; 142 ">anew: but I must attend his majesty's command, to</div> 143 144<div style=" 145 margin-left: 3em; 146 color: #ccccff; 147 ">whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection.</div> 148 149 150 151 152<div style=" 153 color: #ff9900; 154 ">LAFEU</div> 155 156<div style=" 157 margin-left: 3em; 158 color: #ccccff; 159 ">You shall find of the king a husband, madam; you,</div> 160 161<div style=" 162 margin-left: 3em; 163 color: #ccccff; 164 ">sir, a father: he that so generally is at all times</div> 165 166<div style=" 167 margin-left: 3em; 168 color: #ccccff; 169 ">good must of necessity hold his virtue to you; whose</div> 170 171<div style=" 172 margin-left: 3em; 173 color: #ccccff; 174 ">worthiness would stir it up where it wanted rather</div> 175 176<div style=" 177 margin-left: 3em; 178 color: #ccccff; 179 ">than lack it where there is such abundance.</div> 180 181 182 183 184<div style=" 185 color: #ff9900; 186 ">COUNTESS</div> 187 188<div style=" 189 margin-left: 3em; 190 color: #ccccff; 191 ">What hope is there of his majesty's amendment?</div> 192 193 194 195 196<div style=" 197 color: #ff9900; 198 ">LAFEU</div> 199 200<div style=" 201 margin-left: 3em; 202 color: #ccccff; 203 ">He hath abandoned his physicians, madam; under whose</div> 204 205<div style=" 206 margin-left: 3em; 207 color: #ccccff; 208 ">practises he hath persecuted time with hope, and</div> 209 210<div style=" 211 margin-left: 3em; 212 color: #ccccff; 213 ">finds no other advantage in the process but only the</div> 214 215<div style=" 216 margin-left: 3em; 217 color: #ccccff; 218 ">losing of hope by time.</div> 219 220 221 222 223<div style=" 224 color: #ff9900; 225 ">COUNTESS</div> 226 227<div style=" 228 margin-left: 3em; 229 color: #ccccff; 230 ">This young gentlewoman had a father,--O, that</div> 231 232<div style=" 233 margin-left: 3em; 234 color: #ccccff; 235 ">'had'! how sad a passage 'tis!--whose skill was</div> 236 237<div style=" 238 margin-left: 3em; 239 color: #ccccff; 240 ">almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched so</div> 241 242<div style=" 243 margin-left: 3em; 244 color: #ccccff; 245 ">far, would have made nature immortal, and death</div> 246 247<div style=" 248 margin-left: 3em; 249 color: #ccccff; 250 ">should have play for lack of work. Would, for the</div> 251 252<div style=" 253 margin-left: 3em; 254 color: #ccccff; 255 ">king's sake, he were living! I think it would be</div> 256 257<div style=" 258 margin-left: 3em; 259 color: #ccccff; 260 ">the death of the king's disease.</div> 261 262 263 264 265<div style=" 266 color: #ff9900; 267 ">LAFEU</div> 268 269<div style=" 270 margin-left: 3em; 271 color: #ccccff; 272 ">How called you the man you speak of, madam?</div> 273 274 275 276 277<div style=" 278 color: #ff9900; 279 ">COUNTESS</div> 280 281<div style=" 282 margin-left: 3em; 283 color: #ccccff; 284 ">He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was</div> 285 286<div style=" 287 margin-left: 3em; 288 color: #ccccff; 289 ">his great right to be so: Gerard de Narbon.</div> 290 291 292 293 294<div style=" 295 color: #ff9900; 296 ">LAFEU</div> 297 298<div style=" 299 margin-left: 3em; 300 color: #ccccff; 301 ">He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very</div> 302 303<div style=" 304 margin-left: 3em; 305 color: #ccccff; 306 ">lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly: he</div> 307 308<div style=" 309 margin-left: 3em; 310 color: #ccccff; 311 ">was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge</div> 312 313<div style=" 314 margin-left: 3em; 315 color: #ccccff; 316 ">could be set up against mortality.</div> 317 318 319 320 321<div style=" 322 color: #ff9900; 323 ">BERTRAM</div> 324 325<div style=" 326 margin-left: 3em; 327 color: #ccccff; 328 ">What is it, my good lord, the king languishes of?</div> 329 330 331 332 333<div style=" 334 color: #ff9900; 335 ">LAFEU</div> 336 337<div style=" 338 margin-left: 3em; 339 color: #ccccff; 340 ">A fistula, my lord.</div> 341 342 343 344 345<div style=" 346 color: #ff9900; 347 ">BERTRAM</div> 348 349<div style=" 350 margin-left: 3em; 351 color: #ccccff; 352 ">I heard not of it before.</div> 353 354 355 356 357<div style=" 358 color: #ff9900; 359 ">LAFEU</div> 360 361<div style=" 362 margin-left: 3em; 363 color: #ccccff; 364 ">I would it were not notorious. Was this gentlewoman</div> 365 366<div style=" 367 margin-left: 3em; 368 color: #ccccff; 369 ">the daughter of Gerard de Narbon?</div> 370 371 372 373 374<div style=" 375 color: #ff9900; 376 ">COUNTESS</div> 377 378<div style=" 379 margin-left: 3em; 380 color: #ccccff; 381 ">His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my</div> 382 383<div style=" 384 margin-left: 3em; 385 color: #ccccff; 386 ">overlooking. I have those hopes of her good that</div> 387 388<div style=" 389 margin-left: 3em; 390 color: #ccccff; 391 ">her education promises; her dispositions she</div> 392 393<div style=" 394 margin-left: 3em; 395 color: #ccccff; 396 ">inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer; for where</div> 397 398<div style=" 399 margin-left: 3em; 400 color: #ccccff; 401 ">an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there</div> 402 403<div style=" 404 margin-left: 3em; 405 color: #ccccff; 406 ">commendations go with pity; they are virtues and</div> 407 408<div style=" 409 margin-left: 3em; 410 color: #ccccff; 411 ">traitors too; in her they are the better for their</div> 412 413<div style=" 414 margin-left: 3em; 415 color: #ccccff; 416 ">simpleness; she derives her honesty and achieves her goodness.</div> 417 418 419 420 421<div style=" 422 color: #ff9900; 423 ">LAFEU</div> 424 425<div style=" 426 margin-left: 3em; 427 color: #ccccff; 428 ">Your commendations, madam, get from her tears.</div> 429 430 431 432 433<div style=" 434 color: #ff9900; 435 ">COUNTESS</div> 436 437<div style=" 438 margin-left: 3em; 439 color: #ccccff; 440 ">'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise</div> 441 442<div style=" 443 margin-left: 3em; 444 color: #ccccff; 445 ">in. The remembrance of her father never approaches</div> 446 447<div style=" 448 margin-left: 3em; 449 color: #ccccff; 450 ">her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all</div> 451 452<div style=" 453 margin-left: 3em; 454 color: #ccccff; 455 ">livelihood from her cheek. No more of this, Helena;</div> 456 457<div style=" 458 margin-left: 3em; 459 color: #ccccff; 460 ">go to, no more; lest it be rather thought you affect</div> 461 462<div style=" 463 margin-left: 3em; 464 color: #ccccff; 465 ">a sorrow than have it.</div> 466 467 468 469 470<div style=" 471 color: #ff9900; 472 ">HELENA</div> 473 474<div style=" 475 margin-left: 3em; 476 color: #ccccff; 477 ">I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too.</div> 478 479 480 481 482<div style=" 483 color: #ff9900; 484 ">LAFEU</div> 485 486<div style=" 487 margin-left: 3em; 488 color: #ccccff; 489 ">Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,</div> 490 491<div style=" 492 margin-left: 3em; 493 color: #ccccff; 494 ">excessive grief the enemy to the living.</div> 495 496 497 498 499<div style=" 500 color: #ff9900; 501 ">COUNTESS</div> 502 503<div style=" 504 margin-left: 3em; 505 color: #ccccff; 506 ">If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess</div> 507 508<div style=" 509 margin-left: 3em; 510 color: #ccccff; 511 ">makes it soon mortal.</div> 512 513 514 515 516<div style=" 517 color: #ff9900; 518 ">BERTRAM</div> 519 520<div style=" 521 margin-left: 3em; 522 color: #ccccff; 523 ">Madam, I desire your holy wishes.</div> 524 525 526 527 528<div style=" 529 color: #ff9900; 530 ">LAFEU</div> 531 532<div style=" 533 margin-left: 3em; 534 color: #ccccff; 535 ">How understand we that?</div> 536 537 538 539 540<div style=" 541 color: #ff9900; 542 ">COUNTESS</div> 543 544<div style=" 545 margin-left: 3em; 546 color: #ccccff; 547 ">Be thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father</div> 548 549<div style=" 550 margin-left: 3em; 551 color: #ccccff; 552 ">In manners, as in shape! thy blood and virtue</div> 553 554<div style=" 555 margin-left: 3em; 556 color: #ccccff; 557 ">Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness</div> 558 559<div style=" 560 margin-left: 3em; 561 color: #ccccff; 562 ">Share with thy birthright! Love all, trust a few,</div> 563 564<div style=" 565 margin-left: 3em; 566 color: #ccccff; 567 ">Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy</div> 568 569<div style=" 570 margin-left: 3em; 571 color: #ccccff; 572 ">Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend</div> 573 574<div style=" 575 margin-left: 3em; 576 color: #ccccff; 577 ">Under thy own life's key: be cheque'd for silence,</div> 578 579<div style=" 580 margin-left: 3em; 581 color: #ccccff; 582 ">But never tax'd for speech. What heaven more will,</div> 583 584<div style=" 585 margin-left: 3em; 586 color: #ccccff; 587 ">That thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down,</div> 588 589<div style=" 590 margin-left: 3em; 591 color: #ccccff; 592 ">Fall on thy head! Farewell, my lord;</div> 593 594<div style=" 595 margin-left: 3em; 596 color: #ccccff; 597 ">'Tis an unseason'd courtier; good my lord,</div> 598 599<div style=" 600 margin-left: 3em; 601 color: #ccccff; 602 ">Advise him.</div> 603 604 605 606 607<div style=" 608 color: #ff9900; 609 ">LAFEU</div> 610 611<div style=" 612 margin-left: 3em; 613 color: #ccccff; 614 ">He cannot want the best</div> 615 616<div style=" 617 margin-left: 3em; 618 color: #ccccff; 619 ">That shall attend his love.</div> 620 621 622 623 624<div style=" 625 color: #ff9900; 626 ">COUNTESS</div> 627 628<div style=" 629 margin-left: 3em; 630 color: #ccccff; 631 ">Heaven bless him! Farewell, Bertram.</div> 632 633 634 635<div style=" 636 position: relative; 637 width: 40%; 638 left: 50%; 639 text-align: right; 640 margin: 0.5em; 641 padding-right: 1em; 642 padding-left: 1em; 643 border-color: #ff9900; 644 border-width: 1px; 645 border-bottom-style: solid; 646 border-top-style: solid; 647 font-size: 9pt; 648 color: #9999cc; 649 ">Exit</div> 650 651 652 653<div style=" 654 color: #ff9900; 655 ">BERTRAM</div> 656 657<div style=" 658 margin-left: 3em; 659 color: #ccccff; 660 ">To HELENA The best wishes that can be forged in</div> 661 662<div style=" 663 margin-left: 3em; 664 color: #ccccff; 665 ">your thoughts be servants to you! Be comfortable</div> 666 667<div style=" 668 margin-left: 3em; 669 color: #ccccff; 670 ">to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.</div> 671 672 673 674 675<div style=" 676 color: #ff9900; 677 ">LAFEU</div> 678 679<div style=" 680 margin-left: 3em; 681 color: #ccccff; 682 ">Farewell, pretty lady: you must hold the credit of</div> 683 684<div style=" 685 margin-left: 3em; 686 color: #ccccff; 687 ">your father.</div> 688 689 690 691<div style=" 692 position: relative; 693 width: 40%; 694 left: 50%; 695 text-align: right; 696 margin: 0.5em; 697 padding-right: 1em; 698 padding-left: 1em; 699 border-color: #ff9900; 700 border-width: 1px; 701 border-bottom-style: solid; 702 border-top-style: solid; 703 font-size: 9pt; 704 color: #9999cc; 705 ">Exeunt BERTRAM and LAFEU</div> 706 707 708 709<div style=" 710 color: #ff9900; 711 ">HELENA</div> 712 713<div style=" 714 margin-left: 3em; 715 color: #ccccff; 716 ">O, were that all! I think not on my father;</div> 717 718<div style=" 719 margin-left: 3em; 720 color: #ccccff; 721 ">And these great tears grace his remembrance more</div> 722 723<div style=" 724 margin-left: 3em; 725 color: #ccccff; 726 ">Than those I shed for him. What was he like?</div> 727 728<div style=" 729 margin-left: 3em; 730 color: #ccccff; 731 ">I have forgot him: my imagination</div> 732 733<div style=" 734 margin-left: 3em; 735 color: #ccccff; 736 ">Carries no favour in't but Bertram's.</div> 737 738<div style=" 739 margin-left: 3em; 740 color: #ccccff; 741 ">I am undone: there is no living, none,</div> 742 743<div style=" 744 margin-left: 3em; 745 color: #ccccff; 746 ">If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one</div> 747 748<div style=" 749 margin-left: 3em; 750 color: #ccccff; 751 ">That I should love a bright particular star</div> 752 753<div style=" 754 margin-left: 3em; 755 color: #ccccff; 756 ">And think to wed it, he is so above me:</div> 757 758<div style=" 759 margin-left: 3em; 760 color: #ccccff; 761 ">In his bright radiance and collateral light</div> 762 763<div style=" 764 margin-left: 3em; 765 color: #ccccff; 766 ">Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.</div> 767 768<div style=" 769 margin-left: 3em; 770 color: #ccccff; 771 ">The ambition in my love thus plagues itself:</div> 772 773<div style=" 774 margin-left: 3em; 775 color: #ccccff; 776 ">The hind that would be mated by the lion</div> 777 778<div style=" 779 margin-left: 3em; 780 color: #ccccff; 781 ">Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though plague,</div> 782 783<div style=" 784 margin-left: 3em; 785 color: #ccccff; 786 ">To see him every hour; to sit and draw</div> 787 788<div style=" 789 margin-left: 3em; 790 color: #ccccff; 791 ">His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,</div> 792 793<div style=" 794 margin-left: 3em; 795 color: #ccccff; 796 ">In our heart's table; heart too capable</div> 797 798<div style=" 799 margin-left: 3em; 800 color: #ccccff; 801 ">Of every line and trick of his sweet favour:</div> 802 803<div style=" 804 margin-left: 3em; 805 color: #ccccff; 806 ">But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy</div> 807 808<div style=" 809 margin-left: 3em; 810 color: #ccccff; 811 ">Must sanctify his reliques. Who comes here?</div> 812 813<div style=" 814 position: relative; 815 width: 40%; 816 left: 50%; 817 text-align: right; 818 margin: 0.5em; 819 padding-right: 1em; 820 padding-left: 1em; 821 border-color: #ff9900; 822 border-width: 1px; 823 border-bottom-style: solid; 824 border-top-style: solid; 825 font-size: 9pt; 826 color: #9999cc; 827 ">Enter PAROLLES</div> 828 829<div style=" 830 position: relative; 831 width: 40%; 832 left: 50%; 833 text-align: right; 834 margin: 0.5em; 835 padding-right: 1em; 836 padding-left: 1em; 837 border-color: #ff9900; 838 border-width: 1px; 839 border-bottom-style: solid; 840 border-top-style: solid; 841 font-size: 9pt; 842 color: #9999cc; 843 ">Aside</div> 844 845<div style=" 846 margin-left: 3em; 847 color: #ccccff; 848 ">One that goes with him: I love him for his sake;</div> 849 850<div style=" 851 margin-left: 3em; 852 color: #ccccff; 853 ">And yet I know him a notorious liar,</div> 854 855<div style=" 856 margin-left: 3em; 857 color: #ccccff; 858 ">Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;</div> 859 860<div style=" 861 margin-left: 3em; 862 color: #ccccff; 863 ">Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him,</div> 864 865<div style=" 866 margin-left: 3em; 867 color: #ccccff; 868 ">That they take place, when virtue's steely bones</div> 869 870<div style=" 871 margin-left: 3em; 872 color: #ccccff; 873 ">Look bleak i' the cold wind: withal, full oft we see</div> 874 875<div style=" 876 margin-left: 3em; 877 color: #ccccff; 878 ">Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.</div> 879 880 881 882 883<div style=" 884 color: #ff9900; 885 ">PAROLLES</div> 886 887<div style=" 888 margin-left: 3em; 889 color: #ccccff; 890 ">Save you, fair queen!</div> 891 892 893 894 895<div style=" 896 color: #ff9900; 897 ">HELENA</div> 898 899<div style=" 900 margin-left: 3em; 901 color: #ccccff; 902 ">And you, monarch!</div> 903 904 905 906 907<div style=" 908 color: #ff9900; 909 ">PAROLLES</div> 910 911<div style=" 912 margin-left: 3em; 913 color: #ccccff; 914 ">No.</div> 915 916 917 918 919<div style=" 920 color: #ff9900; 921 ">HELENA</div> 922 923<div style=" 924 margin-left: 3em; 925 color: #ccccff; 926 ">And no.</div> 927 928 929 930 931<div style=" 932 color: #ff9900; 933 ">PAROLLES</div> 934 935<div style=" 936 margin-left: 3em; 937 color: #ccccff; 938 ">Are you meditating on virginity?</div> 939 940 941 942 943<div style=" 944 color: #ff9900; 945 ">HELENA</div> 946 947<div style=" 948 margin-left: 3em; 949 color: #ccccff; 950 ">Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you: let me</div> 951 952<div style=" 953 margin-left: 3em; 954 color: #ccccff; 955 ">ask you a question. Man is enemy to virginity; how</div> 956 957<div style=" 958 margin-left: 3em; 959 color: #ccccff; 960 ">may we barricado it against him?</div> 961 962 963 964 965<div style=" 966 color: #ff9900; 967 ">PAROLLES</div> 968 969<div style=" 970 margin-left: 3em; 971 color: #ccccff; 972 ">Keep him out.</div> 973 974 975 976 977<div style=" 978 color: #ff9900; 979 ">HELENA</div> 980 981<div style=" 982 margin-left: 3em; 983 color: #ccccff; 984 ">But he assails; and our virginity, though valiant,</div> 985 986<div style=" 987 margin-left: 3em; 988 color: #ccccff; 989 ">in the defence yet is weak: unfold to us some</div> 990 991<div style=" 992 margin-left: 3em; 993 color: #ccccff; 994 ">warlike resistance.</div> 995 996 997 998 999<div style=" 1000 color: #ff9900; 1001 ">PAROLLES</div> 1002 1003<div style=" 1004 margin-left: 3em; 1005 color: #ccccff; 1006 ">There is none: man, sitting down before you, will</div> 1007 1008<div style=" 1009 margin-left: 3em; 1010 color: #ccccff; 1011 ">undermine you and blow you up.</div> 1012 1013 1014 1015 1016<div style=" 1017 color: #ff9900; 1018 ">HELENA</div> 1019 1020<div style=" 1021 margin-left: 3em; 1022 color: #ccccff; 1023 ">Bless our poor virginity from underminers and</div> 1024 1025<div style=" 1026 margin-left: 3em; 1027 color: #ccccff; 1028 ">blowers up! Is there no military policy, how</div> 1029 1030<div style=" 1031 margin-left: 3em; 1032 color: #ccccff; 1033 ">virgins might blow up men?</div> 1034 1035 1036 1037 1038<div style=" 1039 color: #ff9900; 1040 ">PAROLLES</div> 1041 1042<div style=" 1043 margin-left: 3em; 1044 color: #ccccff; 1045 ">Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be</div> 1046 1047<div style=" 1048 margin-left: 3em; 1049 color: #ccccff; 1050 ">blown up: marry, in blowing him down again, with</div> 1051 1052<div style=" 1053 margin-left: 3em; 1054 color: #ccccff; 1055 ">the breach yourselves made, you lose your city. It</div> 1056 1057<div style=" 1058 margin-left: 3em; 1059 color: #ccccff; 1060 ">is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to</div> 1061 1062<div style=" 1063 margin-left: 3em; 1064 color: #ccccff; 1065 ">preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational</div> 1066 1067<div style=" 1068 margin-left: 3em; 1069 color: #ccccff; 1070 ">increase and there was never virgin got till</div> 1071 1072<div style=" 1073 margin-left: 3em; 1074 color: #ccccff; 1075 ">virginity was first lost. That you were made of is</div> 1076 1077<div style=" 1078 margin-left: 3em; 1079 color: #ccccff; 1080 ">metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost</div> 1081 1082<div style=" 1083 margin-left: 3em; 1084 color: #ccccff; 1085 ">may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is</div> 1086 1087<div style=" 1088 margin-left: 3em; 1089 color: #ccccff; 1090 ">ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with 't!</div> 1091 1092 1093 1094 1095<div style=" 1096 color: #ff9900; 1097 ">HELENA</div> 1098 1099<div style=" 1100 margin-left: 3em; 1101 color: #ccccff; 1102 ">I will stand for 't a little, though therefore I die a virgin.</div> 1103 1104 1105 1106 1107<div style=" 1108 color: #ff9900; 1109 ">PAROLLES</div> 1110 1111<div style=" 1112 margin-left: 3em; 1113 color: #ccccff; 1114 ">There's little can be said in 't; 'tis against the</div> 1115 1116<div style=" 1117 margin-left: 3em; 1118 color: #ccccff; 1119 ">rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity,</div> 1120 1121<div style=" 1122 margin-left: 3em; 1123 color: #ccccff; 1124 ">is to accuse your mothers; which is most infallible</div> 1125 1126<div style=" 1127 margin-left: 3em; 1128 color: #ccccff; 1129 ">disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin:</div> 1130 1131<div style=" 1132 margin-left: 3em; 1133 color: #ccccff; 1134 ">virginity murders itself and should be buried in</div> 1135 1136<div style=" 1137 margin-left: 3em; 1138 color: #ccccff; 1139 ">highways out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate</div> 1140 1141<div style=" 1142 margin-left: 3em; 1143 color: #ccccff; 1144 ">offendress against nature. Virginity breeds mites,</div> 1145 1146<div style=" 1147 margin-left: 3em; 1148 color: #ccccff; 1149 ">much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very</div> 1150 1151<div style=" 1152 margin-left: 3em; 1153 color: #ccccff; 1154 ">paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach.</div> 1155 1156<div style=" 1157 margin-left: 3em; 1158 color: #ccccff; 1159 ">Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of</div> 1160 1161<div style=" 1162 margin-left: 3em; 1163 color: #ccccff; 1164 ">self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the</div> 1165 1166<div style=" 1167 margin-left: 3em; 1168 color: #ccccff; 1169 ">canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but loose</div> 1170 1171<div style=" 1172 margin-left: 3em; 1173 color: #ccccff; 1174 ">by't: out with 't! within ten year it will make</div> 1175 1176<div style=" 1177 margin-left: 3em; 1178 color: #ccccff; 1179 ">itself ten, which is a goodly increase; and the</div> 1180 1181<div style=" 1182 margin-left: 3em; 1183 color: #ccccff; 1184 ">principal itself not much the worse: away with 't!</div> 1185 1186 1187 1188 1189<div style=" 1190 color: #ff9900; 1191 ">HELENA</div> 1192 1193<div style=" 1194 margin-left: 3em; 1195 color: #ccccff; 1196 ">How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking?</div> 1197 1198 1199 1200 1201<div style=" 1202 color: #ff9900; 1203 ">PAROLLES</div> 1204 1205<div style=" 1206 margin-left: 3em; 1207 color: #ccccff; 1208 ">Let me see: marry, ill, to like him that ne'er it</div> 1209 1210<div style=" 1211 margin-left: 3em; 1212 color: #ccccff; 1213 ">likes. 'Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with</div> 1214 1215<div style=" 1216 margin-left: 3em; 1217 color: #ccccff; 1218 ">lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with 't</div> 1219 1220<div style=" 1221 margin-left: 3em; 1222 color: #ccccff; 1223 ">while 'tis vendible; answer the time of request.</div> 1224 1225<div style=" 1226 margin-left: 3em; 1227 color: #ccccff; 1228 ">Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out</div> 1229 1230<div style=" 1231 margin-left: 3em; 1232 color: #ccccff; 1233 ">of fashion: richly suited, but unsuitable: just</div> 1234 1235<div style=" 1236 margin-left: 3em; 1237 color: #ccccff; 1238 ">like the brooch and the tooth-pick, which wear not</div> 1239 1240<div style=" 1241 margin-left: 3em; 1242 color: #ccccff; 1243 ">now. Your date is better in your pie and your</div> 1244 1245<div style=" 1246 margin-left: 3em; 1247 color: #ccccff; 1248 ">porridge than in your cheek; and your virginity,</div> 1249 1250<div style=" 1251 margin-left: 3em; 1252 color: #ccccff; 1253 ">your old virginity, is like one of our French</div> 1254 1255<div style=" 1256 margin-left: 3em; 1257 color: #ccccff; 1258 ">withered pears, it looks ill, it eats drily; marry,</div> 1259 1260<div style=" 1261 margin-left: 3em; 1262 color: #ccccff; 1263 ">'tis a withered pear; it was formerly better;</div> 1264 1265<div style=" 1266 margin-left: 3em; 1267 color: #ccccff; 1268 ">marry, yet 'tis a withered pear: will you anything with it?</div> 1269 1270 1271 1272 1273<div style=" 1274 color: #ff9900; 1275 ">HELENA</div> 1276 1277<div style=" 1278 margin-left: 3em; 1279 color: #ccccff; 1280 ">Not my virginity yet</div> 1281 1282<div style=" 1283 margin-left: 3em; 1284 color: #ccccff; 1285 ">There shall your master have a thousand loves,</div> 1286 1287<div style=" 1288 margin-left: 3em; 1289 color: #ccccff; 1290 ">A mother and a mistress and a friend,</div> 1291 1292<div style=" 1293 margin-left: 3em; 1294 color: #ccccff; 1295 ">A phoenix, captain and an enemy,</div> 1296 1297<div style=" 1298 margin-left: 3em; 1299 color: #ccccff; 1300 ">A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign,</div> 1301 1302<div style=" 1303 margin-left: 3em; 1304 color: #ccccff; 1305 ">A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear;</div> 1306 1307<div style=" 1308 margin-left: 3em; 1309 color: #ccccff; 1310 ">His humble ambition, proud humility,</div> 1311 1312<div style=" 1313 margin-left: 3em; 1314 color: #ccccff; 1315 ">His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet,</div> 1316 1317<div style=" 1318 margin-left: 3em; 1319 color: #ccccff; 1320 ">His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world</div> 1321 1322<div style=" 1323 margin-left: 3em; 1324 color: #ccccff; 1325 ">Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms,</div> 1326 1327<div style=" 1328 margin-left: 3em; 1329 color: #ccccff; 1330 ">That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he--</div> 1331 1332<div style=" 1333 margin-left: 3em; 1334 color: #ccccff; 1335 ">I know not what he shall. God send him well!</div> 1336 1337<div style=" 1338 margin-left: 3em; 1339 color: #ccccff; 1340 ">The court's a learning place, and he is one--</div> 1341 1342 1343 1344 1345<div style=" 1346 color: #ff9900; 1347 ">PAROLLES</div> 1348 1349<div style=" 1350 margin-left: 3em; 1351 color: #ccccff; 1352 ">What one, i' faith?</div> 1353 1354 1355 1356 1357<div style=" 1358 color: #ff9900; 1359 ">HELENA</div> 1360 1361<div style=" 1362 margin-left: 3em; 1363 color: #ccccff; 1364 ">That I wish well. 'Tis pity--</div> 1365 1366 1367 1368 1369<div style=" 1370 color: #ff9900; 1371 ">PAROLLES</div> 1372 1373<div style=" 1374 margin-left: 3em; 1375 color: #ccccff; 1376 ">What's pity?</div> 1377 1378 1379 1380 1381<div style=" 1382 color: #ff9900; 1383 ">HELENA</div> 1384 1385<div style=" 1386 margin-left: 3em; 1387 color: #ccccff; 1388 ">That wishing well had not a body in't,</div> 1389 1390<div style=" 1391 margin-left: 3em; 1392 color: #ccccff; 1393 ">Which might be felt; that we, the poorer born,</div> 1394 1395<div style=" 1396 margin-left: 3em; 1397 color: #ccccff; 1398 ">Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes,</div> 1399 1400<div style=" 1401 margin-left: 3em; 1402 color: #ccccff; 1403 ">Might with effects of them follow our friends,</div> 1404 1405<div style=" 1406 margin-left: 3em; 1407 color: #ccccff; 1408 ">And show what we alone must think, which never</div> 1409 1410<div style=" 1411 margin-left: 3em; 1412 color: #ccccff; 1413 ">Return us thanks.</div> 1414 1415 1416 1417<div style=" 1418 position: relative; 1419 width: 40%; 1420 left: 50%; 1421 text-align: right; 1422 margin: 0.5em; 1423 padding-right: 1em; 1424 padding-left: 1em; 1425 border-color: #ff9900; 1426 border-width: 1px; 1427 border-bottom-style: solid; 1428 border-top-style: solid; 1429 font-size: 9pt; 1430 color: #9999cc; 1431 ">Enter Page</div> 1432 1433 1434 1435<div style=" 1436 color: #ff9900; 1437 ">Page</div> 1438 1439<div style=" 1440 margin-left: 3em; 1441 color: #ccccff; 1442 ">Monsieur Parolles, my lord calls for you.</div> 1443 1444 1445 1446<div style=" 1447 position: relative; 1448 width: 40%; 1449 left: 50%; 1450 text-align: right; 1451 margin: 0.5em; 1452 padding-right: 1em; 1453 padding-left: 1em; 1454 border-color: #ff9900; 1455 border-width: 1px; 1456 border-bottom-style: solid; 1457 border-top-style: solid; 1458 font-size: 9pt; 1459 color: #9999cc; 1460 ">Exit</div> 1461 1462 1463 1464<div style=" 1465 color: #ff9900; 1466 ">PAROLLES</div> 1467 1468<div style=" 1469 margin-left: 3em; 1470 color: #ccccff; 1471 ">Little Helen, farewell; if I can remember thee, I</div> 1472 1473<div style=" 1474 margin-left: 3em; 1475 color: #ccccff; 1476 ">will think of thee at court.</div> 1477 1478 1479 1480 1481<div style=" 1482 color: #ff9900; 1483 ">HELENA</div> 1484 1485<div style=" 1486 margin-left: 3em; 1487 color: #ccccff; 1488 ">Monsieur Parolles, you were born under a charitable star.</div> 1489 1490 1491 1492 1493<div style=" 1494 color: #ff9900; 1495 ">PAROLLES</div> 1496 1497<div style=" 1498 margin-left: 3em; 1499 color: #ccccff; 1500 ">Under Mars, I.</div> 1501 1502 1503 1504 1505<div style=" 1506 color: #ff9900; 1507 ">HELENA</div> 1508 1509<div style=" 1510 margin-left: 3em; 1511 color: #ccccff; 1512 ">I especially think, under Mars.</div> 1513 1514 1515 1516 1517<div style=" 1518 color: #ff9900; 1519 ">PAROLLES</div> 1520 1521<div style=" 1522 margin-left: 3em; 1523 color: #ccccff; 1524 ">Why under Mars?</div> 1525 1526 1527 1528 1529<div style=" 1530 color: #ff9900; 1531 ">HELENA</div> 1532 1533<div style=" 1534 margin-left: 3em; 1535 color: #ccccff; 1536 ">The wars have so kept you under that you must needs</div> 1537 1538<div style=" 1539 margin-left: 3em; 1540 color: #ccccff; 1541 ">be born under Mars.</div> 1542 1543 1544 1545 1546<div style=" 1547 color: #ff9900; 1548 ">PAROLLES</div> 1549 1550<div style=" 1551 margin-left: 3em; 1552 color: #ccccff; 1553 ">When he was predominant.</div> 1554 1555 1556 1557 1558<div style=" 1559 color: #ff9900; 1560 ">HELENA</div> 1561 1562<div style=" 1563 margin-left: 3em; 1564 color: #ccccff; 1565 ">When he was retrograde, I think, rather.</div> 1566 1567 1568 1569 1570<div style=" 1571 color: #ff9900; 1572 ">PAROLLES</div> 1573 1574<div style=" 1575 margin-left: 3em; 1576 color: #ccccff; 1577 ">Why think you so?</div> 1578 1579 1580 1581 1582<div style=" 1583 color: #ff9900; 1584 ">HELENA</div> 1585 1586<div style=" 1587 margin-left: 3em; 1588 color: #ccccff; 1589 ">You go so much backward when you fight.</div> 1590 1591 1592 1593 1594<div style=" 1595 color: #ff9900; 1596 ">PAROLLES</div> 1597 1598<div style=" 1599 margin-left: 3em; 1600 color: #ccccff; 1601 ">That's for advantage.</div> 1602 1603 1604 1605 1606<div style=" 1607 color: #ff9900; 1608 ">HELENA</div> 1609 1610<div style=" 1611 margin-left: 3em; 1612 color: #ccccff; 1613 ">So is running away, when fear proposes the safety;</div> 1614 1615<div style=" 1616 margin-left: 3em; 1617 color: #ccccff; 1618 ">but the composition that your valour and fear makes</div> 1619 1620<div style=" 1621 margin-left: 3em; 1622 color: #ccccff; 1623 ">in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well.</div> 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628<div style=" 1629 color: #ff9900; 1630 ">PAROLLES</div> 1631 1632<div style=" 1633 margin-left: 3em; 1634 color: #ccccff; 1635 ">I am so full of businesses, I cannot answer thee</div> 1636 1637<div style=" 1638 margin-left: 3em; 1639 color: #ccccff; 1640 ">acutely. I will return perfect courtier; in the</div> 1641 1642<div style=" 1643 margin-left: 3em; 1644 color: #ccccff; 1645 ">which, my instruction shall serve to naturalize</div> 1646 1647<div style=" 1648 margin-left: 3em; 1649 color: #ccccff; 1650 ">thee, so thou wilt be capable of a courtier's</div> 1651 1652<div style=" 1653 margin-left: 3em; 1654 color: #ccccff; 1655 ">counsel and understand what advice shall thrust upon</div> 1656 1657<div style=" 1658 margin-left: 3em; 1659 color: #ccccff; 1660 ">thee; else thou diest in thine unthankfulness, and</div> 1661 1662<div style=" 1663 margin-left: 3em; 1664 color: #ccccff; 1665 ">thine ignorance makes thee away: farewell. When</div> 1666 1667<div style=" 1668 margin-left: 3em; 1669 color: #ccccff; 1670 ">thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when thou hast</div> 1671 1672<div style=" 1673 margin-left: 3em; 1674 color: #ccccff; 1675 ">none, remember thy friends; get thee a good husband,</div> 1676 1677<div style=" 1678 margin-left: 3em; 1679 color: #ccccff; 1680 ">and use him as he uses thee; so, farewell.</div> 1681 1682 1683 1684<div style=" 1685 position: relative; 1686 width: 40%; 1687 left: 50%; 1688 text-align: right; 1689 margin: 0.5em; 1690 padding-right: 1em; 1691 padding-left: 1em; 1692 border-color: #ff9900; 1693 border-width: 1px; 1694 border-bottom-style: solid; 1695 border-top-style: solid; 1696 font-size: 9pt; 1697 color: #9999cc; 1698 ">Exit</div> 1699 1700 1701 1702<div style=" 1703 color: #ff9900; 1704 ">HELENA</div> 1705 1706<div style=" 1707 margin-left: 3em; 1708 color: #ccccff; 1709 ">Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,</div> 1710 1711<div style=" 1712 margin-left: 3em; 1713 color: #ccccff; 1714 ">Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky</div> 1715 1716<div style=" 1717 margin-left: 3em; 1718 color: #ccccff; 1719 ">Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull</div> 1720 1721<div style=" 1722 margin-left: 3em; 1723 color: #ccccff; 1724 ">Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.</div> 1725 1726<div style=" 1727 margin-left: 3em; 1728 color: #ccccff; 1729 ">What power is it which mounts my love so high,</div> 1730 1731<div style=" 1732 margin-left: 3em; 1733 color: #ccccff; 1734 ">That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?</div> 1735 1736<div style=" 1737 margin-left: 3em; 1738 color: #ccccff; 1739 ">The mightiest space in fortune nature brings</div> 1740 1741<div style=" 1742 margin-left: 3em; 1743 color: #ccccff; 1744 ">To join like likes and kiss like native things.</div> 1745 1746<div style=" 1747 margin-left: 3em; 1748 color: #ccccff; 1749 ">Impossible be strange attempts to those</div> 1750 1751<div style=" 1752 margin-left: 3em; 1753 color: #ccccff; 1754 ">That weigh their pains in sense and do suppose</div> 1755 1756<div style=" 1757 margin-left: 3em; 1758 color: #ccccff; 1759 ">What hath been cannot be: who ever strove</div> 1760 1761<div style=" 1762 margin-left: 3em; 1763 color: #ccccff; 1764 ">So show her merit, that did miss her love?</div> 1765 1766<div style=" 1767 margin-left: 3em; 1768 color: #ccccff; 1769 ">The king's disease--my project may deceive me,</div> 1770 1771<div style=" 1772 margin-left: 3em; 1773 color: #ccccff; 1774 ">But my intents are fix'd and will not leave me.</div> 1775 1776 1777 1778<div style=" 1779 position: relative; 1780 width: 40%; 1781 left: 50%; 1782 text-align: right; 1783 margin: 0.5em; 1784 padding-right: 1em; 1785 padding-left: 1em; 1786 border-color: #ff9900; 1787 border-width: 1px; 1788 border-bottom-style: solid; 1789 border-top-style: solid; 1790 font-size: 9pt; 1791 color: #9999cc; 1792 ">Exit</div> 1793 1794</div> 1795 1796 1797<div> 1798<div style=" 1799 margin-bottom: 1em; 1800 padding-left: 1em; 1801 border-color: #ff9900; 1802 border-width: 1px; 1803 border-bottom-style: solid; 1804 border-top-style: solid; 1805 background-color: #cc6600; 1806 color: #000000; 1807 ">SCENE II. Paris. The KING's palace.</div> 1808 1809<div style=" 1810 position: relative; 1811 width: 40%; 1812 left: 50%; 1813 text-align: right; 1814 margin: 0.5em; 1815 padding-right: 1em; 1816 padding-left: 1em; 1817 border-color: #ff9900; 1818 border-width: 1px; 1819 border-bottom-style: solid; 1820 border-top-style: solid; 1821 font-size: 9pt; 1822 color: #9999cc; 1823 ">Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING of France, 1824with letters, and divers Attendants</div> 1825 1826 1827 1828<div style=" 1829 color: #ff9900; 1830 ">KING</div> 1831 1832<div style=" 1833 margin-left: 3em; 1834 color: #ccccff; 1835 ">The Florentines and Senoys are by the ears;</div> 1836 1837<div style=" 1838 margin-left: 3em; 1839 color: #ccccff; 1840 ">Have fought with equal fortune and continue</div> 1841 1842<div style=" 1843 margin-left: 3em; 1844 color: #ccccff; 1845 ">A braving war.</div> 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850<div style=" 1851 color: #ff9900; 1852 ">First Lord</div> 1853 1854<div style=" 1855 margin-left: 3em; 1856 color: #ccccff; 1857 ">So 'tis reported, sir.</div> 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862<div style=" 1863 color: #ff9900; 1864 ">KING</div> 1865 1866<div style=" 1867 margin-left: 3em; 1868 color: #ccccff; 1869 ">Nay, 'tis most credible; we here received it</div> 1870 1871<div style=" 1872 margin-left: 3em; 1873 color: #ccccff; 1874 ">A certainty, vouch'd from our cousin Austria,</div> 1875 1876<div style=" 1877 margin-left: 3em; 1878 color: #ccccff; 1879 ">With caution that the Florentine will move us</div> 1880 1881<div style=" 1882 margin-left: 3em; 1883 color: #ccccff; 1884 ">For speedy aid; wherein our dearest friend</div> 1885 1886<div style=" 1887 margin-left: 3em; 1888 color: #ccccff; 1889 ">Prejudicates the business and would seem</div> 1890 1891<div style=" 1892 margin-left: 3em; 1893 color: #ccccff; 1894 ">To have us make denial.</div> 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899<div style=" 1900 color: #ff9900; 1901 ">First Lord</div> 1902 1903<div style=" 1904 margin-left: 3em; 1905 color: #ccccff; 1906 ">His love and wisdom,</div> 1907 1908<div style=" 1909 margin-left: 3em; 1910 color: #ccccff; 1911 ">Approved so to your majesty, may plead</div> 1912 1913<div style=" 1914 margin-left: 3em; 1915 color: #ccccff; 1916 ">For amplest credence.</div> 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921<div style=" 1922 color: #ff9900; 1923 ">KING</div> 1924 1925<div style=" 1926 margin-left: 3em; 1927 color: #ccccff; 1928 ">He hath arm'd our answer,</div> 1929 1930<div style=" 1931 margin-left: 3em; 1932 color: #ccccff; 1933 ">And Florence is denied before he comes:</div> 1934 1935<div style=" 1936 margin-left: 3em; 1937 color: #ccccff; 1938 ">Yet, for our gentlemen that mean to see</div> 1939 1940<div style=" 1941 margin-left: 3em; 1942 color: #ccccff; 1943 ">The Tuscan service, freely have they leave</div> 1944 1945<div style=" 1946 margin-left: 3em; 1947 color: #ccccff; 1948 ">To stand on either part.</div> 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953<div style=" 1954 color: #ff9900; 1955 ">Second Lord</div> 1956 1957<div style=" 1958 margin-left: 3em; 1959 color: #ccccff; 1960 ">It well may serve</div> 1961 1962<div style=" 1963 margin-left: 3em; 1964 color: #ccccff; 1965 ">A nursery to our gentry, who are sick</div> 1966 1967<div style=" 1968 margin-left: 3em; 1969 color: #ccccff; 1970 ">For breathing and exploit.</div> 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975<div style=" 1976 color: #ff9900; 1977 ">KING</div> 1978 1979<div style=" 1980 margin-left: 3em; 1981 color: #ccccff; 1982 ">What's he comes here?</div> 1983 1984 1985 1986<div style=" 1987 position: relative; 1988 width: 40%; 1989 left: 50%; 1990 text-align: right; 1991 margin: 0.5em; 1992 padding-right: 1em; 1993 padding-left: 1em; 1994 border-color: #ff9900; 1995 border-width: 1px; 1996 border-bottom-style: solid; 1997 border-top-style: solid; 1998 font-size: 9pt; 1999 color: #9999cc; 2000 ">Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES</div> 2001 2002 2003 2004<div style=" 2005 color: #ff9900; 2006 ">First Lord</div> 2007 2008<div style=" 2009 margin-left: 3em; 2010 color: #ccccff; 2011 ">It is the Count Rousillon, my good lord,</div> 2012 2013<div style=" 2014 margin-left: 3em; 2015 color: #ccccff; 2016 ">Young Bertram.</div> 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021<div style=" 2022 color: #ff9900; 2023 ">KING</div> 2024 2025<div style=" 2026 margin-left: 3em; 2027 color: #ccccff; 2028 ">Youth, thou bear'st thy father's face;</div> 2029 2030<div style=" 2031 margin-left: 3em; 2032 color: #ccccff; 2033 ">Frank nature, rather curious than in haste,</div> 2034 2035<div style=" 2036 margin-left: 3em; 2037 color: #ccccff; 2038 ">Hath well composed thee. Thy father's moral parts</div> 2039 2040<div style=" 2041 margin-left: 3em; 2042 color: #ccccff; 2043 ">Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris.</div> 2044 2045 2046 2047 2048<div style=" 2049 color: #ff9900; 2050 ">BERTRAM</div> 2051 2052<div style=" 2053 margin-left: 3em; 2054 color: #ccccff; 2055 ">My thanks and duty are your majesty's.</div> 2056 2057 2058 2059 2060<div style=" 2061 color: #ff9900; 2062 ">KING</div> 2063 2064<div style=" 2065 margin-left: 3em; 2066 color: #ccccff; 2067 ">I would I had that corporal soundness now,</div> 2068 2069<div style=" 2070 margin-left: 3em; 2071 color: #ccccff; 2072 ">As when thy father and myself in friendship</div> 2073 2074<div style=" 2075 margin-left: 3em; 2076 color: #ccccff; 2077 ">First tried our soldiership! He did look far</div> 2078 2079<div style=" 2080 margin-left: 3em; 2081 color: #ccccff; 2082 ">Into the service of the time and was</div> 2083 2084<div style=" 2085 margin-left: 3em; 2086 color: #ccccff; 2087 ">Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long;</div> 2088 2089<div style=" 2090 margin-left: 3em; 2091 color: #ccccff; 2092 ">But on us both did haggish age steal on</div> 2093 2094<div style=" 2095 margin-left: 3em; 2096 color: #ccccff; 2097 ">And wore us out of act. It much repairs me</div> 2098 2099<div style=" 2100 margin-left: 3em; 2101 color: #ccccff; 2102 ">To talk of your good father. In his youth</div> 2103 2104<div style=" 2105 margin-left: 3em; 2106 color: #ccccff; 2107 ">He had the wit which I can well observe</div> 2108 2109<div style=" 2110 margin-left: 3em; 2111 color: #ccccff; 2112 ">To-day in our young lords; but they may jest</div> 2113 2114<div style=" 2115 margin-left: 3em; 2116 color: #ccccff; 2117 ">Till their own scorn return to them unnoted</div> 2118 2119<div style=" 2120 margin-left: 3em; 2121 color: #ccccff; 2122 ">Ere they can hide their levity in honour;</div> 2123 2124<div style=" 2125 margin-left: 3em; 2126 color: #ccccff; 2127 ">So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness</div> 2128 2129<div style=" 2130 margin-left: 3em; 2131 color: #ccccff; 2132 ">Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were,</div> 2133 2134<div style=" 2135 margin-left: 3em; 2136 color: #ccccff; 2137 ">His equal had awaked them, and his honour,</div> 2138 2139<div style=" 2140 margin-left: 3em; 2141 color: #ccccff; 2142 ">Clock to itself, knew the true minute when</div> 2143 2144<div style=" 2145 margin-left: 3em; 2146 color: #ccccff; 2147 ">Exception bid him speak, and at this time</div> 2148 2149<div style=" 2150 margin-left: 3em; 2151 color: #ccccff; 2152 ">His tongue obey'd his hand: who were below him</div> 2153 2154<div style=" 2155 margin-left: 3em; 2156 color: #ccccff; 2157 ">He used as creatures of another place</div> 2158 2159<div style=" 2160 margin-left: 3em; 2161 color: #ccccff; 2162 ">And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks,</div> 2163 2164<div style=" 2165 margin-left: 3em; 2166 color: #ccccff; 2167 ">Making them proud of his humility,</div> 2168 2169<div style=" 2170 margin-left: 3em; 2171 color: #ccccff; 2172 ">In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man</div> 2173 2174<div style=" 2175 margin-left: 3em; 2176 color: #ccccff; 2177 ">Might be a copy to these younger times;</div> 2178 2179<div style=" 2180 margin-left: 3em; 2181 color: #ccccff; 2182 ">Which, follow'd well, would demonstrate them now</div> 2183 2184<div style=" 2185 margin-left: 3em; 2186 color: #ccccff; 2187 ">But goers backward.</div> 2188 2189 2190 2191 2192<div style=" 2193 color: #ff9900; 2194 ">BERTRAM</div> 2195 2196<div style=" 2197 margin-left: 3em; 2198 color: #ccccff; 2199 ">His good remembrance, sir,</div> 2200 2201<div style=" 2202 margin-left: 3em; 2203 color: #ccccff; 2204 ">Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb;</div> 2205 2206<div style=" 2207 margin-left: 3em; 2208 color: #ccccff; 2209 ">So in approof lives not his epitaph</div> 2210 2211<div style=" 2212 margin-left: 3em; 2213 color: #ccccff; 2214 ">As in your royal speech.</div> 2215 2216 2217 2218 2219<div style=" 2220 color: #ff9900; 2221 ">KING</div> 2222 2223<div style=" 2224 margin-left: 3em; 2225 color: #ccccff; 2226 ">Would I were with him! He would always say--</div> 2227 2228<div style=" 2229 margin-left: 3em; 2230 color: #ccccff; 2231 ">Methinks I hear him now; his plausive words</div> 2232 2233<div style=" 2234 margin-left: 3em; 2235 color: #ccccff; 2236 ">He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them,</div> 2237 2238<div style=" 2239 margin-left: 3em; 2240 color: #ccccff; 2241 ">To grow there and to bear,--'Let me not live,'--</div> 2242 2243<div style=" 2244 margin-left: 3em; 2245 color: #ccccff; 2246 ">This his good melancholy oft began,</div> 2247 2248<div style=" 2249 margin-left: 3em; 2250 color: #ccccff; 2251 ">On the catastrophe and heel of pastime,</div> 2252 2253<div style=" 2254 margin-left: 3em; 2255 color: #ccccff; 2256 ">When it was out,--'Let me not live,' quoth he,</div> 2257 2258<div style=" 2259 margin-left: 3em; 2260 color: #ccccff; 2261 ">'After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff</div> 2262 2263<div style=" 2264 margin-left: 3em; 2265 color: #ccccff; 2266 ">Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses</div> 2267 2268<div style=" 2269 margin-left: 3em; 2270 color: #ccccff; 2271 ">All but new things disdain; whose judgments are</div> 2272 2273<div style=" 2274 margin-left: 3em; 2275 color: #ccccff; 2276 ">Mere fathers of their garments; whose constancies</div> 2277 2278<div style=" 2279 margin-left: 3em; 2280 color: #ccccff; 2281 ">Expire before their fashions.' This he wish'd;</div> 2282 2283<div style=" 2284 margin-left: 3em; 2285 color: #ccccff; 2286 ">I after him do after him wish too,</div> 2287 2288<div style=" 2289 margin-left: 3em; 2290 color: #ccccff; 2291 ">Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home,</div> 2292 2293<div style=" 2294 margin-left: 3em; 2295 color: #ccccff; 2296 ">I quickly were dissolved from my hive,</div> 2297 2298<div style=" 2299 margin-left: 3em; 2300 color: #ccccff; 2301 ">To give some labourers room.</div> 2302 2303 2304 2305 2306<div style=" 2307 color: #ff9900; 2308 ">Second Lord</div> 2309 2310<div style=" 2311 margin-left: 3em; 2312 color: #ccccff; 2313 ">You are loved, sir:</div> 2314 2315<div style=" 2316 margin-left: 3em; 2317 color: #ccccff; 2318 ">They that least lend it you shall lack you first.</div> 2319 2320 2321 2322 2323<div style=" 2324 color: #ff9900; 2325 ">KING</div> 2326 2327<div style=" 2328 margin-left: 3em; 2329 color: #ccccff; 2330 ">I fill a place, I know't. How long is't, count,</div> 2331 2332<div style=" 2333 margin-left: 3em; 2334 color: #ccccff; 2335 ">Since the physician at your father's died?</div> 2336 2337<div style=" 2338 margin-left: 3em; 2339 color: #ccccff; 2340 ">He was much famed.</div> 2341 2342 2343 2344 2345<div style=" 2346 color: #ff9900; 2347 ">BERTRAM</div> 2348 2349<div style=" 2350 margin-left: 3em; 2351 color: #ccccff; 2352 ">Some six months since, my lord.</div> 2353 2354 2355 2356 2357<div style=" 2358 color: #ff9900; 2359 ">KING</div> 2360 2361<div style=" 2362 margin-left: 3em; 2363 color: #ccccff; 2364 ">If he were living, I would try him yet.</div> 2365 2366<div style=" 2367 margin-left: 3em; 2368 color: #ccccff; 2369 ">Lend me an arm; the rest have worn me out</div> 2370 2371<div style=" 2372 margin-left: 3em; 2373 color: #ccccff; 2374 ">With several applications; nature and sickness</div> 2375 2376<div style=" 2377 margin-left: 3em; 2378 color: #ccccff; 2379 ">Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, count;</div> 2380 2381<div style=" 2382 margin-left: 3em; 2383 color: #ccccff; 2384 ">My son's no dearer.</div> 2385 2386 2387 2388 2389<div style=" 2390 color: #ff9900; 2391 ">BERTRAM</div> 2392 2393<div style=" 2394 margin-left: 3em; 2395 color: #ccccff; 2396 ">Thank your majesty.</div> 2397 2398 2399 2400<div style=" 2401 position: relative; 2402 width: 40%; 2403 left: 50%; 2404 text-align: right; 2405 margin: 0.5em; 2406 padding-right: 1em; 2407 padding-left: 1em; 2408 border-color: #ff9900; 2409 border-width: 1px; 2410 border-bottom-style: solid; 2411 border-top-style: solid; 2412 font-size: 9pt; 2413 color: #9999cc; 2414 ">Exeunt. Flourish</div> 2415 2416</div> 2417 2418 2419<div> 2420<div style=" 2421 margin-bottom: 1em; 2422 padding-left: 1em; 2423 border-color: #ff9900; 2424 border-width: 1px; 2425 border-bottom-style: solid; 2426 border-top-style: solid; 2427 background-color: #cc6600; 2428 color: #000000; 2429 ">SCENE III. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</div> 2430 2431<div style=" 2432 position: relative; 2433 width: 40%; 2434 left: 50%; 2435 text-align: right; 2436 margin: 0.5em; 2437 padding-right: 1em; 2438 padding-left: 1em; 2439 border-color: #ff9900; 2440 border-width: 1px; 2441 border-bottom-style: solid; 2442 border-top-style: solid; 2443 font-size: 9pt; 2444 color: #9999cc; 2445 ">Enter COUNTESS, Steward, and Clown</div> 2446 2447 2448 2449<div style=" 2450 color: #ff9900; 2451 ">COUNTESS</div> 2452 2453<div style=" 2454 margin-left: 3em; 2455 color: #ccccff; 2456 ">I will now hear; what say you of this gentlewoman?</div> 2457 2458 2459 2460 2461<div style=" 2462 color: #ff9900; 2463 ">Steward</div> 2464 2465<div style=" 2466 margin-left: 3em; 2467 color: #ccccff; 2468 ">Madam, the care I have had to even your content, I</div> 2469 2470<div style=" 2471 margin-left: 3em; 2472 color: #ccccff; 2473 ">wish might be found in the calendar of my past</div> 2474 2475<div style=" 2476 margin-left: 3em; 2477 color: #ccccff; 2478 ">endeavours; for then we wound our modesty and make</div> 2479 2480<div style=" 2481 margin-left: 3em; 2482 color: #ccccff; 2483 ">foul the clearness of our deservings, when of</div> 2484 2485<div style=" 2486 margin-left: 3em; 2487 color: #ccccff; 2488 ">ourselves we publish them.</div> 2489 2490 2491 2492 2493<div style=" 2494 color: #ff9900; 2495 ">COUNTESS</div> 2496 2497<div style=" 2498 margin-left: 3em; 2499 color: #ccccff; 2500 ">What does this knave here? Get you gone, sirrah:</div> 2501 2502<div style=" 2503 margin-left: 3em; 2504 color: #ccccff; 2505 ">the complaints I have heard of you I do not all</div> 2506 2507<div style=" 2508 margin-left: 3em; 2509 color: #ccccff; 2510 ">believe: 'tis my slowness that I do not; for I know</div> 2511 2512<div style=" 2513 margin-left: 3em; 2514 color: #ccccff; 2515 ">you lack not folly to commit them, and have ability</div> 2516 2517<div style=" 2518 margin-left: 3em; 2519 color: #ccccff; 2520 ">enough to make such knaveries yours.</div> 2521 2522 2523 2524 2525<div style=" 2526 color: #ff9900; 2527 ">Clown</div> 2528 2529<div style=" 2530 margin-left: 3em; 2531 color: #ccccff; 2532 ">'Tis not unknown to you, madam, I am a poor fellow.</div> 2533 2534 2535 2536 2537<div style=" 2538 color: #ff9900; 2539 ">COUNTESS</div> 2540 2541<div style=" 2542 margin-left: 3em; 2543 color: #ccccff; 2544 ">Well, sir.</div> 2545 2546 2547 2548 2549<div style=" 2550 color: #ff9900; 2551 ">Clown</div> 2552 2553<div style=" 2554 margin-left: 3em; 2555 color: #ccccff; 2556 ">No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor, though</div> 2557 2558<div style=" 2559 margin-left: 3em; 2560 color: #ccccff; 2561 ">many of the rich are damned: but, if I may have</div> 2562 2563<div style=" 2564 margin-left: 3em; 2565 color: #ccccff; 2566 ">your ladyship's good will to go to the world, Isbel</div> 2567 2568<div style=" 2569 margin-left: 3em; 2570 color: #ccccff; 2571 ">the woman and I will do as we may.</div> 2572 2573 2574 2575 2576<div style=" 2577 color: #ff9900; 2578 ">COUNTESS</div> 2579 2580<div style=" 2581 margin-left: 3em; 2582 color: #ccccff; 2583 ">Wilt thou needs be a beggar?</div> 2584 2585 2586 2587 2588<div style=" 2589 color: #ff9900; 2590 ">Clown</div> 2591 2592<div style=" 2593 margin-left: 3em; 2594 color: #ccccff; 2595 ">I do beg your good will in this case.</div> 2596 2597 2598 2599 2600<div style=" 2601 color: #ff9900; 2602 ">COUNTESS</div> 2603 2604<div style=" 2605 margin-left: 3em; 2606 color: #ccccff; 2607 ">In what case?</div> 2608 2609 2610 2611 2612<div style=" 2613 color: #ff9900; 2614 ">Clown</div> 2615 2616<div style=" 2617 margin-left: 3em; 2618 color: #ccccff; 2619 ">In Isbel's case and mine own. Service is no</div> 2620 2621<div style=" 2622 margin-left: 3em; 2623 color: #ccccff; 2624 ">heritage: and I think I shall never have the</div> 2625 2626<div style=" 2627 margin-left: 3em; 2628 color: #ccccff; 2629 ">blessing of God till I have issue o' my body; for</div> 2630 2631<div style=" 2632 margin-left: 3em; 2633 color: #ccccff; 2634 ">they say barnes are blessings.</div> 2635 2636 2637 2638 2639<div style=" 2640 color: #ff9900; 2641 ">COUNTESS</div> 2642 2643<div style=" 2644 margin-left: 3em; 2645 color: #ccccff; 2646 ">Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry.</div> 2647 2648 2649 2650 2651<div style=" 2652 color: #ff9900; 2653 ">Clown</div> 2654 2655<div style=" 2656 margin-left: 3em; 2657 color: #ccccff; 2658 ">My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on</div> 2659 2660<div style=" 2661 margin-left: 3em; 2662 color: #ccccff; 2663 ">by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives.</div> 2664 2665 2666 2667 2668<div style=" 2669 color: #ff9900; 2670 ">COUNTESS</div> 2671 2672<div style=" 2673 margin-left: 3em; 2674 color: #ccccff; 2675 ">Is this all your worship's reason?</div> 2676 2677 2678 2679 2680<div style=" 2681 color: #ff9900; 2682 ">Clown</div> 2683 2684<div style=" 2685 margin-left: 3em; 2686 color: #ccccff; 2687 ">Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons such as they</div> 2688 2689<div style=" 2690 margin-left: 3em; 2691 color: #ccccff; 2692 ">are.</div> 2693 2694 2695 2696 2697<div style=" 2698 color: #ff9900; 2699 ">COUNTESS</div> 2700 2701<div style=" 2702 margin-left: 3em; 2703 color: #ccccff; 2704 ">May the world know them?</div> 2705 2706 2707 2708 2709<div style=" 2710 color: #ff9900; 2711 ">Clown</div> 2712 2713<div style=" 2714 margin-left: 3em; 2715 color: #ccccff; 2716 ">I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you and</div> 2717 2718<div style=" 2719 margin-left: 3em; 2720 color: #ccccff; 2721 ">all flesh and blood are; and, indeed, I do marry</div> 2722 2723<div style=" 2724 margin-left: 3em; 2725 color: #ccccff; 2726 ">that I may repent.</div> 2727 2728 2729 2730 2731<div style=" 2732 color: #ff9900; 2733 ">COUNTESS</div> 2734 2735<div style=" 2736 margin-left: 3em; 2737 color: #ccccff; 2738 ">Thy marriage, sooner than thy wickedness.</div> 2739 2740 2741 2742 2743<div style=" 2744 color: #ff9900; 2745 ">Clown</div> 2746 2747<div style=" 2748 margin-left: 3em; 2749 color: #ccccff; 2750 ">I am out o' friends, madam; and I hope to have</div> 2751 2752<div style=" 2753 margin-left: 3em; 2754 color: #ccccff; 2755 ">friends for my wife's sake.</div> 2756 2757 2758 2759 2760<div style=" 2761 color: #ff9900; 2762 ">COUNTESS</div> 2763 2764<div style=" 2765 margin-left: 3em; 2766 color: #ccccff; 2767 ">Such friends are thine enemies, knave.</div> 2768 2769 2770 2771 2772<div style=" 2773 color: #ff9900; 2774 ">Clown</div> 2775 2776<div style=" 2777 margin-left: 3em; 2778 color: #ccccff; 2779 ">You're shallow, madam, in great friends; for the</div> 2780 2781<div style=" 2782 margin-left: 3em; 2783 color: #ccccff; 2784 ">knaves come to do that for me which I am aweary of.</div> 2785 2786<div style=" 2787 margin-left: 3em; 2788 color: #ccccff; 2789 ">He that ears my land spares my team and gives me</div> 2790 2791<div style=" 2792 margin-left: 3em; 2793 color: #ccccff; 2794 ">leave to in the crop; if I be his cuckold, he's my</div> 2795 2796<div style=" 2797 margin-left: 3em; 2798 color: #ccccff; 2799 ">drudge: he that comforts my wife is the cherisher</div> 2800 2801<div style=" 2802 margin-left: 3em; 2803 color: #ccccff; 2804 ">of my flesh and blood; he that cherishes my flesh</div> 2805 2806<div style=" 2807 margin-left: 3em; 2808 color: #ccccff; 2809 ">and blood loves my flesh and blood; he that loves my</div> 2810 2811<div style=" 2812 margin-left: 3em; 2813 color: #ccccff; 2814 ">flesh and blood is my friend: ergo, he that kisses</div> 2815 2816<div style=" 2817 margin-left: 3em; 2818 color: #ccccff; 2819 ">my wife is my friend. If men could be contented to</div> 2820 2821<div style=" 2822 margin-left: 3em; 2823 color: #ccccff; 2824 ">be what they are, there were no fear in marriage;</div> 2825 2826<div style=" 2827 margin-left: 3em; 2828 color: #ccccff; 2829 ">for young Charbon the Puritan and old Poysam the</div> 2830 2831<div style=" 2832 margin-left: 3em; 2833 color: #ccccff; 2834 ">Papist, howsome'er their hearts are severed in</div> 2835 2836<div style=" 2837 margin-left: 3em; 2838 color: #ccccff; 2839 ">religion, their heads are both one; they may jowl</div> 2840 2841<div style=" 2842 margin-left: 3em; 2843 color: #ccccff; 2844 ">horns together, like any deer i' the herd.</div> 2845 2846 2847 2848 2849<div style=" 2850 color: #ff9900; 2851 ">COUNTESS</div> 2852 2853<div style=" 2854 margin-left: 3em; 2855 color: #ccccff; 2856 ">Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouthed and calumnious knave?</div> 2857 2858 2859 2860 2861<div style=" 2862 color: #ff9900; 2863 ">Clown</div> 2864 2865<div style=" 2866 margin-left: 3em; 2867 color: #ccccff; 2868 ">A prophet I, madam; and I speak the truth the next</div> 2869 2870<div style=" 2871 margin-left: 3em; 2872 color: #ccccff; 2873 ">way:</div> 2874 2875<div style=" 2876 margin-left: 3em; 2877 color: #ccccff; 2878 ">For I the ballad will repeat,</div> 2879 2880<div style=" 2881 margin-left: 3em; 2882 color: #ccccff; 2883 ">Which men full true shall find;</div> 2884 2885<div style=" 2886 margin-left: 3em; 2887 color: #ccccff; 2888 ">Your marriage comes by destiny,</div> 2889 2890<div style=" 2891 margin-left: 3em; 2892 color: #ccccff; 2893 ">Your cuckoo sings by kind.</div> 2894 2895 2896 2897 2898<div style=" 2899 color: #ff9900; 2900 ">COUNTESS</div> 2901 2902<div style=" 2903 margin-left: 3em; 2904 color: #ccccff; 2905 ">Get you gone, sir; I'll talk with you more anon.</div> 2906 2907 2908 2909 2910<div style=" 2911 color: #ff9900; 2912 ">Steward</div> 2913 2914<div style=" 2915 margin-left: 3em; 2916 color: #ccccff; 2917 ">May it please you, madam, that he bid Helen come to</div> 2918 2919<div style=" 2920 margin-left: 3em; 2921 color: #ccccff; 2922 ">you: of her I am to speak.</div> 2923 2924 2925 2926 2927<div style=" 2928 color: #ff9900; 2929 ">COUNTESS</div> 2930 2931<div style=" 2932 margin-left: 3em; 2933 color: #ccccff; 2934 ">Sirrah, tell my gentlewoman I would speak with her;</div> 2935 2936<div style=" 2937 margin-left: 3em; 2938 color: #ccccff; 2939 ">Helen, I mean.</div> 2940 2941 2942 2943 2944<div style=" 2945 color: #ff9900; 2946 ">Clown</div> 2947 2948<div style=" 2949 margin-left: 3em; 2950 color: #ccccff; 2951 ">Was this fair face the cause, quoth she,</div> 2952 2953<div style=" 2954 margin-left: 3em; 2955 color: #ccccff; 2956 ">Why the Grecians sacked Troy?</div> 2957 2958<div style=" 2959 margin-left: 3em; 2960 color: #ccccff; 2961 ">Fond done, done fond,</div> 2962 2963<div style=" 2964 margin-left: 3em; 2965 color: #ccccff; 2966 ">Was this King Priam's joy?</div> 2967 2968<div style=" 2969 margin-left: 3em; 2970 color: #ccccff; 2971 ">With that she sighed as she stood,</div> 2972 2973<div style=" 2974 margin-left: 3em; 2975 color: #ccccff; 2976 ">With that she sighed as she stood,</div> 2977 2978<div style=" 2979 margin-left: 3em; 2980 color: #ccccff; 2981 ">And gave this sentence then;</div> 2982 2983<div style=" 2984 margin-left: 3em; 2985 color: #ccccff; 2986 ">Among nine bad if one be good,</div> 2987 2988<div style=" 2989 margin-left: 3em; 2990 color: #ccccff; 2991 ">Among nine bad if one be good,</div> 2992 2993<div style=" 2994 margin-left: 3em; 2995 color: #ccccff; 2996 ">There's yet one good in ten.</div> 2997 2998 2999 3000 3001<div style=" 3002 color: #ff9900; 3003 ">COUNTESS</div> 3004 3005<div style=" 3006 margin-left: 3em; 3007 color: #ccccff; 3008 ">What, one good in ten? you corrupt the song, sirrah.</div> 3009 3010 3011 3012 3013<div style=" 3014 color: #ff9900; 3015 ">Clown</div> 3016 3017<div style=" 3018 margin-left: 3em; 3019 color: #ccccff; 3020 ">One good woman in ten, madam; which is a purifying</div> 3021 3022<div style=" 3023 margin-left: 3em; 3024 color: #ccccff; 3025 ">o' the song: would God would serve the world so all</div> 3026 3027<div style=" 3028 margin-left: 3em; 3029 color: #ccccff; 3030 ">the year! we'ld find no fault with the tithe-woman,</div> 3031 3032<div style=" 3033 margin-left: 3em; 3034 color: #ccccff; 3035 ">if I were the parson. One in ten, quoth a'! An we</div> 3036 3037<div style=" 3038 margin-left: 3em; 3039 color: #ccccff; 3040 ">might have a good woman born but one every blazing</div> 3041 3042<div style=" 3043 margin-left: 3em; 3044 color: #ccccff; 3045 ">star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the lottery</div> 3046 3047<div style=" 3048 margin-left: 3em; 3049 color: #ccccff; 3050 ">well: a man may draw his heart out, ere a' pluck</div> 3051 3052<div style=" 3053 margin-left: 3em; 3054 color: #ccccff; 3055 ">one.</div> 3056 3057 3058 3059 3060<div style=" 3061 color: #ff9900; 3062 ">COUNTESS</div> 3063 3064<div style=" 3065 margin-left: 3em; 3066 color: #ccccff; 3067 ">You'll be gone, sir knave, and do as I command you.</div> 3068 3069 3070 3071 3072<div style=" 3073 color: #ff9900; 3074 ">Clown</div> 3075 3076<div style=" 3077 margin-left: 3em; 3078 color: #ccccff; 3079 ">That man should be at woman's command, and yet no</div> 3080 3081<div style=" 3082 margin-left: 3em; 3083 color: #ccccff; 3084 ">hurt done! Though honesty be no puritan, yet it</div> 3085 3086<div style=" 3087 margin-left: 3em; 3088 color: #ccccff; 3089 ">will do no hurt; it will wear the surplice of</div> 3090 3091<div style=" 3092 margin-left: 3em; 3093 color: #ccccff; 3094 ">humility over the black gown of a big heart. I am</div> 3095 3096<div style=" 3097 margin-left: 3em; 3098 color: #ccccff; 3099 ">going, forsooth: the business is for Helen to come hither.</div> 3100 3101 3102 3103<div style=" 3104 position: relative; 3105 width: 40%; 3106 left: 50%; 3107 text-align: right; 3108 margin: 0.5em; 3109 padding-right: 1em; 3110 padding-left: 1em; 3111 border-color: #ff9900; 3112 border-width: 1px; 3113 border-bottom-style: solid; 3114 border-top-style: solid; 3115 font-size: 9pt; 3116 color: #9999cc; 3117 ">Exit</div> 3118 3119 3120 3121<div style=" 3122 color: #ff9900; 3123 ">COUNTESS</div> 3124 3125<div style=" 3126 margin-left: 3em; 3127 color: #ccccff; 3128 ">Well, now.</div> 3129 3130 3131 3132 3133<div style=" 3134 color: #ff9900; 3135 ">Steward</div> 3136 3137<div style=" 3138 margin-left: 3em; 3139 color: #ccccff; 3140 ">I know, madam, you love your gentlewoman entirely.</div> 3141 3142 3143 3144 3145<div style=" 3146 color: #ff9900; 3147 ">COUNTESS</div> 3148 3149<div style=" 3150 margin-left: 3em; 3151 color: #ccccff; 3152 ">Faith, I do: her father bequeathed her to me; and</div> 3153 3154<div style=" 3155 margin-left: 3em; 3156 color: #ccccff; 3157 ">she herself, without other advantage, may lawfully</div> 3158 3159<div style=" 3160 margin-left: 3em; 3161 color: #ccccff; 3162 ">make title to as much love as she finds: there is</div> 3163 3164<div style=" 3165 margin-left: 3em; 3166 color: #ccccff; 3167 ">more owing her than is paid; and more shall be paid</div> 3168 3169<div style=" 3170 margin-left: 3em; 3171 color: #ccccff; 3172 ">her than she'll demand.</div> 3173 3174 3175 3176 3177<div style=" 3178 color: #ff9900; 3179 ">Steward</div> 3180 3181<div style=" 3182 margin-left: 3em; 3183 color: #ccccff; 3184 ">Madam, I was very late more near her than I think</div> 3185 3186<div style=" 3187 margin-left: 3em; 3188 color: #ccccff; 3189 ">she wished me: alone she was, and did communicate</div> 3190 3191<div style=" 3192 margin-left: 3em; 3193 color: #ccccff; 3194 ">to herself her own words to her own ears; she</div> 3195 3196<div style=" 3197 margin-left: 3em; 3198 color: #ccccff; 3199 ">thought, I dare vow for her, they touched not any</div> 3200 3201<div style=" 3202 margin-left: 3em; 3203 color: #ccccff; 3204 ">stranger sense. Her matter was, she loved your son:</div> 3205 3206<div style=" 3207 margin-left: 3em; 3208 color: #ccccff; 3209 ">Fortune, she said, was no goddess, that had put</div> 3210 3211<div style=" 3212 margin-left: 3em; 3213 color: #ccccff; 3214 ">such difference betwixt their two estates; Love no</div> 3215 3216<div style=" 3217 margin-left: 3em; 3218 color: #ccccff; 3219 ">god, that would not extend his might, only where</div> 3220 3221<div style=" 3222 margin-left: 3em; 3223 color: #ccccff; 3224 ">qualities were level; Dian no queen of virgins, that</div> 3225 3226<div style=" 3227 margin-left: 3em; 3228 color: #ccccff; 3229 ">would suffer her poor knight surprised, without</div> 3230 3231<div style=" 3232 margin-left: 3em; 3233 color: #ccccff; 3234 ">rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward.</div> 3235 3236<div style=" 3237 margin-left: 3em; 3238 color: #ccccff; 3239 ">This she delivered in the most bitter touch of</div> 3240 3241<div style=" 3242 margin-left: 3em; 3243 color: #ccccff; 3244 ">sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim in: which I</div> 3245 3246<div style=" 3247 margin-left: 3em; 3248 color: #ccccff; 3249 ">held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal;</div> 3250 3251<div style=" 3252 margin-left: 3em; 3253 color: #ccccff; 3254 ">sithence, in the loss that may happen, it concerns</div> 3255 3256<div style=" 3257 margin-left: 3em; 3258 color: #ccccff; 3259 ">you something to know it.</div> 3260 3261 3262 3263 3264<div style=" 3265 color: #ff9900; 3266 ">COUNTESS</div> 3267 3268<div style=" 3269 margin-left: 3em; 3270 color: #ccccff; 3271 ">You have discharged this honestly; keep it to</div> 3272 3273<div style=" 3274 margin-left: 3em; 3275 color: #ccccff; 3276 ">yourself: many likelihoods informed me of this</div> 3277 3278<div style=" 3279 margin-left: 3em; 3280 color: #ccccff; 3281 ">before, which hung so tottering in the balance that</div> 3282 3283<div style=" 3284 margin-left: 3em; 3285 color: #ccccff; 3286 ">I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Pray you,</div> 3287 3288<div style=" 3289 margin-left: 3em; 3290 color: #ccccff; 3291 ">leave me: stall this in your bosom; and I thank you</div> 3292 3293<div style=" 3294 margin-left: 3em; 3295 color: #ccccff; 3296 ">for your honest care: I will speak with you further anon.</div> 3297 3298<div style=" 3299 position: relative; 3300 width: 40%; 3301 left: 50%; 3302 text-align: right; 3303 margin: 0.5em; 3304 padding-right: 1em; 3305 padding-left: 1em; 3306 border-color: #ff9900; 3307 border-width: 1px; 3308 border-bottom-style: solid; 3309 border-top-style: solid; 3310 font-size: 9pt; 3311 color: #9999cc; 3312 ">Exit Steward</div> 3313 3314<div style=" 3315 position: relative; 3316 width: 40%; 3317 left: 50%; 3318 text-align: right; 3319 margin: 0.5em; 3320 padding-right: 1em; 3321 padding-left: 1em; 3322 border-color: #ff9900; 3323 border-width: 1px; 3324 border-bottom-style: solid; 3325 border-top-style: solid; 3326 font-size: 9pt; 3327 color: #9999cc; 3328 ">Enter HELENA</div> 3329 3330<div style=" 3331 margin-left: 3em; 3332 color: #ccccff; 3333 ">Even so it was with me when I was young:</div> 3334 3335<div style=" 3336 margin-left: 3em; 3337 color: #ccccff; 3338 ">If ever we are nature's, these are ours; this thorn</div> 3339 3340<div style=" 3341 margin-left: 3em; 3342 color: #ccccff; 3343 ">Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong;</div> 3344 3345<div style=" 3346 margin-left: 3em; 3347 color: #ccccff; 3348 ">Our blood to us, this to our blood is born;</div> 3349 3350<div style=" 3351 margin-left: 3em; 3352 color: #ccccff; 3353 ">It is the show and seal of nature's truth,</div> 3354 3355<div style=" 3356 margin-left: 3em; 3357 color: #ccccff; 3358 ">Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth:</div> 3359 3360<div style=" 3361 margin-left: 3em; 3362 color: #ccccff; 3363 ">By our remembrances of days foregone,</div> 3364 3365<div style=" 3366 margin-left: 3em; 3367 color: #ccccff; 3368 ">Such were our faults, or then we thought them none.</div> 3369 3370<div style=" 3371 margin-left: 3em; 3372 color: #ccccff; 3373 ">Her eye is sick on't: I observe her now.</div> 3374 3375 3376 3377 3378<div style=" 3379 color: #ff9900; 3380 ">HELENA</div> 3381 3382<div style=" 3383 margin-left: 3em; 3384 color: #ccccff; 3385 ">What is your pleasure, madam?</div> 3386 3387 3388 3389 3390<div style=" 3391 color: #ff9900; 3392 ">COUNTESS</div> 3393 3394<div style=" 3395 margin-left: 3em; 3396 color: #ccccff; 3397 ">You know, Helen,</div> 3398 3399<div style=" 3400 margin-left: 3em; 3401 color: #ccccff; 3402 ">I am a mother to you.</div> 3403 3404 3405 3406 3407<div style=" 3408 color: #ff9900; 3409 ">HELENA</div> 3410 3411<div style=" 3412 margin-left: 3em; 3413 color: #ccccff; 3414 ">Mine honourable mistress.</div> 3415 3416 3417 3418 3419<div style=" 3420 color: #ff9900; 3421 ">COUNTESS</div> 3422 3423<div style=" 3424 margin-left: 3em; 3425 color: #ccccff; 3426 ">Nay, a mother:</div> 3427 3428<div style=" 3429 margin-left: 3em; 3430 color: #ccccff; 3431 ">Why not a mother? When I said 'a mother,'</div> 3432 3433<div style=" 3434 margin-left: 3em; 3435 color: #ccccff; 3436 ">Methought you saw a serpent: what's in 'mother,'</div> 3437 3438<div style=" 3439 margin-left: 3em; 3440 color: #ccccff; 3441 ">That you start at it? I say, I am your mother;</div> 3442 3443<div style=" 3444 margin-left: 3em; 3445 color: #ccccff; 3446 ">And put you in the catalogue of those</div> 3447 3448<div style=" 3449 margin-left: 3em; 3450 color: #ccccff; 3451 ">That were enwombed mine: 'tis often seen</div> 3452 3453<div style=" 3454 margin-left: 3em; 3455 color: #ccccff; 3456 ">Adoption strives with nature and choice breeds</div> 3457 3458<div style=" 3459 margin-left: 3em; 3460 color: #ccccff; 3461 ">A native slip to us from foreign seeds:</div> 3462 3463<div style=" 3464 margin-left: 3em; 3465 color: #ccccff; 3466 ">You ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan,</div> 3467 3468<div style=" 3469 margin-left: 3em; 3470 color: #ccccff; 3471 ">Yet I express to you a mother's care:</div> 3472 3473<div style=" 3474 margin-left: 3em; 3475 color: #ccccff; 3476 ">God's mercy, maiden! does it curd thy blood</div> 3477 3478<div style=" 3479 margin-left: 3em; 3480 color: #ccccff; 3481 ">To say I am thy mother? What's the matter,</div> 3482 3483<div style=" 3484 margin-left: 3em; 3485 color: #ccccff; 3486 ">That this distemper'd messenger of wet,</div> 3487 3488<div style=" 3489 margin-left: 3em; 3490 color: #ccccff; 3491 ">The many-colour'd Iris, rounds thine eye?</div> 3492 3493<div style=" 3494 margin-left: 3em; 3495 color: #ccccff; 3496 ">Why? that you are my daughter?</div> 3497 3498 3499 3500 3501<div style=" 3502 color: #ff9900; 3503 ">HELENA</div> 3504 3505<div style=" 3506 margin-left: 3em; 3507 color: #ccccff; 3508 ">That I am not.</div> 3509 3510 3511 3512 3513<div style=" 3514 color: #ff9900; 3515 ">COUNTESS</div> 3516 3517<div style=" 3518 margin-left: 3em; 3519 color: #ccccff; 3520 ">I say, I am your mother.</div> 3521 3522 3523 3524 3525<div style=" 3526 color: #ff9900; 3527 ">HELENA</div> 3528 3529<div style=" 3530 margin-left: 3em; 3531 color: #ccccff; 3532 ">Pardon, madam;</div> 3533 3534<div style=" 3535 margin-left: 3em; 3536 color: #ccccff; 3537 ">The Count Rousillon cannot be my brother:</div> 3538 3539<div style=" 3540 margin-left: 3em; 3541 color: #ccccff; 3542 ">I am from humble, he from honour'd name;</div> 3543 3544<div style=" 3545 margin-left: 3em; 3546 color: #ccccff; 3547 ">No note upon my parents, his all noble:</div> 3548 3549<div style=" 3550 margin-left: 3em; 3551 color: #ccccff; 3552 ">My master, my dear lord he is; and I</div> 3553 3554<div style=" 3555 margin-left: 3em; 3556 color: #ccccff; 3557 ">His servant live, and will his vassal die:</div> 3558 3559<div style=" 3560 margin-left: 3em; 3561 color: #ccccff; 3562 ">He must not be my brother.</div> 3563 3564 3565 3566 3567<div style=" 3568 color: #ff9900; 3569 ">COUNTESS</div> 3570 3571<div style=" 3572 margin-left: 3em; 3573 color: #ccccff; 3574 ">Nor I your mother?</div> 3575 3576 3577 3578 3579<div style=" 3580 color: #ff9900; 3581 ">HELENA</div> 3582 3583<div style=" 3584 margin-left: 3em; 3585 color: #ccccff; 3586 ">You are my mother, madam; would you were,--</div> 3587 3588<div style=" 3589 margin-left: 3em; 3590 color: #ccccff; 3591 ">So that my lord your son were not my brother,--</div> 3592 3593<div style=" 3594 margin-left: 3em; 3595 color: #ccccff; 3596 ">Indeed my mother! or were you both our mothers,</div> 3597 3598<div style=" 3599 margin-left: 3em; 3600 color: #ccccff; 3601 ">I care no more for than I do for heaven,</div> 3602 3603<div style=" 3604 margin-left: 3em; 3605 color: #ccccff; 3606 ">So I were not his sister. Can't no other,</div> 3607 3608<div style=" 3609 margin-left: 3em; 3610 color: #ccccff; 3611 ">But, I your daughter, he must be my brother?</div> 3612 3613 3614 3615 3616<div style=" 3617 color: #ff9900; 3618 ">COUNTESS</div> 3619 3620<div style=" 3621 margin-left: 3em; 3622 color: #ccccff; 3623 ">Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law:</div> 3624 3625<div style=" 3626 margin-left: 3em; 3627 color: #ccccff; 3628 ">God shield you mean it not! daughter and mother</div> 3629 3630<div style=" 3631 margin-left: 3em; 3632 color: #ccccff; 3633 ">So strive upon your pulse. What, pale again?</div> 3634 3635<div style=" 3636 margin-left: 3em; 3637 color: #ccccff; 3638 ">My fear hath catch'd your fondness: now I see</div> 3639 3640<div style=" 3641 margin-left: 3em; 3642 color: #ccccff; 3643 ">The mystery of your loneliness, and find</div> 3644 3645<div style=" 3646 margin-left: 3em; 3647 color: #ccccff; 3648 ">Your salt tears' head: now to all sense 'tis gross</div> 3649 3650<div style=" 3651 margin-left: 3em; 3652 color: #ccccff; 3653 ">You love my son; invention is ashamed,</div> 3654 3655<div style=" 3656 margin-left: 3em; 3657 color: #ccccff; 3658 ">Against the proclamation of thy passion,</div> 3659 3660<div style=" 3661 margin-left: 3em; 3662 color: #ccccff; 3663 ">To say thou dost not: therefore tell me true;</div> 3664 3665<div style=" 3666 margin-left: 3em; 3667 color: #ccccff; 3668 ">But tell me then, 'tis so; for, look thy cheeks</div> 3669 3670<div style=" 3671 margin-left: 3em; 3672 color: #ccccff; 3673 ">Confess it, th' one to th' other; and thine eyes</div> 3674 3675<div style=" 3676 margin-left: 3em; 3677 color: #ccccff; 3678 ">See it so grossly shown in thy behaviors</div> 3679 3680<div style=" 3681 margin-left: 3em; 3682 color: #ccccff; 3683 ">That in their kind they speak it: only sin</div> 3684 3685<div style=" 3686 margin-left: 3em; 3687 color: #ccccff; 3688 ">And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue,</div> 3689 3690<div style=" 3691 margin-left: 3em; 3692 color: #ccccff; 3693 ">That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so?</div> 3694 3695<div style=" 3696 margin-left: 3em; 3697 color: #ccccff; 3698 ">If it be so, you have wound a goodly clew;</div> 3699 3700<div style=" 3701 margin-left: 3em; 3702 color: #ccccff; 3703 ">If it be not, forswear't: howe'er, I charge thee,</div> 3704 3705<div style=" 3706 margin-left: 3em; 3707 color: #ccccff; 3708 ">As heaven shall work in me for thine avail,</div> 3709 3710<div style=" 3711 margin-left: 3em; 3712 color: #ccccff; 3713 ">Tell me truly.</div> 3714 3715 3716 3717 3718<div style=" 3719 color: #ff9900; 3720 ">HELENA</div> 3721 3722<div style=" 3723 margin-left: 3em; 3724 color: #ccccff; 3725 ">Good madam, pardon me!</div> 3726 3727 3728 3729 3730<div style=" 3731 color: #ff9900; 3732 ">COUNTESS</div> 3733 3734<div style=" 3735 margin-left: 3em; 3736 color: #ccccff; 3737 ">Do you love my son?</div> 3738 3739 3740 3741 3742<div style=" 3743 color: #ff9900; 3744 ">HELENA</div> 3745 3746<div style=" 3747 margin-left: 3em; 3748 color: #ccccff; 3749 ">Your pardon, noble mistress!</div> 3750 3751 3752 3753 3754<div style=" 3755 color: #ff9900; 3756 ">COUNTESS</div> 3757 3758<div style=" 3759 margin-left: 3em; 3760 color: #ccccff; 3761 ">Love you my son?</div> 3762 3763 3764 3765 3766<div style=" 3767 color: #ff9900; 3768 ">HELENA</div> 3769 3770<div style=" 3771 margin-left: 3em; 3772 color: #ccccff; 3773 ">Do not you love him, madam?</div> 3774 3775 3776 3777 3778<div style=" 3779 color: #ff9900; 3780 ">COUNTESS</div> 3781 3782<div style=" 3783 margin-left: 3em; 3784 color: #ccccff; 3785 ">Go not about; my love hath in't a bond,</div> 3786 3787<div style=" 3788 margin-left: 3em; 3789 color: #ccccff; 3790 ">Whereof the world takes note: come, come, disclose</div> 3791 3792<div style=" 3793 margin-left: 3em; 3794 color: #ccccff; 3795 ">The state of your affection; for your passions</div> 3796 3797<div style=" 3798 margin-left: 3em; 3799 color: #ccccff; 3800 ">Have to the full appeach'd.</div> 3801 3802 3803 3804 3805<div style=" 3806 color: #ff9900; 3807 ">HELENA</div> 3808 3809<div style=" 3810 margin-left: 3em; 3811 color: #ccccff; 3812 ">Then, I confess,</div> 3813 3814<div style=" 3815 margin-left: 3em; 3816 color: #ccccff; 3817 ">Here on my knee, before high heaven and you,</div> 3818 3819<div style=" 3820 margin-left: 3em; 3821 color: #ccccff; 3822 ">That before you, and next unto high heaven,</div> 3823 3824<div style=" 3825 margin-left: 3em; 3826 color: #ccccff; 3827 ">I love your son.</div> 3828 3829<div style=" 3830 margin-left: 3em; 3831 color: #ccccff; 3832 ">My friends were poor, but honest; so's my love:</div> 3833 3834<div style=" 3835 margin-left: 3em; 3836 color: #ccccff; 3837 ">Be not offended; for it hurts not him</div> 3838 3839<div style=" 3840 margin-left: 3em; 3841 color: #ccccff; 3842 ">That he is loved of me: I follow him not</div> 3843 3844<div style=" 3845 margin-left: 3em; 3846 color: #ccccff; 3847 ">By any token of presumptuous suit;</div> 3848 3849<div style=" 3850 margin-left: 3em; 3851 color: #ccccff; 3852 ">Nor would I have him till I do deserve him;</div> 3853 3854<div style=" 3855 margin-left: 3em; 3856 color: #ccccff; 3857 ">Yet never know how that desert should be.</div> 3858 3859<div style=" 3860 margin-left: 3em; 3861 color: #ccccff; 3862 ">I know I love in vain, strive against hope;</div> 3863 3864<div style=" 3865 margin-left: 3em; 3866 color: #ccccff; 3867 ">Yet in this captious and intenible sieve</div> 3868 3869<div style=" 3870 margin-left: 3em; 3871 color: #ccccff; 3872 ">I still pour in the waters of my love</div> 3873 3874<div style=" 3875 margin-left: 3em; 3876 color: #ccccff; 3877 ">And lack not to lose still: thus, Indian-like,</div> 3878 3879<div style=" 3880 margin-left: 3em; 3881 color: #ccccff; 3882 ">Religious in mine error, I adore</div> 3883 3884<div style=" 3885 margin-left: 3em; 3886 color: #ccccff; 3887 ">The sun, that looks upon his worshipper,</div> 3888 3889<div style=" 3890 margin-left: 3em; 3891 color: #ccccff; 3892 ">But knows of him no more. My dearest madam,</div> 3893 3894<div style=" 3895 margin-left: 3em; 3896 color: #ccccff; 3897 ">Let not your hate encounter with my love</div> 3898 3899<div style=" 3900 margin-left: 3em; 3901 color: #ccccff; 3902 ">For loving where you do: but if yourself,</div> 3903 3904<div style=" 3905 margin-left: 3em; 3906 color: #ccccff; 3907 ">Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth,</div> 3908 3909<div style=" 3910 margin-left: 3em; 3911 color: #ccccff; 3912 ">Did ever in so true a flame of liking</div> 3913 3914<div style=" 3915 margin-left: 3em; 3916 color: #ccccff; 3917 ">Wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian</div> 3918 3919<div style=" 3920 margin-left: 3em; 3921 color: #ccccff; 3922 ">Was both herself and love: O, then, give pity</div> 3923 3924<div style=" 3925 margin-left: 3em; 3926 color: #ccccff; 3927 ">To her, whose state is such that cannot choose</div> 3928 3929<div style=" 3930 margin-left: 3em; 3931 color: #ccccff; 3932 ">But lend and give where she is sure to lose;</div> 3933 3934<div style=" 3935 margin-left: 3em; 3936 color: #ccccff; 3937 ">That seeks not to find that her search implies,</div> 3938 3939<div style=" 3940 margin-left: 3em; 3941 color: #ccccff; 3942 ">But riddle-like lives sweetly where she dies!</div> 3943 3944 3945 3946 3947<div style=" 3948 color: #ff9900; 3949 ">COUNTESS</div> 3950 3951<div style=" 3952 margin-left: 3em; 3953 color: #ccccff; 3954 ">Had you not lately an intent,--speak truly,--</div> 3955 3956<div style=" 3957 margin-left: 3em; 3958 color: #ccccff; 3959 ">To go to Paris?</div> 3960 3961 3962 3963 3964<div style=" 3965 color: #ff9900; 3966 ">HELENA</div> 3967 3968<div style=" 3969 margin-left: 3em; 3970 color: #ccccff; 3971 ">Madam, I had.</div> 3972 3973 3974 3975 3976<div style=" 3977 color: #ff9900; 3978 ">COUNTESS</div> 3979 3980<div style=" 3981 margin-left: 3em; 3982 color: #ccccff; 3983 ">Wherefore? tell true.</div> 3984 3985 3986 3987 3988<div style=" 3989 color: #ff9900; 3990 ">HELENA</div> 3991 3992<div style=" 3993 margin-left: 3em; 3994 color: #ccccff; 3995 ">I will tell truth; by grace itself I swear.</div> 3996 3997<div style=" 3998 margin-left: 3em; 3999 color: #ccccff; 4000 ">You know my father left me some prescriptions</div> 4001 4002<div style=" 4003 margin-left: 3em; 4004 color: #ccccff; 4005 ">Of rare and proved effects, such as his reading</div> 4006 4007<div style=" 4008 margin-left: 3em; 4009 color: #ccccff; 4010 ">And manifest experience had collected</div> 4011 4012<div style=" 4013 margin-left: 3em; 4014 color: #ccccff; 4015 ">For general sovereignty; and that he will'd me</div> 4016 4017<div style=" 4018 margin-left: 3em; 4019 color: #ccccff; 4020 ">In heedfull'st reservation to bestow them,</div> 4021 4022<div style=" 4023 margin-left: 3em; 4024 color: #ccccff; 4025 ">As notes whose faculties inclusive were</div> 4026 4027<div style=" 4028 margin-left: 3em; 4029 color: #ccccff; 4030 ">More than they were in note: amongst the rest,</div> 4031 4032<div style=" 4033 margin-left: 3em; 4034 color: #ccccff; 4035 ">There is a remedy, approved, set down,</div> 4036 4037<div style=" 4038 margin-left: 3em; 4039 color: #ccccff; 4040 ">To cure the desperate languishings whereof</div> 4041 4042<div style=" 4043 margin-left: 3em; 4044 color: #ccccff; 4045 ">The king is render'd lost.</div> 4046 4047 4048 4049 4050<div style=" 4051 color: #ff9900; 4052 ">COUNTESS</div> 4053 4054<div style=" 4055 margin-left: 3em; 4056 color: #ccccff; 4057 ">This was your motive</div> 4058 4059<div style=" 4060 margin-left: 3em; 4061 color: #ccccff; 4062 ">For Paris, was it? speak.</div> 4063 4064 4065 4066 4067<div style=" 4068 color: #ff9900; 4069 ">HELENA</div> 4070 4071<div style=" 4072 margin-left: 3em; 4073 color: #ccccff; 4074 ">My lord your son made me to think of this;</div> 4075 4076<div style=" 4077 margin-left: 3em; 4078 color: #ccccff; 4079 ">Else Paris and the medicine and the king</div> 4080 4081<div style=" 4082 margin-left: 3em; 4083 color: #ccccff; 4084 ">Had from the conversation of my thoughts</div> 4085 4086<div style=" 4087 margin-left: 3em; 4088 color: #ccccff; 4089 ">Haply been absent then.</div> 4090 4091 4092 4093 4094<div style=" 4095 color: #ff9900; 4096 ">COUNTESS</div> 4097 4098<div style=" 4099 margin-left: 3em; 4100 color: #ccccff; 4101 ">But think you, Helen,</div> 4102 4103<div style=" 4104 margin-left: 3em; 4105 color: #ccccff; 4106 ">If you should tender your supposed aid,</div> 4107 4108<div style=" 4109 margin-left: 3em; 4110 color: #ccccff; 4111 ">He would receive it? he and his physicians</div> 4112 4113<div style=" 4114 margin-left: 3em; 4115 color: #ccccff; 4116 ">Are of a mind; he, that they cannot help him,</div> 4117 4118<div style=" 4119 margin-left: 3em; 4120 color: #ccccff; 4121 ">They, that they cannot help: how shall they credit</div> 4122 4123<div style=" 4124 margin-left: 3em; 4125 color: #ccccff; 4126 ">A poor unlearned virgin, when the schools,</div> 4127 4128<div style=" 4129 margin-left: 3em; 4130 color: #ccccff; 4131 ">Embowell'd of their doctrine, have left off</div> 4132 4133<div style=" 4134 margin-left: 3em; 4135 color: #ccccff; 4136 ">The danger to itself?</div> 4137 4138 4139 4140 4141<div style=" 4142 color: #ff9900; 4143 ">HELENA</div> 4144 4145<div style=" 4146 margin-left: 3em; 4147 color: #ccccff; 4148 ">There's something in't,</div> 4149 4150<div style=" 4151 margin-left: 3em; 4152 color: #ccccff; 4153 ">More than my father's skill, which was the greatest</div> 4154 4155<div style=" 4156 margin-left: 3em; 4157 color: #ccccff; 4158 ">Of his profession, that his good receipt</div> 4159 4160<div style=" 4161 margin-left: 3em; 4162 color: #ccccff; 4163 ">Shall for my legacy be sanctified</div> 4164 4165<div style=" 4166 margin-left: 3em; 4167 color: #ccccff; 4168 ">By the luckiest stars in heaven: and, would your honour</div> 4169 4170<div style=" 4171 margin-left: 3em; 4172 color: #ccccff; 4173 ">But give me leave to try success, I'ld venture</div> 4174 4175<div style=" 4176 margin-left: 3em; 4177 color: #ccccff; 4178 ">The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure</div> 4179 4180<div style=" 4181 margin-left: 3em; 4182 color: #ccccff; 4183 ">By such a day and hour.</div> 4184 4185 4186 4187 4188<div style=" 4189 color: #ff9900; 4190 ">COUNTESS</div> 4191 4192<div style=" 4193 margin-left: 3em; 4194 color: #ccccff; 4195 ">Dost thou believe't?</div> 4196 4197 4198 4199 4200<div style=" 4201 color: #ff9900; 4202 ">HELENA</div> 4203 4204<div style=" 4205 margin-left: 3em; 4206 color: #ccccff; 4207 ">Ay, madam, knowingly.</div> 4208 4209 4210 4211 4212<div style=" 4213 color: #ff9900; 4214 ">COUNTESS</div> 4215 4216<div style=" 4217 margin-left: 3em; 4218 color: #ccccff; 4219 ">Why, Helen, thou shalt have my leave and love,</div> 4220 4221<div style=" 4222 margin-left: 3em; 4223 color: #ccccff; 4224 ">Means and attendants and my loving greetings</div> 4225 4226<div style=" 4227 margin-left: 3em; 4228 color: #ccccff; 4229 ">To those of mine in court: I'll stay at home</div> 4230 4231<div style=" 4232 margin-left: 3em; 4233 color: #ccccff; 4234 ">And pray God's blessing into thy attempt:</div> 4235 4236<div style=" 4237 margin-left: 3em; 4238 color: #ccccff; 4239 ">Be gone to-morrow; and be sure of this,</div> 4240 4241<div style=" 4242 margin-left: 3em; 4243 color: #ccccff; 4244 ">What I can help thee to thou shalt not miss.</div> 4245 4246 4247 4248<div style=" 4249 position: relative; 4250 width: 40%; 4251 left: 50%; 4252 text-align: right; 4253 margin: 0.5em; 4254 padding-right: 1em; 4255 padding-left: 1em; 4256 border-color: #ff9900; 4257 border-width: 1px; 4258 border-bottom-style: solid; 4259 border-top-style: solid; 4260 font-size: 9pt; 4261 color: #9999cc; 4262 ">Exeunt</div> 4263 4264</div> 4265 4266 4267 4268 4269<div style=" 4270 text-align: right; 4271 "> 4272<span style=" 4273 width: 25%; 4274 padding: 1px; 4275 padding-right: 1em; 4276 color: #000000; 4277 background-color: #ff9900; 4278 ">ACT II</span> 4279</div> 4280 4281 4282<div> 4283<div style=" 4284 margin-bottom: 1em; 4285 padding-left: 1em; 4286 border-color: #ff9900; 4287 border-width: 1px; 4288 border-bottom-style: solid; 4289 border-top-style: solid; 4290 background-color: #cc6600; 4291 color: #000000; 4292 ">SCENE I. Paris. The KING's palace.</div> 4293 4294<div style=" 4295 position: relative; 4296 width: 40%; 4297 left: 50%; 4298 text-align: right; 4299 margin: 0.5em; 4300 padding-right: 1em; 4301 padding-left: 1em; 4302 border-color: #ff9900; 4303 border-width: 1px; 4304 border-bottom-style: solid; 4305 border-top-style: solid; 4306 font-size: 9pt; 4307 color: #9999cc; 4308 ">Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING, attended 4309with divers young Lords taking leave for the 4310Florentine war; BERTRAM, and PAROLLES</div> 4311 4312 4313 4314<div style=" 4315 color: #ff9900; 4316 ">KING</div> 4317 4318<div style=" 4319 margin-left: 3em; 4320 color: #ccccff; 4321 ">Farewell, young lords; these warlike principles</div> 4322 4323<div style=" 4324 margin-left: 3em; 4325 color: #ccccff; 4326 ">Do not throw from you: and you, my lords, farewell:</div> 4327 4328<div style=" 4329 margin-left: 3em; 4330 color: #ccccff; 4331 ">Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain, all</div> 4332 4333<div style=" 4334 margin-left: 3em; 4335 color: #ccccff; 4336 ">The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received,</div> 4337 4338<div style=" 4339 margin-left: 3em; 4340 color: #ccccff; 4341 ">And is enough for both.</div> 4342 4343 4344 4345 4346<div style=" 4347 color: #ff9900; 4348 ">First Lord</div> 4349 4350<div style=" 4351 margin-left: 3em; 4352 color: #ccccff; 4353 ">'Tis our hope, sir,</div> 4354 4355<div style=" 4356 margin-left: 3em; 4357 color: #ccccff; 4358 ">After well enter'd soldiers, to return</div> 4359 4360<div style=" 4361 margin-left: 3em; 4362 color: #ccccff; 4363 ">And find your grace in health.</div> 4364 4365 4366 4367 4368<div style=" 4369 color: #ff9900; 4370 ">KING</div> 4371 4372<div style=" 4373 margin-left: 3em; 4374 color: #ccccff; 4375 ">No, no, it cannot be; and yet my heart</div> 4376 4377<div style=" 4378 margin-left: 3em; 4379 color: #ccccff; 4380 ">Will not confess he owes the malady</div> 4381 4382<div style=" 4383 margin-left: 3em; 4384 color: #ccccff; 4385 ">That doth my life besiege. Farewell, young lords;</div> 4386 4387<div style=" 4388 margin-left: 3em; 4389 color: #ccccff; 4390 ">Whether I live or die, be you the sons</div> 4391 4392<div style=" 4393 margin-left: 3em; 4394 color: #ccccff; 4395 ">Of worthy Frenchmen: let higher Italy,--</div> 4396 4397<div style=" 4398 margin-left: 3em; 4399 color: #ccccff; 4400 ">Those bated that inherit but the fall</div> 4401 4402<div style=" 4403 margin-left: 3em; 4404 color: #ccccff; 4405 ">Of the last monarchy,--see that you come</div> 4406 4407<div style=" 4408 margin-left: 3em; 4409 color: #ccccff; 4410 ">Not to woo honour, but to wed it; when</div> 4411 4412<div style=" 4413 margin-left: 3em; 4414 color: #ccccff; 4415 ">The bravest questant shrinks, find what you seek,</div> 4416 4417<div style=" 4418 margin-left: 3em; 4419 color: #ccccff; 4420 ">That fame may cry you loud: I say, farewell.</div> 4421 4422 4423 4424 4425<div style=" 4426 color: #ff9900; 4427 ">Second Lord</div> 4428 4429<div style=" 4430 margin-left: 3em; 4431 color: #ccccff; 4432 ">Health, at your bidding, serve your majesty!</div> 4433 4434 4435 4436 4437<div style=" 4438 color: #ff9900; 4439 ">KING</div> 4440 4441<div style=" 4442 margin-left: 3em; 4443 color: #ccccff; 4444 ">Those girls of Italy, take heed of them:</div> 4445 4446<div style=" 4447 margin-left: 3em; 4448 color: #ccccff; 4449 ">They say, our French lack language to deny,</div> 4450 4451<div style=" 4452 margin-left: 3em; 4453 color: #ccccff; 4454 ">If they demand: beware of being captives,</div> 4455 4456<div style=" 4457 margin-left: 3em; 4458 color: #ccccff; 4459 ">Before you serve.</div> 4460 4461 4462 4463 4464<div style=" 4465 color: #ff9900; 4466 ">Both</div> 4467 4468<div style=" 4469 margin-left: 3em; 4470 color: #ccccff; 4471 ">Our hearts receive your warnings.</div> 4472 4473 4474 4475 4476<div style=" 4477 color: #ff9900; 4478 ">KING</div> 4479 4480<div style=" 4481 margin-left: 3em; 4482 color: #ccccff; 4483 ">Farewell. Come hither to me.</div> 4484 4485 4486 4487<div style=" 4488 position: relative; 4489 width: 40%; 4490 left: 50%; 4491 text-align: right; 4492 margin: 0.5em; 4493 padding-right: 1em; 4494 padding-left: 1em; 4495 border-color: #ff9900; 4496 border-width: 1px; 4497 border-bottom-style: solid; 4498 border-top-style: solid; 4499 font-size: 9pt; 4500 color: #9999cc; 4501 ">Exit, attended</div> 4502 4503 4504 4505<div style=" 4506 color: #ff9900; 4507 ">First Lord</div> 4508 4509<div style=" 4510 margin-left: 3em; 4511 color: #ccccff; 4512 ">O, my sweet lord, that you will stay behind us!</div> 4513 4514 4515 4516 4517<div style=" 4518 color: #ff9900; 4519 ">PAROLLES</div> 4520 4521<div style=" 4522 margin-left: 3em; 4523 color: #ccccff; 4524 ">'Tis not his fault, the spark.</div> 4525 4526 4527 4528 4529<div style=" 4530 color: #ff9900; 4531 ">Second Lord</div> 4532 4533<div style=" 4534 margin-left: 3em; 4535 color: #ccccff; 4536 ">O, 'tis brave wars!</div> 4537 4538 4539 4540 4541<div style=" 4542 color: #ff9900; 4543 ">PAROLLES</div> 4544 4545<div style=" 4546 margin-left: 3em; 4547 color: #ccccff; 4548 ">Most admirable: I have seen those wars.</div> 4549 4550 4551 4552 4553<div style=" 4554 color: #ff9900; 4555 ">BERTRAM</div> 4556 4557<div style=" 4558 margin-left: 3em; 4559 color: #ccccff; 4560 ">I am commanded here, and kept a coil with</div> 4561 4562<div style=" 4563 margin-left: 3em; 4564 color: #ccccff; 4565 ">'Too young' and 'the next year' and ''tis too early.'</div> 4566 4567 4568 4569 4570<div style=" 4571 color: #ff9900; 4572 ">PAROLLES</div> 4573 4574<div style=" 4575 margin-left: 3em; 4576 color: #ccccff; 4577 ">An thy mind stand to't, boy, steal away bravely.</div> 4578 4579 4580 4581 4582<div style=" 4583 color: #ff9900; 4584 ">BERTRAM</div> 4585 4586<div style=" 4587 margin-left: 3em; 4588 color: #ccccff; 4589 ">I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock,</div> 4590 4591<div style=" 4592 margin-left: 3em; 4593 color: #ccccff; 4594 ">Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry,</div> 4595 4596<div style=" 4597 margin-left: 3em; 4598 color: #ccccff; 4599 ">Till honour be bought up and no sword worn</div> 4600 4601<div style=" 4602 margin-left: 3em; 4603 color: #ccccff; 4604 ">But one to dance with! By heaven, I'll steal away.</div> 4605 4606 4607 4608 4609<div style=" 4610 color: #ff9900; 4611 ">First Lord</div> 4612 4613<div style=" 4614 margin-left: 3em; 4615 color: #ccccff; 4616 ">There's honour in the theft.</div> 4617 4618 4619 4620 4621<div style=" 4622 color: #ff9900; 4623 ">PAROLLES</div> 4624 4625<div style=" 4626 margin-left: 3em; 4627 color: #ccccff; 4628 ">Commit it, count.</div> 4629 4630 4631 4632 4633<div style=" 4634 color: #ff9900; 4635 ">Second Lord</div> 4636 4637<div style=" 4638 margin-left: 3em; 4639 color: #ccccff; 4640 ">I am your accessary; and so, farewell.</div> 4641 4642 4643 4644 4645<div style=" 4646 color: #ff9900; 4647 ">BERTRAM</div> 4648 4649<div style=" 4650 margin-left: 3em; 4651 color: #ccccff; 4652 ">I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured body.</div> 4653 4654 4655 4656 4657<div style=" 4658 color: #ff9900; 4659 ">First Lord</div> 4660 4661<div style=" 4662 margin-left: 3em; 4663 color: #ccccff; 4664 ">Farewell, captain.</div> 4665 4666 4667 4668 4669<div style=" 4670 color: #ff9900; 4671 ">Second Lord</div> 4672 4673<div style=" 4674 margin-left: 3em; 4675 color: #ccccff; 4676 ">Sweet Monsieur Parolles!</div> 4677 4678 4679 4680 4681<div style=" 4682 color: #ff9900; 4683 ">PAROLLES</div> 4684 4685<div style=" 4686 margin-left: 3em; 4687 color: #ccccff; 4688 ">Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin. Good</div> 4689 4690<div style=" 4691 margin-left: 3em; 4692 color: #ccccff; 4693 ">sparks and lustrous, a word, good metals: you shall</div> 4694 4695<div style=" 4696 margin-left: 3em; 4697 color: #ccccff; 4698 ">find in the regiment of the Spinii one Captain</div> 4699 4700<div style=" 4701 margin-left: 3em; 4702 color: #ccccff; 4703 ">Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here</div> 4704 4705<div style=" 4706 margin-left: 3em; 4707 color: #ccccff; 4708 ">on his sinister cheek; it was this very sword</div> 4709 4710<div style=" 4711 margin-left: 3em; 4712 color: #ccccff; 4713 ">entrenched it: say to him, I live; and observe his</div> 4714 4715<div style=" 4716 margin-left: 3em; 4717 color: #ccccff; 4718 ">reports for me.</div> 4719 4720 4721 4722 4723<div style=" 4724 color: #ff9900; 4725 ">First Lord</div> 4726 4727<div style=" 4728 margin-left: 3em; 4729 color: #ccccff; 4730 ">We shall, noble captain.</div> 4731 4732 4733 4734<div style=" 4735 position: relative; 4736 width: 40%; 4737 left: 50%; 4738 text-align: right; 4739 margin: 0.5em; 4740 padding-right: 1em; 4741 padding-left: 1em; 4742 border-color: #ff9900; 4743 border-width: 1px; 4744 border-bottom-style: solid; 4745 border-top-style: solid; 4746 font-size: 9pt; 4747 color: #9999cc; 4748 ">Exeunt Lords</div> 4749 4750 4751 4752<div style=" 4753 color: #ff9900; 4754 ">PAROLLES</div> 4755 4756<div style=" 4757 margin-left: 3em; 4758 color: #ccccff; 4759 ">Mars dote on you for his novices! what will ye do?</div> 4760 4761 4762 4763 4764<div style=" 4765 color: #ff9900; 4766 ">BERTRAM</div> 4767 4768<div style=" 4769 margin-left: 3em; 4770 color: #ccccff; 4771 ">Stay: the king.</div> 4772 4773 4774 4775<div style=" 4776 position: relative; 4777 width: 40%; 4778 left: 50%; 4779 text-align: right; 4780 margin: 0.5em; 4781 padding-right: 1em; 4782 padding-left: 1em; 4783 border-color: #ff9900; 4784 border-width: 1px; 4785 border-bottom-style: solid; 4786 border-top-style: solid; 4787 font-size: 9pt; 4788 color: #9999cc; 4789 ">Re-enter KING. BERTRAM and PAROLLES retire</div> 4790 4791 4792 4793<div style=" 4794 color: #ff9900; 4795 ">PAROLLES</div> 4796 4797<div style=" 4798 margin-left: 3em; 4799 color: #ccccff; 4800 ">To BERTRAM Use a more spacious ceremony to the</div> 4801 4802<div style=" 4803 margin-left: 3em; 4804 color: #ccccff; 4805 ">noble lords; you have restrained yourself within the</div> 4806 4807<div style=" 4808 margin-left: 3em; 4809 color: #ccccff; 4810 ">list of too cold an adieu: be more expressive to</div> 4811 4812<div style=" 4813 margin-left: 3em; 4814 color: #ccccff; 4815 ">them: for they wear themselves in the cap of the</div> 4816 4817<div style=" 4818 margin-left: 3em; 4819 color: #ccccff; 4820 ">time, there do muster true gait, eat, speak, and</div> 4821 4822<div style=" 4823 margin-left: 3em; 4824 color: #ccccff; 4825 ">move under the influence of the most received star;</div> 4826 4827<div style=" 4828 margin-left: 3em; 4829 color: #ccccff; 4830 ">and though the devil lead the measure, such are to</div> 4831 4832<div style=" 4833 margin-left: 3em; 4834 color: #ccccff; 4835 ">be followed: after them, and take a more dilated farewell.</div> 4836 4837 4838 4839 4840<div style=" 4841 color: #ff9900; 4842 ">BERTRAM</div> 4843 4844<div style=" 4845 margin-left: 3em; 4846 color: #ccccff; 4847 ">And I will do so.</div> 4848 4849 4850 4851 4852<div style=" 4853 color: #ff9900; 4854 ">PAROLLES</div> 4855 4856<div style=" 4857 margin-left: 3em; 4858 color: #ccccff; 4859 ">Worthy fellows; and like to prove most sinewy sword-men.</div> 4860 4861 4862 4863<div style=" 4864 position: relative; 4865 width: 40%; 4866 left: 50%; 4867 text-align: right; 4868 margin: 0.5em; 4869 padding-right: 1em; 4870 padding-left: 1em; 4871 border-color: #ff9900; 4872 border-width: 1px; 4873 border-bottom-style: solid; 4874 border-top-style: solid; 4875 font-size: 9pt; 4876 color: #9999cc; 4877 ">Exeunt BERTRAM and PAROLLES</div> 4878 4879<div style=" 4880 position: relative; 4881 width: 40%; 4882 left: 50%; 4883 text-align: right; 4884 margin: 0.5em; 4885 padding-right: 1em; 4886 padding-left: 1em; 4887 border-color: #ff9900; 4888 border-width: 1px; 4889 border-bottom-style: solid; 4890 border-top-style: solid; 4891 font-size: 9pt; 4892 color: #9999cc; 4893 ">Enter LAFEU</div> 4894 4895 4896 4897<div style=" 4898 color: #ff9900; 4899 ">LAFEU</div> 4900 4901<div style=" 4902 margin-left: 3em; 4903 color: #ccccff; 4904 ">Kneeling Pardon, my lord, for me and for my tidings.</div> 4905 4906 4907 4908 4909<div style=" 4910 color: #ff9900; 4911 ">KING</div> 4912 4913<div style=" 4914 margin-left: 3em; 4915 color: #ccccff; 4916 ">I'll fee thee to stand up.</div> 4917 4918 4919 4920 4921<div style=" 4922 color: #ff9900; 4923 ">LAFEU</div> 4924 4925<div style=" 4926 margin-left: 3em; 4927 color: #ccccff; 4928 ">Then here's a man stands, that has brought his pardon.</div> 4929 4930<div style=" 4931 margin-left: 3em; 4932 color: #ccccff; 4933 ">I would you had kneel'd, my lord, to ask me mercy,</div> 4934 4935<div style=" 4936 margin-left: 3em; 4937 color: #ccccff; 4938 ">And that at my bidding you could so stand up.</div> 4939 4940 4941 4942 4943<div style=" 4944 color: #ff9900; 4945 ">KING</div> 4946 4947<div style=" 4948 margin-left: 3em; 4949 color: #ccccff; 4950 ">I would I had; so I had broke thy pate,</div> 4951 4952<div style=" 4953 margin-left: 3em; 4954 color: #ccccff; 4955 ">And ask'd thee mercy for't.</div> 4956 4957 4958 4959 4960<div style=" 4961 color: #ff9900; 4962 ">LAFEU</div> 4963 4964<div style=" 4965 margin-left: 3em; 4966 color: #ccccff; 4967 ">Good faith, across: but, my good lord 'tis thus;</div> 4968 4969<div style=" 4970 margin-left: 3em; 4971 color: #ccccff; 4972 ">Will you be cured of your infirmity?</div> 4973 4974 4975 4976 4977<div style=" 4978 color: #ff9900; 4979 ">KING</div> 4980 4981<div style=" 4982 margin-left: 3em; 4983 color: #ccccff; 4984 ">No.</div> 4985 4986 4987 4988 4989<div style=" 4990 color: #ff9900; 4991 ">LAFEU</div> 4992 4993<div style=" 4994 margin-left: 3em; 4995 color: #ccccff; 4996 ">O, will you eat no grapes, my royal fox?</div> 4997 4998<div style=" 4999 margin-left: 3em; 5000 color: #ccccff; 5001 ">Yes, but you will my noble grapes, an if</div> 5002 5003<div style=" 5004 margin-left: 3em; 5005 color: #ccccff; 5006 ">My royal fox could reach them: I have seen a medicine</div> 5007 5008<div style=" 5009 margin-left: 3em; 5010 color: #ccccff; 5011 ">That's able to breathe life into a stone,</div> 5012 5013<div style=" 5014 margin-left: 3em; 5015 color: #ccccff; 5016 ">Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary</div> 5017 5018<div style=" 5019 margin-left: 3em; 5020 color: #ccccff; 5021 ">With spritely fire and motion; whose simple touch,</div> 5022 5023<div style=" 5024 margin-left: 3em; 5025 color: #ccccff; 5026 ">Is powerful to araise King Pepin, nay,</div> 5027 5028<div style=" 5029 margin-left: 3em; 5030 color: #ccccff; 5031 ">To give great Charlemain a pen in's hand,</div> 5032 5033<div style=" 5034 margin-left: 3em; 5035 color: #ccccff; 5036 ">And write to her a love-line.</div> 5037 5038 5039 5040 5041<div style=" 5042 color: #ff9900; 5043 ">KING</div> 5044 5045<div style=" 5046 margin-left: 3em; 5047 color: #ccccff; 5048 ">What 'her' is this?</div> 5049 5050 5051 5052 5053<div style=" 5054 color: #ff9900; 5055 ">LAFEU</div> 5056 5057<div style=" 5058 margin-left: 3em; 5059 color: #ccccff; 5060 ">Why, Doctor She: my lord, there's one arrived,</div> 5061 5062<div style=" 5063 margin-left: 3em; 5064 color: #ccccff; 5065 ">If you will see her: now, by my faith and honour,</div> 5066 5067<div style=" 5068 margin-left: 3em; 5069 color: #ccccff; 5070 ">If seriously I may convey my thoughts</div> 5071 5072<div style=" 5073 margin-left: 3em; 5074 color: #ccccff; 5075 ">In this my light deliverance, I have spoke</div> 5076 5077<div style=" 5078 margin-left: 3em; 5079 color: #ccccff; 5080 ">With one that, in her sex, her years, profession,</div> 5081 5082<div style=" 5083 margin-left: 3em; 5084 color: #ccccff; 5085 ">Wisdom and constancy, hath amazed me more</div> 5086 5087<div style=" 5088 margin-left: 3em; 5089 color: #ccccff; 5090 ">Than I dare blame my weakness: will you see her</div> 5091 5092<div style=" 5093 margin-left: 3em; 5094 color: #ccccff; 5095 ">For that is her demand, and know her business?</div> 5096 5097<div style=" 5098 margin-left: 3em; 5099 color: #ccccff; 5100 ">That done, laugh well at me.</div> 5101 5102 5103 5104 5105<div style=" 5106 color: #ff9900; 5107 ">KING</div> 5108 5109<div style=" 5110 margin-left: 3em; 5111 color: #ccccff; 5112 ">Now, good Lafeu,</div> 5113 5114<div style=" 5115 margin-left: 3em; 5116 color: #ccccff; 5117 ">Bring in the admiration; that we with thee</div> 5118 5119<div style=" 5120 margin-left: 3em; 5121 color: #ccccff; 5122 ">May spend our wonder too, or take off thine</div> 5123 5124<div style=" 5125 margin-left: 3em; 5126 color: #ccccff; 5127 ">By wondering how thou took'st it.</div> 5128 5129 5130 5131 5132<div style=" 5133 color: #ff9900; 5134 ">LAFEU</div> 5135 5136<div style=" 5137 margin-left: 3em; 5138 color: #ccccff; 5139 ">Nay, I'll fit you,</div> 5140 5141<div style=" 5142 margin-left: 3em; 5143 color: #ccccff; 5144 ">And not be all day neither.</div> 5145 5146 5147 5148<div style=" 5149 position: relative; 5150 width: 40%; 5151 left: 50%; 5152 text-align: right; 5153 margin: 0.5em; 5154 padding-right: 1em; 5155 padding-left: 1em; 5156 border-color: #ff9900; 5157 border-width: 1px; 5158 border-bottom-style: solid; 5159 border-top-style: solid; 5160 font-size: 9pt; 5161 color: #9999cc; 5162 ">Exit</div> 5163 5164 5165 5166<div style=" 5167 color: #ff9900; 5168 ">KING</div> 5169 5170<div style=" 5171 margin-left: 3em; 5172 color: #ccccff; 5173 ">Thus he his special nothing ever prologues.</div> 5174 5175 5176 5177<div style=" 5178 position: relative; 5179 width: 40%; 5180 left: 50%; 5181 text-align: right; 5182 margin: 0.5em; 5183 padding-right: 1em; 5184 padding-left: 1em; 5185 border-color: #ff9900; 5186 border-width: 1px; 5187 border-bottom-style: solid; 5188 border-top-style: solid; 5189 font-size: 9pt; 5190 color: #9999cc; 5191 ">Re-enter LAFEU, with HELENA</div> 5192 5193 5194 5195<div style=" 5196 color: #ff9900; 5197 ">LAFEU</div> 5198 5199<div style=" 5200 margin-left: 3em; 5201 color: #ccccff; 5202 ">Nay, come your ways.</div> 5203 5204 5205 5206 5207<div style=" 5208 color: #ff9900; 5209 ">KING</div> 5210 5211<div style=" 5212 margin-left: 3em; 5213 color: #ccccff; 5214 ">This haste hath wings indeed.</div> 5215 5216 5217 5218 5219<div style=" 5220 color: #ff9900; 5221 ">LAFEU</div> 5222 5223<div style=" 5224 margin-left: 3em; 5225 color: #ccccff; 5226 ">Nay, come your ways:</div> 5227 5228<div style=" 5229 margin-left: 3em; 5230 color: #ccccff; 5231 ">This is his majesty; say your mind to him:</div> 5232 5233<div style=" 5234 margin-left: 3em; 5235 color: #ccccff; 5236 ">A traitor you do look like; but such traitors</div> 5237 5238<div style=" 5239 margin-left: 3em; 5240 color: #ccccff; 5241 ">His majesty seldom fears: I am Cressid's uncle,</div> 5242 5243<div style=" 5244 margin-left: 3em; 5245 color: #ccccff; 5246 ">That dare leave two together; fare you well.</div> 5247 5248 5249 5250<div style=" 5251 position: relative; 5252 width: 40%; 5253 left: 50%; 5254 text-align: right; 5255 margin: 0.5em; 5256 padding-right: 1em; 5257 padding-left: 1em; 5258 border-color: #ff9900; 5259 border-width: 1px; 5260 border-bottom-style: solid; 5261 border-top-style: solid; 5262 font-size: 9pt; 5263 color: #9999cc; 5264 ">Exit</div> 5265 5266 5267 5268<div style=" 5269 color: #ff9900; 5270 ">KING</div> 5271 5272<div style=" 5273 margin-left: 3em; 5274 color: #ccccff; 5275 ">Now, fair one, does your business follow us?</div> 5276 5277 5278 5279 5280<div style=" 5281 color: #ff9900; 5282 ">HELENA</div> 5283 5284<div style=" 5285 margin-left: 3em; 5286 color: #ccccff; 5287 ">Ay, my good lord.</div> 5288 5289<div style=" 5290 margin-left: 3em; 5291 color: #ccccff; 5292 ">Gerard de Narbon was my father;</div> 5293 5294<div style=" 5295 margin-left: 3em; 5296 color: #ccccff; 5297 ">In what he did profess, well found.</div> 5298 5299 5300 5301 5302<div style=" 5303 color: #ff9900; 5304 ">KING</div> 5305 5306<div style=" 5307 margin-left: 3em; 5308 color: #ccccff; 5309 ">I knew him.</div> 5310 5311 5312 5313 5314<div style=" 5315 color: #ff9900; 5316 ">HELENA</div> 5317 5318<div style=" 5319 margin-left: 3em; 5320 color: #ccccff; 5321 ">The rather will I spare my praises towards him:</div> 5322 5323<div style=" 5324 margin-left: 3em; 5325 color: #ccccff; 5326 ">Knowing him is enough. On's bed of death</div> 5327 5328<div style=" 5329 margin-left: 3em; 5330 color: #ccccff; 5331 ">Many receipts he gave me: chiefly one.</div> 5332 5333<div style=" 5334 margin-left: 3em; 5335 color: #ccccff; 5336 ">Which, as the dearest issue of his practise,</div> 5337 5338<div style=" 5339 margin-left: 3em; 5340 color: #ccccff; 5341 ">And of his old experience the oily darling,</div> 5342 5343<div style=" 5344 margin-left: 3em; 5345 color: #ccccff; 5346 ">He bade me store up, as a triple eye,</div> 5347 5348<div style=" 5349 margin-left: 3em; 5350 color: #ccccff; 5351 ">Safer than mine own two, more dear; I have so;</div> 5352 5353<div style=" 5354 margin-left: 3em; 5355 color: #ccccff; 5356 ">And hearing your high majesty is touch'd</div> 5357 5358<div style=" 5359 margin-left: 3em; 5360 color: #ccccff; 5361 ">With that malignant cause wherein the honour</div> 5362 5363<div style=" 5364 margin-left: 3em; 5365 color: #ccccff; 5366 ">Of my dear father's gift stands chief in power,</div> 5367 5368<div style=" 5369 margin-left: 3em; 5370 color: #ccccff; 5371 ">I come to tender it and my appliance</div> 5372 5373<div style=" 5374 margin-left: 3em; 5375 color: #ccccff; 5376 ">With all bound humbleness.</div> 5377 5378 5379 5380 5381<div style=" 5382 color: #ff9900; 5383 ">KING</div> 5384 5385<div style=" 5386 margin-left: 3em; 5387 color: #ccccff; 5388 ">We thank you, maiden;</div> 5389 5390<div style=" 5391 margin-left: 3em; 5392 color: #ccccff; 5393 ">But may not be so credulous of cure,</div> 5394 5395<div style=" 5396 margin-left: 3em; 5397 color: #ccccff; 5398 ">When our most learned doctors leave us and</div> 5399 5400<div style=" 5401 margin-left: 3em; 5402 color: #ccccff; 5403 ">The congregated college have concluded</div> 5404 5405<div style=" 5406 margin-left: 3em; 5407 color: #ccccff; 5408 ">That labouring art can never ransom nature</div> 5409 5410<div style=" 5411 margin-left: 3em; 5412 color: #ccccff; 5413 ">From her inaidible estate; I say we must not</div> 5414 5415<div style=" 5416 margin-left: 3em; 5417 color: #ccccff; 5418 ">So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope,</div> 5419 5420<div style=" 5421 margin-left: 3em; 5422 color: #ccccff; 5423 ">To prostitute our past-cure malady</div> 5424 5425<div style=" 5426 margin-left: 3em; 5427 color: #ccccff; 5428 ">To empirics, or to dissever so</div> 5429 5430<div style=" 5431 margin-left: 3em; 5432 color: #ccccff; 5433 ">Our great self and our credit, to esteem</div> 5434 5435<div style=" 5436 margin-left: 3em; 5437 color: #ccccff; 5438 ">A senseless help when help past sense we deem.</div> 5439 5440 5441 5442 5443<div style=" 5444 color: #ff9900; 5445 ">HELENA</div> 5446 5447<div style=" 5448 margin-left: 3em; 5449 color: #ccccff; 5450 ">My duty then shall pay me for my pains:</div> 5451 5452<div style=" 5453 margin-left: 3em; 5454 color: #ccccff; 5455 ">I will no more enforce mine office on you.</div> 5456 5457<div style=" 5458 margin-left: 3em; 5459 color: #ccccff; 5460 ">Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts</div> 5461 5462<div style=" 5463 margin-left: 3em; 5464 color: #ccccff; 5465 ">A modest one, to bear me back a again.</div> 5466 5467 5468 5469 5470<div style=" 5471 color: #ff9900; 5472 ">KING</div> 5473 5474<div style=" 5475 margin-left: 3em; 5476 color: #ccccff; 5477 ">I cannot give thee less, to be call'd grateful:</div> 5478 5479<div style=" 5480 margin-left: 3em; 5481 color: #ccccff; 5482 ">Thou thought'st to help me; and such thanks I give</div> 5483 5484<div style=" 5485 margin-left: 3em; 5486 color: #ccccff; 5487 ">As one near death to those that wish him live:</div> 5488 5489<div style=" 5490 margin-left: 3em; 5491 color: #ccccff; 5492 ">But what at full I know, thou know'st no part,</div> 5493 5494<div style=" 5495 margin-left: 3em; 5496 color: #ccccff; 5497 ">I knowing all my peril, thou no art.</div> 5498 5499 5500 5501 5502<div style=" 5503 color: #ff9900; 5504 ">HELENA</div> 5505 5506<div style=" 5507 margin-left: 3em; 5508 color: #ccccff; 5509 ">What I can do can do no hurt to try,</div> 5510 5511<div style=" 5512 margin-left: 3em; 5513 color: #ccccff; 5514 ">Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy.</div> 5515 5516<div style=" 5517 margin-left: 3em; 5518 color: #ccccff; 5519 ">He that of greatest works is finisher</div> 5520 5521<div style=" 5522 margin-left: 3em; 5523 color: #ccccff; 5524 ">Oft does them by the weakest minister:</div> 5525 5526<div style=" 5527 margin-left: 3em; 5528 color: #ccccff; 5529 ">So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown,</div> 5530 5531<div style=" 5532 margin-left: 3em; 5533 color: #ccccff; 5534 ">When judges have been babes; great floods have flown</div> 5535 5536<div style=" 5537 margin-left: 3em; 5538 color: #ccccff; 5539 ">From simple sources, and great seas have dried</div> 5540 5541<div style=" 5542 margin-left: 3em; 5543 color: #ccccff; 5544 ">When miracles have by the greatest been denied.</div> 5545 5546<div style=" 5547 margin-left: 3em; 5548 color: #ccccff; 5549 ">Oft expectation fails and most oft there</div> 5550 5551<div style=" 5552 margin-left: 3em; 5553 color: #ccccff; 5554 ">Where most it promises, and oft it hits</div> 5555 5556<div style=" 5557 margin-left: 3em; 5558 color: #ccccff; 5559 ">Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.</div> 5560 5561 5562 5563 5564<div style=" 5565 color: #ff9900; 5566 ">KING</div> 5567 5568<div style=" 5569 margin-left: 3em; 5570 color: #ccccff; 5571 ">I must not hear thee; fare thee well, kind maid;</div> 5572 5573<div style=" 5574 margin-left: 3em; 5575 color: #ccccff; 5576 ">Thy pains not used must by thyself be paid:</div> 5577 5578<div style=" 5579 margin-left: 3em; 5580 color: #ccccff; 5581 ">Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward.</div> 5582 5583 5584 5585 5586<div style=" 5587 color: #ff9900; 5588 ">HELENA</div> 5589 5590<div style=" 5591 margin-left: 3em; 5592 color: #ccccff; 5593 ">Inspired merit so by breath is barr'd:</div> 5594 5595<div style=" 5596 margin-left: 3em; 5597 color: #ccccff; 5598 ">It is not so with Him that all things knows</div> 5599 5600<div style=" 5601 margin-left: 3em; 5602 color: #ccccff; 5603 ">As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows;</div> 5604 5605<div style=" 5606 margin-left: 3em; 5607 color: #ccccff; 5608 ">But most it is presumption in us when</div> 5609 5610<div style=" 5611 margin-left: 3em; 5612 color: #ccccff; 5613 ">The help of heaven we count the act of men.</div> 5614 5615<div style=" 5616 margin-left: 3em; 5617 color: #ccccff; 5618 ">Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent;</div> 5619 5620<div style=" 5621 margin-left: 3em; 5622 color: #ccccff; 5623 ">Of heaven, not me, make an experiment.</div> 5624 5625<div style=" 5626 margin-left: 3em; 5627 color: #ccccff; 5628 ">I am not an impostor that proclaim</div> 5629 5630<div style=" 5631 margin-left: 3em; 5632 color: #ccccff; 5633 ">Myself against the level of mine aim;</div> 5634 5635<div style=" 5636 margin-left: 3em; 5637 color: #ccccff; 5638 ">But know I think and think I know most sure</div> 5639 5640<div style=" 5641 margin-left: 3em; 5642 color: #ccccff; 5643 ">My art is not past power nor you past cure.</div> 5644 5645 5646 5647 5648<div style=" 5649 color: #ff9900; 5650 ">KING</div> 5651 5652<div style=" 5653 margin-left: 3em; 5654 color: #ccccff; 5655 ">Are thou so confident? within what space</div> 5656 5657<div style=" 5658 margin-left: 3em; 5659 color: #ccccff; 5660 ">Hopest thou my cure?</div> 5661 5662 5663 5664 5665<div style=" 5666 color: #ff9900; 5667 ">HELENA</div> 5668 5669<div style=" 5670 margin-left: 3em; 5671 color: #ccccff; 5672 ">The great'st grace lending grace</div> 5673 5674<div style=" 5675 margin-left: 3em; 5676 color: #ccccff; 5677 ">Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring</div> 5678 5679<div style=" 5680 margin-left: 3em; 5681 color: #ccccff; 5682 ">Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring,</div> 5683 5684<div style=" 5685 margin-left: 3em; 5686 color: #ccccff; 5687 ">Ere twice in murk and occidental damp</div> 5688 5689<div style=" 5690 margin-left: 3em; 5691 color: #ccccff; 5692 ">Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp,</div> 5693 5694<div style=" 5695 margin-left: 3em; 5696 color: #ccccff; 5697 ">Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass</div> 5698 5699<div style=" 5700 margin-left: 3em; 5701 color: #ccccff; 5702 ">Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass,</div> 5703 5704<div style=" 5705 margin-left: 3em; 5706 color: #ccccff; 5707 ">What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly,</div> 5708 5709<div style=" 5710 margin-left: 3em; 5711 color: #ccccff; 5712 ">Health shall live free and sickness freely die.</div> 5713 5714 5715 5716 5717<div style=" 5718 color: #ff9900; 5719 ">KING</div> 5720 5721<div style=" 5722 margin-left: 3em; 5723 color: #ccccff; 5724 ">Upon thy certainty and confidence</div> 5725 5726<div style=" 5727 margin-left: 3em; 5728 color: #ccccff; 5729 ">What darest thou venture?</div> 5730 5731 5732 5733 5734<div style=" 5735 color: #ff9900; 5736 ">HELENA</div> 5737 5738<div style=" 5739 margin-left: 3em; 5740 color: #ccccff; 5741 ">Tax of impudence,</div> 5742 5743<div style=" 5744 margin-left: 3em; 5745 color: #ccccff; 5746 ">A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame</div> 5747 5748<div style=" 5749 margin-left: 3em; 5750 color: #ccccff; 5751 ">Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name</div> 5752 5753<div style=" 5754 margin-left: 3em; 5755 color: #ccccff; 5756 ">Sear'd otherwise; nay, worse--if worse--extended</div> 5757 5758<div style=" 5759 margin-left: 3em; 5760 color: #ccccff; 5761 ">With vilest torture let my life be ended.</div> 5762 5763 5764 5765 5766<div style=" 5767 color: #ff9900; 5768 ">KING</div> 5769 5770<div style=" 5771 margin-left: 3em; 5772 color: #ccccff; 5773 ">Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak</div> 5774 5775<div style=" 5776 margin-left: 3em; 5777 color: #ccccff; 5778 ">His powerful sound within an organ weak:</div> 5779 5780<div style=" 5781 margin-left: 3em; 5782 color: #ccccff; 5783 ">And what impossibility would slay</div> 5784 5785<div style=" 5786 margin-left: 3em; 5787 color: #ccccff; 5788 ">In common sense, sense saves another way.</div> 5789 5790<div style=" 5791 margin-left: 3em; 5792 color: #ccccff; 5793 ">Thy life is dear; for all that life can rate</div> 5794 5795<div style=" 5796 margin-left: 3em; 5797 color: #ccccff; 5798 ">Worth name of life in thee hath estimate,</div> 5799 5800<div style=" 5801 margin-left: 3em; 5802 color: #ccccff; 5803 ">Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all</div> 5804 5805<div style=" 5806 margin-left: 3em; 5807 color: #ccccff; 5808 ">That happiness and prime can happy call:</div> 5809 5810<div style=" 5811 margin-left: 3em; 5812 color: #ccccff; 5813 ">Thou this to hazard needs must intimate</div> 5814 5815<div style=" 5816 margin-left: 3em; 5817 color: #ccccff; 5818 ">Skill infinite or monstrous desperate.</div> 5819 5820<div style=" 5821 margin-left: 3em; 5822 color: #ccccff; 5823 ">Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try,</div> 5824 5825<div style=" 5826 margin-left: 3em; 5827 color: #ccccff; 5828 ">That ministers thine own death if I die.</div> 5829 5830 5831 5832 5833<div style=" 5834 color: #ff9900; 5835 ">HELENA</div> 5836 5837<div style=" 5838 margin-left: 3em; 5839 color: #ccccff; 5840 ">If I break time, or flinch in property</div> 5841 5842<div style=" 5843 margin-left: 3em; 5844 color: #ccccff; 5845 ">Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die,</div> 5846 5847<div style=" 5848 margin-left: 3em; 5849 color: #ccccff; 5850 ">And well deserved: not helping, death's my fee;</div> 5851 5852<div style=" 5853 margin-left: 3em; 5854 color: #ccccff; 5855 ">But, if I help, what do you promise me?</div> 5856 5857 5858 5859 5860<div style=" 5861 color: #ff9900; 5862 ">KING</div> 5863 5864<div style=" 5865 margin-left: 3em; 5866 color: #ccccff; 5867 ">Make thy demand.</div> 5868 5869 5870 5871 5872<div style=" 5873 color: #ff9900; 5874 ">HELENA</div> 5875 5876<div style=" 5877 margin-left: 3em; 5878 color: #ccccff; 5879 ">But will you make it even?</div> 5880 5881 5882 5883 5884<div style=" 5885 color: #ff9900; 5886 ">KING</div> 5887 5888<div style=" 5889 margin-left: 3em; 5890 color: #ccccff; 5891 ">Ay, by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven.</div> 5892 5893 5894 5895 5896<div style=" 5897 color: #ff9900; 5898 ">HELENA</div> 5899 5900<div style=" 5901 margin-left: 3em; 5902 color: #ccccff; 5903 ">Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand</div> 5904 5905<div style=" 5906 margin-left: 3em; 5907 color: #ccccff; 5908 ">What husband in thy power I will command:</div> 5909 5910<div style=" 5911 margin-left: 3em; 5912 color: #ccccff; 5913 ">Exempted be from me the arrogance</div> 5914 5915<div style=" 5916 margin-left: 3em; 5917 color: #ccccff; 5918 ">To choose from forth the royal blood of France,</div> 5919 5920<div style=" 5921 margin-left: 3em; 5922 color: #ccccff; 5923 ">My low and humble name to propagate</div> 5924 5925<div style=" 5926 margin-left: 3em; 5927 color: #ccccff; 5928 ">With any branch or image of thy state;</div> 5929 5930<div style=" 5931 margin-left: 3em; 5932 color: #ccccff; 5933 ">But such a one, thy vassal, whom I know</div> 5934 5935<div style=" 5936 margin-left: 3em; 5937 color: #ccccff; 5938 ">Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow.</div> 5939 5940 5941 5942 5943<div style=" 5944 color: #ff9900; 5945 ">KING</div> 5946 5947<div style=" 5948 margin-left: 3em; 5949 color: #ccccff; 5950 ">Here is my hand; the premises observed,</div> 5951 5952<div style=" 5953 margin-left: 3em; 5954 color: #ccccff; 5955 ">Thy will by my performance shall be served:</div> 5956 5957<div style=" 5958 margin-left: 3em; 5959 color: #ccccff; 5960 ">So make the choice of thy own time, for I,</div> 5961 5962<div style=" 5963 margin-left: 3em; 5964 color: #ccccff; 5965 ">Thy resolved patient, on thee still rely.</div> 5966 5967<div style=" 5968 margin-left: 3em; 5969 color: #ccccff; 5970 ">More should I question thee, and more I must,</div> 5971 5972<div style=" 5973 margin-left: 3em; 5974 color: #ccccff; 5975 ">Though more to know could not be more to trust,</div> 5976 5977<div style=" 5978 margin-left: 3em; 5979 color: #ccccff; 5980 ">From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest</div> 5981 5982<div style=" 5983 margin-left: 3em; 5984 color: #ccccff; 5985 ">Unquestion'd welcome and undoubted blest.</div> 5986 5987<div style=" 5988 margin-left: 3em; 5989 color: #ccccff; 5990 ">Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed</div> 5991 5992<div style=" 5993 margin-left: 3em; 5994 color: #ccccff; 5995 ">As high as word, my deed shall match thy meed.</div> 5996 5997 5998 5999<div style=" 6000 position: relative; 6001 width: 40%; 6002 left: 50%; 6003 text-align: right; 6004 margin: 0.5em; 6005 padding-right: 1em; 6006 padding-left: 1em; 6007 border-color: #ff9900; 6008 border-width: 1px; 6009 border-bottom-style: solid; 6010 border-top-style: solid; 6011 font-size: 9pt; 6012 color: #9999cc; 6013 ">Flourish. Exeunt</div> 6014 6015</div> 6016 6017 6018<div> 6019<div style=" 6020 margin-bottom: 1em; 6021 padding-left: 1em; 6022 border-color: #ff9900; 6023 border-width: 1px; 6024 border-bottom-style: solid; 6025 border-top-style: solid; 6026 background-color: #cc6600; 6027 color: #000000; 6028 ">SCENE II. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</div> 6029 6030<div style=" 6031 position: relative; 6032 width: 40%; 6033 left: 50%; 6034 text-align: right; 6035 margin: 0.5em; 6036 padding-right: 1em; 6037 padding-left: 1em; 6038 border-color: #ff9900; 6039 border-width: 1px; 6040 border-bottom-style: solid; 6041 border-top-style: solid; 6042 font-size: 9pt; 6043 color: #9999cc; 6044 ">Enter COUNTESS and Clown</div> 6045 6046 6047 6048<div style=" 6049 color: #ff9900; 6050 ">COUNTESS</div> 6051 6052<div style=" 6053 margin-left: 3em; 6054 color: #ccccff; 6055 ">Come on, sir; I shall now put you to the height of</div> 6056 6057<div style=" 6058 margin-left: 3em; 6059 color: #ccccff; 6060 ">your breeding.</div> 6061 6062 6063 6064 6065<div style=" 6066 color: #ff9900; 6067 ">Clown</div> 6068 6069<div style=" 6070 margin-left: 3em; 6071 color: #ccccff; 6072 ">I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught: I</div> 6073 6074<div style=" 6075 margin-left: 3em; 6076 color: #ccccff; 6077 ">know my business is but to the court.</div> 6078 6079 6080 6081 6082<div style=" 6083 color: #ff9900; 6084 ">COUNTESS</div> 6085 6086<div style=" 6087 margin-left: 3em; 6088 color: #ccccff; 6089 ">To the court! why, what place make you special,</div> 6090 6091<div style=" 6092 margin-left: 3em; 6093 color: #ccccff; 6094 ">when you put off that with such contempt? But to the court!</div> 6095 6096 6097 6098 6099<div style=" 6100 color: #ff9900; 6101 ">Clown</div> 6102 6103<div style=" 6104 margin-left: 3em; 6105 color: #ccccff; 6106 ">Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any manners, he</div> 6107 6108<div style=" 6109 margin-left: 3em; 6110 color: #ccccff; 6111 ">may easily put it off at court: he that cannot make</div> 6112 6113<div style=" 6114 margin-left: 3em; 6115 color: #ccccff; 6116 ">a leg, put off's cap, kiss his hand and say nothing,</div> 6117 6118<div style=" 6119 margin-left: 3em; 6120 color: #ccccff; 6121 ">has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap; and indeed</div> 6122 6123<div style=" 6124 margin-left: 3em; 6125 color: #ccccff; 6126 ">such a fellow, to say precisely, were not for the</div> 6127 6128<div style=" 6129 margin-left: 3em; 6130 color: #ccccff; 6131 ">court; but for me, I have an answer will serve all</div> 6132 6133<div style=" 6134 margin-left: 3em; 6135 color: #ccccff; 6136 ">men.</div> 6137 6138 6139 6140 6141<div style=" 6142 color: #ff9900; 6143 ">COUNTESS</div> 6144 6145<div style=" 6146 margin-left: 3em; 6147 color: #ccccff; 6148 ">Marry, that's a bountiful answer that fits all</div> 6149 6150<div style=" 6151 margin-left: 3em; 6152 color: #ccccff; 6153 ">questions.</div> 6154 6155 6156 6157 6158<div style=" 6159 color: #ff9900; 6160 ">Clown</div> 6161 6162<div style=" 6163 margin-left: 3em; 6164 color: #ccccff; 6165 ">It is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks,</div> 6166 6167<div style=" 6168 margin-left: 3em; 6169 color: #ccccff; 6170 ">the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn</div> 6171 6172<div style=" 6173 margin-left: 3em; 6174 color: #ccccff; 6175 ">buttock, or any buttock.</div> 6176 6177 6178 6179 6180<div style=" 6181 color: #ff9900; 6182 ">COUNTESS</div> 6183 6184<div style=" 6185 margin-left: 3em; 6186 color: #ccccff; 6187 ">Will your answer serve fit to all questions?</div> 6188 6189 6190 6191 6192<div style=" 6193 color: #ff9900; 6194 ">Clown</div> 6195 6196<div style=" 6197 margin-left: 3em; 6198 color: #ccccff; 6199 ">As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney,</div> 6200 6201<div style=" 6202 margin-left: 3em; 6203 color: #ccccff; 6204 ">as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as Tib's</div> 6205 6206<div style=" 6207 margin-left: 3em; 6208 color: #ccccff; 6209 ">rush for Tom's forefinger, as a pancake for Shrove</div> 6210 6211<div style=" 6212 margin-left: 3em; 6213 color: #ccccff; 6214 ">Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his</div> 6215 6216<div style=" 6217 margin-left: 3em; 6218 color: #ccccff; 6219 ">hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding queen</div> 6220 6221<div style=" 6222 margin-left: 3em; 6223 color: #ccccff; 6224 ">to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the</div> 6225 6226<div style=" 6227 margin-left: 3em; 6228 color: #ccccff; 6229 ">friar's mouth, nay, as the pudding to his skin.</div> 6230 6231 6232 6233 6234<div style=" 6235 color: #ff9900; 6236 ">COUNTESS</div> 6237 6238<div style=" 6239 margin-left: 3em; 6240 color: #ccccff; 6241 ">Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for all</div> 6242 6243<div style=" 6244 margin-left: 3em; 6245 color: #ccccff; 6246 ">questions?</div> 6247 6248 6249 6250 6251<div style=" 6252 color: #ff9900; 6253 ">Clown</div> 6254 6255<div style=" 6256 margin-left: 3em; 6257 color: #ccccff; 6258 ">From below your duke to beneath your constable, it</div> 6259 6260<div style=" 6261 margin-left: 3em; 6262 color: #ccccff; 6263 ">will fit any question.</div> 6264 6265 6266 6267 6268<div style=" 6269 color: #ff9900; 6270 ">COUNTESS</div> 6271 6272<div style=" 6273 margin-left: 3em; 6274 color: #ccccff; 6275 ">It must be an answer of most monstrous size that</div> 6276 6277<div style=" 6278 margin-left: 3em; 6279 color: #ccccff; 6280 ">must fit all demands.</div> 6281 6282 6283 6284 6285<div style=" 6286 color: #ff9900; 6287 ">Clown</div> 6288 6289<div style=" 6290 margin-left: 3em; 6291 color: #ccccff; 6292 ">But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned</div> 6293 6294<div style=" 6295 margin-left: 3em; 6296 color: #ccccff; 6297 ">should speak truth of it: here it is, and all that</div> 6298 6299<div style=" 6300 margin-left: 3em; 6301 color: #ccccff; 6302 ">belongs to't. Ask me if I am a courtier: it shall</div> 6303 6304<div style=" 6305 margin-left: 3em; 6306 color: #ccccff; 6307 ">do you no harm to learn.</div> 6308 6309 6310 6311 6312<div style=" 6313 color: #ff9900; 6314 ">COUNTESS</div> 6315 6316<div style=" 6317 margin-left: 3em; 6318 color: #ccccff; 6319 ">To be young again, if we could: I will be a fool in</div> 6320 6321<div style=" 6322 margin-left: 3em; 6323 color: #ccccff; 6324 ">question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. I</div> 6325 6326<div style=" 6327 margin-left: 3em; 6328 color: #ccccff; 6329 ">pray you, sir, are you a courtier?</div> 6330 6331 6332 6333 6334<div style=" 6335 color: #ff9900; 6336 ">Clown</div> 6337 6338<div style=" 6339 margin-left: 3em; 6340 color: #ccccff; 6341 ">O Lord, sir! There's a simple putting off. More,</div> 6342 6343<div style=" 6344 margin-left: 3em; 6345 color: #ccccff; 6346 ">more, a hundred of them.</div> 6347 6348 6349 6350 6351<div style=" 6352 color: #ff9900; 6353 ">COUNTESS</div> 6354 6355<div style=" 6356 margin-left: 3em; 6357 color: #ccccff; 6358 ">Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves you.</div> 6359 6360 6361 6362 6363<div style=" 6364 color: #ff9900; 6365 ">Clown</div> 6366 6367<div style=" 6368 margin-left: 3em; 6369 color: #ccccff; 6370 ">O Lord, sir! Thick, thick, spare not me.</div> 6371 6372 6373 6374 6375<div style=" 6376 color: #ff9900; 6377 ">COUNTESS</div> 6378 6379<div style=" 6380 margin-left: 3em; 6381 color: #ccccff; 6382 ">I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely meat.</div> 6383 6384 6385 6386 6387<div style=" 6388 color: #ff9900; 6389 ">Clown</div> 6390 6391<div style=" 6392 margin-left: 3em; 6393 color: #ccccff; 6394 ">O Lord, sir! Nay, put me to't, I warrant you.</div> 6395 6396 6397 6398 6399<div style=" 6400 color: #ff9900; 6401 ">COUNTESS</div> 6402 6403<div style=" 6404 margin-left: 3em; 6405 color: #ccccff; 6406 ">You were lately whipped, sir, as I think.</div> 6407 6408 6409 6410 6411<div style=" 6412 color: #ff9900; 6413 ">Clown</div> 6414 6415<div style=" 6416 margin-left: 3em; 6417 color: #ccccff; 6418 ">O Lord, sir! spare not me.</div> 6419 6420 6421 6422 6423<div style=" 6424 color: #ff9900; 6425 ">COUNTESS</div> 6426 6427<div style=" 6428 margin-left: 3em; 6429 color: #ccccff; 6430 ">Do you cry, 'O Lord, sir!' at your whipping, and</div> 6431 6432<div style=" 6433 margin-left: 3em; 6434 color: #ccccff; 6435 ">'spare not me?' Indeed your 'O Lord, sir!' is very</div> 6436 6437<div style=" 6438 margin-left: 3em; 6439 color: #ccccff; 6440 ">sequent to your whipping: you would answer very well</div> 6441 6442<div style=" 6443 margin-left: 3em; 6444 color: #ccccff; 6445 ">to a whipping, if you were but bound to't.</div> 6446 6447 6448 6449 6450<div style=" 6451 color: #ff9900; 6452 ">Clown</div> 6453 6454<div style=" 6455 margin-left: 3em; 6456 color: #ccccff; 6457 ">I ne'er had worse luck in my life in my 'O Lord,</div> 6458 6459<div style=" 6460 margin-left: 3em; 6461 color: #ccccff; 6462 ">sir!' I see things may serve long, but not serve ever.</div> 6463 6464 6465 6466 6467<div style=" 6468 color: #ff9900; 6469 ">COUNTESS</div> 6470 6471<div style=" 6472 margin-left: 3em; 6473 color: #ccccff; 6474 ">I play the noble housewife with the time</div> 6475 6476<div style=" 6477 margin-left: 3em; 6478 color: #ccccff; 6479 ">To entertain't so merrily with a fool.</div> 6480 6481 6482 6483 6484<div style=" 6485 color: #ff9900; 6486 ">Clown</div> 6487 6488<div style=" 6489 margin-left: 3em; 6490 color: #ccccff; 6491 ">O Lord, sir! why, there't serves well again.</div> 6492 6493 6494 6495 6496<div style=" 6497 color: #ff9900; 6498 ">COUNTESS</div> 6499 6500<div style=" 6501 margin-left: 3em; 6502 color: #ccccff; 6503 ">An end, sir; to your business. Give Helen this,</div> 6504 6505<div style=" 6506 margin-left: 3em; 6507 color: #ccccff; 6508 ">And urge her to a present answer back:</div> 6509 6510<div style=" 6511 margin-left: 3em; 6512 color: #ccccff; 6513 ">Commend me to my kinsmen and my son:</div> 6514 6515<div style=" 6516 margin-left: 3em; 6517 color: #ccccff; 6518 ">This is not much.</div> 6519 6520 6521 6522 6523<div style=" 6524 color: #ff9900; 6525 ">Clown</div> 6526 6527<div style=" 6528 margin-left: 3em; 6529 color: #ccccff; 6530 ">Not much commendation to them.</div> 6531 6532 6533 6534 6535<div style=" 6536 color: #ff9900; 6537 ">COUNTESS</div> 6538 6539<div style=" 6540 margin-left: 3em; 6541 color: #ccccff; 6542 ">Not much employment for you: you understand me?</div> 6543 6544 6545 6546 6547<div style=" 6548 color: #ff9900; 6549 ">Clown</div> 6550 6551<div style=" 6552 margin-left: 3em; 6553 color: #ccccff; 6554 ">Most fruitfully: I am there before my legs.</div> 6555 6556 6557 6558 6559<div style=" 6560 color: #ff9900; 6561 ">COUNTESS</div> 6562 6563<div style=" 6564 margin-left: 3em; 6565 color: #ccccff; 6566 ">Haste you again.</div> 6567 6568 6569 6570<div style=" 6571 position: relative; 6572 width: 40%; 6573 left: 50%; 6574 text-align: right; 6575 margin: 0.5em; 6576 padding-right: 1em; 6577 padding-left: 1em; 6578 border-color: #ff9900; 6579 border-width: 1px; 6580 border-bottom-style: solid; 6581 border-top-style: solid; 6582 font-size: 9pt; 6583 color: #9999cc; 6584 ">Exeunt severally</div> 6585 6586</div> 6587 6588 6589<div> 6590<div style=" 6591 margin-bottom: 1em; 6592 padding-left: 1em; 6593 border-color: #ff9900; 6594 border-width: 1px; 6595 border-bottom-style: solid; 6596 border-top-style: solid; 6597 background-color: #cc6600; 6598 color: #000000; 6599 ">SCENE III. Paris. The KING's palace.</div> 6600 6601<div style=" 6602 position: relative; 6603 width: 40%; 6604 left: 50%; 6605 text-align: right; 6606 margin: 0.5em; 6607 padding-right: 1em; 6608 padding-left: 1em; 6609 border-color: #ff9900; 6610 border-width: 1px; 6611 border-bottom-style: solid; 6612 border-top-style: solid; 6613 font-size: 9pt; 6614 color: #9999cc; 6615 ">Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES</div> 6616 6617 6618 6619<div style=" 6620 color: #ff9900; 6621 ">LAFEU</div> 6622 6623<div style=" 6624 margin-left: 3em; 6625 color: #ccccff; 6626 ">They say miracles are past; and we have our</div> 6627 6628<div style=" 6629 margin-left: 3em; 6630 color: #ccccff; 6631 ">philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar,</div> 6632 6633<div style=" 6634 margin-left: 3em; 6635 color: #ccccff; 6636 ">things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that</div> 6637 6638<div style=" 6639 margin-left: 3em; 6640 color: #ccccff; 6641 ">we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves</div> 6642 6643<div style=" 6644 margin-left: 3em; 6645 color: #ccccff; 6646 ">into seeming knowledge, when we should submit</div> 6647 6648<div style=" 6649 margin-left: 3em; 6650 color: #ccccff; 6651 ">ourselves to an unknown fear.</div> 6652 6653 6654 6655 6656<div style=" 6657 color: #ff9900; 6658 ">PAROLLES</div> 6659 6660<div style=" 6661 margin-left: 3em; 6662 color: #ccccff; 6663 ">Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath</div> 6664 6665<div style=" 6666 margin-left: 3em; 6667 color: #ccccff; 6668 ">shot out in our latter times.</div> 6669 6670 6671 6672 6673<div style=" 6674 color: #ff9900; 6675 ">BERTRAM</div> 6676 6677<div style=" 6678 margin-left: 3em; 6679 color: #ccccff; 6680 ">And so 'tis.</div> 6681 6682 6683 6684 6685<div style=" 6686 color: #ff9900; 6687 ">LAFEU</div> 6688 6689<div style=" 6690 margin-left: 3em; 6691 color: #ccccff; 6692 ">To be relinquish'd of the artists,--</div> 6693 6694 6695 6696 6697<div style=" 6698 color: #ff9900; 6699 ">PAROLLES</div> 6700 6701<div style=" 6702 margin-left: 3em; 6703 color: #ccccff; 6704 ">So I say.</div> 6705 6706 6707 6708 6709<div style=" 6710 color: #ff9900; 6711 ">LAFEU</div> 6712 6713<div style=" 6714 margin-left: 3em; 6715 color: #ccccff; 6716 ">Both of Galen and Paracelsus.</div> 6717 6718 6719 6720 6721<div style=" 6722 color: #ff9900; 6723 ">PAROLLES</div> 6724 6725<div style=" 6726 margin-left: 3em; 6727 color: #ccccff; 6728 ">So I say.</div> 6729 6730 6731 6732 6733<div style=" 6734 color: #ff9900; 6735 ">LAFEU</div> 6736 6737<div style=" 6738 margin-left: 3em; 6739 color: #ccccff; 6740 ">Of all the learned and authentic fellows,--</div> 6741 6742 6743 6744 6745<div style=" 6746 color: #ff9900; 6747 ">PAROLLES</div> 6748 6749<div style=" 6750 margin-left: 3em; 6751 color: #ccccff; 6752 ">Right; so I say.</div> 6753 6754 6755 6756 6757<div style=" 6758 color: #ff9900; 6759 ">LAFEU</div> 6760 6761<div style=" 6762 margin-left: 3em; 6763 color: #ccccff; 6764 ">That gave him out incurable,--</div> 6765 6766 6767 6768 6769<div style=" 6770 color: #ff9900; 6771 ">PAROLLES</div> 6772 6773<div style=" 6774 margin-left: 3em; 6775 color: #ccccff; 6776 ">Why, there 'tis; so say I too.</div> 6777 6778 6779 6780 6781<div style=" 6782 color: #ff9900; 6783 ">LAFEU</div> 6784 6785<div style=" 6786 margin-left: 3em; 6787 color: #ccccff; 6788 ">Not to be helped,--</div> 6789 6790 6791 6792 6793<div style=" 6794 color: #ff9900; 6795 ">PAROLLES</div> 6796 6797<div style=" 6798 margin-left: 3em; 6799 color: #ccccff; 6800 ">Right; as 'twere, a man assured of a--</div> 6801 6802 6803 6804 6805<div style=" 6806 color: #ff9900; 6807 ">LAFEU</div> 6808 6809<div style=" 6810 margin-left: 3em; 6811 color: #ccccff; 6812 ">Uncertain life, and sure death.</div> 6813 6814 6815 6816 6817<div style=" 6818 color: #ff9900; 6819 ">PAROLLES</div> 6820 6821<div style=" 6822 margin-left: 3em; 6823 color: #ccccff; 6824 ">Just, you say well; so would I have said.</div> 6825 6826 6827 6828 6829<div style=" 6830 color: #ff9900; 6831 ">LAFEU</div> 6832 6833<div style=" 6834 margin-left: 3em; 6835 color: #ccccff; 6836 ">I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world.</div> 6837 6838 6839 6840 6841<div style=" 6842 color: #ff9900; 6843 ">PAROLLES</div> 6844 6845<div style=" 6846 margin-left: 3em; 6847 color: #ccccff; 6848 ">It is, indeed: if you will have it in showing, you</div> 6849 6850<div style=" 6851 margin-left: 3em; 6852 color: #ccccff; 6853 ">shall read it in--what do you call there?</div> 6854 6855 6856 6857 6858<div style=" 6859 color: #ff9900; 6860 ">LAFEU</div> 6861 6862<div style=" 6863 margin-left: 3em; 6864 color: #ccccff; 6865 ">A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor.</div> 6866 6867 6868 6869 6870<div style=" 6871 color: #ff9900; 6872 ">PAROLLES</div> 6873 6874<div style=" 6875 margin-left: 3em; 6876 color: #ccccff; 6877 ">That's it; I would have said the very same.</div> 6878 6879 6880 6881 6882<div style=" 6883 color: #ff9900; 6884 ">LAFEU</div> 6885 6886<div style=" 6887 margin-left: 3em; 6888 color: #ccccff; 6889 ">Why, your dolphin is not lustier: 'fore me,</div> 6890 6891<div style=" 6892 margin-left: 3em; 6893 color: #ccccff; 6894 ">I speak in respect--</div> 6895 6896 6897 6898 6899<div style=" 6900 color: #ff9900; 6901 ">PAROLLES</div> 6902 6903<div style=" 6904 margin-left: 3em; 6905 color: #ccccff; 6906 ">Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is the</div> 6907 6908<div style=" 6909 margin-left: 3em; 6910 color: #ccccff; 6911 ">brief and the tedious of it; and he's of a most</div> 6912 6913<div style=" 6914 margin-left: 3em; 6915 color: #ccccff; 6916 ">facinerious spirit that will not acknowledge it to be the--</div> 6917 6918 6919 6920 6921<div style=" 6922 color: #ff9900; 6923 ">LAFEU</div> 6924 6925<div style=" 6926 margin-left: 3em; 6927 color: #ccccff; 6928 ">Very hand of heaven.</div> 6929 6930 6931 6932 6933<div style=" 6934 color: #ff9900; 6935 ">PAROLLES</div> 6936 6937<div style=" 6938 margin-left: 3em; 6939 color: #ccccff; 6940 ">Ay, so I say.</div> 6941 6942 6943 6944 6945<div style=" 6946 color: #ff9900; 6947 ">LAFEU</div> 6948 6949<div style=" 6950 margin-left: 3em; 6951 color: #ccccff; 6952 ">In a most weak--</div> 6953 6954<div style=" 6955 position: relative; 6956 width: 40%; 6957 left: 50%; 6958 text-align: right; 6959 margin: 0.5em; 6960 padding-right: 1em; 6961 padding-left: 1em; 6962 border-color: #ff9900; 6963 border-width: 1px; 6964 border-bottom-style: solid; 6965 border-top-style: solid; 6966 font-size: 9pt; 6967 color: #9999cc; 6968 ">pausing</div> 6969 6970<div style=" 6971 margin-left: 3em; 6972 color: #ccccff; 6973 ">and debile minister, great power, great</div> 6974 6975<div style=" 6976 margin-left: 3em; 6977 color: #ccccff; 6978 ">transcendence: which should, indeed, give us a</div> 6979 6980<div style=" 6981 margin-left: 3em; 6982 color: #ccccff; 6983 ">further use to be made than alone the recovery of</div> 6984 6985<div style=" 6986 margin-left: 3em; 6987 color: #ccccff; 6988 ">the king, as to be--</div> 6989 6990<div style=" 6991 position: relative; 6992 width: 40%; 6993 left: 50%; 6994 text-align: right; 6995 margin: 0.5em; 6996 padding-right: 1em; 6997 padding-left: 1em; 6998 border-color: #ff9900; 6999 border-width: 1px; 7000 border-bottom-style: solid; 7001 border-top-style: solid; 7002 font-size: 9pt; 7003 color: #9999cc; 7004 ">pausing</div> 7005 7006<div style=" 7007 margin-left: 3em; 7008 color: #ccccff; 7009 ">generally thankful.</div> 7010 7011 7012 7013 7014<div style=" 7015 color: #ff9900; 7016 ">PAROLLES</div> 7017 7018<div style=" 7019 margin-left: 3em; 7020 color: #ccccff; 7021 ">I would have said it; you say well. Here comes the king.</div> 7022 7023 7024 7025<div style=" 7026 position: relative; 7027 width: 40%; 7028 left: 50%; 7029 text-align: right; 7030 margin: 0.5em; 7031 padding-right: 1em; 7032 padding-left: 1em; 7033 border-color: #ff9900; 7034 border-width: 1px; 7035 border-bottom-style: solid; 7036 border-top-style: solid; 7037 font-size: 9pt; 7038 color: #9999cc; 7039 ">Enter KING, HELENA, and Attendants. LAFEU and 7040PAROLLES retire</div> 7041 7042 7043 7044<div style=" 7045 color: #ff9900; 7046 ">LAFEU</div> 7047 7048<div style=" 7049 margin-left: 3em; 7050 color: #ccccff; 7051 ">Lustig, as the Dutchman says: I'll like a maid the</div> 7052 7053<div style=" 7054 margin-left: 3em; 7055 color: #ccccff; 7056 ">better, whilst I have a tooth in my head: why, he's</div> 7057 7058<div style=" 7059 margin-left: 3em; 7060 color: #ccccff; 7061 ">able to lead her a coranto.</div> 7062 7063 7064 7065 7066<div style=" 7067 color: #ff9900; 7068 ">PAROLLES</div> 7069 7070<div style=" 7071 margin-left: 3em; 7072 color: #ccccff; 7073 ">Mort du vinaigre! is not this Helen?</div> 7074 7075 7076 7077 7078<div style=" 7079 color: #ff9900; 7080 ">LAFEU</div> 7081 7082<div style=" 7083 margin-left: 3em; 7084 color: #ccccff; 7085 ">'Fore God, I think so.</div> 7086 7087 7088 7089 7090<div style=" 7091 color: #ff9900; 7092 ">KING</div> 7093 7094<div style=" 7095 margin-left: 3em; 7096 color: #ccccff; 7097 ">Go, call before me all the lords in court.</div> 7098 7099<div style=" 7100 margin-left: 3em; 7101 color: #ccccff; 7102 ">Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side;</div> 7103 7104<div style=" 7105 margin-left: 3em; 7106 color: #ccccff; 7107 ">And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense</div> 7108 7109<div style=" 7110 margin-left: 3em; 7111 color: #ccccff; 7112 ">Thou hast repeal'd, a second time receive</div> 7113 7114<div style=" 7115 margin-left: 3em; 7116 color: #ccccff; 7117 ">The confirmation of my promised gift,</div> 7118 7119<div style=" 7120 margin-left: 3em; 7121 color: #ccccff; 7122 ">Which but attends thy naming.</div> 7123 7124<div style=" 7125 position: relative; 7126 width: 40%; 7127 left: 50%; 7128 text-align: right; 7129 margin: 0.5em; 7130 padding-right: 1em; 7131 padding-left: 1em; 7132 border-color: #ff9900; 7133 border-width: 1px; 7134 border-bottom-style: solid; 7135 border-top-style: solid; 7136 font-size: 9pt; 7137 color: #9999cc; 7138 ">Enter three or four Lords</div> 7139 7140<div style=" 7141 margin-left: 3em; 7142 color: #ccccff; 7143 ">Fair maid, send forth thine eye: this youthful parcel</div> 7144 7145<div style=" 7146 margin-left: 3em; 7147 color: #ccccff; 7148 ">Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing,</div> 7149 7150<div style=" 7151 margin-left: 3em; 7152 color: #ccccff; 7153 ">O'er whom both sovereign power and father's voice</div> 7154 7155<div style=" 7156 margin-left: 3em; 7157 color: #ccccff; 7158 ">I have to use: thy frank election make;</div> 7159 7160<div style=" 7161 margin-left: 3em; 7162 color: #ccccff; 7163 ">Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake.</div> 7164 7165 7166 7167 7168<div style=" 7169 color: #ff9900; 7170 ">HELENA</div> 7171 7172<div style=" 7173 margin-left: 3em; 7174 color: #ccccff; 7175 ">To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress</div> 7176 7177<div style=" 7178 margin-left: 3em; 7179 color: #ccccff; 7180 ">Fall, when Love please! marry, to each, but one!</div> 7181 7182 7183 7184 7185<div style=" 7186 color: #ff9900; 7187 ">LAFEU</div> 7188 7189<div style=" 7190 margin-left: 3em; 7191 color: #ccccff; 7192 ">I'ld give bay Curtal and his furniture,</div> 7193 7194<div style=" 7195 margin-left: 3em; 7196 color: #ccccff; 7197 ">My mouth no more were broken than these boys',</div> 7198 7199<div style=" 7200 margin-left: 3em; 7201 color: #ccccff; 7202 ">And writ as little beard.</div> 7203 7204 7205 7206 7207<div style=" 7208 color: #ff9900; 7209 ">KING</div> 7210 7211<div style=" 7212 margin-left: 3em; 7213 color: #ccccff; 7214 ">Peruse them well:</div> 7215 7216<div style=" 7217 margin-left: 3em; 7218 color: #ccccff; 7219 ">Not one of those but had a noble father.</div> 7220 7221 7222 7223 7224<div style=" 7225 color: #ff9900; 7226 ">HELENA</div> 7227 7228<div style=" 7229 margin-left: 3em; 7230 color: #ccccff; 7231 ">Gentlemen,</div> 7232 7233<div style=" 7234 margin-left: 3em; 7235 color: #ccccff; 7236 ">Heaven hath through me restored the king to health.</div> 7237 7238 7239 7240 7241<div style=" 7242 color: #ff9900; 7243 ">All</div> 7244 7245<div style=" 7246 margin-left: 3em; 7247 color: #ccccff; 7248 ">We understand it, and thank heaven for you.</div> 7249 7250 7251 7252 7253<div style=" 7254 color: #ff9900; 7255 ">HELENA</div> 7256 7257<div style=" 7258 margin-left: 3em; 7259 color: #ccccff; 7260 ">I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest,</div> 7261 7262<div style=" 7263 margin-left: 3em; 7264 color: #ccccff; 7265 ">That I protest I simply am a maid.</div> 7266 7267<div style=" 7268 margin-left: 3em; 7269 color: #ccccff; 7270 ">Please it your majesty, I have done already:</div> 7271 7272<div style=" 7273 margin-left: 3em; 7274 color: #ccccff; 7275 ">The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me,</div> 7276 7277<div style=" 7278 margin-left: 3em; 7279 color: #ccccff; 7280 ">'We blush that thou shouldst choose; but, be refused,</div> 7281 7282<div style=" 7283 margin-left: 3em; 7284 color: #ccccff; 7285 ">Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever;</div> 7286 7287<div style=" 7288 margin-left: 3em; 7289 color: #ccccff; 7290 ">We'll ne'er come there again.'</div> 7291 7292 7293 7294 7295<div style=" 7296 color: #ff9900; 7297 ">KING</div> 7298 7299<div style=" 7300 margin-left: 3em; 7301 color: #ccccff; 7302 ">Make choice; and, see,</div> 7303 7304<div style=" 7305 margin-left: 3em; 7306 color: #ccccff; 7307 ">Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me.</div> 7308 7309 7310 7311 7312<div style=" 7313 color: #ff9900; 7314 ">HELENA</div> 7315 7316<div style=" 7317 margin-left: 3em; 7318 color: #ccccff; 7319 ">Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly,</div> 7320 7321<div style=" 7322 margin-left: 3em; 7323 color: #ccccff; 7324 ">And to imperial Love, that god most high,</div> 7325 7326<div style=" 7327 margin-left: 3em; 7328 color: #ccccff; 7329 ">Do my sighs stream. Sir, will you hear my suit?</div> 7330 7331 7332 7333 7334<div style=" 7335 color: #ff9900; 7336 ">First Lord</div> 7337 7338<div style=" 7339 margin-left: 3em; 7340 color: #ccccff; 7341 ">And grant it.</div> 7342 7343 7344 7345 7346<div style=" 7347 color: #ff9900; 7348 ">HELENA</div> 7349 7350<div style=" 7351 margin-left: 3em; 7352 color: #ccccff; 7353 ">Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.</div> 7354 7355 7356 7357 7358<div style=" 7359 color: #ff9900; 7360 ">LAFEU</div> 7361 7362<div style=" 7363 margin-left: 3em; 7364 color: #ccccff; 7365 ">I had rather be in this choice than throw ames-ace</div> 7366 7367<div style=" 7368 margin-left: 3em; 7369 color: #ccccff; 7370 ">for my life.</div> 7371 7372 7373 7374 7375<div style=" 7376 color: #ff9900; 7377 ">HELENA</div> 7378 7379<div style=" 7380 margin-left: 3em; 7381 color: #ccccff; 7382 ">The honour, sir, that flames in your fair eyes,</div> 7383 7384<div style=" 7385 margin-left: 3em; 7386 color: #ccccff; 7387 ">Before I speak, too threateningly replies:</div> 7388 7389<div style=" 7390 margin-left: 3em; 7391 color: #ccccff; 7392 ">Love make your fortunes twenty times above</div> 7393 7394<div style=" 7395 margin-left: 3em; 7396 color: #ccccff; 7397 ">Her that so wishes and her humble love!</div> 7398 7399 7400 7401 7402<div style=" 7403 color: #ff9900; 7404 ">Second Lord</div> 7405 7406<div style=" 7407 margin-left: 3em; 7408 color: #ccccff; 7409 ">No better, if you please.</div> 7410 7411 7412 7413 7414<div style=" 7415 color: #ff9900; 7416 ">HELENA</div> 7417 7418<div style=" 7419 margin-left: 3em; 7420 color: #ccccff; 7421 ">My wish receive,</div> 7422 7423<div style=" 7424 margin-left: 3em; 7425 color: #ccccff; 7426 ">Which great Love grant! and so, I take my leave.</div> 7427 7428 7429 7430 7431<div style=" 7432 color: #ff9900; 7433 ">LAFEU</div> 7434 7435<div style=" 7436 margin-left: 3em; 7437 color: #ccccff; 7438 ">Do all they deny her? An they were sons of mine,</div> 7439 7440<div style=" 7441 margin-left: 3em; 7442 color: #ccccff; 7443 ">I'd have them whipped; or I would send them to the</div> 7444 7445<div style=" 7446 margin-left: 3em; 7447 color: #ccccff; 7448 ">Turk, to make eunuchs of.</div> 7449 7450 7451 7452 7453<div style=" 7454 color: #ff9900; 7455 ">HELENA</div> 7456 7457<div style=" 7458 margin-left: 3em; 7459 color: #ccccff; 7460 ">Be not afraid that I your hand should take;</div> 7461 7462<div style=" 7463 margin-left: 3em; 7464 color: #ccccff; 7465 ">I'll never do you wrong for your own sake:</div> 7466 7467<div style=" 7468 margin-left: 3em; 7469 color: #ccccff; 7470 ">Blessing upon your vows! and in your bed</div> 7471 7472<div style=" 7473 margin-left: 3em; 7474 color: #ccccff; 7475 ">Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed!</div> 7476 7477 7478 7479 7480<div style=" 7481 color: #ff9900; 7482 ">LAFEU</div> 7483 7484<div style=" 7485 margin-left: 3em; 7486 color: #ccccff; 7487 ">These boys are boys of ice, they'll none have her:</div> 7488 7489<div style=" 7490 margin-left: 3em; 7491 color: #ccccff; 7492 ">sure, they are bastards to the English; the French</div> 7493 7494<div style=" 7495 margin-left: 3em; 7496 color: #ccccff; 7497 ">ne'er got 'em.</div> 7498 7499 7500 7501 7502<div style=" 7503 color: #ff9900; 7504 ">HELENA</div> 7505 7506<div style=" 7507 margin-left: 3em; 7508 color: #ccccff; 7509 ">You are too young, too happy, and too good,</div> 7510 7511<div style=" 7512 margin-left: 3em; 7513 color: #ccccff; 7514 ">To make yourself a son out of my blood.</div> 7515 7516 7517 7518 7519<div style=" 7520 color: #ff9900; 7521 ">Fourth Lord</div> 7522 7523<div style=" 7524 margin-left: 3em; 7525 color: #ccccff; 7526 ">Fair one, I think not so.</div> 7527 7528 7529 7530 7531<div style=" 7532 color: #ff9900; 7533 ">LAFEU</div> 7534 7535<div style=" 7536 margin-left: 3em; 7537 color: #ccccff; 7538 ">There's one grape yet; I am sure thy father drunk</div> 7539 7540<div style=" 7541 margin-left: 3em; 7542 color: #ccccff; 7543 ">wine: but if thou be'st not an ass, I am a youth</div> 7544 7545<div style=" 7546 margin-left: 3em; 7547 color: #ccccff; 7548 ">of fourteen; I have known thee already.</div> 7549 7550 7551 7552 7553<div style=" 7554 color: #ff9900; 7555 ">HELENA</div> 7556 7557<div style=" 7558 margin-left: 3em; 7559 color: #ccccff; 7560 ">To BERTRAM I dare not say I take you; but I give</div> 7561 7562<div style=" 7563 margin-left: 3em; 7564 color: #ccccff; 7565 ">Me and my service, ever whilst I live,</div> 7566 7567<div style=" 7568 margin-left: 3em; 7569 color: #ccccff; 7570 ">Into your guiding power. This is the man.</div> 7571 7572 7573 7574 7575<div style=" 7576 color: #ff9900; 7577 ">KING</div> 7578 7579<div style=" 7580 margin-left: 3em; 7581 color: #ccccff; 7582 ">Why, then, young Bertram, take her; she's thy wife.</div> 7583 7584 7585 7586 7587<div style=" 7588 color: #ff9900; 7589 ">BERTRAM</div> 7590 7591<div style=" 7592 margin-left: 3em; 7593 color: #ccccff; 7594 ">My wife, my liege! I shall beseech your highness,</div> 7595 7596<div style=" 7597 margin-left: 3em; 7598 color: #ccccff; 7599 ">In such a business give me leave to use</div> 7600 7601<div style=" 7602 margin-left: 3em; 7603 color: #ccccff; 7604 ">The help of mine own eyes.</div> 7605 7606 7607 7608 7609<div style=" 7610 color: #ff9900; 7611 ">KING</div> 7612 7613<div style=" 7614 margin-left: 3em; 7615 color: #ccccff; 7616 ">Know'st thou not, Bertram,</div> 7617 7618<div style=" 7619 margin-left: 3em; 7620 color: #ccccff; 7621 ">What she has done for me?</div> 7622 7623 7624 7625 7626<div style=" 7627 color: #ff9900; 7628 ">BERTRAM</div> 7629 7630<div style=" 7631 margin-left: 3em; 7632 color: #ccccff; 7633 ">Yes, my good lord;</div> 7634 7635<div style=" 7636 margin-left: 3em; 7637 color: #ccccff; 7638 ">But never hope to know why I should marry her.</div> 7639 7640 7641 7642 7643<div style=" 7644 color: #ff9900; 7645 ">KING</div> 7646 7647<div style=" 7648 margin-left: 3em; 7649 color: #ccccff; 7650 ">Thou know'st she has raised me from my sickly bed.</div> 7651 7652 7653 7654 7655<div style=" 7656 color: #ff9900; 7657 ">BERTRAM</div> 7658 7659<div style=" 7660 margin-left: 3em; 7661 color: #ccccff; 7662 ">But follows it, my lord, to bring me down</div> 7663 7664<div style=" 7665 margin-left: 3em; 7666 color: #ccccff; 7667 ">Must answer for your raising? I know her well:</div> 7668 7669<div style=" 7670 margin-left: 3em; 7671 color: #ccccff; 7672 ">She had her breeding at my father's charge.</div> 7673 7674<div style=" 7675 margin-left: 3em; 7676 color: #ccccff; 7677 ">A poor physician's daughter my wife! Disdain</div> 7678 7679<div style=" 7680 margin-left: 3em; 7681 color: #ccccff; 7682 ">Rather corrupt me ever!</div> 7683 7684 7685 7686 7687<div style=" 7688 color: #ff9900; 7689 ">KING</div> 7690 7691<div style=" 7692 margin-left: 3em; 7693 color: #ccccff; 7694 ">'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the which</div> 7695 7696<div style=" 7697 margin-left: 3em; 7698 color: #ccccff; 7699 ">I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods,</div> 7700 7701<div style=" 7702 margin-left: 3em; 7703 color: #ccccff; 7704 ">Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together,</div> 7705 7706<div style=" 7707 margin-left: 3em; 7708 color: #ccccff; 7709 ">Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off</div> 7710 7711<div style=" 7712 margin-left: 3em; 7713 color: #ccccff; 7714 ">In differences so mighty. If she be</div> 7715 7716<div style=" 7717 margin-left: 3em; 7718 color: #ccccff; 7719 ">All that is virtuous, save what thou dislikest,</div> 7720 7721<div style=" 7722 margin-left: 3em; 7723 color: #ccccff; 7724 ">A poor physician's daughter, thou dislikest</div> 7725 7726<div style=" 7727 margin-left: 3em; 7728 color: #ccccff; 7729 ">Of virtue for the name: but do not so:</div> 7730 7731<div style=" 7732 margin-left: 3em; 7733 color: #ccccff; 7734 ">From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,</div> 7735 7736<div style=" 7737 margin-left: 3em; 7738 color: #ccccff; 7739 ">The place is dignified by the doer's deed:</div> 7740 7741<div style=" 7742 margin-left: 3em; 7743 color: #ccccff; 7744 ">Where great additions swell's, and virtue none,</div> 7745 7746<div style=" 7747 margin-left: 3em; 7748 color: #ccccff; 7749 ">It is a dropsied honour. Good alone</div> 7750 7751<div style=" 7752 margin-left: 3em; 7753 color: #ccccff; 7754 ">Is good without a name. Vileness is so:</div> 7755 7756<div style=" 7757 margin-left: 3em; 7758 color: #ccccff; 7759 ">The property by what it is should go,</div> 7760 7761<div style=" 7762 margin-left: 3em; 7763 color: #ccccff; 7764 ">Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair;</div> 7765 7766<div style=" 7767 margin-left: 3em; 7768 color: #ccccff; 7769 ">In these to nature she's immediate heir,</div> 7770 7771<div style=" 7772 margin-left: 3em; 7773 color: #ccccff; 7774 ">And these breed honour: that is honour's scorn,</div> 7775 7776<div style=" 7777 margin-left: 3em; 7778 color: #ccccff; 7779 ">Which challenges itself as honour's born</div> 7780 7781<div style=" 7782 margin-left: 3em; 7783 color: #ccccff; 7784 ">And is not like the sire: honours thrive,</div> 7785 7786<div style=" 7787 margin-left: 3em; 7788 color: #ccccff; 7789 ">When rather from our acts we them derive</div> 7790 7791<div style=" 7792 margin-left: 3em; 7793 color: #ccccff; 7794 ">Than our foregoers: the mere word's a slave</div> 7795 7796<div style=" 7797 margin-left: 3em; 7798 color: #ccccff; 7799 ">Debosh'd on every tomb, on every grave</div> 7800 7801<div style=" 7802 margin-left: 3em; 7803 color: #ccccff; 7804 ">A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb</div> 7805 7806<div style=" 7807 margin-left: 3em; 7808 color: #ccccff; 7809 ">Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb</div> 7810 7811<div style=" 7812 margin-left: 3em; 7813 color: #ccccff; 7814 ">Of honour'd bones indeed. What should be said?</div> 7815 7816<div style=" 7817 margin-left: 3em; 7818 color: #ccccff; 7819 ">If thou canst like this creature as a maid,</div> 7820 7821<div style=" 7822 margin-left: 3em; 7823 color: #ccccff; 7824 ">I can create the rest: virtue and she</div> 7825 7826<div style=" 7827 margin-left: 3em; 7828 color: #ccccff; 7829 ">Is her own dower; honour and wealth from me.</div> 7830 7831 7832 7833 7834<div style=" 7835 color: #ff9900; 7836 ">BERTRAM</div> 7837 7838<div style=" 7839 margin-left: 3em; 7840 color: #ccccff; 7841 ">I cannot love her, nor will strive to do't.</div> 7842 7843 7844 7845 7846<div style=" 7847 color: #ff9900; 7848 ">KING</div> 7849 7850<div style=" 7851 margin-left: 3em; 7852 color: #ccccff; 7853 ">Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou shouldst strive to choose.</div> 7854 7855 7856 7857 7858<div style=" 7859 color: #ff9900; 7860 ">HELENA</div> 7861 7862<div style=" 7863 margin-left: 3em; 7864 color: #ccccff; 7865 ">That you are well restored, my lord, I'm glad:</div> 7866 7867<div style=" 7868 margin-left: 3em; 7869 color: #ccccff; 7870 ">Let the rest go.</div> 7871 7872 7873 7874 7875<div style=" 7876 color: #ff9900; 7877 ">KING</div> 7878 7879<div style=" 7880 margin-left: 3em; 7881 color: #ccccff; 7882 ">My honour's at the stake; which to defeat,</div> 7883 7884<div style=" 7885 margin-left: 3em; 7886 color: #ccccff; 7887 ">I must produce my power. Here, take her hand,</div> 7888 7889<div style=" 7890 margin-left: 3em; 7891 color: #ccccff; 7892 ">Proud scornful boy, unworthy this good gift;</div> 7893 7894<div style=" 7895 margin-left: 3em; 7896 color: #ccccff; 7897 ">That dost in vile misprision shackle up</div> 7898 7899<div style=" 7900 margin-left: 3em; 7901 color: #ccccff; 7902 ">My love and her desert; that canst not dream,</div> 7903 7904<div style=" 7905 margin-left: 3em; 7906 color: #ccccff; 7907 ">We, poising us in her defective scale,</div> 7908 7909<div style=" 7910 margin-left: 3em; 7911 color: #ccccff; 7912 ">Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know,</div> 7913 7914<div style=" 7915 margin-left: 3em; 7916 color: #ccccff; 7917 ">It is in us to plant thine honour where</div> 7918 7919<div style=" 7920 margin-left: 3em; 7921 color: #ccccff; 7922 ">We please to have it grow. Cheque thy contempt:</div> 7923 7924<div style=" 7925 margin-left: 3em; 7926 color: #ccccff; 7927 ">Obey our will, which travails in thy good:</div> 7928 7929<div style=" 7930 margin-left: 3em; 7931 color: #ccccff; 7932 ">Believe not thy disdain, but presently</div> 7933 7934<div style=" 7935 margin-left: 3em; 7936 color: #ccccff; 7937 ">Do thine own fortunes that obedient right</div> 7938 7939<div style=" 7940 margin-left: 3em; 7941 color: #ccccff; 7942 ">Which both thy duty owes and our power claims;</div> 7943 7944<div style=" 7945 margin-left: 3em; 7946 color: #ccccff; 7947 ">Or I will throw thee from my care for ever</div> 7948 7949<div style=" 7950 margin-left: 3em; 7951 color: #ccccff; 7952 ">Into the staggers and the careless lapse</div> 7953 7954<div style=" 7955 margin-left: 3em; 7956 color: #ccccff; 7957 ">Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate</div> 7958 7959<div style=" 7960 margin-left: 3em; 7961 color: #ccccff; 7962 ">Loosing upon thee, in the name of justice,</div> 7963 7964<div style=" 7965 margin-left: 3em; 7966 color: #ccccff; 7967 ">Without all terms of pity. Speak; thine answer.</div> 7968 7969 7970 7971 7972<div style=" 7973 color: #ff9900; 7974 ">BERTRAM</div> 7975 7976<div style=" 7977 margin-left: 3em; 7978 color: #ccccff; 7979 ">Pardon, my gracious lord; for I submit</div> 7980 7981<div style=" 7982 margin-left: 3em; 7983 color: #ccccff; 7984 ">My fancy to your eyes: when I consider</div> 7985 7986<div style=" 7987 margin-left: 3em; 7988 color: #ccccff; 7989 ">What great creation and what dole of honour</div> 7990 7991<div style=" 7992 margin-left: 3em; 7993 color: #ccccff; 7994 ">Flies where you bid it, I find that she, which late</div> 7995 7996<div style=" 7997 margin-left: 3em; 7998 color: #ccccff; 7999 ">Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now</div> 8000 8001<div style=" 8002 margin-left: 3em; 8003 color: #ccccff; 8004 ">The praised of the king; who, so ennobled,</div> 8005 8006<div style=" 8007 margin-left: 3em; 8008 color: #ccccff; 8009 ">Is as 'twere born so.</div> 8010 8011 8012 8013 8014<div style=" 8015 color: #ff9900; 8016 ">KING</div> 8017 8018<div style=" 8019 margin-left: 3em; 8020 color: #ccccff; 8021 ">Take her by the hand,</div> 8022 8023<div style=" 8024 margin-left: 3em; 8025 color: #ccccff; 8026 ">And tell her she is thine: to whom I promise</div> 8027 8028<div style=" 8029 margin-left: 3em; 8030 color: #ccccff; 8031 ">A counterpoise, if not to thy estate</div> 8032 8033<div style=" 8034 margin-left: 3em; 8035 color: #ccccff; 8036 ">A balance more replete.</div> 8037 8038 8039 8040 8041<div style=" 8042 color: #ff9900; 8043 ">BERTRAM</div> 8044 8045<div style=" 8046 margin-left: 3em; 8047 color: #ccccff; 8048 ">I take her hand.</div> 8049 8050 8051 8052 8053<div style=" 8054 color: #ff9900; 8055 ">KING</div> 8056 8057<div style=" 8058 margin-left: 3em; 8059 color: #ccccff; 8060 ">Good fortune and the favour of the king</div> 8061 8062<div style=" 8063 margin-left: 3em; 8064 color: #ccccff; 8065 ">Smile upon this contract; whose ceremony</div> 8066 8067<div style=" 8068 margin-left: 3em; 8069 color: #ccccff; 8070 ">Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief,</div> 8071 8072<div style=" 8073 margin-left: 3em; 8074 color: #ccccff; 8075 ">And be perform'd to-night: the solemn feast</div> 8076 8077<div style=" 8078 margin-left: 3em; 8079 color: #ccccff; 8080 ">Shall more attend upon the coming space,</div> 8081 8082<div style=" 8083 margin-left: 3em; 8084 color: #ccccff; 8085 ">Expecting absent friends. As thou lovest her,</div> 8086 8087<div style=" 8088 margin-left: 3em; 8089 color: #ccccff; 8090 ">Thy love's to me religious; else, does err.</div> 8091 8092 8093 8094<div style=" 8095 position: relative; 8096 width: 40%; 8097 left: 50%; 8098 text-align: right; 8099 margin: 0.5em; 8100 padding-right: 1em; 8101 padding-left: 1em; 8102 border-color: #ff9900; 8103 border-width: 1px; 8104 border-bottom-style: solid; 8105 border-top-style: solid; 8106 font-size: 9pt; 8107 color: #9999cc; 8108 ">Exeunt all but LAFEU and PAROLLES</div> 8109 8110 8111 8112<div style=" 8113 color: #ff9900; 8114 ">LAFEU</div> 8115 8116<div style=" 8117 margin-left: 3em; 8118 color: #ccccff; 8119 ">Advancing Do you hear, monsieur? a word with you.</div> 8120 8121 8122 8123 8124<div style=" 8125 color: #ff9900; 8126 ">PAROLLES</div> 8127 8128<div style=" 8129 margin-left: 3em; 8130 color: #ccccff; 8131 ">Your pleasure, sir?</div> 8132 8133 8134 8135 8136<div style=" 8137 color: #ff9900; 8138 ">LAFEU</div> 8139 8140<div style=" 8141 margin-left: 3em; 8142 color: #ccccff; 8143 ">Your lord and master did well to make his</div> 8144 8145<div style=" 8146 margin-left: 3em; 8147 color: #ccccff; 8148 ">recantation.</div> 8149 8150 8151 8152 8153<div style=" 8154 color: #ff9900; 8155 ">PAROLLES</div> 8156 8157<div style=" 8158 margin-left: 3em; 8159 color: #ccccff; 8160 ">Recantation! My lord! my master!</div> 8161 8162 8163 8164 8165<div style=" 8166 color: #ff9900; 8167 ">LAFEU</div> 8168 8169<div style=" 8170 margin-left: 3em; 8171 color: #ccccff; 8172 ">Ay; is it not a language I speak?</div> 8173 8174 8175 8176 8177<div style=" 8178 color: #ff9900; 8179 ">PAROLLES</div> 8180 8181<div style=" 8182 margin-left: 3em; 8183 color: #ccccff; 8184 ">A most harsh one, and not to be understood without</div> 8185 8186<div style=" 8187 margin-left: 3em; 8188 color: #ccccff; 8189 ">bloody succeeding. My master!</div> 8190 8191 8192 8193 8194<div style=" 8195 color: #ff9900; 8196 ">LAFEU</div> 8197 8198<div style=" 8199 margin-left: 3em; 8200 color: #ccccff; 8201 ">Are you companion to the Count Rousillon?</div> 8202 8203 8204 8205 8206<div style=" 8207 color: #ff9900; 8208 ">PAROLLES</div> 8209 8210<div style=" 8211 margin-left: 3em; 8212 color: #ccccff; 8213 ">To any count, to all counts, to what is man.</div> 8214 8215 8216 8217 8218<div style=" 8219 color: #ff9900; 8220 ">LAFEU</div> 8221 8222<div style=" 8223 margin-left: 3em; 8224 color: #ccccff; 8225 ">To what is count's man: count's master is of</div> 8226 8227<div style=" 8228 margin-left: 3em; 8229 color: #ccccff; 8230 ">another style.</div> 8231 8232 8233 8234 8235<div style=" 8236 color: #ff9900; 8237 ">PAROLLES</div> 8238 8239<div style=" 8240 margin-left: 3em; 8241 color: #ccccff; 8242 ">You are too old, sir; let it satisfy you, you are too old.</div> 8243 8244 8245 8246 8247<div style=" 8248 color: #ff9900; 8249 ">LAFEU</div> 8250 8251<div style=" 8252 margin-left: 3em; 8253 color: #ccccff; 8254 ">I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which</div> 8255 8256<div style=" 8257 margin-left: 3em; 8258 color: #ccccff; 8259 ">title age cannot bring thee.</div> 8260 8261 8262 8263 8264<div style=" 8265 color: #ff9900; 8266 ">PAROLLES</div> 8267 8268<div style=" 8269 margin-left: 3em; 8270 color: #ccccff; 8271 ">What I dare too well do, I dare not do.</div> 8272 8273 8274 8275 8276<div style=" 8277 color: #ff9900; 8278 ">LAFEU</div> 8279 8280<div style=" 8281 margin-left: 3em; 8282 color: #ccccff; 8283 ">I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty</div> 8284 8285<div style=" 8286 margin-left: 3em; 8287 color: #ccccff; 8288 ">wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy</div> 8289 8290<div style=" 8291 margin-left: 3em; 8292 color: #ccccff; 8293 ">travel; it might pass: yet the scarfs and the</div> 8294 8295<div style=" 8296 margin-left: 3em; 8297 color: #ccccff; 8298 ">bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from</div> 8299 8300<div style=" 8301 margin-left: 3em; 8302 color: #ccccff; 8303 ">believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen. I</div> 8304 8305<div style=" 8306 margin-left: 3em; 8307 color: #ccccff; 8308 ">have now found thee; when I lose thee again, I care</div> 8309 8310<div style=" 8311 margin-left: 3em; 8312 color: #ccccff; 8313 ">not: yet art thou good for nothing but taking up; and</div> 8314 8315<div style=" 8316 margin-left: 3em; 8317 color: #ccccff; 8318 ">that thou't scarce worth.</div> 8319 8320 8321 8322 8323<div style=" 8324 color: #ff9900; 8325 ">PAROLLES</div> 8326 8327<div style=" 8328 margin-left: 3em; 8329 color: #ccccff; 8330 ">Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee,--</div> 8331 8332 8333 8334 8335<div style=" 8336 color: #ff9900; 8337 ">LAFEU</div> 8338 8339<div style=" 8340 margin-left: 3em; 8341 color: #ccccff; 8342 ">Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou</div> 8343 8344<div style=" 8345 margin-left: 3em; 8346 color: #ccccff; 8347 ">hasten thy trial; which if--Lord have mercy on thee</div> 8348 8349<div style=" 8350 margin-left: 3em; 8351 color: #ccccff; 8352 ">for a hen! So, my good window of lattice, fare thee</div> 8353 8354<div style=" 8355 margin-left: 3em; 8356 color: #ccccff; 8357 ">well: thy casement I need not open, for I look</div> 8358 8359<div style=" 8360 margin-left: 3em; 8361 color: #ccccff; 8362 ">through thee. Give me thy hand.</div> 8363 8364 8365 8366 8367<div style=" 8368 color: #ff9900; 8369 ">PAROLLES</div> 8370 8371<div style=" 8372 margin-left: 3em; 8373 color: #ccccff; 8374 ">My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.</div> 8375 8376 8377 8378 8379<div style=" 8380 color: #ff9900; 8381 ">LAFEU</div> 8382 8383<div style=" 8384 margin-left: 3em; 8385 color: #ccccff; 8386 ">Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of it.</div> 8387 8388 8389 8390 8391<div style=" 8392 color: #ff9900; 8393 ">PAROLLES</div> 8394 8395<div style=" 8396 margin-left: 3em; 8397 color: #ccccff; 8398 ">I have not, my lord, deserved it.</div> 8399 8400 8401 8402 8403<div style=" 8404 color: #ff9900; 8405 ">LAFEU</div> 8406 8407<div style=" 8408 margin-left: 3em; 8409 color: #ccccff; 8410 ">Yes, good faith, every dram of it; and I will not</div> 8411 8412<div style=" 8413 margin-left: 3em; 8414 color: #ccccff; 8415 ">bate thee a scruple.</div> 8416 8417 8418 8419 8420<div style=" 8421 color: #ff9900; 8422 ">PAROLLES</div> 8423 8424<div style=" 8425 margin-left: 3em; 8426 color: #ccccff; 8427 ">Well, I shall be wiser.</div> 8428 8429 8430 8431 8432<div style=" 8433 color: #ff9900; 8434 ">LAFEU</div> 8435 8436<div style=" 8437 margin-left: 3em; 8438 color: #ccccff; 8439 ">Even as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at</div> 8440 8441<div style=" 8442 margin-left: 3em; 8443 color: #ccccff; 8444 ">a smack o' the contrary. If ever thou be'st bound</div> 8445 8446<div style=" 8447 margin-left: 3em; 8448 color: #ccccff; 8449 ">in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is</div> 8450 8451<div style=" 8452 margin-left: 3em; 8453 color: #ccccff; 8454 ">to be proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to hold</div> 8455 8456<div style=" 8457 margin-left: 3em; 8458 color: #ccccff; 8459 ">my acquaintance with thee, or rather my knowledge,</div> 8460 8461<div style=" 8462 margin-left: 3em; 8463 color: #ccccff; 8464 ">that I may say in the default, he is a man I know.</div> 8465 8466 8467 8468 8469<div style=" 8470 color: #ff9900; 8471 ">PAROLLES</div> 8472 8473<div style=" 8474 margin-left: 3em; 8475 color: #ccccff; 8476 ">My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation.</div> 8477 8478 8479 8480 8481<div style=" 8482 color: #ff9900; 8483 ">LAFEU</div> 8484 8485<div style=" 8486 margin-left: 3em; 8487 color: #ccccff; 8488 ">I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my poor</div> 8489 8490<div style=" 8491 margin-left: 3em; 8492 color: #ccccff; 8493 ">doing eternal: for doing I am past: as I will by</div> 8494 8495<div style=" 8496 margin-left: 3em; 8497 color: #ccccff; 8498 ">thee, in what motion age will give me leave.</div> 8499 8500 8501 8502<div style=" 8503 position: relative; 8504 width: 40%; 8505 left: 50%; 8506 text-align: right; 8507 margin: 0.5em; 8508 padding-right: 1em; 8509 padding-left: 1em; 8510 border-color: #ff9900; 8511 border-width: 1px; 8512 border-bottom-style: solid; 8513 border-top-style: solid; 8514 font-size: 9pt; 8515 color: #9999cc; 8516 ">Exit</div> 8517 8518 8519 8520<div style=" 8521 color: #ff9900; 8522 ">PAROLLES</div> 8523 8524<div style=" 8525 margin-left: 3em; 8526 color: #ccccff; 8527 ">Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off</div> 8528 8529<div style=" 8530 margin-left: 3em; 8531 color: #ccccff; 8532 ">me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord! Well, I must</div> 8533 8534<div style=" 8535 margin-left: 3em; 8536 color: #ccccff; 8537 ">be patient; there is no fettering of authority.</div> 8538 8539<div style=" 8540 margin-left: 3em; 8541 color: #ccccff; 8542 ">I'll beat him, by my life, if I can meet him with</div> 8543 8544<div style=" 8545 margin-left: 3em; 8546 color: #ccccff; 8547 ">any convenience, an he were double and double a</div> 8548 8549<div style=" 8550 margin-left: 3em; 8551 color: #ccccff; 8552 ">lord. I'll have no more pity of his age than I</div> 8553 8554<div style=" 8555 margin-left: 3em; 8556 color: #ccccff; 8557 ">would of--I'll beat him, an if I could but meet him again.</div> 8558 8559 8560 8561<div style=" 8562 position: relative; 8563 width: 40%; 8564 left: 50%; 8565 text-align: right; 8566 margin: 0.5em; 8567 padding-right: 1em; 8568 padding-left: 1em; 8569 border-color: #ff9900; 8570 border-width: 1px; 8571 border-bottom-style: solid; 8572 border-top-style: solid; 8573 font-size: 9pt; 8574 color: #9999cc; 8575 ">Re-enter LAFEU</div> 8576 8577 8578 8579<div style=" 8580 color: #ff9900; 8581 ">LAFEU</div> 8582 8583<div style=" 8584 margin-left: 3em; 8585 color: #ccccff; 8586 ">Sirrah, your lord and master's married; there's news</div> 8587 8588<div style=" 8589 margin-left: 3em; 8590 color: #ccccff; 8591 ">for you: you have a new mistress.</div> 8592 8593 8594 8595 8596<div style=" 8597 color: #ff9900; 8598 ">PAROLLES</div> 8599 8600<div style=" 8601 margin-left: 3em; 8602 color: #ccccff; 8603 ">I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make</div> 8604 8605<div style=" 8606 margin-left: 3em; 8607 color: #ccccff; 8608 ">some reservation of your wrongs: he is my good</div> 8609 8610<div style=" 8611 margin-left: 3em; 8612 color: #ccccff; 8613 ">lord: whom I serve above is my master.</div> 8614 8615 8616 8617 8618<div style=" 8619 color: #ff9900; 8620 ">LAFEU</div> 8621 8622<div style=" 8623 margin-left: 3em; 8624 color: #ccccff; 8625 ">Who? God?</div> 8626 8627 8628 8629 8630<div style=" 8631 color: #ff9900; 8632 ">PAROLLES</div> 8633 8634<div style=" 8635 margin-left: 3em; 8636 color: #ccccff; 8637 ">Ay, sir.</div> 8638 8639 8640 8641 8642<div style=" 8643 color: #ff9900; 8644 ">LAFEU</div> 8645 8646<div style=" 8647 margin-left: 3em; 8648 color: #ccccff; 8649 ">The devil it is that's thy master. Why dost thou</div> 8650 8651<div style=" 8652 margin-left: 3em; 8653 color: #ccccff; 8654 ">garter up thy arms o' this fashion? dost make hose of</div> 8655 8656<div style=" 8657 margin-left: 3em; 8658 color: #ccccff; 8659 ">sleeves? do other servants so? Thou wert best set</div> 8660 8661<div style=" 8662 margin-left: 3em; 8663 color: #ccccff; 8664 ">thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine</div> 8665 8666<div style=" 8667 margin-left: 3em; 8668 color: #ccccff; 8669 ">honour, if I were but two hours younger, I'ld beat</div> 8670 8671<div style=" 8672 margin-left: 3em; 8673 color: #ccccff; 8674 ">thee: methinks, thou art a general offence, and</div> 8675 8676<div style=" 8677 margin-left: 3em; 8678 color: #ccccff; 8679 ">every man should beat thee: I think thou wast</div> 8680 8681<div style=" 8682 margin-left: 3em; 8683 color: #ccccff; 8684 ">created for men to breathe themselves upon thee.</div> 8685 8686 8687 8688 8689<div style=" 8690 color: #ff9900; 8691 ">PAROLLES</div> 8692 8693<div style=" 8694 margin-left: 3em; 8695 color: #ccccff; 8696 ">This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord.</div> 8697 8698 8699 8700 8701<div style=" 8702 color: #ff9900; 8703 ">LAFEU</div> 8704 8705<div style=" 8706 margin-left: 3em; 8707 color: #ccccff; 8708 ">Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a</div> 8709 8710<div style=" 8711 margin-left: 3em; 8712 color: #ccccff; 8713 ">kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a vagabond and</div> 8714 8715<div style=" 8716 margin-left: 3em; 8717 color: #ccccff; 8718 ">no true traveller: you are more saucy with lords</div> 8719 8720<div style=" 8721 margin-left: 3em; 8722 color: #ccccff; 8723 ">and honourable personages than the commission of your</div> 8724 8725<div style=" 8726 margin-left: 3em; 8727 color: #ccccff; 8728 ">birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not</div> 8729 8730<div style=" 8731 margin-left: 3em; 8732 color: #ccccff; 8733 ">worth another word, else I'ld call you knave. I leave you.</div> 8734 8735 8736 8737<div style=" 8738 position: relative; 8739 width: 40%; 8740 left: 50%; 8741 text-align: right; 8742 margin: 0.5em; 8743 padding-right: 1em; 8744 padding-left: 1em; 8745 border-color: #ff9900; 8746 border-width: 1px; 8747 border-bottom-style: solid; 8748 border-top-style: solid; 8749 font-size: 9pt; 8750 color: #9999cc; 8751 ">Exit</div> 8752 8753 8754 8755<div style=" 8756 color: #ff9900; 8757 ">PAROLLES</div> 8758 8759<div style=" 8760 margin-left: 3em; 8761 color: #ccccff; 8762 ">Good, very good; it is so then: good, very good;</div> 8763 8764<div style=" 8765 margin-left: 3em; 8766 color: #ccccff; 8767 ">let it be concealed awhile.</div> 8768 8769 8770 8771<div style=" 8772 position: relative; 8773 width: 40%; 8774 left: 50%; 8775 text-align: right; 8776 margin: 0.5em; 8777 padding-right: 1em; 8778 padding-left: 1em; 8779 border-color: #ff9900; 8780 border-width: 1px; 8781 border-bottom-style: solid; 8782 border-top-style: solid; 8783 font-size: 9pt; 8784 color: #9999cc; 8785 ">Re-enter BERTRAM</div> 8786 8787 8788 8789<div style=" 8790 color: #ff9900; 8791 ">BERTRAM</div> 8792 8793<div style=" 8794 margin-left: 3em; 8795 color: #ccccff; 8796 ">Undone, and forfeited to cares for ever!</div> 8797 8798 8799 8800 8801<div style=" 8802 color: #ff9900; 8803 ">PAROLLES</div> 8804 8805<div style=" 8806 margin-left: 3em; 8807 color: #ccccff; 8808 ">What's the matter, sweet-heart?</div> 8809 8810 8811 8812 8813<div style=" 8814 color: #ff9900; 8815 ">BERTRAM</div> 8816 8817<div style=" 8818 margin-left: 3em; 8819 color: #ccccff; 8820 ">Although before the solemn priest I have sworn,</div> 8821 8822<div style=" 8823 margin-left: 3em; 8824 color: #ccccff; 8825 ">I will not bed her.</div> 8826 8827 8828 8829 8830<div style=" 8831 color: #ff9900; 8832 ">PAROLLES</div> 8833 8834<div style=" 8835 margin-left: 3em; 8836 color: #ccccff; 8837 ">What, what, sweet-heart?</div> 8838 8839 8840 8841 8842<div style=" 8843 color: #ff9900; 8844 ">BERTRAM</div> 8845 8846<div style=" 8847 margin-left: 3em; 8848 color: #ccccff; 8849 ">O my Parolles, they have married me!</div> 8850 8851<div style=" 8852 margin-left: 3em; 8853 color: #ccccff; 8854 ">I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her.</div> 8855 8856 8857 8858 8859<div style=" 8860 color: #ff9900; 8861 ">PAROLLES</div> 8862 8863<div style=" 8864 margin-left: 3em; 8865 color: #ccccff; 8866 ">France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits</div> 8867 8868<div style=" 8869 margin-left: 3em; 8870 color: #ccccff; 8871 ">The tread of a man's foot: to the wars!</div> 8872 8873 8874 8875 8876<div style=" 8877 color: #ff9900; 8878 ">BERTRAM</div> 8879 8880<div style=" 8881 margin-left: 3em; 8882 color: #ccccff; 8883 ">There's letters from my mother: what the import is,</div> 8884 8885<div style=" 8886 margin-left: 3em; 8887 color: #ccccff; 8888 ">I know not yet.</div> 8889 8890 8891 8892 8893<div style=" 8894 color: #ff9900; 8895 ">PAROLLES</div> 8896 8897<div style=" 8898 margin-left: 3em; 8899 color: #ccccff; 8900 ">Ay, that would be known. To the wars, my boy, to the wars!</div> 8901 8902<div style=" 8903 margin-left: 3em; 8904 color: #ccccff; 8905 ">He wears his honour in a box unseen,</div> 8906 8907<div style=" 8908 margin-left: 3em; 8909 color: #ccccff; 8910 ">That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home,</div> 8911 8912<div style=" 8913 margin-left: 3em; 8914 color: #ccccff; 8915 ">Spending his manly marrow in her arms,</div> 8916 8917<div style=" 8918 margin-left: 3em; 8919 color: #ccccff; 8920 ">Which should sustain the bound and high curvet</div> 8921 8922<div style=" 8923 margin-left: 3em; 8924 color: #ccccff; 8925 ">Of Mars's fiery steed. To other regions</div> 8926 8927<div style=" 8928 margin-left: 3em; 8929 color: #ccccff; 8930 ">France is a stable; we that dwell in't jades;</div> 8931 8932<div style=" 8933 margin-left: 3em; 8934 color: #ccccff; 8935 ">Therefore, to the war!</div> 8936 8937 8938 8939 8940<div style=" 8941 color: #ff9900; 8942 ">BERTRAM</div> 8943 8944<div style=" 8945 margin-left: 3em; 8946 color: #ccccff; 8947 ">It shall be so: I'll send her to my house,</div> 8948 8949<div style=" 8950 margin-left: 3em; 8951 color: #ccccff; 8952 ">Acquaint my mother with my hate to her,</div> 8953 8954<div style=" 8955 margin-left: 3em; 8956 color: #ccccff; 8957 ">And wherefore I am fled; write to the king</div> 8958 8959<div style=" 8960 margin-left: 3em; 8961 color: #ccccff; 8962 ">That which I durst not speak; his present gift</div> 8963 8964<div style=" 8965 margin-left: 3em; 8966 color: #ccccff; 8967 ">Shall furnish me to those Italian fields,</div> 8968 8969<div style=" 8970 margin-left: 3em; 8971 color: #ccccff; 8972 ">Where noble fellows strike: war is no strife</div> 8973 8974<div style=" 8975 margin-left: 3em; 8976 color: #ccccff; 8977 ">To the dark house and the detested wife.</div> 8978 8979 8980 8981 8982<div style=" 8983 color: #ff9900; 8984 ">PAROLLES</div> 8985 8986<div style=" 8987 margin-left: 3em; 8988 color: #ccccff; 8989 ">Will this capriccio hold in thee? art sure?</div> 8990 8991 8992 8993 8994<div style=" 8995 color: #ff9900; 8996 ">BERTRAM</div> 8997 8998<div style=" 8999 margin-left: 3em; 9000 color: #ccccff; 9001 ">Go with me to my chamber, and advise me.</div> 9002 9003<div style=" 9004 margin-left: 3em; 9005 color: #ccccff; 9006 ">I'll send her straight away: to-morrow</div> 9007 9008<div style=" 9009 margin-left: 3em; 9010 color: #ccccff; 9011 ">I'll to the wars, she to her single sorrow.</div> 9012 9013 9014 9015 9016<div style=" 9017 color: #ff9900; 9018 ">PAROLLES</div> 9019 9020<div style=" 9021 margin-left: 3em; 9022 color: #ccccff; 9023 ">Why, these balls bound; there's noise in it. 'Tis hard:</div> 9024 9025<div style=" 9026 margin-left: 3em; 9027 color: #ccccff; 9028 ">A young man married is a man that's marr'd:</div> 9029 9030<div style=" 9031 margin-left: 3em; 9032 color: #ccccff; 9033 ">Therefore away, and leave her bravely; go:</div> 9034 9035<div style=" 9036 margin-left: 3em; 9037 color: #ccccff; 9038 ">The king has done you wrong: but, hush, 'tis so.</div> 9039 9040 9041 9042<div style=" 9043 position: relative; 9044 width: 40%; 9045 left: 50%; 9046 text-align: right; 9047 margin: 0.5em; 9048 padding-right: 1em; 9049 padding-left: 1em; 9050 border-color: #ff9900; 9051 border-width: 1px; 9052 border-bottom-style: solid; 9053 border-top-style: solid; 9054 font-size: 9pt; 9055 color: #9999cc; 9056 ">Exeunt</div> 9057 9058</div> 9059 9060 9061<div> 9062<div style=" 9063 margin-bottom: 1em; 9064 padding-left: 1em; 9065 border-color: #ff9900; 9066 border-width: 1px; 9067 border-bottom-style: solid; 9068 border-top-style: solid; 9069 background-color: #cc6600; 9070 color: #000000; 9071 ">SCENE IV. Paris. The KING's palace.</div> 9072 9073<div style=" 9074 position: relative; 9075 width: 40%; 9076 left: 50%; 9077 text-align: right; 9078 margin: 0.5em; 9079 padding-right: 1em; 9080 padding-left: 1em; 9081 border-color: #ff9900; 9082 border-width: 1px; 9083 border-bottom-style: solid; 9084 border-top-style: solid; 9085 font-size: 9pt; 9086 color: #9999cc; 9087 ">Enter HELENA and Clown</div> 9088 9089 9090 9091<div style=" 9092 color: #ff9900; 9093 ">HELENA</div> 9094 9095<div style=" 9096 margin-left: 3em; 9097 color: #ccccff; 9098 ">My mother greets me kindly; is she well?</div> 9099 9100 9101 9102 9103<div style=" 9104 color: #ff9900; 9105 ">Clown</div> 9106 9107<div style=" 9108 margin-left: 3em; 9109 color: #ccccff; 9110 ">She is not well; but yet she has her health: she's</div> 9111 9112<div style=" 9113 margin-left: 3em; 9114 color: #ccccff; 9115 ">very merry; but yet she is not well: but thanks be</div> 9116 9117<div style=" 9118 margin-left: 3em; 9119 color: #ccccff; 9120 ">given, she's very well and wants nothing i', the</div> 9121 9122<div style=" 9123 margin-left: 3em; 9124 color: #ccccff; 9125 ">world; but yet she is not well.</div> 9126 9127 9128 9129 9130<div style=" 9131 color: #ff9900; 9132 ">HELENA</div> 9133 9134<div style=" 9135 margin-left: 3em; 9136 color: #ccccff; 9137 ">If she be very well, what does she ail, that she's</div> 9138 9139<div style=" 9140 margin-left: 3em; 9141 color: #ccccff; 9142 ">not very well?</div> 9143 9144 9145 9146 9147<div style=" 9148 color: #ff9900; 9149 ">Clown</div> 9150 9151<div style=" 9152 margin-left: 3em; 9153 color: #ccccff; 9154 ">Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two things.</div> 9155 9156 9157 9158 9159<div style=" 9160 color: #ff9900; 9161 ">HELENA</div> 9162 9163<div style=" 9164 margin-left: 3em; 9165 color: #ccccff; 9166 ">What two things?</div> 9167 9168 9169 9170 9171<div style=" 9172 color: #ff9900; 9173 ">Clown</div> 9174 9175<div style=" 9176 margin-left: 3em; 9177 color: #ccccff; 9178 ">One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send her</div> 9179 9180<div style=" 9181 margin-left: 3em; 9182 color: #ccccff; 9183 ">quickly! the other that she's in earth, from whence</div> 9184 9185<div style=" 9186 margin-left: 3em; 9187 color: #ccccff; 9188 ">God send her quickly!</div> 9189 9190 9191 9192<div style=" 9193 position: relative; 9194 width: 40%; 9195 left: 50%; 9196 text-align: right; 9197 margin: 0.5em; 9198 padding-right: 1em; 9199 padding-left: 1em; 9200 border-color: #ff9900; 9201 border-width: 1px; 9202 border-bottom-style: solid; 9203 border-top-style: solid; 9204 font-size: 9pt; 9205 color: #9999cc; 9206 ">Enter PAROLLES</div> 9207 9208 9209 9210<div style=" 9211 color: #ff9900; 9212 ">PAROLLES</div> 9213 9214<div style=" 9215 margin-left: 3em; 9216 color: #ccccff; 9217 ">Bless you, my fortunate lady!</div> 9218 9219 9220 9221 9222<div style=" 9223 color: #ff9900; 9224 ">HELENA</div> 9225 9226<div style=" 9227 margin-left: 3em; 9228 color: #ccccff; 9229 ">I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine own</div> 9230 9231<div style=" 9232 margin-left: 3em; 9233 color: #ccccff; 9234 ">good fortunes.</div> 9235 9236 9237 9238 9239<div style=" 9240 color: #ff9900; 9241 ">PAROLLES</div> 9242 9243<div style=" 9244 margin-left: 3em; 9245 color: #ccccff; 9246 ">You had my prayers to lead them on; and to keep them</div> 9247 9248<div style=" 9249 margin-left: 3em; 9250 color: #ccccff; 9251 ">on, have them still. O, my knave, how does my old lady?</div> 9252 9253 9254 9255 9256<div style=" 9257 color: #ff9900; 9258 ">Clown</div> 9259 9260<div style=" 9261 margin-left: 3em; 9262 color: #ccccff; 9263 ">So that you had her wrinkles and I her money,</div> 9264 9265<div style=" 9266 margin-left: 3em; 9267 color: #ccccff; 9268 ">I would she did as you say.</div> 9269 9270 9271 9272 9273<div style=" 9274 color: #ff9900; 9275 ">PAROLLES</div> 9276 9277<div style=" 9278 margin-left: 3em; 9279 color: #ccccff; 9280 ">Why, I say nothing.</div> 9281 9282 9283 9284 9285<div style=" 9286 color: #ff9900; 9287 ">Clown</div> 9288 9289<div style=" 9290 margin-left: 3em; 9291 color: #ccccff; 9292 ">Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's</div> 9293 9294<div style=" 9295 margin-left: 3em; 9296 color: #ccccff; 9297 ">tongue shakes out his master's undoing: to say</div> 9298 9299<div style=" 9300 margin-left: 3em; 9301 color: #ccccff; 9302 ">nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to have</div> 9303 9304<div style=" 9305 margin-left: 3em; 9306 color: #ccccff; 9307 ">nothing, is to be a great part of your title; which</div> 9308 9309<div style=" 9310 margin-left: 3em; 9311 color: #ccccff; 9312 ">is within a very little of nothing.</div> 9313 9314 9315 9316 9317<div style=" 9318 color: #ff9900; 9319 ">PAROLLES</div> 9320 9321<div style=" 9322 margin-left: 3em; 9323 color: #ccccff; 9324 ">Away! thou'rt a knave.</div> 9325 9326 9327 9328 9329<div style=" 9330 color: #ff9900; 9331 ">Clown</div> 9332 9333<div style=" 9334 margin-left: 3em; 9335 color: #ccccff; 9336 ">You should have said, sir, before a knave thou'rt a</div> 9337 9338<div style=" 9339 margin-left: 3em; 9340 color: #ccccff; 9341 ">knave; that's, before me thou'rt a knave: this had</div> 9342 9343<div style=" 9344 margin-left: 3em; 9345 color: #ccccff; 9346 ">been truth, sir.</div> 9347 9348 9349 9350 9351<div style=" 9352 color: #ff9900; 9353 ">PAROLLES</div> 9354 9355<div style=" 9356 margin-left: 3em; 9357 color: #ccccff; 9358 ">Go to, thou art a witty fool; I have found thee.</div> 9359 9360 9361 9362 9363<div style=" 9364 color: #ff9900; 9365 ">Clown</div> 9366 9367<div style=" 9368 margin-left: 3em; 9369 color: #ccccff; 9370 ">Did you find me in yourself, sir? or were you</div> 9371 9372<div style=" 9373 margin-left: 3em; 9374 color: #ccccff; 9375 ">taught to find me? The search, sir, was profitable;</div> 9376 9377<div style=" 9378 margin-left: 3em; 9379 color: #ccccff; 9380 ">and much fool may you find in you, even to the</div> 9381 9382<div style=" 9383 margin-left: 3em; 9384 color: #ccccff; 9385 ">world's pleasure and the increase of laughter.</div> 9386 9387 9388 9389 9390<div style=" 9391 color: #ff9900; 9392 ">PAROLLES</div> 9393 9394<div style=" 9395 margin-left: 3em; 9396 color: #ccccff; 9397 ">A good knave, i' faith, and well fed.</div> 9398 9399<div style=" 9400 margin-left: 3em; 9401 color: #ccccff; 9402 ">Madam, my lord will go away to-night;</div> 9403 9404<div style=" 9405 margin-left: 3em; 9406 color: #ccccff; 9407 ">A very serious business calls on him.</div> 9408 9409<div style=" 9410 margin-left: 3em; 9411 color: #ccccff; 9412 ">The great prerogative and rite of love,</div> 9413 9414<div style=" 9415 margin-left: 3em; 9416 color: #ccccff; 9417 ">Which, as your due, time claims, he does acknowledge;</div> 9418 9419<div style=" 9420 margin-left: 3em; 9421 color: #ccccff; 9422 ">But puts it off to a compell'd restraint;</div> 9423 9424<div style=" 9425 margin-left: 3em; 9426 color: #ccccff; 9427 ">Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets,</div> 9428 9429<div style=" 9430 margin-left: 3em; 9431 color: #ccccff; 9432 ">Which they distil now in the curbed time,</div> 9433 9434<div style=" 9435 margin-left: 3em; 9436 color: #ccccff; 9437 ">To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy</div> 9438 9439<div style=" 9440 margin-left: 3em; 9441 color: #ccccff; 9442 ">And pleasure drown the brim.</div> 9443 9444 9445 9446 9447<div style=" 9448 color: #ff9900; 9449 ">HELENA</div> 9450 9451<div style=" 9452 margin-left: 3em; 9453 color: #ccccff; 9454 ">What's his will else?</div> 9455 9456 9457 9458 9459<div style=" 9460 color: #ff9900; 9461 ">PAROLLES</div> 9462 9463<div style=" 9464 margin-left: 3em; 9465 color: #ccccff; 9466 ">That you will take your instant leave o' the king</div> 9467 9468<div style=" 9469 margin-left: 3em; 9470 color: #ccccff; 9471 ">And make this haste as your own good proceeding,</div> 9472 9473<div style=" 9474 margin-left: 3em; 9475 color: #ccccff; 9476 ">Strengthen'd with what apology you think</div> 9477 9478<div style=" 9479 margin-left: 3em; 9480 color: #ccccff; 9481 ">May make it probable need.</div> 9482 9483 9484 9485 9486<div style=" 9487 color: #ff9900; 9488 ">HELENA</div> 9489 9490<div style=" 9491 margin-left: 3em; 9492 color: #ccccff; 9493 ">What more commands he?</div> 9494 9495 9496 9497 9498<div style=" 9499 color: #ff9900; 9500 ">PAROLLES</div> 9501 9502<div style=" 9503 margin-left: 3em; 9504 color: #ccccff; 9505 ">That, having this obtain'd, you presently</div> 9506 9507<div style=" 9508 margin-left: 3em; 9509 color: #ccccff; 9510 ">Attend his further pleasure.</div> 9511 9512 9513 9514 9515<div style=" 9516 color: #ff9900; 9517 ">HELENA</div> 9518 9519<div style=" 9520 margin-left: 3em; 9521 color: #ccccff; 9522 ">In every thing I wait upon his will.</div> 9523 9524 9525 9526 9527<div style=" 9528 color: #ff9900; 9529 ">PAROLLES</div> 9530 9531<div style=" 9532 margin-left: 3em; 9533 color: #ccccff; 9534 ">I shall report it so.</div> 9535 9536 9537 9538 9539<div style=" 9540 color: #ff9900; 9541 ">HELENA</div> 9542 9543<div style=" 9544 margin-left: 3em; 9545 color: #ccccff; 9546 ">I pray you.</div> 9547 9548<div style=" 9549 position: relative; 9550 width: 40%; 9551 left: 50%; 9552 text-align: right; 9553 margin: 0.5em; 9554 padding-right: 1em; 9555 padding-left: 1em; 9556 border-color: #ff9900; 9557 border-width: 1px; 9558 border-bottom-style: solid; 9559 border-top-style: solid; 9560 font-size: 9pt; 9561 color: #9999cc; 9562 ">Exit PAROLLES</div> 9563 9564<div style=" 9565 margin-left: 3em; 9566 color: #ccccff; 9567 ">Come, sirrah.</div> 9568 9569 9570 9571<div style=" 9572 position: relative; 9573 width: 40%; 9574 left: 50%; 9575 text-align: right; 9576 margin: 0.5em; 9577 padding-right: 1em; 9578 padding-left: 1em; 9579 border-color: #ff9900; 9580 border-width: 1px; 9581 border-bottom-style: solid; 9582 border-top-style: solid; 9583 font-size: 9pt; 9584 color: #9999cc; 9585 ">Exeunt</div> 9586 9587</div> 9588 9589 9590<div> 9591<div style=" 9592 margin-bottom: 1em; 9593 padding-left: 1em; 9594 border-color: #ff9900; 9595 border-width: 1px; 9596 border-bottom-style: solid; 9597 border-top-style: solid; 9598 background-color: #cc6600; 9599 color: #000000; 9600 ">SCENE V. Paris. The KING's palace.</div> 9601 9602<div style=" 9603 position: relative; 9604 width: 40%; 9605 left: 50%; 9606 text-align: right; 9607 margin: 0.5em; 9608 padding-right: 1em; 9609 padding-left: 1em; 9610 border-color: #ff9900; 9611 border-width: 1px; 9612 border-bottom-style: solid; 9613 border-top-style: solid; 9614 font-size: 9pt; 9615 color: #9999cc; 9616 ">Enter LAFEU and BERTRAM</div> 9617 9618 9619 9620<div style=" 9621 color: #ff9900; 9622 ">LAFEU</div> 9623 9624<div style=" 9625 margin-left: 3em; 9626 color: #ccccff; 9627 ">But I hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier.</div> 9628 9629 9630 9631 9632<div style=" 9633 color: #ff9900; 9634 ">BERTRAM</div> 9635 9636<div style=" 9637 margin-left: 3em; 9638 color: #ccccff; 9639 ">Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof.</div> 9640 9641 9642 9643 9644<div style=" 9645 color: #ff9900; 9646 ">LAFEU</div> 9647 9648<div style=" 9649 margin-left: 3em; 9650 color: #ccccff; 9651 ">You have it from his own deliverance.</div> 9652 9653 9654 9655 9656<div style=" 9657 color: #ff9900; 9658 ">BERTRAM</div> 9659 9660<div style=" 9661 margin-left: 3em; 9662 color: #ccccff; 9663 ">And by other warranted testimony.</div> 9664 9665 9666 9667 9668<div style=" 9669 color: #ff9900; 9670 ">LAFEU</div> 9671 9672<div style=" 9673 margin-left: 3em; 9674 color: #ccccff; 9675 ">Then my dial goes not true: I took this lark for a bunting.</div> 9676 9677 9678 9679 9680<div style=" 9681 color: #ff9900; 9682 ">BERTRAM</div> 9683 9684<div style=" 9685 margin-left: 3em; 9686 color: #ccccff; 9687 ">I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in</div> 9688 9689<div style=" 9690 margin-left: 3em; 9691 color: #ccccff; 9692 ">knowledge and accordingly valiant.</div> 9693 9694 9695 9696 9697<div style=" 9698 color: #ff9900; 9699 ">LAFEU</div> 9700 9701<div style=" 9702 margin-left: 3em; 9703 color: #ccccff; 9704 ">I have then sinned against his experience and</div> 9705 9706<div style=" 9707 margin-left: 3em; 9708 color: #ccccff; 9709 ">transgressed against his valour; and my state that</div> 9710 9711<div style=" 9712 margin-left: 3em; 9713 color: #ccccff; 9714 ">way is dangerous, since I cannot yet find in my</div> 9715 9716<div style=" 9717 margin-left: 3em; 9718 color: #ccccff; 9719 ">heart to repent. Here he comes: I pray you, make</div> 9720 9721<div style=" 9722 margin-left: 3em; 9723 color: #ccccff; 9724 ">us friends; I will pursue the amity.</div> 9725 9726 9727 9728<div style=" 9729 position: relative; 9730 width: 40%; 9731 left: 50%; 9732 text-align: right; 9733 margin: 0.5em; 9734 padding-right: 1em; 9735 padding-left: 1em; 9736 border-color: #ff9900; 9737 border-width: 1px; 9738 border-bottom-style: solid; 9739 border-top-style: solid; 9740 font-size: 9pt; 9741 color: #9999cc; 9742 ">Enter PAROLLES</div> 9743 9744 9745 9746<div style=" 9747 color: #ff9900; 9748 ">PAROLLES</div> 9749 9750<div style=" 9751 margin-left: 3em; 9752 color: #ccccff; 9753 ">To BERTRAM These things shall be done, sir.</div> 9754 9755 9756 9757 9758<div style=" 9759 color: #ff9900; 9760 ">LAFEU</div> 9761 9762<div style=" 9763 margin-left: 3em; 9764 color: #ccccff; 9765 ">Pray you, sir, who's his tailor?</div> 9766 9767 9768 9769 9770<div style=" 9771 color: #ff9900; 9772 ">PAROLLES</div> 9773 9774<div style=" 9775 margin-left: 3em; 9776 color: #ccccff; 9777 ">Sir?</div> 9778 9779 9780 9781 9782<div style=" 9783 color: #ff9900; 9784 ">LAFEU</div> 9785 9786<div style=" 9787 margin-left: 3em; 9788 color: #ccccff; 9789 ">O, I know him well, I, sir; he, sir, 's a good</div> 9790 9791<div style=" 9792 margin-left: 3em; 9793 color: #ccccff; 9794 ">workman, a very good tailor.</div> 9795 9796 9797 9798 9799<div style=" 9800 color: #ff9900; 9801 ">BERTRAM</div> 9802 9803<div style=" 9804 margin-left: 3em; 9805 color: #ccccff; 9806 ">Aside to PAROLLES Is she gone to the king?</div> 9807 9808 9809 9810 9811<div style=" 9812 color: #ff9900; 9813 ">PAROLLES</div> 9814 9815<div style=" 9816 margin-left: 3em; 9817 color: #ccccff; 9818 ">She is.</div> 9819 9820 9821 9822 9823<div style=" 9824 color: #ff9900; 9825 ">BERTRAM</div> 9826 9827<div style=" 9828 margin-left: 3em; 9829 color: #ccccff; 9830 ">Will she away to-night?</div> 9831 9832 9833 9834 9835<div style=" 9836 color: #ff9900; 9837 ">PAROLLES</div> 9838 9839<div style=" 9840 margin-left: 3em; 9841 color: #ccccff; 9842 ">As you'll have her.</div> 9843 9844 9845 9846 9847<div style=" 9848 color: #ff9900; 9849 ">BERTRAM</div> 9850 9851<div style=" 9852 margin-left: 3em; 9853 color: #ccccff; 9854 ">I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure,</div> 9855 9856<div style=" 9857 margin-left: 3em; 9858 color: #ccccff; 9859 ">Given order for our horses; and to-night,</div> 9860 9861<div style=" 9862 margin-left: 3em; 9863 color: #ccccff; 9864 ">When I should take possession of the bride,</div> 9865 9866<div style=" 9867 margin-left: 3em; 9868 color: #ccccff; 9869 ">End ere I do begin.</div> 9870 9871 9872 9873 9874<div style=" 9875 color: #ff9900; 9876 ">LAFEU</div> 9877 9878<div style=" 9879 margin-left: 3em; 9880 color: #ccccff; 9881 ">A good traveller is something at the latter end of a</div> 9882 9883<div style=" 9884 margin-left: 3em; 9885 color: #ccccff; 9886 ">dinner; but one that lies three thirds and uses a</div> 9887 9888<div style=" 9889 margin-left: 3em; 9890 color: #ccccff; 9891 ">known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should</div> 9892 9893<div style=" 9894 margin-left: 3em; 9895 color: #ccccff; 9896 ">be once heard and thrice beaten. God save you, captain.</div> 9897 9898 9899 9900 9901<div style=" 9902 color: #ff9900; 9903 ">BERTRAM</div> 9904 9905<div style=" 9906 margin-left: 3em; 9907 color: #ccccff; 9908 ">Is there any unkindness between my lord and you, monsieur?</div> 9909 9910 9911 9912 9913<div style=" 9914 color: #ff9900; 9915 ">PAROLLES</div> 9916 9917<div style=" 9918 margin-left: 3em; 9919 color: #ccccff; 9920 ">I know not how I have deserved to run into my lord's</div> 9921 9922<div style=" 9923 margin-left: 3em; 9924 color: #ccccff; 9925 ">displeasure.</div> 9926 9927 9928 9929 9930<div style=" 9931 color: #ff9900; 9932 ">LAFEU</div> 9933 9934<div style=" 9935 margin-left: 3em; 9936 color: #ccccff; 9937 ">You have made shift to run into 't, boots and spurs</div> 9938 9939<div style=" 9940 margin-left: 3em; 9941 color: #ccccff; 9942 ">and all, like him that leaped into the custard; and</div> 9943 9944<div style=" 9945 margin-left: 3em; 9946 color: #ccccff; 9947 ">out of it you'll run again, rather than suffer</div> 9948 9949<div style=" 9950 margin-left: 3em; 9951 color: #ccccff; 9952 ">question for your residence.</div> 9953 9954 9955 9956 9957<div style=" 9958 color: #ff9900; 9959 ">BERTRAM</div> 9960 9961<div style=" 9962 margin-left: 3em; 9963 color: #ccccff; 9964 ">It may be you have mistaken him, my lord.</div> 9965 9966 9967 9968 9969<div style=" 9970 color: #ff9900; 9971 ">LAFEU</div> 9972 9973<div style=" 9974 margin-left: 3em; 9975 color: #ccccff; 9976 ">And shall do so ever, though I took him at 's</div> 9977 9978<div style=" 9979 margin-left: 3em; 9980 color: #ccccff; 9981 ">prayers. Fare you well, my lord; and believe this</div> 9982 9983<div style=" 9984 margin-left: 3em; 9985 color: #ccccff; 9986 ">of me, there can be no kernel in this light nut; the</div> 9987 9988<div style=" 9989 margin-left: 3em; 9990 color: #ccccff; 9991 ">soul of this man is his clothes. Trust him not in</div> 9992 9993<div style=" 9994 margin-left: 3em; 9995 color: #ccccff; 9996 ">matter of heavy consequence; I have kept of them</div> 9997 9998<div style=" 9999 margin-left: 3em; 10000 color: #ccccff; 10001 ">tame, and know their natures. Farewell, monsieur:</div> 10002 10003<div style=" 10004 margin-left: 3em; 10005 color: #ccccff; 10006 ">I have spoken better of you than you have or will to</div> 10007 10008<div style=" 10009 margin-left: 3em; 10010 color: #ccccff; 10011 ">deserve at my hand; but we must do good against evil.</div> 10012 10013 10014 10015<div style=" 10016 position: relative; 10017 width: 40%; 10018 left: 50%; 10019 text-align: right; 10020 margin: 0.5em; 10021 padding-right: 1em; 10022 padding-left: 1em; 10023 border-color: #ff9900; 10024 border-width: 1px; 10025 border-bottom-style: solid; 10026 border-top-style: solid; 10027 font-size: 9pt; 10028 color: #9999cc; 10029 ">Exit</div> 10030 10031 10032 10033<div style=" 10034 color: #ff9900; 10035 ">PAROLLES</div> 10036 10037<div style=" 10038 margin-left: 3em; 10039 color: #ccccff; 10040 ">An idle lord. I swear.</div> 10041 10042 10043 10044 10045<div style=" 10046 color: #ff9900; 10047 ">BERTRAM</div> 10048 10049<div style=" 10050 margin-left: 3em; 10051 color: #ccccff; 10052 ">I think so.</div> 10053 10054 10055 10056 10057<div style=" 10058 color: #ff9900; 10059 ">PAROLLES</div> 10060 10061<div style=" 10062 margin-left: 3em; 10063 color: #ccccff; 10064 ">Why, do you not know him?</div> 10065 10066 10067 10068 10069<div style=" 10070 color: #ff9900; 10071 ">BERTRAM</div> 10072 10073<div style=" 10074 margin-left: 3em; 10075 color: #ccccff; 10076 ">Yes, I do know him well, and common speech</div> 10077 10078<div style=" 10079 margin-left: 3em; 10080 color: #ccccff; 10081 ">Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog.</div> 10082 10083 10084 10085<div style=" 10086 position: relative; 10087 width: 40%; 10088 left: 50%; 10089 text-align: right; 10090 margin: 0.5em; 10091 padding-right: 1em; 10092 padding-left: 1em; 10093 border-color: #ff9900; 10094 border-width: 1px; 10095 border-bottom-style: solid; 10096 border-top-style: solid; 10097 font-size: 9pt; 10098 color: #9999cc; 10099 ">Enter HELENA</div> 10100 10101 10102 10103<div style=" 10104 color: #ff9900; 10105 ">HELENA</div> 10106 10107<div style=" 10108 margin-left: 3em; 10109 color: #ccccff; 10110 ">I have, sir, as I was commanded from you,</div> 10111 10112<div style=" 10113 margin-left: 3em; 10114 color: #ccccff; 10115 ">Spoke with the king and have procured his leave</div> 10116 10117<div style=" 10118 margin-left: 3em; 10119 color: #ccccff; 10120 ">For present parting; only he desires</div> 10121 10122<div style=" 10123 margin-left: 3em; 10124 color: #ccccff; 10125 ">Some private speech with you.</div> 10126 10127 10128 10129 10130<div style=" 10131 color: #ff9900; 10132 ">BERTRAM</div> 10133 10134<div style=" 10135 margin-left: 3em; 10136 color: #ccccff; 10137 ">I shall obey his will.</div> 10138 10139<div style=" 10140 margin-left: 3em; 10141 color: #ccccff; 10142 ">You must not marvel, Helen, at my course,</div> 10143 10144<div style=" 10145 margin-left: 3em; 10146 color: #ccccff; 10147 ">Which holds not colour with the time, nor does</div> 10148 10149<div style=" 10150 margin-left: 3em; 10151 color: #ccccff; 10152 ">The ministration and required office</div> 10153 10154<div style=" 10155 margin-left: 3em; 10156 color: #ccccff; 10157 ">On my particular. Prepared I was not</div> 10158 10159<div style=" 10160 margin-left: 3em; 10161 color: #ccccff; 10162 ">For such a business; therefore am I found</div> 10163 10164<div style=" 10165 margin-left: 3em; 10166 color: #ccccff; 10167 ">So much unsettled: this drives me to entreat you</div> 10168 10169<div style=" 10170 margin-left: 3em; 10171 color: #ccccff; 10172 ">That presently you take our way for home;</div> 10173 10174<div style=" 10175 margin-left: 3em; 10176 color: #ccccff; 10177 ">And rather muse than ask why I entreat you,</div> 10178 10179<div style=" 10180 margin-left: 3em; 10181 color: #ccccff; 10182 ">For my respects are better than they seem</div> 10183 10184<div style=" 10185 margin-left: 3em; 10186 color: #ccccff; 10187 ">And my appointments have in them a need</div> 10188 10189<div style=" 10190 margin-left: 3em; 10191 color: #ccccff; 10192 ">Greater than shows itself at the first view</div> 10193 10194<div style=" 10195 margin-left: 3em; 10196 color: #ccccff; 10197 ">To you that know them not. This to my mother:</div> 10198 10199<div style=" 10200 position: relative; 10201 width: 40%; 10202 left: 50%; 10203 text-align: right; 10204 margin: 0.5em; 10205 padding-right: 1em; 10206 padding-left: 1em; 10207 border-color: #ff9900; 10208 border-width: 1px; 10209 border-bottom-style: solid; 10210 border-top-style: solid; 10211 font-size: 9pt; 10212 color: #9999cc; 10213 ">Giving a letter</div> 10214 10215<div style=" 10216 margin-left: 3em; 10217 color: #ccccff; 10218 ">'Twill be two days ere I shall see you, so</div> 10219 10220<div style=" 10221 margin-left: 3em; 10222 color: #ccccff; 10223 ">I leave you to your wisdom.</div> 10224 10225 10226 10227 10228<div style=" 10229 color: #ff9900; 10230 ">HELENA</div> 10231 10232<div style=" 10233 margin-left: 3em; 10234 color: #ccccff; 10235 ">Sir, I can nothing say,</div> 10236 10237<div style=" 10238 margin-left: 3em; 10239 color: #ccccff; 10240 ">But that I am your most obedient servant.</div> 10241 10242 10243 10244 10245<div style=" 10246 color: #ff9900; 10247 ">BERTRAM</div> 10248 10249<div style=" 10250 margin-left: 3em; 10251 color: #ccccff; 10252 ">Come, come, no more of that.</div> 10253 10254 10255 10256 10257<div style=" 10258 color: #ff9900; 10259 ">HELENA</div> 10260 10261<div style=" 10262 margin-left: 3em; 10263 color: #ccccff; 10264 ">And ever shall</div> 10265 10266<div style=" 10267 margin-left: 3em; 10268 color: #ccccff; 10269 ">With true observance seek to eke out that</div> 10270 10271<div style=" 10272 margin-left: 3em; 10273 color: #ccccff; 10274 ">Wherein toward me my homely stars have fail'd</div> 10275 10276<div style=" 10277 margin-left: 3em; 10278 color: #ccccff; 10279 ">To equal my great fortune.</div> 10280 10281 10282 10283 10284<div style=" 10285 color: #ff9900; 10286 ">BERTRAM</div> 10287 10288<div style=" 10289 margin-left: 3em; 10290 color: #ccccff; 10291 ">Let that go:</div> 10292 10293<div style=" 10294 margin-left: 3em; 10295 color: #ccccff; 10296 ">My haste is very great: farewell; hie home.</div> 10297 10298 10299 10300 10301<div style=" 10302 color: #ff9900; 10303 ">HELENA</div> 10304 10305<div style=" 10306 margin-left: 3em; 10307 color: #ccccff; 10308 ">Pray, sir, your pardon.</div> 10309 10310 10311 10312 10313<div style=" 10314 color: #ff9900; 10315 ">BERTRAM</div> 10316 10317<div style=" 10318 margin-left: 3em; 10319 color: #ccccff; 10320 ">Well, what would you say?</div> 10321 10322 10323 10324 10325<div style=" 10326 color: #ff9900; 10327 ">HELENA</div> 10328 10329<div style=" 10330 margin-left: 3em; 10331 color: #ccccff; 10332 ">I am not worthy of the wealth I owe,</div> 10333 10334<div style=" 10335 margin-left: 3em; 10336 color: #ccccff; 10337 ">Nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is;</div> 10338 10339<div style=" 10340 margin-left: 3em; 10341 color: #ccccff; 10342 ">But, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal</div> 10343 10344<div style=" 10345 margin-left: 3em; 10346 color: #ccccff; 10347 ">What law does vouch mine own.</div> 10348 10349 10350 10351 10352<div style=" 10353 color: #ff9900; 10354 ">BERTRAM</div> 10355 10356<div style=" 10357 margin-left: 3em; 10358 color: #ccccff; 10359 ">What would you have?</div> 10360 10361 10362 10363 10364<div style=" 10365 color: #ff9900; 10366 ">HELENA</div> 10367 10368<div style=" 10369 margin-left: 3em; 10370 color: #ccccff; 10371 ">Something; and scarce so much: nothing, indeed.</div> 10372 10373<div style=" 10374 margin-left: 3em; 10375 color: #ccccff; 10376 ">I would not tell you what I would, my lord:</div> 10377 10378<div style=" 10379 margin-left: 3em; 10380 color: #ccccff; 10381 ">Faith yes;</div> 10382 10383<div style=" 10384 margin-left: 3em; 10385 color: #ccccff; 10386 ">Strangers and foes do sunder, and not kiss.</div> 10387 10388 10389 10390 10391<div style=" 10392 color: #ff9900; 10393 ">BERTRAM</div> 10394 10395<div style=" 10396 margin-left: 3em; 10397 color: #ccccff; 10398 ">I pray you, stay not, but in haste to horse.</div> 10399 10400 10401 10402 10403<div style=" 10404 color: #ff9900; 10405 ">HELENA</div> 10406 10407<div style=" 10408 margin-left: 3em; 10409 color: #ccccff; 10410 ">I shall not break your bidding, good my lord.</div> 10411 10412 10413 10414 10415<div style=" 10416 color: #ff9900; 10417 ">BERTRAM</div> 10418 10419<div style=" 10420 margin-left: 3em; 10421 color: #ccccff; 10422 ">Where are my other men, monsieur? Farewell.</div> 10423 10424<div style=" 10425 position: relative; 10426 width: 40%; 10427 left: 50%; 10428 text-align: right; 10429 margin: 0.5em; 10430 padding-right: 1em; 10431 padding-left: 1em; 10432 border-color: #ff9900; 10433 border-width: 1px; 10434 border-bottom-style: solid; 10435 border-top-style: solid; 10436 font-size: 9pt; 10437 color: #9999cc; 10438 ">Exit HELENA</div> 10439 10440<div style=" 10441 margin-left: 3em; 10442 color: #ccccff; 10443 ">Go thou toward home; where I will never come</div> 10444 10445<div style=" 10446 margin-left: 3em; 10447 color: #ccccff; 10448 ">Whilst I can shake my sword or hear the drum.</div> 10449 10450<div style=" 10451 margin-left: 3em; 10452 color: #ccccff; 10453 ">Away, and for our flight.</div> 10454 10455 10456 10457 10458<div style=" 10459 color: #ff9900; 10460 ">PAROLLES</div> 10461 10462<div style=" 10463 margin-left: 3em; 10464 color: #ccccff; 10465 ">Bravely, coragio!</div> 10466 10467 10468 10469<div style=" 10470 position: relative; 10471 width: 40%; 10472 left: 50%; 10473 text-align: right; 10474 margin: 0.5em; 10475 padding-right: 1em; 10476 padding-left: 1em; 10477 border-color: #ff9900; 10478 border-width: 1px; 10479 border-bottom-style: solid; 10480 border-top-style: solid; 10481 font-size: 9pt; 10482 color: #9999cc; 10483 ">Exeunt</div> 10484 10485</div> 10486 10487 10488 10489 10490<div style=" 10491 text-align: right; 10492 "> 10493<span style=" 10494 width: 25%; 10495 padding: 1px; 10496 padding-right: 1em; 10497 color: #000000; 10498 background-color: #ff9900; 10499 ">ACT III</span> 10500</div> 10501 10502 10503<div> 10504<div style=" 10505 margin-bottom: 1em; 10506 padding-left: 1em; 10507 border-color: #ff9900; 10508 border-width: 1px; 10509 border-bottom-style: solid; 10510 border-top-style: solid; 10511 background-color: #cc6600; 10512 color: #000000; 10513 ">SCENE I. Florence. The DUKE's palace.</div> 10514 10515<div style=" 10516 position: relative; 10517 width: 40%; 10518 left: 50%; 10519 text-align: right; 10520 margin: 0.5em; 10521 padding-right: 1em; 10522 padding-left: 1em; 10523 border-color: #ff9900; 10524 border-width: 1px; 10525 border-bottom-style: solid; 10526 border-top-style: solid; 10527 font-size: 9pt; 10528 color: #9999cc; 10529 ">Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence attended; 10530the two Frenchmen, with a troop of soldiers.</div> 10531 10532 10533 10534<div style=" 10535 color: #ff9900; 10536 ">DUKE</div> 10537 10538<div style=" 10539 margin-left: 3em; 10540 color: #ccccff; 10541 ">So that from point to point now have you heard</div> 10542 10543<div style=" 10544 margin-left: 3em; 10545 color: #ccccff; 10546 ">The fundamental reasons of this war,</div> 10547 10548<div style=" 10549 margin-left: 3em; 10550 color: #ccccff; 10551 ">Whose great decision hath much blood let forth</div> 10552 10553<div style=" 10554 margin-left: 3em; 10555 color: #ccccff; 10556 ">And more thirsts after.</div> 10557 10558 10559 10560 10561<div style=" 10562 color: #ff9900; 10563 ">First Lord</div> 10564 10565<div style=" 10566 margin-left: 3em; 10567 color: #ccccff; 10568 ">Holy seems the quarrel</div> 10569 10570<div style=" 10571 margin-left: 3em; 10572 color: #ccccff; 10573 ">Upon your grace's part; black and fearful</div> 10574 10575<div style=" 10576 margin-left: 3em; 10577 color: #ccccff; 10578 ">On the opposer.</div> 10579 10580 10581 10582 10583<div style=" 10584 color: #ff9900; 10585 ">DUKE</div> 10586 10587<div style=" 10588 margin-left: 3em; 10589 color: #ccccff; 10590 ">Therefore we marvel much our cousin France</div> 10591 10592<div style=" 10593 margin-left: 3em; 10594 color: #ccccff; 10595 ">Would in so just a business shut his bosom</div> 10596 10597<div style=" 10598 margin-left: 3em; 10599 color: #ccccff; 10600 ">Against our borrowing prayers.</div> 10601 10602 10603 10604 10605<div style=" 10606 color: #ff9900; 10607 ">Second Lord</div> 10608 10609<div style=" 10610 margin-left: 3em; 10611 color: #ccccff; 10612 ">Good my lord,</div> 10613 10614<div style=" 10615 margin-left: 3em; 10616 color: #ccccff; 10617 ">The reasons of our state I cannot yield,</div> 10618 10619<div style=" 10620 margin-left: 3em; 10621 color: #ccccff; 10622 ">But like a common and an outward man,</div> 10623 10624<div style=" 10625 margin-left: 3em; 10626 color: #ccccff; 10627 ">That the great figure of a council frames</div> 10628 10629<div style=" 10630 margin-left: 3em; 10631 color: #ccccff; 10632 ">By self-unable motion: therefore dare not</div> 10633 10634<div style=" 10635 margin-left: 3em; 10636 color: #ccccff; 10637 ">Say what I think of it, since I have found</div> 10638 10639<div style=" 10640 margin-left: 3em; 10641 color: #ccccff; 10642 ">Myself in my incertain grounds to fail</div> 10643 10644<div style=" 10645 margin-left: 3em; 10646 color: #ccccff; 10647 ">As often as I guess'd.</div> 10648 10649 10650 10651 10652<div style=" 10653 color: #ff9900; 10654 ">DUKE</div> 10655 10656<div style=" 10657 margin-left: 3em; 10658 color: #ccccff; 10659 ">Be it his pleasure.</div> 10660 10661 10662 10663 10664<div style=" 10665 color: #ff9900; 10666 ">First Lord</div> 10667 10668<div style=" 10669 margin-left: 3em; 10670 color: #ccccff; 10671 ">But I am sure the younger of our nature,</div> 10672 10673<div style=" 10674 margin-left: 3em; 10675 color: #ccccff; 10676 ">That surfeit on their ease, will day by day</div> 10677 10678<div style=" 10679 margin-left: 3em; 10680 color: #ccccff; 10681 ">Come here for physic.</div> 10682 10683 10684 10685 10686<div style=" 10687 color: #ff9900; 10688 ">DUKE</div> 10689 10690<div style=" 10691 margin-left: 3em; 10692 color: #ccccff; 10693 ">Welcome shall they be;</div> 10694 10695<div style=" 10696 margin-left: 3em; 10697 color: #ccccff; 10698 ">And all the honours that can fly from us</div> 10699 10700<div style=" 10701 margin-left: 3em; 10702 color: #ccccff; 10703 ">Shall on them settle. You know your places well;</div> 10704 10705<div style=" 10706 margin-left: 3em; 10707 color: #ccccff; 10708 ">When better fall, for your avails they fell:</div> 10709 10710<div style=" 10711 margin-left: 3em; 10712 color: #ccccff; 10713 ">To-morrow to the field.</div> 10714 10715 10716 10717<div style=" 10718 position: relative; 10719 width: 40%; 10720 left: 50%; 10721 text-align: right; 10722 margin: 0.5em; 10723 padding-right: 1em; 10724 padding-left: 1em; 10725 border-color: #ff9900; 10726 border-width: 1px; 10727 border-bottom-style: solid; 10728 border-top-style: solid; 10729 font-size: 9pt; 10730 color: #9999cc; 10731 ">Flourish. Exeunt</div> 10732 10733</div> 10734 10735 10736<div> 10737<div style=" 10738 margin-bottom: 1em; 10739 padding-left: 1em; 10740 border-color: #ff9900; 10741 border-width: 1px; 10742 border-bottom-style: solid; 10743 border-top-style: solid; 10744 background-color: #cc6600; 10745 color: #000000; 10746 ">SCENE II. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</div> 10747 10748<div style=" 10749 position: relative; 10750 width: 40%; 10751 left: 50%; 10752 text-align: right; 10753 margin: 0.5em; 10754 padding-right: 1em; 10755 padding-left: 1em; 10756 border-color: #ff9900; 10757 border-width: 1px; 10758 border-bottom-style: solid; 10759 border-top-style: solid; 10760 font-size: 9pt; 10761 color: #9999cc; 10762 ">Enter COUNTESS and Clown</div> 10763 10764 10765 10766<div style=" 10767 color: #ff9900; 10768 ">COUNTESS</div> 10769 10770<div style=" 10771 margin-left: 3em; 10772 color: #ccccff; 10773 ">It hath happened all as I would have had it, save</div> 10774 10775<div style=" 10776 margin-left: 3em; 10777 color: #ccccff; 10778 ">that he comes not along with her.</div> 10779 10780 10781 10782 10783<div style=" 10784 color: #ff9900; 10785 ">Clown</div> 10786 10787<div style=" 10788 margin-left: 3em; 10789 color: #ccccff; 10790 ">By my troth, I take my young lord to be a very</div> 10791 10792<div style=" 10793 margin-left: 3em; 10794 color: #ccccff; 10795 ">melancholy man.</div> 10796 10797 10798 10799 10800<div style=" 10801 color: #ff9900; 10802 ">COUNTESS</div> 10803 10804<div style=" 10805 margin-left: 3em; 10806 color: #ccccff; 10807 ">By what observance, I pray you?</div> 10808 10809 10810 10811 10812<div style=" 10813 color: #ff9900; 10814 ">Clown</div> 10815 10816<div style=" 10817 margin-left: 3em; 10818 color: #ccccff; 10819 ">Why, he will look upon his boot and sing; mend the</div> 10820 10821<div style=" 10822 margin-left: 3em; 10823 color: #ccccff; 10824 ">ruff and sing; ask questions and sing; pick his</div> 10825 10826<div style=" 10827 margin-left: 3em; 10828 color: #ccccff; 10829 ">teeth and sing. I know a man that had this trick of</div> 10830 10831<div style=" 10832 margin-left: 3em; 10833 color: #ccccff; 10834 ">melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song.</div> 10835 10836 10837 10838 10839<div style=" 10840 color: #ff9900; 10841 ">COUNTESS</div> 10842 10843<div style=" 10844 margin-left: 3em; 10845 color: #ccccff; 10846 ">Let me see what he writes, and when he means to come.</div> 10847 10848 10849 10850<div style=" 10851 position: relative; 10852 width: 40%; 10853 left: 50%; 10854 text-align: right; 10855 margin: 0.5em; 10856 padding-right: 1em; 10857 padding-left: 1em; 10858 border-color: #ff9900; 10859 border-width: 1px; 10860 border-bottom-style: solid; 10861 border-top-style: solid; 10862 font-size: 9pt; 10863 color: #9999cc; 10864 ">Opening a letter</div> 10865 10866 10867 10868<div style=" 10869 color: #ff9900; 10870 ">Clown</div> 10871 10872<div style=" 10873 margin-left: 3em; 10874 color: #ccccff; 10875 ">I have no mind to Isbel since I was at court: our</div> 10876 10877<div style=" 10878 margin-left: 3em; 10879 color: #ccccff; 10880 ">old ling and our Isbels o' the country are nothing</div> 10881 10882<div style=" 10883 margin-left: 3em; 10884 color: #ccccff; 10885 ">like your old ling and your Isbels o' the court:</div> 10886 10887<div style=" 10888 margin-left: 3em; 10889 color: #ccccff; 10890 ">the brains of my Cupid's knocked out, and I begin to</div> 10891 10892<div style=" 10893 margin-left: 3em; 10894 color: #ccccff; 10895 ">love, as an old man loves money, with no stomach.</div> 10896 10897 10898 10899 10900<div style=" 10901 color: #ff9900; 10902 ">COUNTESS</div> 10903 10904<div style=" 10905 margin-left: 3em; 10906 color: #ccccff; 10907 ">What have we here?</div> 10908 10909 10910 10911 10912<div style=" 10913 color: #ff9900; 10914 ">Clown</div> 10915 10916<div style=" 10917 margin-left: 3em; 10918 color: #ccccff; 10919 ">E'en that you have there.</div> 10920 10921 10922 10923<div style=" 10924 position: relative; 10925 width: 40%; 10926 left: 50%; 10927 text-align: right; 10928 margin: 0.5em; 10929 padding-right: 1em; 10930 padding-left: 1em; 10931 border-color: #ff9900; 10932 border-width: 1px; 10933 border-bottom-style: solid; 10934 border-top-style: solid; 10935 font-size: 9pt; 10936 color: #9999cc; 10937 ">Exit</div> 10938 10939 10940 10941<div style=" 10942 color: #ff9900; 10943 ">COUNTESS</div> 10944 10945<div style=" 10946 margin-left: 3em; 10947 color: #ccccff; 10948 ">Reads I have sent you a daughter-in-law: she hath</div> 10949 10950<div style=" 10951 margin-left: 3em; 10952 color: #ccccff; 10953 ">recovered the king, and undone me. I have wedded</div> 10954 10955<div style=" 10956 margin-left: 3em; 10957 color: #ccccff; 10958 ">her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the 'not'</div> 10959 10960<div style=" 10961 margin-left: 3em; 10962 color: #ccccff; 10963 ">eternal. You shall hear I am run away: know it</div> 10964 10965<div style=" 10966 margin-left: 3em; 10967 color: #ccccff; 10968 ">before the report come. If there be breadth enough</div> 10969 10970<div style=" 10971 margin-left: 3em; 10972 color: #ccccff; 10973 ">in the world, I will hold a long distance. My duty</div> 10974 10975<div style=" 10976 margin-left: 3em; 10977 color: #ccccff; 10978 ">to you. Your unfortunate son,</div> 10979 10980<div style=" 10981 margin-left: 3em; 10982 color: #ccccff; 10983 ">BERTRAM.</div> 10984 10985<div style=" 10986 margin-left: 3em; 10987 color: #ccccff; 10988 ">This is not well, rash and unbridled boy.</div> 10989 10990<div style=" 10991 margin-left: 3em; 10992 color: #ccccff; 10993 ">To fly the favours of so good a king;</div> 10994 10995<div style=" 10996 margin-left: 3em; 10997 color: #ccccff; 10998 ">To pluck his indignation on thy head</div> 10999 11000<div style=" 11001 margin-left: 3em; 11002 color: #ccccff; 11003 ">By the misprising of a maid too virtuous</div> 11004 11005<div style=" 11006 margin-left: 3em; 11007 color: #ccccff; 11008 ">For the contempt of empire.</div> 11009 11010 11011 11012<div style=" 11013 position: relative; 11014 width: 40%; 11015 left: 50%; 11016 text-align: right; 11017 margin: 0.5em; 11018 padding-right: 1em; 11019 padding-left: 1em; 11020 border-color: #ff9900; 11021 border-width: 1px; 11022 border-bottom-style: solid; 11023 border-top-style: solid; 11024 font-size: 9pt; 11025 color: #9999cc; 11026 ">Re-enter Clown</div> 11027 11028 11029 11030<div style=" 11031 color: #ff9900; 11032 ">Clown</div> 11033 11034<div style=" 11035 margin-left: 3em; 11036 color: #ccccff; 11037 ">O madam, yonder is heavy news within between two</div> 11038 11039<div style=" 11040 margin-left: 3em; 11041 color: #ccccff; 11042 ">soldiers and my young lady!</div> 11043 11044 11045 11046 11047<div style=" 11048 color: #ff9900; 11049 ">COUNTESS</div> 11050 11051<div style=" 11052 margin-left: 3em; 11053 color: #ccccff; 11054 ">What is the matter?</div> 11055 11056 11057 11058 11059<div style=" 11060 color: #ff9900; 11061 ">Clown</div> 11062 11063<div style=" 11064 margin-left: 3em; 11065 color: #ccccff; 11066 ">Nay, there is some comfort in the news, some</div> 11067 11068<div style=" 11069 margin-left: 3em; 11070 color: #ccccff; 11071 ">comfort; your son will not be killed so soon as I</div> 11072 11073<div style=" 11074 margin-left: 3em; 11075 color: #ccccff; 11076 ">thought he would.</div> 11077 11078 11079 11080 11081<div style=" 11082 color: #ff9900; 11083 ">COUNTESS</div> 11084 11085<div style=" 11086 margin-left: 3em; 11087 color: #ccccff; 11088 ">Why should he be killed?</div> 11089 11090 11091 11092 11093<div style=" 11094 color: #ff9900; 11095 ">Clown</div> 11096 11097<div style=" 11098 margin-left: 3em; 11099 color: #ccccff; 11100 ">So say I, madam, if he run away, as I hear he does:</div> 11101 11102<div style=" 11103 margin-left: 3em; 11104 color: #ccccff; 11105 ">the danger is in standing to't; that's the loss of</div> 11106 11107<div style=" 11108 margin-left: 3em; 11109 color: #ccccff; 11110 ">men, though it be the getting of children. Here</div> 11111 11112<div style=" 11113 margin-left: 3em; 11114 color: #ccccff; 11115 ">they come will tell you more: for my part, I only</div> 11116 11117<div style=" 11118 margin-left: 3em; 11119 color: #ccccff; 11120 ">hear your son was run away.</div> 11121 11122 11123 11124<div style=" 11125 position: relative; 11126 width: 40%; 11127 left: 50%; 11128 text-align: right; 11129 margin: 0.5em; 11130 padding-right: 1em; 11131 padding-left: 1em; 11132 border-color: #ff9900; 11133 border-width: 1px; 11134 border-bottom-style: solid; 11135 border-top-style: solid; 11136 font-size: 9pt; 11137 color: #9999cc; 11138 ">Exit</div> 11139 11140<div style=" 11141 position: relative; 11142 width: 40%; 11143 left: 50%; 11144 text-align: right; 11145 margin: 0.5em; 11146 padding-right: 1em; 11147 padding-left: 1em; 11148 border-color: #ff9900; 11149 border-width: 1px; 11150 border-bottom-style: solid; 11151 border-top-style: solid; 11152 font-size: 9pt; 11153 color: #9999cc; 11154 ">Enter HELENA, and two Gentlemen</div> 11155 11156 11157 11158<div style=" 11159 color: #ff9900; 11160 ">First Gentleman</div> 11161 11162<div style=" 11163 margin-left: 3em; 11164 color: #ccccff; 11165 ">Save you, good madam.</div> 11166 11167 11168 11169 11170<div style=" 11171 color: #ff9900; 11172 ">HELENA</div> 11173 11174<div style=" 11175 margin-left: 3em; 11176 color: #ccccff; 11177 ">Madam, my lord is gone, for ever gone.</div> 11178 11179 11180 11181 11182<div style=" 11183 color: #ff9900; 11184 ">Second Gentleman</div> 11185 11186<div style=" 11187 margin-left: 3em; 11188 color: #ccccff; 11189 ">Do not say so.</div> 11190 11191 11192 11193 11194<div style=" 11195 color: #ff9900; 11196 ">COUNTESS</div> 11197 11198<div style=" 11199 margin-left: 3em; 11200 color: #ccccff; 11201 ">Think upon patience. Pray you, gentlemen,</div> 11202 11203<div style=" 11204 margin-left: 3em; 11205 color: #ccccff; 11206 ">I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief,</div> 11207 11208<div style=" 11209 margin-left: 3em; 11210 color: #ccccff; 11211 ">That the first face of neither, on the start,</div> 11212 11213<div style=" 11214 margin-left: 3em; 11215 color: #ccccff; 11216 ">Can woman me unto't: where is my son, I pray you?</div> 11217 11218 11219 11220 11221<div style=" 11222 color: #ff9900; 11223 ">Second Gentleman</div> 11224 11225<div style=" 11226 margin-left: 3em; 11227 color: #ccccff; 11228 ">Madam, he's gone to serve the duke of Florence:</div> 11229 11230<div style=" 11231 margin-left: 3em; 11232 color: #ccccff; 11233 ">We met him thitherward; for thence we came,</div> 11234 11235<div style=" 11236 margin-left: 3em; 11237 color: #ccccff; 11238 ">And, after some dispatch in hand at court,</div> 11239 11240<div style=" 11241 margin-left: 3em; 11242 color: #ccccff; 11243 ">Thither we bend again.</div> 11244 11245 11246 11247 11248<div style=" 11249 color: #ff9900; 11250 ">HELENA</div> 11251 11252<div style=" 11253 margin-left: 3em; 11254 color: #ccccff; 11255 ">Look on his letter, madam; here's my passport.</div> 11256 11257<div style=" 11258 position: relative; 11259 width: 40%; 11260 left: 50%; 11261 text-align: right; 11262 margin: 0.5em; 11263 padding-right: 1em; 11264 padding-left: 1em; 11265 border-color: #ff9900; 11266 border-width: 1px; 11267 border-bottom-style: solid; 11268 border-top-style: solid; 11269 font-size: 9pt; 11270 color: #9999cc; 11271 ">Reads</div> 11272 11273<div style=" 11274 margin-left: 3em; 11275 color: #ccccff; 11276 ">When thou canst get the ring upon my finger which</div> 11277 11278<div style=" 11279 margin-left: 3em; 11280 color: #ccccff; 11281 ">never shall come off, and show me a child begotten</div> 11282 11283<div style=" 11284 margin-left: 3em; 11285 color: #ccccff; 11286 ">of thy body that I am father to, then call me</div> 11287 11288<div style=" 11289 margin-left: 3em; 11290 color: #ccccff; 11291 ">husband: but in such a 'then' I write a 'never.'</div> 11292 11293<div style=" 11294 margin-left: 3em; 11295 color: #ccccff; 11296 ">This is a dreadful sentence.</div> 11297 11298 11299 11300 11301<div style=" 11302 color: #ff9900; 11303 ">COUNTESS</div> 11304 11305<div style=" 11306 margin-left: 3em; 11307 color: #ccccff; 11308 ">Brought you this letter, gentlemen?</div> 11309 11310 11311 11312 11313<div style=" 11314 color: #ff9900; 11315 ">First Gentleman</div> 11316 11317<div style=" 11318 margin-left: 3em; 11319 color: #ccccff; 11320 ">Ay, madam;</div> 11321 11322<div style=" 11323 margin-left: 3em; 11324 color: #ccccff; 11325 ">And for the contents' sake are sorry for our pain.</div> 11326 11327 11328 11329 11330<div style=" 11331 color: #ff9900; 11332 ">COUNTESS</div> 11333 11334<div style=" 11335 margin-left: 3em; 11336 color: #ccccff; 11337 ">I prithee, lady, have a better cheer;</div> 11338 11339<div style=" 11340 margin-left: 3em; 11341 color: #ccccff; 11342 ">If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine,</div> 11343 11344<div style=" 11345 margin-left: 3em; 11346 color: #ccccff; 11347 ">Thou robb'st me of a moiety: he was my son;</div> 11348 11349<div style=" 11350 margin-left: 3em; 11351 color: #ccccff; 11352 ">But I do wash his name out of my blood,</div> 11353 11354<div style=" 11355 margin-left: 3em; 11356 color: #ccccff; 11357 ">And thou art all my child. Towards Florence is he?</div> 11358 11359 11360 11361 11362<div style=" 11363 color: #ff9900; 11364 ">Second Gentleman</div> 11365 11366<div style=" 11367 margin-left: 3em; 11368 color: #ccccff; 11369 ">Ay, madam.</div> 11370 11371 11372 11373 11374<div style=" 11375 color: #ff9900; 11376 ">COUNTESS</div> 11377 11378<div style=" 11379 margin-left: 3em; 11380 color: #ccccff; 11381 ">And to be a soldier?</div> 11382 11383 11384 11385 11386<div style=" 11387 color: #ff9900; 11388 ">Second Gentleman</div> 11389 11390<div style=" 11391 margin-left: 3em; 11392 color: #ccccff; 11393 ">Such is his noble purpose; and believe 't,</div> 11394 11395<div style=" 11396 margin-left: 3em; 11397 color: #ccccff; 11398 ">The duke will lay upon him all the honour</div> 11399 11400<div style=" 11401 margin-left: 3em; 11402 color: #ccccff; 11403 ">That good convenience claims.</div> 11404 11405 11406 11407 11408<div style=" 11409 color: #ff9900; 11410 ">COUNTESS</div> 11411 11412<div style=" 11413 margin-left: 3em; 11414 color: #ccccff; 11415 ">Return you thither?</div> 11416 11417 11418 11419 11420<div style=" 11421 color: #ff9900; 11422 ">First Gentleman</div> 11423 11424<div style=" 11425 margin-left: 3em; 11426 color: #ccccff; 11427 ">Ay, madam, with the swiftest wing of speed.</div> 11428 11429 11430 11431 11432<div style=" 11433 color: #ff9900; 11434 ">HELENA</div> 11435 11436<div style=" 11437 margin-left: 3em; 11438 color: #ccccff; 11439 ">Reads Till I have no wife I have nothing in France.</div> 11440 11441<div style=" 11442 margin-left: 3em; 11443 color: #ccccff; 11444 ">'Tis bitter.</div> 11445 11446 11447 11448 11449<div style=" 11450 color: #ff9900; 11451 ">COUNTESS</div> 11452 11453<div style=" 11454 margin-left: 3em; 11455 color: #ccccff; 11456 ">Find you that there?</div> 11457 11458 11459 11460 11461<div style=" 11462 color: #ff9900; 11463 ">HELENA</div> 11464 11465<div style=" 11466 margin-left: 3em; 11467 color: #ccccff; 11468 ">Ay, madam.</div> 11469 11470 11471 11472 11473<div style=" 11474 color: #ff9900; 11475 ">First Gentleman</div> 11476 11477<div style=" 11478 margin-left: 3em; 11479 color: #ccccff; 11480 ">'Tis but the boldness of his hand, haply, which his</div> 11481 11482<div style=" 11483 margin-left: 3em; 11484 color: #ccccff; 11485 ">heart was not consenting to.</div> 11486 11487 11488 11489 11490<div style=" 11491 color: #ff9900; 11492 ">COUNTESS</div> 11493 11494<div style=" 11495 margin-left: 3em; 11496 color: #ccccff; 11497 ">Nothing in France, until he have no wife!</div> 11498 11499<div style=" 11500 margin-left: 3em; 11501 color: #ccccff; 11502 ">There's nothing here that is too good for him</div> 11503 11504<div style=" 11505 margin-left: 3em; 11506 color: #ccccff; 11507 ">But only she; and she deserves a lord</div> 11508 11509<div style=" 11510 margin-left: 3em; 11511 color: #ccccff; 11512 ">That twenty such rude boys might tend upon</div> 11513 11514<div style=" 11515 margin-left: 3em; 11516 color: #ccccff; 11517 ">And call her hourly mistress. Who was with him?</div> 11518 11519 11520 11521 11522<div style=" 11523 color: #ff9900; 11524 ">First Gentleman</div> 11525 11526<div style=" 11527 margin-left: 3em; 11528 color: #ccccff; 11529 ">A servant only, and a gentleman</div> 11530 11531<div style=" 11532 margin-left: 3em; 11533 color: #ccccff; 11534 ">Which I have sometime known.</div> 11535 11536 11537 11538 11539<div style=" 11540 color: #ff9900; 11541 ">COUNTESS</div> 11542 11543<div style=" 11544 margin-left: 3em; 11545 color: #ccccff; 11546 ">Parolles, was it not?</div> 11547 11548 11549 11550 11551<div style=" 11552 color: #ff9900; 11553 ">First Gentleman</div> 11554 11555<div style=" 11556 margin-left: 3em; 11557 color: #ccccff; 11558 ">Ay, my good lady, he.</div> 11559 11560 11561 11562 11563<div style=" 11564 color: #ff9900; 11565 ">COUNTESS</div> 11566 11567<div style=" 11568 margin-left: 3em; 11569 color: #ccccff; 11570 ">A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness.</div> 11571 11572<div style=" 11573 margin-left: 3em; 11574 color: #ccccff; 11575 ">My son corrupts a well-derived nature</div> 11576 11577<div style=" 11578 margin-left: 3em; 11579 color: #ccccff; 11580 ">With his inducement.</div> 11581 11582 11583 11584 11585<div style=" 11586 color: #ff9900; 11587 ">First Gentleman</div> 11588 11589<div style=" 11590 margin-left: 3em; 11591 color: #ccccff; 11592 ">Indeed, good lady,</div> 11593 11594<div style=" 11595 margin-left: 3em; 11596 color: #ccccff; 11597 ">The fellow has a deal of that too much,</div> 11598 11599<div style=" 11600 margin-left: 3em; 11601 color: #ccccff; 11602 ">Which holds him much to have.</div> 11603 11604 11605 11606 11607<div style=" 11608 color: #ff9900; 11609 ">COUNTESS</div> 11610 11611<div style=" 11612 margin-left: 3em; 11613 color: #ccccff; 11614 ">You're welcome, gentlemen.</div> 11615 11616<div style=" 11617 margin-left: 3em; 11618 color: #ccccff; 11619 ">I will entreat you, when you see my son,</div> 11620 11621<div style=" 11622 margin-left: 3em; 11623 color: #ccccff; 11624 ">To tell him that his sword can never win</div> 11625 11626<div style=" 11627 margin-left: 3em; 11628 color: #ccccff; 11629 ">The honour that he loses: more I'll entreat you</div> 11630 11631<div style=" 11632 margin-left: 3em; 11633 color: #ccccff; 11634 ">Written to bear along.</div> 11635 11636 11637 11638 11639<div style=" 11640 color: #ff9900; 11641 ">Second Gentleman</div> 11642 11643<div style=" 11644 margin-left: 3em; 11645 color: #ccccff; 11646 ">We serve you, madam,</div> 11647 11648<div style=" 11649 margin-left: 3em; 11650 color: #ccccff; 11651 ">In that and all your worthiest affairs.</div> 11652 11653 11654 11655 11656<div style=" 11657 color: #ff9900; 11658 ">COUNTESS</div> 11659 11660<div style=" 11661 margin-left: 3em; 11662 color: #ccccff; 11663 ">Not so, but as we change our courtesies.</div> 11664 11665<div style=" 11666 margin-left: 3em; 11667 color: #ccccff; 11668 ">Will you draw near!</div> 11669 11670 11671 11672<div style=" 11673 position: relative; 11674 width: 40%; 11675 left: 50%; 11676 text-align: right; 11677 margin: 0.5em; 11678 padding-right: 1em; 11679 padding-left: 1em; 11680 border-color: #ff9900; 11681 border-width: 1px; 11682 border-bottom-style: solid; 11683 border-top-style: solid; 11684 font-size: 9pt; 11685 color: #9999cc; 11686 ">Exeunt COUNTESS and Gentlemen</div> 11687 11688 11689 11690<div style=" 11691 color: #ff9900; 11692 ">HELENA</div> 11693 11694<div style=" 11695 margin-left: 3em; 11696 color: #ccccff; 11697 ">'Till I have no wife, I have nothing in France.'</div> 11698 11699<div style=" 11700 margin-left: 3em; 11701 color: #ccccff; 11702 ">Nothing in France, until he has no wife!</div> 11703 11704<div style=" 11705 margin-left: 3em; 11706 color: #ccccff; 11707 ">Thou shalt have none, Rousillon, none in France;</div> 11708 11709<div style=" 11710 margin-left: 3em; 11711 color: #ccccff; 11712 ">Then hast thou all again. Poor lord! is't I</div> 11713 11714<div style=" 11715 margin-left: 3em; 11716 color: #ccccff; 11717 ">That chase thee from thy country and expose</div> 11718 11719<div style=" 11720 margin-left: 3em; 11721 color: #ccccff; 11722 ">Those tender limbs of thine to the event</div> 11723 11724<div style=" 11725 margin-left: 3em; 11726 color: #ccccff; 11727 ">Of the none-sparing war? and is it I</div> 11728 11729<div style=" 11730 margin-left: 3em; 11731 color: #ccccff; 11732 ">That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou</div> 11733 11734<div style=" 11735 margin-left: 3em; 11736 color: #ccccff; 11737 ">Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark</div> 11738 11739<div style=" 11740 margin-left: 3em; 11741 color: #ccccff; 11742 ">Of smoky muskets? O you leaden messengers,</div> 11743 11744<div style=" 11745 margin-left: 3em; 11746 color: #ccccff; 11747 ">That ride upon the violent speed of fire,</div> 11748 11749<div style=" 11750 margin-left: 3em; 11751 color: #ccccff; 11752 ">Fly with false aim; move the still-peering air,</div> 11753 11754<div style=" 11755 margin-left: 3em; 11756 color: #ccccff; 11757 ">That sings with piercing; do not touch my lord.</div> 11758 11759<div style=" 11760 margin-left: 3em; 11761 color: #ccccff; 11762 ">Whoever shoots at him, I set him there;</div> 11763 11764<div style=" 11765 margin-left: 3em; 11766 color: #ccccff; 11767 ">Whoever charges on his forward breast,</div> 11768 11769<div style=" 11770 margin-left: 3em; 11771 color: #ccccff; 11772 ">I am the caitiff that do hold him to't;</div> 11773 11774<div style=" 11775 margin-left: 3em; 11776 color: #ccccff; 11777 ">And, though I kill him not, I am the cause</div> 11778 11779<div style=" 11780 margin-left: 3em; 11781 color: #ccccff; 11782 ">His death was so effected: better 'twere</div> 11783 11784<div style=" 11785 margin-left: 3em; 11786 color: #ccccff; 11787 ">I met the ravin lion when he roar'd</div> 11788 11789<div style=" 11790 margin-left: 3em; 11791 color: #ccccff; 11792 ">With sharp constraint of hunger; better 'twere</div> 11793 11794<div style=" 11795 margin-left: 3em; 11796 color: #ccccff; 11797 ">That all the miseries which nature owes</div> 11798 11799<div style=" 11800 margin-left: 3em; 11801 color: #ccccff; 11802 ">Were mine at once. No, come thou home, Rousillon,</div> 11803 11804<div style=" 11805 margin-left: 3em; 11806 color: #ccccff; 11807 ">Whence honour but of danger wins a scar,</div> 11808 11809<div style=" 11810 margin-left: 3em; 11811 color: #ccccff; 11812 ">As oft it loses all: I will be gone;</div> 11813 11814<div style=" 11815 margin-left: 3em; 11816 color: #ccccff; 11817 ">My being here it is that holds thee hence:</div> 11818 11819<div style=" 11820 margin-left: 3em; 11821 color: #ccccff; 11822 ">Shall I stay here to do't? no, no, although</div> 11823 11824<div style=" 11825 margin-left: 3em; 11826 color: #ccccff; 11827 ">The air of paradise did fan the house</div> 11828 11829<div style=" 11830 margin-left: 3em; 11831 color: #ccccff; 11832 ">And angels officed all: I will be gone,</div> 11833 11834<div style=" 11835 margin-left: 3em; 11836 color: #ccccff; 11837 ">That pitiful rumour may report my flight,</div> 11838 11839<div style=" 11840 margin-left: 3em; 11841 color: #ccccff; 11842 ">To consolate thine ear. Come, night; end, day!</div> 11843 11844<div style=" 11845 margin-left: 3em; 11846 color: #ccccff; 11847 ">For with the dark, poor thief, I'll steal away.</div> 11848 11849 11850 11851<div style=" 11852 position: relative; 11853 width: 40%; 11854 left: 50%; 11855 text-align: right; 11856 margin: 0.5em; 11857 padding-right: 1em; 11858 padding-left: 1em; 11859 border-color: #ff9900; 11860 border-width: 1px; 11861 border-bottom-style: solid; 11862 border-top-style: solid; 11863 font-size: 9pt; 11864 color: #9999cc; 11865 ">Exit</div> 11866 11867</div> 11868 11869 11870<div> 11871<div style=" 11872 margin-bottom: 1em; 11873 padding-left: 1em; 11874 border-color: #ff9900; 11875 border-width: 1px; 11876 border-bottom-style: solid; 11877 border-top-style: solid; 11878 background-color: #cc6600; 11879 color: #000000; 11880 ">SCENE III. Florence. Before the DUKE's palace.</div> 11881 11882<div style=" 11883 position: relative; 11884 width: 40%; 11885 left: 50%; 11886 text-align: right; 11887 margin: 0.5em; 11888 padding-right: 1em; 11889 padding-left: 1em; 11890 border-color: #ff9900; 11891 border-width: 1px; 11892 border-bottom-style: solid; 11893 border-top-style: solid; 11894 font-size: 9pt; 11895 color: #9999cc; 11896 ">Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence, BERTRAM, 11897PAROLLES, Soldiers, Drum, and Trumpets</div> 11898 11899 11900 11901<div style=" 11902 color: #ff9900; 11903 ">DUKE</div> 11904 11905<div style=" 11906 margin-left: 3em; 11907 color: #ccccff; 11908 ">The general of our horse thou art; and we,</div> 11909 11910<div style=" 11911 margin-left: 3em; 11912 color: #ccccff; 11913 ">Great in our hope, lay our best love and credence</div> 11914 11915<div style=" 11916 margin-left: 3em; 11917 color: #ccccff; 11918 ">Upon thy promising fortune.</div> 11919 11920 11921 11922 11923<div style=" 11924 color: #ff9900; 11925 ">BERTRAM</div> 11926 11927<div style=" 11928 margin-left: 3em; 11929 color: #ccccff; 11930 ">Sir, it is</div> 11931 11932<div style=" 11933 margin-left: 3em; 11934 color: #ccccff; 11935 ">A charge too heavy for my strength, but yet</div> 11936 11937<div style=" 11938 margin-left: 3em; 11939 color: #ccccff; 11940 ">We'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake</div> 11941 11942<div style=" 11943 margin-left: 3em; 11944 color: #ccccff; 11945 ">To the extreme edge of hazard.</div> 11946 11947 11948 11949 11950<div style=" 11951 color: #ff9900; 11952 ">DUKE</div> 11953 11954<div style=" 11955 margin-left: 3em; 11956 color: #ccccff; 11957 ">Then go thou forth;</div> 11958 11959<div style=" 11960 margin-left: 3em; 11961 color: #ccccff; 11962 ">And fortune play upon thy prosperous helm,</div> 11963 11964<div style=" 11965 margin-left: 3em; 11966 color: #ccccff; 11967 ">As thy auspicious mistress!</div> 11968 11969 11970 11971 11972<div style=" 11973 color: #ff9900; 11974 ">BERTRAM</div> 11975 11976<div style=" 11977 margin-left: 3em; 11978 color: #ccccff; 11979 ">This very day,</div> 11980 11981<div style=" 11982 margin-left: 3em; 11983 color: #ccccff; 11984 ">Great Mars, I put myself into thy file:</div> 11985 11986<div style=" 11987 margin-left: 3em; 11988 color: #ccccff; 11989 ">Make me but like my thoughts, and I shall prove</div> 11990 11991<div style=" 11992 margin-left: 3em; 11993 color: #ccccff; 11994 ">A lover of thy drum, hater of love.</div> 11995 11996 11997 11998<div style=" 11999 position: relative; 12000 width: 40%; 12001 left: 50%; 12002 text-align: right; 12003 margin: 0.5em; 12004 padding-right: 1em; 12005 padding-left: 1em; 12006 border-color: #ff9900; 12007 border-width: 1px; 12008 border-bottom-style: solid; 12009 border-top-style: solid; 12010 font-size: 9pt; 12011 color: #9999cc; 12012 ">Exeunt</div> 12013 12014</div> 12015 12016 12017<div> 12018<div style=" 12019 margin-bottom: 1em; 12020 padding-left: 1em; 12021 border-color: #ff9900; 12022 border-width: 1px; 12023 border-bottom-style: solid; 12024 border-top-style: solid; 12025 background-color: #cc6600; 12026 color: #000000; 12027 ">SCENE IV. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</div> 12028 12029<div style=" 12030 position: relative; 12031 width: 40%; 12032 left: 50%; 12033 text-align: right; 12034 margin: 0.5em; 12035 padding-right: 1em; 12036 padding-left: 1em; 12037 border-color: #ff9900; 12038 border-width: 1px; 12039 border-bottom-style: solid; 12040 border-top-style: solid; 12041 font-size: 9pt; 12042 color: #9999cc; 12043 ">Enter COUNTESS and Steward</div> 12044 12045 12046 12047<div style=" 12048 color: #ff9900; 12049 ">COUNTESS</div> 12050 12051<div style=" 12052 margin-left: 3em; 12053 color: #ccccff; 12054 ">Alas! and would you take the letter of her?</div> 12055 12056<div style=" 12057 margin-left: 3em; 12058 color: #ccccff; 12059 ">Might you not know she would do as she has done,</div> 12060 12061<div style=" 12062 margin-left: 3em; 12063 color: #ccccff; 12064 ">By sending me a letter? Read it again.</div> 12065 12066 12067 12068 12069<div style=" 12070 color: #ff9900; 12071 ">Steward</div> 12072 12073<div style=" 12074 margin-left: 3em; 12075 color: #ccccff; 12076 ">Reads</div> 12077 12078<div style=" 12079 margin-left: 3em; 12080 color: #ccccff; 12081 ">I am Saint Jaques' pilgrim, thither gone:</div> 12082 12083<div style=" 12084 margin-left: 3em; 12085 color: #ccccff; 12086 ">Ambitious love hath so in me offended,</div> 12087 12088<div style=" 12089 margin-left: 3em; 12090 color: #ccccff; 12091 ">That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon,</div> 12092 12093<div style=" 12094 margin-left: 3em; 12095 color: #ccccff; 12096 ">With sainted vow my faults to have amended.</div> 12097 12098<div style=" 12099 margin-left: 3em; 12100 color: #ccccff; 12101 ">Write, write, that from the bloody course of war</div> 12102 12103<div style=" 12104 margin-left: 3em; 12105 color: #ccccff; 12106 ">My dearest master, your dear son, may hie:</div> 12107 12108<div style=" 12109 margin-left: 3em; 12110 color: #ccccff; 12111 ">Bless him at home in peace, whilst I from far</div> 12112 12113<div style=" 12114 margin-left: 3em; 12115 color: #ccccff; 12116 ">His name with zealous fervor sanctify:</div> 12117 12118<div style=" 12119 margin-left: 3em; 12120 color: #ccccff; 12121 ">His taken labours bid him me forgive;</div> 12122 12123<div style=" 12124 margin-left: 3em; 12125 color: #ccccff; 12126 ">I, his despiteful Juno, sent him forth</div> 12127 12128<div style=" 12129 margin-left: 3em; 12130 color: #ccccff; 12131 ">From courtly friends, with camping foes to live,</div> 12132 12133<div style=" 12134 margin-left: 3em; 12135 color: #ccccff; 12136 ">Where death and danger dogs the heels of worth:</div> 12137 12138<div style=" 12139 margin-left: 3em; 12140 color: #ccccff; 12141 ">He is too good and fair for death and me:</div> 12142 12143<div style=" 12144 margin-left: 3em; 12145 color: #ccccff; 12146 ">Whom I myself embrace, to set him free.</div> 12147 12148 12149 12150 12151<div style=" 12152 color: #ff9900; 12153 ">COUNTESS</div> 12154 12155<div style=" 12156 margin-left: 3em; 12157 color: #ccccff; 12158 ">Ah, what sharp stings are in her mildest words!</div> 12159 12160<div style=" 12161 margin-left: 3em; 12162 color: #ccccff; 12163 ">Rinaldo, you did never lack advice so much,</div> 12164 12165<div style=" 12166 margin-left: 3em; 12167 color: #ccccff; 12168 ">As letting her pass so: had I spoke with her,</div> 12169 12170<div style=" 12171 margin-left: 3em; 12172 color: #ccccff; 12173 ">I could have well diverted her intents,</div> 12174 12175<div style=" 12176 margin-left: 3em; 12177 color: #ccccff; 12178 ">Which thus she hath prevented.</div> 12179 12180 12181 12182 12183<div style=" 12184 color: #ff9900; 12185 ">Steward</div> 12186 12187<div style=" 12188 margin-left: 3em; 12189 color: #ccccff; 12190 ">Pardon me, madam:</div> 12191 12192<div style=" 12193 margin-left: 3em; 12194 color: #ccccff; 12195 ">If I had given you this at over-night,</div> 12196 12197<div style=" 12198 margin-left: 3em; 12199 color: #ccccff; 12200 ">She might have been o'erta'en; and yet she writes,</div> 12201 12202<div style=" 12203 margin-left: 3em; 12204 color: #ccccff; 12205 ">Pursuit would be but vain.</div> 12206 12207 12208 12209 12210<div style=" 12211 color: #ff9900; 12212 ">COUNTESS</div> 12213 12214<div style=" 12215 margin-left: 3em; 12216 color: #ccccff; 12217 ">What angel shall</div> 12218 12219<div style=" 12220 margin-left: 3em; 12221 color: #ccccff; 12222 ">Bless this unworthy husband? he cannot thrive,</div> 12223 12224<div style=" 12225 margin-left: 3em; 12226 color: #ccccff; 12227 ">Unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear</div> 12228 12229<div style=" 12230 margin-left: 3em; 12231 color: #ccccff; 12232 ">And loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath</div> 12233 12234<div style=" 12235 margin-left: 3em; 12236 color: #ccccff; 12237 ">Of greatest justice. Write, write, Rinaldo,</div> 12238 12239<div style=" 12240 margin-left: 3em; 12241 color: #ccccff; 12242 ">To this unworthy husband of his wife;</div> 12243 12244<div style=" 12245 margin-left: 3em; 12246 color: #ccccff; 12247 ">Let every word weigh heavy of her worth</div> 12248 12249<div style=" 12250 margin-left: 3em; 12251 color: #ccccff; 12252 ">That he does weigh too light: my greatest grief.</div> 12253 12254<div style=" 12255 margin-left: 3em; 12256 color: #ccccff; 12257 ">Though little he do feel it, set down sharply.</div> 12258 12259<div style=" 12260 margin-left: 3em; 12261 color: #ccccff; 12262 ">Dispatch the most convenient messenger:</div> 12263 12264<div style=" 12265 margin-left: 3em; 12266 color: #ccccff; 12267 ">When haply he shall hear that she is gone,</div> 12268 12269<div style=" 12270 margin-left: 3em; 12271 color: #ccccff; 12272 ">He will return; and hope I may that she,</div> 12273 12274<div style=" 12275 margin-left: 3em; 12276 color: #ccccff; 12277 ">Hearing so much, will speed her foot again,</div> 12278 12279<div style=" 12280 margin-left: 3em; 12281 color: #ccccff; 12282 ">Led hither by pure love: which of them both</div> 12283 12284<div style=" 12285 margin-left: 3em; 12286 color: #ccccff; 12287 ">Is dearest to me. I have no skill in sense</div> 12288 12289<div style=" 12290 margin-left: 3em; 12291 color: #ccccff; 12292 ">To make distinction: provide this messenger:</div> 12293 12294<div style=" 12295 margin-left: 3em; 12296 color: #ccccff; 12297 ">My heart is heavy and mine age is weak;</div> 12298 12299<div style=" 12300 margin-left: 3em; 12301 color: #ccccff; 12302 ">Grief would have tears, and sorrow bids me speak.</div> 12303 12304 12305 12306<div style=" 12307 position: relative; 12308 width: 40%; 12309 left: 50%; 12310 text-align: right; 12311 margin: 0.5em; 12312 padding-right: 1em; 12313 padding-left: 1em; 12314 border-color: #ff9900; 12315 border-width: 1px; 12316 border-bottom-style: solid; 12317 border-top-style: solid; 12318 font-size: 9pt; 12319 color: #9999cc; 12320 ">Exeunt</div> 12321 12322</div> 12323 12324 12325<div> 12326<div style=" 12327 margin-bottom: 1em; 12328 padding-left: 1em; 12329 border-color: #ff9900; 12330 border-width: 1px; 12331 border-bottom-style: solid; 12332 border-top-style: solid; 12333 background-color: #cc6600; 12334 color: #000000; 12335 ">SCENE V. Florence. Without the walls. A tucket afar off.</div> 12336 12337<div style=" 12338 position: relative; 12339 width: 40%; 12340 left: 50%; 12341 text-align: right; 12342 margin: 0.5em; 12343 padding-right: 1em; 12344 padding-left: 1em; 12345 border-color: #ff9900; 12346 border-width: 1px; 12347 border-bottom-style: solid; 12348 border-top-style: solid; 12349 font-size: 9pt; 12350 color: #9999cc; 12351 ">Enter an old Widow of Florence, DIANA, VIOLENTA, 12352and MARIANA, with other Citizens</div> 12353 12354 12355 12356<div style=" 12357 color: #ff9900; 12358 ">Widow</div> 12359 12360<div style=" 12361 margin-left: 3em; 12362 color: #ccccff; 12363 ">Nay, come; for if they do approach the city, we</div> 12364 12365<div style=" 12366 margin-left: 3em; 12367 color: #ccccff; 12368 ">shall lose all the sight.</div> 12369 12370 12371 12372 12373<div style=" 12374 color: #ff9900; 12375 ">DIANA</div> 12376 12377<div style=" 12378 margin-left: 3em; 12379 color: #ccccff; 12380 ">They say the French count has done most honourable service.</div> 12381 12382 12383 12384 12385<div style=" 12386 color: #ff9900; 12387 ">Widow</div> 12388 12389<div style=" 12390 margin-left: 3em; 12391 color: #ccccff; 12392 ">It is reported that he has taken their greatest</div> 12393 12394<div style=" 12395 margin-left: 3em; 12396 color: #ccccff; 12397 ">commander; and that with his own hand he slew the</div> 12398 12399<div style=" 12400 margin-left: 3em; 12401 color: #ccccff; 12402 ">duke's brother.</div> 12403 12404<div style=" 12405 position: relative; 12406 width: 40%; 12407 left: 50%; 12408 text-align: right; 12409 margin: 0.5em; 12410 padding-right: 1em; 12411 padding-left: 1em; 12412 border-color: #ff9900; 12413 border-width: 1px; 12414 border-bottom-style: solid; 12415 border-top-style: solid; 12416 font-size: 9pt; 12417 color: #9999cc; 12418 ">Tucket</div> 12419 12420<div style=" 12421 margin-left: 3em; 12422 color: #ccccff; 12423 ">We have lost our labour; they are gone a contrary</div> 12424 12425<div style=" 12426 margin-left: 3em; 12427 color: #ccccff; 12428 ">way: hark! you may know by their trumpets.</div> 12429 12430 12431 12432 12433<div style=" 12434 color: #ff9900; 12435 ">MARIANA</div> 12436 12437<div style=" 12438 margin-left: 3em; 12439 color: #ccccff; 12440 ">Come, let's return again, and suffice ourselves with</div> 12441 12442<div style=" 12443 margin-left: 3em; 12444 color: #ccccff; 12445 ">the report of it. Well, Diana, take heed of this</div> 12446 12447<div style=" 12448 margin-left: 3em; 12449 color: #ccccff; 12450 ">French earl: the honour of a maid is her name; and</div> 12451 12452<div style=" 12453 margin-left: 3em; 12454 color: #ccccff; 12455 ">no legacy is so rich as honesty.</div> 12456 12457 12458 12459 12460<div style=" 12461 color: #ff9900; 12462 ">Widow</div> 12463 12464<div style=" 12465 margin-left: 3em; 12466 color: #ccccff; 12467 ">I have told my neighbour how you have been solicited</div> 12468 12469<div style=" 12470 margin-left: 3em; 12471 color: #ccccff; 12472 ">by a gentleman his companion.</div> 12473 12474 12475 12476 12477<div style=" 12478 color: #ff9900; 12479 ">MARIANA</div> 12480 12481<div style=" 12482 margin-left: 3em; 12483 color: #ccccff; 12484 ">I know that knave; hang him! one Parolles: a</div> 12485 12486<div style=" 12487 margin-left: 3em; 12488 color: #ccccff; 12489 ">filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the</div> 12490 12491<div style=" 12492 margin-left: 3em; 12493 color: #ccccff; 12494 ">young earl. Beware of them, Diana; their promises,</div> 12495 12496<div style=" 12497 margin-left: 3em; 12498 color: #ccccff; 12499 ">enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of</div> 12500 12501<div style=" 12502 margin-left: 3em; 12503 color: #ccccff; 12504 ">lust, are not the things they go under: many a maid</div> 12505 12506<div style=" 12507 margin-left: 3em; 12508 color: #ccccff; 12509 ">hath been seduced by them; and the misery is,</div> 12510 12511<div style=" 12512 margin-left: 3em; 12513 color: #ccccff; 12514 ">example, that so terrible shows in the wreck of</div> 12515 12516<div style=" 12517 margin-left: 3em; 12518 color: #ccccff; 12519 ">maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade succession,</div> 12520 12521<div style=" 12522 margin-left: 3em; 12523 color: #ccccff; 12524 ">but that they are limed with the twigs that threaten</div> 12525 12526<div style=" 12527 margin-left: 3em; 12528 color: #ccccff; 12529 ">them. I hope I need not to advise you further; but</div> 12530 12531<div style=" 12532 margin-left: 3em; 12533 color: #ccccff; 12534 ">I hope your own grace will keep you where you are,</div> 12535 12536<div style=" 12537 margin-left: 3em; 12538 color: #ccccff; 12539 ">though there were no further danger known but the</div> 12540 12541<div style=" 12542 margin-left: 3em; 12543 color: #ccccff; 12544 ">modesty which is so lost.</div> 12545 12546 12547 12548 12549<div style=" 12550 color: #ff9900; 12551 ">DIANA</div> 12552 12553<div style=" 12554 margin-left: 3em; 12555 color: #ccccff; 12556 ">You shall not need to fear me.</div> 12557 12558 12559 12560 12561<div style=" 12562 color: #ff9900; 12563 ">Widow</div> 12564 12565<div style=" 12566 margin-left: 3em; 12567 color: #ccccff; 12568 ">I hope so.</div> 12569 12570<div style=" 12571 position: relative; 12572 width: 40%; 12573 left: 50%; 12574 text-align: right; 12575 margin: 0.5em; 12576 padding-right: 1em; 12577 padding-left: 1em; 12578 border-color: #ff9900; 12579 border-width: 1px; 12580 border-bottom-style: solid; 12581 border-top-style: solid; 12582 font-size: 9pt; 12583 color: #9999cc; 12584 ">Enter HELENA, disguised like a Pilgrim</div> 12585 12586<div style=" 12587 margin-left: 3em; 12588 color: #ccccff; 12589 ">Look, here comes a pilgrim: I know she will lie at</div> 12590 12591<div style=" 12592 margin-left: 3em; 12593 color: #ccccff; 12594 ">my house; thither they send one another: I'll</div> 12595 12596<div style=" 12597 margin-left: 3em; 12598 color: #ccccff; 12599 ">question her. God save you, pilgrim! whither are you bound?</div> 12600 12601 12602 12603 12604<div style=" 12605 color: #ff9900; 12606 ">HELENA</div> 12607 12608<div style=" 12609 margin-left: 3em; 12610 color: #ccccff; 12611 ">To Saint Jaques le Grand.</div> 12612 12613<div style=" 12614 margin-left: 3em; 12615 color: #ccccff; 12616 ">Where do the palmers lodge, I do beseech you?</div> 12617 12618 12619 12620 12621<div style=" 12622 color: #ff9900; 12623 ">Widow</div> 12624 12625<div style=" 12626 margin-left: 3em; 12627 color: #ccccff; 12628 ">At the Saint Francis here beside the port.</div> 12629 12630 12631 12632 12633<div style=" 12634 color: #ff9900; 12635 ">HELENA</div> 12636 12637<div style=" 12638 margin-left: 3em; 12639 color: #ccccff; 12640 ">Is this the way?</div> 12641 12642 12643 12644 12645<div style=" 12646 color: #ff9900; 12647 ">Widow</div> 12648 12649<div style=" 12650 margin-left: 3em; 12651 color: #ccccff; 12652 ">Ay, marry, is't.</div> 12653 12654<div style=" 12655 position: relative; 12656 width: 40%; 12657 left: 50%; 12658 text-align: right; 12659 margin: 0.5em; 12660 padding-right: 1em; 12661 padding-left: 1em; 12662 border-color: #ff9900; 12663 border-width: 1px; 12664 border-bottom-style: solid; 12665 border-top-style: solid; 12666 font-size: 9pt; 12667 color: #9999cc; 12668 ">A march afar</div> 12669 12670<div style=" 12671 margin-left: 3em; 12672 color: #ccccff; 12673 ">Hark you! they come this way.</div> 12674 12675<div style=" 12676 margin-left: 3em; 12677 color: #ccccff; 12678 ">If you will tarry, holy pilgrim,</div> 12679 12680<div style=" 12681 margin-left: 3em; 12682 color: #ccccff; 12683 ">But till the troops come by,</div> 12684 12685<div style=" 12686 margin-left: 3em; 12687 color: #ccccff; 12688 ">I will conduct you where you shall be lodged;</div> 12689 12690<div style=" 12691 margin-left: 3em; 12692 color: #ccccff; 12693 ">The rather, for I think I know your hostess</div> 12694 12695<div style=" 12696 margin-left: 3em; 12697 color: #ccccff; 12698 ">As ample as myself.</div> 12699 12700 12701 12702 12703<div style=" 12704 color: #ff9900; 12705 ">HELENA</div> 12706 12707<div style=" 12708 margin-left: 3em; 12709 color: #ccccff; 12710 ">Is it yourself?</div> 12711 12712 12713 12714 12715<div style=" 12716 color: #ff9900; 12717 ">Widow</div> 12718 12719<div style=" 12720 margin-left: 3em; 12721 color: #ccccff; 12722 ">If you shall please so, pilgrim.</div> 12723 12724 12725 12726 12727<div style=" 12728 color: #ff9900; 12729 ">HELENA</div> 12730 12731<div style=" 12732 margin-left: 3em; 12733 color: #ccccff; 12734 ">I thank you, and will stay upon your leisure.</div> 12735 12736 12737 12738 12739<div style=" 12740 color: #ff9900; 12741 ">Widow</div> 12742 12743<div style=" 12744 margin-left: 3em; 12745 color: #ccccff; 12746 ">You came, I think, from France?</div> 12747 12748 12749 12750 12751<div style=" 12752 color: #ff9900; 12753 ">HELENA</div> 12754 12755<div style=" 12756 margin-left: 3em; 12757 color: #ccccff; 12758 ">I did so.</div> 12759 12760 12761 12762 12763<div style=" 12764 color: #ff9900; 12765 ">Widow</div> 12766 12767<div style=" 12768 margin-left: 3em; 12769 color: #ccccff; 12770 ">Here you shall see a countryman of yours</div> 12771 12772<div style=" 12773 margin-left: 3em; 12774 color: #ccccff; 12775 ">That has done worthy service.</div> 12776 12777 12778 12779 12780<div style=" 12781 color: #ff9900; 12782 ">HELENA</div> 12783 12784<div style=" 12785 margin-left: 3em; 12786 color: #ccccff; 12787 ">His name, I pray you.</div> 12788 12789 12790 12791 12792<div style=" 12793 color: #ff9900; 12794 ">DIANA</div> 12795 12796<div style=" 12797 margin-left: 3em; 12798 color: #ccccff; 12799 ">The Count Rousillon: know you such a one?</div> 12800 12801 12802 12803 12804<div style=" 12805 color: #ff9900; 12806 ">HELENA</div> 12807 12808<div style=" 12809 margin-left: 3em; 12810 color: #ccccff; 12811 ">But by the ear, that hears most nobly of him:</div> 12812 12813<div style=" 12814 margin-left: 3em; 12815 color: #ccccff; 12816 ">His face I know not.</div> 12817 12818 12819 12820 12821<div style=" 12822 color: #ff9900; 12823 ">DIANA</div> 12824 12825<div style=" 12826 margin-left: 3em; 12827 color: #ccccff; 12828 ">Whatsome'er he is,</div> 12829 12830<div style=" 12831 margin-left: 3em; 12832 color: #ccccff; 12833 ">He's bravely taken here. He stole from France,</div> 12834 12835<div style=" 12836 margin-left: 3em; 12837 color: #ccccff; 12838 ">As 'tis reported, for the king had married him</div> 12839 12840<div style=" 12841 margin-left: 3em; 12842 color: #ccccff; 12843 ">Against his liking: think you it is so?</div> 12844 12845 12846 12847 12848<div style=" 12849 color: #ff9900; 12850 ">HELENA</div> 12851 12852<div style=" 12853 margin-left: 3em; 12854 color: #ccccff; 12855 ">Ay, surely, mere the truth: I know his lady.</div> 12856 12857 12858 12859 12860<div style=" 12861 color: #ff9900; 12862 ">DIANA</div> 12863 12864<div style=" 12865 margin-left: 3em; 12866 color: #ccccff; 12867 ">There is a gentleman that serves the count</div> 12868 12869<div style=" 12870 margin-left: 3em; 12871 color: #ccccff; 12872 ">Reports but coarsely of her.</div> 12873 12874 12875 12876 12877<div style=" 12878 color: #ff9900; 12879 ">HELENA</div> 12880 12881<div style=" 12882 margin-left: 3em; 12883 color: #ccccff; 12884 ">What's his name?</div> 12885 12886 12887 12888 12889<div style=" 12890 color: #ff9900; 12891 ">DIANA</div> 12892 12893<div style=" 12894 margin-left: 3em; 12895 color: #ccccff; 12896 ">Monsieur Parolles.</div> 12897 12898 12899 12900 12901<div style=" 12902 color: #ff9900; 12903 ">HELENA</div> 12904 12905<div style=" 12906 margin-left: 3em; 12907 color: #ccccff; 12908 ">O, I believe with him,</div> 12909 12910<div style=" 12911 margin-left: 3em; 12912 color: #ccccff; 12913 ">In argument of praise, or to the worth</div> 12914 12915<div style=" 12916 margin-left: 3em; 12917 color: #ccccff; 12918 ">Of the great count himself, she is too mean</div> 12919 12920<div style=" 12921 margin-left: 3em; 12922 color: #ccccff; 12923 ">To have her name repeated: all her deserving</div> 12924 12925<div style=" 12926 margin-left: 3em; 12927 color: #ccccff; 12928 ">Is a reserved honesty, and that</div> 12929 12930<div style=" 12931 margin-left: 3em; 12932 color: #ccccff; 12933 ">I have not heard examined.</div> 12934 12935 12936 12937 12938<div style=" 12939 color: #ff9900; 12940 ">DIANA</div> 12941 12942<div style=" 12943 margin-left: 3em; 12944 color: #ccccff; 12945 ">Alas, poor lady!</div> 12946 12947<div style=" 12948 margin-left: 3em; 12949 color: #ccccff; 12950 ">'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife</div> 12951 12952<div style=" 12953 margin-left: 3em; 12954 color: #ccccff; 12955 ">Of a detesting lord.</div> 12956 12957 12958 12959 12960<div style=" 12961 color: #ff9900; 12962 ">Widow</div> 12963 12964<div style=" 12965 margin-left: 3em; 12966 color: #ccccff; 12967 ">I warrant, good creature, wheresoe'er she is,</div> 12968 12969<div style=" 12970 margin-left: 3em; 12971 color: #ccccff; 12972 ">Her heart weighs sadly: this young maid might do her</div> 12973 12974<div style=" 12975 margin-left: 3em; 12976 color: #ccccff; 12977 ">A shrewd turn, if she pleased.</div> 12978 12979 12980 12981 12982<div style=" 12983 color: #ff9900; 12984 ">HELENA</div> 12985 12986<div style=" 12987 margin-left: 3em; 12988 color: #ccccff; 12989 ">How do you mean?</div> 12990 12991<div style=" 12992 margin-left: 3em; 12993 color: #ccccff; 12994 ">May be the amorous count solicits her</div> 12995 12996<div style=" 12997 margin-left: 3em; 12998 color: #ccccff; 12999 ">In the unlawful purpose.</div> 13000 13001 13002 13003 13004<div style=" 13005 color: #ff9900; 13006 ">Widow</div> 13007 13008<div style=" 13009 margin-left: 3em; 13010 color: #ccccff; 13011 ">He does indeed;</div> 13012 13013<div style=" 13014 margin-left: 3em; 13015 color: #ccccff; 13016 ">And brokes with all that can in such a suit</div> 13017 13018<div style=" 13019 margin-left: 3em; 13020 color: #ccccff; 13021 ">Corrupt the tender honour of a maid:</div> 13022 13023<div style=" 13024 margin-left: 3em; 13025 color: #ccccff; 13026 ">But she is arm'd for him and keeps her guard</div> 13027 13028<div style=" 13029 margin-left: 3em; 13030 color: #ccccff; 13031 ">In honestest defence.</div> 13032 13033 13034 13035 13036<div style=" 13037 color: #ff9900; 13038 ">MARIANA</div> 13039 13040<div style=" 13041 margin-left: 3em; 13042 color: #ccccff; 13043 ">The gods forbid else!</div> 13044 13045 13046 13047 13048<div style=" 13049 color: #ff9900; 13050 ">Widow</div> 13051 13052<div style=" 13053 margin-left: 3em; 13054 color: #ccccff; 13055 ">So, now they come:</div> 13056 13057<div style=" 13058 position: relative; 13059 width: 40%; 13060 left: 50%; 13061 text-align: right; 13062 margin: 0.5em; 13063 padding-right: 1em; 13064 padding-left: 1em; 13065 border-color: #ff9900; 13066 border-width: 1px; 13067 border-bottom-style: solid; 13068 border-top-style: solid; 13069 font-size: 9pt; 13070 color: #9999cc; 13071 ">Drum and Colours</div> 13072 13073<div style=" 13074 position: relative; 13075 width: 40%; 13076 left: 50%; 13077 text-align: right; 13078 margin: 0.5em; 13079 padding-right: 1em; 13080 padding-left: 1em; 13081 border-color: #ff9900; 13082 border-width: 1px; 13083 border-bottom-style: solid; 13084 border-top-style: solid; 13085 font-size: 9pt; 13086 color: #9999cc; 13087 ">Enter BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and the whole army</div> 13088 13089<div style=" 13090 margin-left: 3em; 13091 color: #ccccff; 13092 ">That is Antonio, the duke's eldest son;</div> 13093 13094<div style=" 13095 margin-left: 3em; 13096 color: #ccccff; 13097 ">That, Escalus.</div> 13098 13099 13100 13101 13102<div style=" 13103 color: #ff9900; 13104 ">HELENA</div> 13105 13106<div style=" 13107 margin-left: 3em; 13108 color: #ccccff; 13109 ">Which is the Frenchman?</div> 13110 13111 13112 13113 13114<div style=" 13115 color: #ff9900; 13116 ">DIANA</div> 13117 13118<div style=" 13119 margin-left: 3em; 13120 color: #ccccff; 13121 ">He;</div> 13122 13123<div style=" 13124 margin-left: 3em; 13125 color: #ccccff; 13126 ">That with the plume: 'tis a most gallant fellow.</div> 13127 13128<div style=" 13129 margin-left: 3em; 13130 color: #ccccff; 13131 ">I would he loved his wife: if he were honester</div> 13132 13133<div style=" 13134 margin-left: 3em; 13135 color: #ccccff; 13136 ">He were much goodlier: is't not a handsome gentleman?</div> 13137 13138 13139 13140 13141<div style=" 13142 color: #ff9900; 13143 ">HELENA</div> 13144 13145<div style=" 13146 margin-left: 3em; 13147 color: #ccccff; 13148 ">I like him well.</div> 13149 13150 13151 13152 13153<div style=" 13154 color: #ff9900; 13155 ">DIANA</div> 13156 13157<div style=" 13158 margin-left: 3em; 13159 color: #ccccff; 13160 ">'Tis pity he is not honest: yond's that same knave</div> 13161 13162<div style=" 13163 margin-left: 3em; 13164 color: #ccccff; 13165 ">That leads him to these places: were I his lady,</div> 13166 13167<div style=" 13168 margin-left: 3em; 13169 color: #ccccff; 13170 ">I would Poison that vile rascal.</div> 13171 13172 13173 13174 13175<div style=" 13176 color: #ff9900; 13177 ">HELENA</div> 13178 13179<div style=" 13180 margin-left: 3em; 13181 color: #ccccff; 13182 ">Which is he?</div> 13183 13184 13185 13186 13187<div style=" 13188 color: #ff9900; 13189 ">DIANA</div> 13190 13191<div style=" 13192 margin-left: 3em; 13193 color: #ccccff; 13194 ">That jack-an-apes with scarfs: why is he melancholy?</div> 13195 13196 13197 13198 13199<div style=" 13200 color: #ff9900; 13201 ">HELENA</div> 13202 13203<div style=" 13204 margin-left: 3em; 13205 color: #ccccff; 13206 ">Perchance he's hurt i' the battle.</div> 13207 13208 13209 13210 13211<div style=" 13212 color: #ff9900; 13213 ">PAROLLES</div> 13214 13215<div style=" 13216 margin-left: 3em; 13217 color: #ccccff; 13218 ">Lose our drum! well.</div> 13219 13220 13221 13222 13223<div style=" 13224 color: #ff9900; 13225 ">MARIANA</div> 13226 13227<div style=" 13228 margin-left: 3em; 13229 color: #ccccff; 13230 ">He's shrewdly vexed at something: look, he has spied us.</div> 13231 13232 13233 13234 13235<div style=" 13236 color: #ff9900; 13237 ">Widow</div> 13238 13239<div style=" 13240 margin-left: 3em; 13241 color: #ccccff; 13242 ">Marry, hang you!</div> 13243 13244 13245 13246 13247<div style=" 13248 color: #ff9900; 13249 ">MARIANA</div> 13250 13251<div style=" 13252 margin-left: 3em; 13253 color: #ccccff; 13254 ">And your courtesy, for a ring-carrier!</div> 13255 13256 13257 13258<div style=" 13259 position: relative; 13260 width: 40%; 13261 left: 50%; 13262 text-align: right; 13263 margin: 0.5em; 13264 padding-right: 1em; 13265 padding-left: 1em; 13266 border-color: #ff9900; 13267 border-width: 1px; 13268 border-bottom-style: solid; 13269 border-top-style: solid; 13270 font-size: 9pt; 13271 color: #9999cc; 13272 ">Exeunt BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and army</div> 13273 13274 13275 13276<div style=" 13277 color: #ff9900; 13278 ">Widow</div> 13279 13280<div style=" 13281 margin-left: 3em; 13282 color: #ccccff; 13283 ">The troop is past. Come, pilgrim, I will bring you</div> 13284 13285<div style=" 13286 margin-left: 3em; 13287 color: #ccccff; 13288 ">Where you shall host: of enjoin'd penitents</div> 13289 13290<div style=" 13291 margin-left: 3em; 13292 color: #ccccff; 13293 ">There's four or five, to great Saint Jaques bound,</div> 13294 13295<div style=" 13296 margin-left: 3em; 13297 color: #ccccff; 13298 ">Already at my house.</div> 13299 13300 13301 13302 13303<div style=" 13304 color: #ff9900; 13305 ">HELENA</div> 13306 13307<div style=" 13308 margin-left: 3em; 13309 color: #ccccff; 13310 ">I humbly thank you:</div> 13311 13312<div style=" 13313 margin-left: 3em; 13314 color: #ccccff; 13315 ">Please it this matron and this gentle maid</div> 13316 13317<div style=" 13318 margin-left: 3em; 13319 color: #ccccff; 13320 ">To eat with us to-night, the charge and thanking</div> 13321 13322<div style=" 13323 margin-left: 3em; 13324 color: #ccccff; 13325 ">Shall be for me; and, to requite you further,</div> 13326 13327<div style=" 13328 margin-left: 3em; 13329 color: #ccccff; 13330 ">I will bestow some precepts of this virgin</div> 13331 13332<div style=" 13333 margin-left: 3em; 13334 color: #ccccff; 13335 ">Worthy the note.</div> 13336 13337 13338 13339 13340<div style=" 13341 color: #ff9900; 13342 ">BOTH</div> 13343 13344<div style=" 13345 margin-left: 3em; 13346 color: #ccccff; 13347 ">We'll take your offer kindly.</div> 13348 13349 13350 13351<div style=" 13352 position: relative; 13353 width: 40%; 13354 left: 50%; 13355 text-align: right; 13356 margin: 0.5em; 13357 padding-right: 1em; 13358 padding-left: 1em; 13359 border-color: #ff9900; 13360 border-width: 1px; 13361 border-bottom-style: solid; 13362 border-top-style: solid; 13363 font-size: 9pt; 13364 color: #9999cc; 13365 ">Exeunt</div> 13366 13367</div> 13368 13369 13370<div> 13371<div style=" 13372 margin-bottom: 1em; 13373 padding-left: 1em; 13374 border-color: #ff9900; 13375 border-width: 1px; 13376 border-bottom-style: solid; 13377 border-top-style: solid; 13378 background-color: #cc6600; 13379 color: #000000; 13380 ">SCENE VI. Camp before Florence.</div> 13381 13382<div style=" 13383 position: relative; 13384 width: 40%; 13385 left: 50%; 13386 text-align: right; 13387 margin: 0.5em; 13388 padding-right: 1em; 13389 padding-left: 1em; 13390 border-color: #ff9900; 13391 border-width: 1px; 13392 border-bottom-style: solid; 13393 border-top-style: solid; 13394 font-size: 9pt; 13395 color: #9999cc; 13396 ">Enter BERTRAM and the two French Lords</div> 13397 13398 13399 13400<div style=" 13401 color: #ff9900; 13402 ">Second Lord</div> 13403 13404<div style=" 13405 margin-left: 3em; 13406 color: #ccccff; 13407 ">Nay, good my lord, put him to't; let him have his</div> 13408 13409<div style=" 13410 margin-left: 3em; 13411 color: #ccccff; 13412 ">way.</div> 13413 13414 13415 13416 13417<div style=" 13418 color: #ff9900; 13419 ">First Lord</div> 13420 13421<div style=" 13422 margin-left: 3em; 13423 color: #ccccff; 13424 ">If your lordship find him not a hilding, hold me no</div> 13425 13426<div style=" 13427 margin-left: 3em; 13428 color: #ccccff; 13429 ">more in your respect.</div> 13430 13431 13432 13433 13434<div style=" 13435 color: #ff9900; 13436 ">Second Lord</div> 13437 13438<div style=" 13439 margin-left: 3em; 13440 color: #ccccff; 13441 ">On my life, my lord, a bubble.</div> 13442 13443 13444 13445 13446<div style=" 13447 color: #ff9900; 13448 ">BERTRAM</div> 13449 13450<div style=" 13451 margin-left: 3em; 13452 color: #ccccff; 13453 ">Do you think I am so far deceived in him?</div> 13454 13455 13456 13457 13458<div style=" 13459 color: #ff9900; 13460 ">Second Lord</div> 13461 13462<div style=" 13463 margin-left: 3em; 13464 color: #ccccff; 13465 ">Believe it, my lord, in mine own direct knowledge,</div> 13466 13467<div style=" 13468 margin-left: 3em; 13469 color: #ccccff; 13470 ">without any malice, but to speak of him as my</div> 13471 13472<div style=" 13473 margin-left: 3em; 13474 color: #ccccff; 13475 ">kinsman, he's a most notable coward, an infinite and</div> 13476 13477<div style=" 13478 margin-left: 3em; 13479 color: #ccccff; 13480 ">endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner</div> 13481 13482<div style=" 13483 margin-left: 3em; 13484 color: #ccccff; 13485 ">of no one good quality worthy your lordship's</div> 13486 13487<div style=" 13488 margin-left: 3em; 13489 color: #ccccff; 13490 ">entertainment.</div> 13491 13492 13493 13494 13495<div style=" 13496 color: #ff9900; 13497 ">First Lord</div> 13498 13499<div style=" 13500 margin-left: 3em; 13501 color: #ccccff; 13502 ">It were fit you knew him; lest, reposing too far in</div> 13503 13504<div style=" 13505 margin-left: 3em; 13506 color: #ccccff; 13507 ">his virtue, which he hath not, he might at some</div> 13508 13509<div style=" 13510 margin-left: 3em; 13511 color: #ccccff; 13512 ">great and trusty business in a main danger fail you.</div> 13513 13514 13515 13516 13517<div style=" 13518 color: #ff9900; 13519 ">BERTRAM</div> 13520 13521<div style=" 13522 margin-left: 3em; 13523 color: #ccccff; 13524 ">I would I knew in what particular action to try him.</div> 13525 13526 13527 13528 13529<div style=" 13530 color: #ff9900; 13531 ">First Lord</div> 13532 13533<div style=" 13534 margin-left: 3em; 13535 color: #ccccff; 13536 ">None better than to let him fetch off his drum,</div> 13537 13538<div style=" 13539 margin-left: 3em; 13540 color: #ccccff; 13541 ">which you hear him so confidently undertake to do.</div> 13542 13543 13544 13545 13546<div style=" 13547 color: #ff9900; 13548 ">Second Lord</div> 13549 13550<div style=" 13551 margin-left: 3em; 13552 color: #ccccff; 13553 ">I, with a troop of Florentines, will suddenly</div> 13554 13555<div style=" 13556 margin-left: 3em; 13557 color: #ccccff; 13558 ">surprise him; such I will have, whom I am sure he</div> 13559 13560<div style=" 13561 margin-left: 3em; 13562 color: #ccccff; 13563 ">knows not from the enemy: we will bind and hoodwink</div> 13564 13565<div style=" 13566 margin-left: 3em; 13567 color: #ccccff; 13568 ">him so, that he shall suppose no other but that he</div> 13569 13570<div style=" 13571 margin-left: 3em; 13572 color: #ccccff; 13573 ">is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries, when</div> 13574 13575<div style=" 13576 margin-left: 3em; 13577 color: #ccccff; 13578 ">we bring him to our own tents. Be but your lordship</div> 13579 13580<div style=" 13581 margin-left: 3em; 13582 color: #ccccff; 13583 ">present at his examination: if he do not, for the</div> 13584 13585<div style=" 13586 margin-left: 3em; 13587 color: #ccccff; 13588 ">promise of his life and in the highest compulsion of</div> 13589 13590<div style=" 13591 margin-left: 3em; 13592 color: #ccccff; 13593 ">base fear, offer to betray you and deliver all the</div> 13594 13595<div style=" 13596 margin-left: 3em; 13597 color: #ccccff; 13598 ">intelligence in his power against you, and that with</div> 13599 13600<div style=" 13601 margin-left: 3em; 13602 color: #ccccff; 13603 ">the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath, never</div> 13604 13605<div style=" 13606 margin-left: 3em; 13607 color: #ccccff; 13608 ">trust my judgment in any thing.</div> 13609 13610 13611 13612 13613<div style=" 13614 color: #ff9900; 13615 ">First Lord</div> 13616 13617<div style=" 13618 margin-left: 3em; 13619 color: #ccccff; 13620 ">O, for the love of laughter, let him fetch his drum;</div> 13621 13622<div style=" 13623 margin-left: 3em; 13624 color: #ccccff; 13625 ">he says he has a stratagem for't: when your</div> 13626 13627<div style=" 13628 margin-left: 3em; 13629 color: #ccccff; 13630 ">lordship sees the bottom of his success in't, and to</div> 13631 13632<div style=" 13633 margin-left: 3em; 13634 color: #ccccff; 13635 ">what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be</div> 13636 13637<div style=" 13638 margin-left: 3em; 13639 color: #ccccff; 13640 ">melted, if you give him not John Drum's</div> 13641 13642<div style=" 13643 margin-left: 3em; 13644 color: #ccccff; 13645 ">entertainment, your inclining cannot be removed.</div> 13646 13647<div style=" 13648 margin-left: 3em; 13649 color: #ccccff; 13650 ">Here he comes.</div> 13651 13652 13653 13654<div style=" 13655 position: relative; 13656 width: 40%; 13657 left: 50%; 13658 text-align: right; 13659 margin: 0.5em; 13660 padding-right: 1em; 13661 padding-left: 1em; 13662 border-color: #ff9900; 13663 border-width: 1px; 13664 border-bottom-style: solid; 13665 border-top-style: solid; 13666 font-size: 9pt; 13667 color: #9999cc; 13668 ">Enter PAROLLES</div> 13669 13670 13671 13672<div style=" 13673 color: #ff9900; 13674 ">Second Lord</div> 13675 13676<div style=" 13677 margin-left: 3em; 13678 color: #ccccff; 13679 ">Aside to BERTRAM O, for the love of laughter,</div> 13680 13681<div style=" 13682 margin-left: 3em; 13683 color: #ccccff; 13684 ">hinder not the honour of his design: let him fetch</div> 13685 13686<div style=" 13687 margin-left: 3em; 13688 color: #ccccff; 13689 ">off his drum in any hand.</div> 13690 13691 13692 13693 13694<div style=" 13695 color: #ff9900; 13696 ">BERTRAM</div> 13697 13698<div style=" 13699 margin-left: 3em; 13700 color: #ccccff; 13701 ">How now, monsieur! this drum sticks sorely in your</div> 13702 13703<div style=" 13704 margin-left: 3em; 13705 color: #ccccff; 13706 ">disposition.</div> 13707 13708 13709 13710 13711<div style=" 13712 color: #ff9900; 13713 ">First Lord</div> 13714 13715<div style=" 13716 margin-left: 3em; 13717 color: #ccccff; 13718 ">A pox on't, let it go; 'tis but a drum.</div> 13719 13720 13721 13722 13723<div style=" 13724 color: #ff9900; 13725 ">PAROLLES</div> 13726 13727<div style=" 13728 margin-left: 3em; 13729 color: #ccccff; 13730 ">'But a drum'! is't 'but a drum'? A drum so lost!</div> 13731 13732<div style=" 13733 margin-left: 3em; 13734 color: #ccccff; 13735 ">There was excellent command,--to charge in with our</div> 13736 13737<div style=" 13738 margin-left: 3em; 13739 color: #ccccff; 13740 ">horse upon our own wings, and to rend our own soldiers!</div> 13741 13742 13743 13744 13745<div style=" 13746 color: #ff9900; 13747 ">First Lord</div> 13748 13749<div style=" 13750 margin-left: 3em; 13751 color: #ccccff; 13752 ">That was not to be blamed in the command of the</div> 13753 13754<div style=" 13755 margin-left: 3em; 13756 color: #ccccff; 13757 ">service: it was a disaster of war that Caesar</div> 13758 13759<div style=" 13760 margin-left: 3em; 13761 color: #ccccff; 13762 ">himself could not have prevented, if he had been</div> 13763 13764<div style=" 13765 margin-left: 3em; 13766 color: #ccccff; 13767 ">there to command.</div> 13768 13769 13770 13771 13772<div style=" 13773 color: #ff9900; 13774 ">BERTRAM</div> 13775 13776<div style=" 13777 margin-left: 3em; 13778 color: #ccccff; 13779 ">Well, we cannot greatly condemn our success: some</div> 13780 13781<div style=" 13782 margin-left: 3em; 13783 color: #ccccff; 13784 ">dishonour we had in the loss of that drum; but it is</div> 13785 13786<div style=" 13787 margin-left: 3em; 13788 color: #ccccff; 13789 ">not to be recovered.</div> 13790 13791 13792 13793 13794<div style=" 13795 color: #ff9900; 13796 ">PAROLLES</div> 13797 13798<div style=" 13799 margin-left: 3em; 13800 color: #ccccff; 13801 ">It might have been recovered.</div> 13802 13803 13804 13805 13806<div style=" 13807 color: #ff9900; 13808 ">BERTRAM</div> 13809 13810<div style=" 13811 margin-left: 3em; 13812 color: #ccccff; 13813 ">It might; but it is not now.</div> 13814 13815 13816 13817 13818<div style=" 13819 color: #ff9900; 13820 ">PAROLLES</div> 13821 13822<div style=" 13823 margin-left: 3em; 13824 color: #ccccff; 13825 ">It is to be recovered: but that the merit of</div> 13826 13827<div style=" 13828 margin-left: 3em; 13829 color: #ccccff; 13830 ">service is seldom attributed to the true and exact</div> 13831 13832<div style=" 13833 margin-left: 3em; 13834 color: #ccccff; 13835 ">performer, I would have that drum or another, or</div> 13836 13837<div style=" 13838 margin-left: 3em; 13839 color: #ccccff; 13840 ">'hic jacet.'</div> 13841 13842 13843 13844 13845<div style=" 13846 color: #ff9900; 13847 ">BERTRAM</div> 13848 13849<div style=" 13850 margin-left: 3em; 13851 color: #ccccff; 13852 ">Why, if you have a stomach, to't, monsieur: if you</div> 13853 13854<div style=" 13855 margin-left: 3em; 13856 color: #ccccff; 13857 ">think your mystery in stratagem can bring this</div> 13858 13859<div style=" 13860 margin-left: 3em; 13861 color: #ccccff; 13862 ">instrument of honour again into his native quarter,</div> 13863 13864<div style=" 13865 margin-left: 3em; 13866 color: #ccccff; 13867 ">be magnanimous in the enterprise and go on; I will</div> 13868 13869<div style=" 13870 margin-left: 3em; 13871 color: #ccccff; 13872 ">grace the attempt for a worthy exploit: if you</div> 13873 13874<div style=" 13875 margin-left: 3em; 13876 color: #ccccff; 13877 ">speed well in it, the duke shall both speak of it.</div> 13878 13879<div style=" 13880 margin-left: 3em; 13881 color: #ccccff; 13882 ">and extend to you what further becomes his</div> 13883 13884<div style=" 13885 margin-left: 3em; 13886 color: #ccccff; 13887 ">greatness, even to the utmost syllable of your</div> 13888 13889<div style=" 13890 margin-left: 3em; 13891 color: #ccccff; 13892 ">worthiness.</div> 13893 13894 13895 13896 13897<div style=" 13898 color: #ff9900; 13899 ">PAROLLES</div> 13900 13901<div style=" 13902 margin-left: 3em; 13903 color: #ccccff; 13904 ">By the hand of a soldier, I will undertake it.</div> 13905 13906 13907 13908 13909<div style=" 13910 color: #ff9900; 13911 ">BERTRAM</div> 13912 13913<div style=" 13914 margin-left: 3em; 13915 color: #ccccff; 13916 ">But you must not now slumber in it.</div> 13917 13918 13919 13920 13921<div style=" 13922 color: #ff9900; 13923 ">PAROLLES</div> 13924 13925<div style=" 13926 margin-left: 3em; 13927 color: #ccccff; 13928 ">I'll about it this evening: and I will presently</div> 13929 13930<div style=" 13931 margin-left: 3em; 13932 color: #ccccff; 13933 ">pen down my dilemmas, encourage myself in my</div> 13934 13935<div style=" 13936 margin-left: 3em; 13937 color: #ccccff; 13938 ">certainty, put myself into my mortal preparation;</div> 13939 13940<div style=" 13941 margin-left: 3em; 13942 color: #ccccff; 13943 ">and by midnight look to hear further from me.</div> 13944 13945 13946 13947 13948<div style=" 13949 color: #ff9900; 13950 ">BERTRAM</div> 13951 13952<div style=" 13953 margin-left: 3em; 13954 color: #ccccff; 13955 ">May I be bold to acquaint his grace you are gone about it?</div> 13956 13957 13958 13959 13960<div style=" 13961 color: #ff9900; 13962 ">PAROLLES</div> 13963 13964<div style=" 13965 margin-left: 3em; 13966 color: #ccccff; 13967 ">I know not what the success will be, my lord; but</div> 13968 13969<div style=" 13970 margin-left: 3em; 13971 color: #ccccff; 13972 ">the attempt I vow.</div> 13973 13974 13975 13976 13977<div style=" 13978 color: #ff9900; 13979 ">BERTRAM</div> 13980 13981<div style=" 13982 margin-left: 3em; 13983 color: #ccccff; 13984 ">I know thou'rt valiant; and, to the possibility of</div> 13985 13986<div style=" 13987 margin-left: 3em; 13988 color: #ccccff; 13989 ">thy soldiership, will subscribe for thee. Farewell.</div> 13990 13991 13992 13993 13994<div style=" 13995 color: #ff9900; 13996 ">PAROLLES</div> 13997 13998<div style=" 13999 margin-left: 3em; 14000 color: #ccccff; 14001 ">I love not many words.</div> 14002 14003 14004 14005<div style=" 14006 position: relative; 14007 width: 40%; 14008 left: 50%; 14009 text-align: right; 14010 margin: 0.5em; 14011 padding-right: 1em; 14012 padding-left: 1em; 14013 border-color: #ff9900; 14014 border-width: 1px; 14015 border-bottom-style: solid; 14016 border-top-style: solid; 14017 font-size: 9pt; 14018 color: #9999cc; 14019 ">Exit</div> 14020 14021 14022 14023<div style=" 14024 color: #ff9900; 14025 ">Second Lord</div> 14026 14027<div style=" 14028 margin-left: 3em; 14029 color: #ccccff; 14030 ">No more than a fish loves water. Is not this a</div> 14031 14032<div style=" 14033 margin-left: 3em; 14034 color: #ccccff; 14035 ">strange fellow, my lord, that so confidently seems</div> 14036 14037<div style=" 14038 margin-left: 3em; 14039 color: #ccccff; 14040 ">to undertake this business, which he knows is not to</div> 14041 14042<div style=" 14043 margin-left: 3em; 14044 color: #ccccff; 14045 ">be done; damns himself to do and dares better be</div> 14046 14047<div style=" 14048 margin-left: 3em; 14049 color: #ccccff; 14050 ">damned than to do't?</div> 14051 14052 14053 14054 14055<div style=" 14056 color: #ff9900; 14057 ">First Lord</div> 14058 14059<div style=" 14060 margin-left: 3em; 14061 color: #ccccff; 14062 ">You do not know him, my lord, as we do: certain it</div> 14063 14064<div style=" 14065 margin-left: 3em; 14066 color: #ccccff; 14067 ">is that he will steal himself into a man's favour and</div> 14068 14069<div style=" 14070 margin-left: 3em; 14071 color: #ccccff; 14072 ">for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but</div> 14073 14074<div style=" 14075 margin-left: 3em; 14076 color: #ccccff; 14077 ">when you find him out, you have him ever after.</div> 14078 14079 14080 14081 14082<div style=" 14083 color: #ff9900; 14084 ">BERTRAM</div> 14085 14086<div style=" 14087 margin-left: 3em; 14088 color: #ccccff; 14089 ">Why, do you think he will make no deed at all of</div> 14090 14091<div style=" 14092 margin-left: 3em; 14093 color: #ccccff; 14094 ">this that so seriously he does address himself unto?</div> 14095 14096 14097 14098 14099<div style=" 14100 color: #ff9900; 14101 ">Second Lord</div> 14102 14103<div style=" 14104 margin-left: 3em; 14105 color: #ccccff; 14106 ">None in the world; but return with an invention and</div> 14107 14108<div style=" 14109 margin-left: 3em; 14110 color: #ccccff; 14111 ">clap upon you two or three probable lies: but we</div> 14112 14113<div style=" 14114 margin-left: 3em; 14115 color: #ccccff; 14116 ">have almost embossed him; you shall see his fall</div> 14117 14118<div style=" 14119 margin-left: 3em; 14120 color: #ccccff; 14121 ">to-night; for indeed he is not for your lordship's respect.</div> 14122 14123 14124 14125 14126<div style=" 14127 color: #ff9900; 14128 ">First Lord</div> 14129 14130<div style=" 14131 margin-left: 3em; 14132 color: #ccccff; 14133 ">We'll make you some sport with the fox ere we case</div> 14134 14135<div style=" 14136 margin-left: 3em; 14137 color: #ccccff; 14138 ">him. He was first smoked by the old lord Lafeu:</div> 14139 14140<div style=" 14141 margin-left: 3em; 14142 color: #ccccff; 14143 ">when his disguise and he is parted, tell me what a</div> 14144 14145<div style=" 14146 margin-left: 3em; 14147 color: #ccccff; 14148 ">sprat you shall find him; which you shall see this</div> 14149 14150<div style=" 14151 margin-left: 3em; 14152 color: #ccccff; 14153 ">very night.</div> 14154 14155 14156 14157 14158<div style=" 14159 color: #ff9900; 14160 ">Second Lord</div> 14161 14162<div style=" 14163 margin-left: 3em; 14164 color: #ccccff; 14165 ">I must go look my twigs: he shall be caught.</div> 14166 14167 14168 14169 14170<div style=" 14171 color: #ff9900; 14172 ">BERTRAM</div> 14173 14174<div style=" 14175 margin-left: 3em; 14176 color: #ccccff; 14177 ">Your brother he shall go along with me.</div> 14178 14179 14180 14181 14182<div style=" 14183 color: #ff9900; 14184 ">Second Lord</div> 14185 14186<div style=" 14187 margin-left: 3em; 14188 color: #ccccff; 14189 ">As't please your lordship: I'll leave you.</div> 14190 14191 14192 14193<div style=" 14194 position: relative; 14195 width: 40%; 14196 left: 50%; 14197 text-align: right; 14198 margin: 0.5em; 14199 padding-right: 1em; 14200 padding-left: 1em; 14201 border-color: #ff9900; 14202 border-width: 1px; 14203 border-bottom-style: solid; 14204 border-top-style: solid; 14205 font-size: 9pt; 14206 color: #9999cc; 14207 ">Exit</div> 14208 14209 14210 14211<div style=" 14212 color: #ff9900; 14213 ">BERTRAM</div> 14214 14215<div style=" 14216 margin-left: 3em; 14217 color: #ccccff; 14218 ">Now will I lead you to the house, and show you</div> 14219 14220<div style=" 14221 margin-left: 3em; 14222 color: #ccccff; 14223 ">The lass I spoke of.</div> 14224 14225 14226 14227 14228<div style=" 14229 color: #ff9900; 14230 ">First Lord</div> 14231 14232<div style=" 14233 margin-left: 3em; 14234 color: #ccccff; 14235 ">But you say she's honest.</div> 14236 14237 14238 14239 14240<div style=" 14241 color: #ff9900; 14242 ">BERTRAM</div> 14243 14244<div style=" 14245 margin-left: 3em; 14246 color: #ccccff; 14247 ">That's all the fault: I spoke with her but once</div> 14248 14249<div style=" 14250 margin-left: 3em; 14251 color: #ccccff; 14252 ">And found her wondrous cold; but I sent to her,</div> 14253 14254<div style=" 14255 margin-left: 3em; 14256 color: #ccccff; 14257 ">By this same coxcomb that we have i' the wind,</div> 14258 14259<div style=" 14260 margin-left: 3em; 14261 color: #ccccff; 14262 ">Tokens and letters which she did re-send;</div> 14263 14264<div style=" 14265 margin-left: 3em; 14266 color: #ccccff; 14267 ">And this is all I have done. She's a fair creature:</div> 14268 14269<div style=" 14270 margin-left: 3em; 14271 color: #ccccff; 14272 ">Will you go see her?</div> 14273 14274 14275 14276 14277<div style=" 14278 color: #ff9900; 14279 ">First Lord</div> 14280 14281<div style=" 14282 margin-left: 3em; 14283 color: #ccccff; 14284 ">With all my heart, my lord.</div> 14285 14286 14287 14288<div style=" 14289 position: relative; 14290 width: 40%; 14291 left: 50%; 14292 text-align: right; 14293 margin: 0.5em; 14294 padding-right: 1em; 14295 padding-left: 1em; 14296 border-color: #ff9900; 14297 border-width: 1px; 14298 border-bottom-style: solid; 14299 border-top-style: solid; 14300 font-size: 9pt; 14301 color: #9999cc; 14302 ">Exeunt</div> 14303 14304</div> 14305 14306 14307<div> 14308<div style=" 14309 margin-bottom: 1em; 14310 padding-left: 1em; 14311 border-color: #ff9900; 14312 border-width: 1px; 14313 border-bottom-style: solid; 14314 border-top-style: solid; 14315 background-color: #cc6600; 14316 color: #000000; 14317 ">SCENE VII. Florence. The Widow's house.</div> 14318 14319<div style=" 14320 position: relative; 14321 width: 40%; 14322 left: 50%; 14323 text-align: right; 14324 margin: 0.5em; 14325 padding-right: 1em; 14326 padding-left: 1em; 14327 border-color: #ff9900; 14328 border-width: 1px; 14329 border-bottom-style: solid; 14330 border-top-style: solid; 14331 font-size: 9pt; 14332 color: #9999cc; 14333 ">Enter HELENA and Widow</div> 14334 14335 14336 14337<div style=" 14338 color: #ff9900; 14339 ">HELENA</div> 14340 14341<div style=" 14342 margin-left: 3em; 14343 color: #ccccff; 14344 ">If you misdoubt me that I am not she,</div> 14345 14346<div style=" 14347 margin-left: 3em; 14348 color: #ccccff; 14349 ">I know not how I shall assure you further,</div> 14350 14351<div style=" 14352 margin-left: 3em; 14353 color: #ccccff; 14354 ">But I shall lose the grounds I work upon.</div> 14355 14356 14357 14358 14359<div style=" 14360 color: #ff9900; 14361 ">Widow</div> 14362 14363<div style=" 14364 margin-left: 3em; 14365 color: #ccccff; 14366 ">Though my estate be fallen, I was well born,</div> 14367 14368<div style=" 14369 margin-left: 3em; 14370 color: #ccccff; 14371 ">Nothing acquainted with these businesses;</div> 14372 14373<div style=" 14374 margin-left: 3em; 14375 color: #ccccff; 14376 ">And would not put my reputation now</div> 14377 14378<div style=" 14379 margin-left: 3em; 14380 color: #ccccff; 14381 ">In any staining act.</div> 14382 14383 14384 14385 14386<div style=" 14387 color: #ff9900; 14388 ">HELENA</div> 14389 14390<div style=" 14391 margin-left: 3em; 14392 color: #ccccff; 14393 ">Nor would I wish you.</div> 14394 14395<div style=" 14396 margin-left: 3em; 14397 color: #ccccff; 14398 ">First, give me trust, the count he is my husband,</div> 14399 14400<div style=" 14401 margin-left: 3em; 14402 color: #ccccff; 14403 ">And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken</div> 14404 14405<div style=" 14406 margin-left: 3em; 14407 color: #ccccff; 14408 ">Is so from word to word; and then you cannot,</div> 14409 14410<div style=" 14411 margin-left: 3em; 14412 color: #ccccff; 14413 ">By the good aid that I of you shall borrow,</div> 14414 14415<div style=" 14416 margin-left: 3em; 14417 color: #ccccff; 14418 ">Err in bestowing it.</div> 14419 14420 14421 14422 14423<div style=" 14424 color: #ff9900; 14425 ">Widow</div> 14426 14427<div style=" 14428 margin-left: 3em; 14429 color: #ccccff; 14430 ">I should believe you:</div> 14431 14432<div style=" 14433 margin-left: 3em; 14434 color: #ccccff; 14435 ">For you have show'd me that which well approves</div> 14436 14437<div style=" 14438 margin-left: 3em; 14439 color: #ccccff; 14440 ">You're great in fortune.</div> 14441 14442 14443 14444 14445<div style=" 14446 color: #ff9900; 14447 ">HELENA</div> 14448 14449<div style=" 14450 margin-left: 3em; 14451 color: #ccccff; 14452 ">Take this purse of gold,</div> 14453 14454<div style=" 14455 margin-left: 3em; 14456 color: #ccccff; 14457 ">And let me buy your friendly help thus far,</div> 14458 14459<div style=" 14460 margin-left: 3em; 14461 color: #ccccff; 14462 ">Which I will over-pay and pay again</div> 14463 14464<div style=" 14465 margin-left: 3em; 14466 color: #ccccff; 14467 ">When I have found it. The count he wooes your daughter,</div> 14468 14469<div style=" 14470 margin-left: 3em; 14471 color: #ccccff; 14472 ">Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty,</div> 14473 14474<div style=" 14475 margin-left: 3em; 14476 color: #ccccff; 14477 ">Resolved to carry her: let her in fine consent,</div> 14478 14479<div style=" 14480 margin-left: 3em; 14481 color: #ccccff; 14482 ">As we'll direct her how 'tis best to bear it.</div> 14483 14484<div style=" 14485 margin-left: 3em; 14486 color: #ccccff; 14487 ">Now his important blood will nought deny</div> 14488 14489<div style=" 14490 margin-left: 3em; 14491 color: #ccccff; 14492 ">That she'll demand: a ring the county wears,</div> 14493 14494<div style=" 14495 margin-left: 3em; 14496 color: #ccccff; 14497 ">That downward hath succeeded in his house</div> 14498 14499<div style=" 14500 margin-left: 3em; 14501 color: #ccccff; 14502 ">From son to son, some four or five descents</div> 14503 14504<div style=" 14505 margin-left: 3em; 14506 color: #ccccff; 14507 ">Since the first father wore it: this ring he holds</div> 14508 14509<div style=" 14510 margin-left: 3em; 14511 color: #ccccff; 14512 ">In most rich choice; yet in his idle fire,</div> 14513 14514<div style=" 14515 margin-left: 3em; 14516 color: #ccccff; 14517 ">To buy his will, it would not seem too dear,</div> 14518 14519<div style=" 14520 margin-left: 3em; 14521 color: #ccccff; 14522 ">Howe'er repented after.</div> 14523 14524 14525 14526 14527<div style=" 14528 color: #ff9900; 14529 ">Widow</div> 14530 14531<div style=" 14532 margin-left: 3em; 14533 color: #ccccff; 14534 ">Now I see</div> 14535 14536<div style=" 14537 margin-left: 3em; 14538 color: #ccccff; 14539 ">The bottom of your purpose.</div> 14540 14541 14542 14543 14544<div style=" 14545 color: #ff9900; 14546 ">HELENA</div> 14547 14548<div style=" 14549 margin-left: 3em; 14550 color: #ccccff; 14551 ">You see it lawful, then: it is no more,</div> 14552 14553<div style=" 14554 margin-left: 3em; 14555 color: #ccccff; 14556 ">But that your daughter, ere she seems as won,</div> 14557 14558<div style=" 14559 margin-left: 3em; 14560 color: #ccccff; 14561 ">Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter;</div> 14562 14563<div style=" 14564 margin-left: 3em; 14565 color: #ccccff; 14566 ">In fine, delivers me to fill the time,</div> 14567 14568<div style=" 14569 margin-left: 3em; 14570 color: #ccccff; 14571 ">Herself most chastely absent: after this,</div> 14572 14573<div style=" 14574 margin-left: 3em; 14575 color: #ccccff; 14576 ">To marry her, I'll add three thousand crowns</div> 14577 14578<div style=" 14579 margin-left: 3em; 14580 color: #ccccff; 14581 ">To what is passed already.</div> 14582 14583 14584 14585 14586<div style=" 14587 color: #ff9900; 14588 ">Widow</div> 14589 14590<div style=" 14591 margin-left: 3em; 14592 color: #ccccff; 14593 ">I have yielded:</div> 14594 14595<div style=" 14596 margin-left: 3em; 14597 color: #ccccff; 14598 ">Instruct my daughter how she shall persever,</div> 14599 14600<div style=" 14601 margin-left: 3em; 14602 color: #ccccff; 14603 ">That time and place with this deceit so lawful</div> 14604 14605<div style=" 14606 margin-left: 3em; 14607 color: #ccccff; 14608 ">May prove coherent. Every night he comes</div> 14609 14610<div style=" 14611 margin-left: 3em; 14612 color: #ccccff; 14613 ">With musics of all sorts and songs composed</div> 14614 14615<div style=" 14616 margin-left: 3em; 14617 color: #ccccff; 14618 ">To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us</div> 14619 14620<div style=" 14621 margin-left: 3em; 14622 color: #ccccff; 14623 ">To chide him from our eaves; for he persists</div> 14624 14625<div style=" 14626 margin-left: 3em; 14627 color: #ccccff; 14628 ">As if his life lay on't.</div> 14629 14630 14631 14632 14633<div style=" 14634 color: #ff9900; 14635 ">HELENA</div> 14636 14637<div style=" 14638 margin-left: 3em; 14639 color: #ccccff; 14640 ">Why then to-night</div> 14641 14642<div style=" 14643 margin-left: 3em; 14644 color: #ccccff; 14645 ">Let us assay our plot; which, if it speed,</div> 14646 14647<div style=" 14648 margin-left: 3em; 14649 color: #ccccff; 14650 ">Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed</div> 14651 14652<div style=" 14653 margin-left: 3em; 14654 color: #ccccff; 14655 ">And lawful meaning in a lawful act,</div> 14656 14657<div style=" 14658 margin-left: 3em; 14659 color: #ccccff; 14660 ">Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact:</div> 14661 14662<div style=" 14663 margin-left: 3em; 14664 color: #ccccff; 14665 ">But let's about it.</div> 14666 14667 14668 14669<div style=" 14670 position: relative; 14671 width: 40%; 14672 left: 50%; 14673 text-align: right; 14674 margin: 0.5em; 14675 padding-right: 1em; 14676 padding-left: 1em; 14677 border-color: #ff9900; 14678 border-width: 1px; 14679 border-bottom-style: solid; 14680 border-top-style: solid; 14681 font-size: 9pt; 14682 color: #9999cc; 14683 ">Exeunt</div> 14684 14685</div> 14686 14687 14688 14689 14690<div style=" 14691 text-align: right; 14692 "> 14693<span style=" 14694 width: 25%; 14695 padding: 1px; 14696 padding-right: 1em; 14697 color: #000000; 14698 background-color: #ff9900; 14699 ">ACT IV</span> 14700</div> 14701 14702 14703<div> 14704<div style=" 14705 margin-bottom: 1em; 14706 padding-left: 1em; 14707 border-color: #ff9900; 14708 border-width: 1px; 14709 border-bottom-style: solid; 14710 border-top-style: solid; 14711 background-color: #cc6600; 14712 color: #000000; 14713 ">SCENE I. Without the Florentine camp.</div> 14714 14715<div style=" 14716 position: relative; 14717 width: 40%; 14718 left: 50%; 14719 text-align: right; 14720 margin: 0.5em; 14721 padding-right: 1em; 14722 padding-left: 1em; 14723 border-color: #ff9900; 14724 border-width: 1px; 14725 border-bottom-style: solid; 14726 border-top-style: solid; 14727 font-size: 9pt; 14728 color: #9999cc; 14729 ">Enter Second French Lord, with five or six other 14730Soldiers in ambush</div> 14731 14732 14733 14734<div style=" 14735 color: #ff9900; 14736 ">Second Lord</div> 14737 14738<div style=" 14739 margin-left: 3em; 14740 color: #ccccff; 14741 ">He can come no other way but by this hedge-corner.</div> 14742 14743<div style=" 14744 margin-left: 3em; 14745 color: #ccccff; 14746 ">When you sally upon him, speak what terrible</div> 14747 14748<div style=" 14749 margin-left: 3em; 14750 color: #ccccff; 14751 ">language you will: though you understand it not</div> 14752 14753<div style=" 14754 margin-left: 3em; 14755 color: #ccccff; 14756 ">yourselves, no matter; for we must not seem to</div> 14757 14758<div style=" 14759 margin-left: 3em; 14760 color: #ccccff; 14761 ">understand him, unless some one among us whom we</div> 14762 14763<div style=" 14764 margin-left: 3em; 14765 color: #ccccff; 14766 ">must produce for an interpreter.</div> 14767 14768 14769 14770 14771<div style=" 14772 color: #ff9900; 14773 ">First Soldier</div> 14774 14775<div style=" 14776 margin-left: 3em; 14777 color: #ccccff; 14778 ">Good captain, let me be the interpreter.</div> 14779 14780 14781 14782 14783<div style=" 14784 color: #ff9900; 14785 ">Second Lord</div> 14786 14787<div style=" 14788 margin-left: 3em; 14789 color: #ccccff; 14790 ">Art not acquainted with him? knows he not thy voice?</div> 14791 14792 14793 14794 14795<div style=" 14796 color: #ff9900; 14797 ">First Soldier</div> 14798 14799<div style=" 14800 margin-left: 3em; 14801 color: #ccccff; 14802 ">No, sir, I warrant you.</div> 14803 14804 14805 14806 14807<div style=" 14808 color: #ff9900; 14809 ">Second Lord</div> 14810 14811<div style=" 14812 margin-left: 3em; 14813 color: #ccccff; 14814 ">But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again?</div> 14815 14816 14817 14818 14819<div style=" 14820 color: #ff9900; 14821 ">First Soldier</div> 14822 14823<div style=" 14824 margin-left: 3em; 14825 color: #ccccff; 14826 ">E'en such as you speak to me.</div> 14827 14828 14829 14830 14831<div style=" 14832 color: #ff9900; 14833 ">Second Lord</div> 14834 14835<div style=" 14836 margin-left: 3em; 14837 color: #ccccff; 14838 ">He must think us some band of strangers i' the</div> 14839 14840<div style=" 14841 margin-left: 3em; 14842 color: #ccccff; 14843 ">adversary's entertainment. Now he hath a smack of</div> 14844 14845<div style=" 14846 margin-left: 3em; 14847 color: #ccccff; 14848 ">all neighbouring languages; therefore we must every</div> 14849 14850<div style=" 14851 margin-left: 3em; 14852 color: #ccccff; 14853 ">one be a man of his own fancy, not to know what we</div> 14854 14855<div style=" 14856 margin-left: 3em; 14857 color: #ccccff; 14858 ">speak one to another; so we seem to know, is to</div> 14859 14860<div style=" 14861 margin-left: 3em; 14862 color: #ccccff; 14863 ">know straight our purpose: choughs' language,</div> 14864 14865<div style=" 14866 margin-left: 3em; 14867 color: #ccccff; 14868 ">gabble enough, and good enough. As for you,</div> 14869 14870<div style=" 14871 margin-left: 3em; 14872 color: #ccccff; 14873 ">interpreter, you must seem very politic. But couch,</div> 14874 14875<div style=" 14876 margin-left: 3em; 14877 color: #ccccff; 14878 ">ho! here he comes, to beguile two hours in a sleep,</div> 14879 14880<div style=" 14881 margin-left: 3em; 14882 color: #ccccff; 14883 ">and then to return and swear the lies he forges.</div> 14884 14885 14886 14887<div style=" 14888 position: relative; 14889 width: 40%; 14890 left: 50%; 14891 text-align: right; 14892 margin: 0.5em; 14893 padding-right: 1em; 14894 padding-left: 1em; 14895 border-color: #ff9900; 14896 border-width: 1px; 14897 border-bottom-style: solid; 14898 border-top-style: solid; 14899 font-size: 9pt; 14900 color: #9999cc; 14901 ">Enter PAROLLES</div> 14902 14903 14904 14905<div style=" 14906 color: #ff9900; 14907 ">PAROLLES</div> 14908 14909<div style=" 14910 margin-left: 3em; 14911 color: #ccccff; 14912 ">Ten o'clock: within these three hours 'twill be</div> 14913 14914<div style=" 14915 margin-left: 3em; 14916 color: #ccccff; 14917 ">time enough to go home. What shall I say I have</div> 14918 14919<div style=" 14920 margin-left: 3em; 14921 color: #ccccff; 14922 ">done? It must be a very plausive invention that</div> 14923 14924<div style=" 14925 margin-left: 3em; 14926 color: #ccccff; 14927 ">carries it: they begin to smoke me; and disgraces</div> 14928 14929<div style=" 14930 margin-left: 3em; 14931 color: #ccccff; 14932 ">have of late knocked too often at my door. I find</div> 14933 14934<div style=" 14935 margin-left: 3em; 14936 color: #ccccff; 14937 ">my tongue is too foolhardy; but my heart hath the</div> 14938 14939<div style=" 14940 margin-left: 3em; 14941 color: #ccccff; 14942 ">fear of Mars before it and of his creatures, not</div> 14943 14944<div style=" 14945 margin-left: 3em; 14946 color: #ccccff; 14947 ">daring the reports of my tongue.</div> 14948 14949 14950 14951 14952<div style=" 14953 color: #ff9900; 14954 ">Second Lord</div> 14955 14956<div style=" 14957 margin-left: 3em; 14958 color: #ccccff; 14959 ">This is the first truth that e'er thine own tongue</div> 14960 14961<div style=" 14962 margin-left: 3em; 14963 color: #ccccff; 14964 ">was guilty of.</div> 14965 14966 14967 14968 14969<div style=" 14970 color: #ff9900; 14971 ">PAROLLES</div> 14972 14973<div style=" 14974 margin-left: 3em; 14975 color: #ccccff; 14976 ">What the devil should move me to undertake the</div> 14977 14978<div style=" 14979 margin-left: 3em; 14980 color: #ccccff; 14981 ">recovery of this drum, being not ignorant of the</div> 14982 14983<div style=" 14984 margin-left: 3em; 14985 color: #ccccff; 14986 ">impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose? I</div> 14987 14988<div style=" 14989 margin-left: 3em; 14990 color: #ccccff; 14991 ">must give myself some hurts, and say I got them in</div> 14992 14993<div style=" 14994 margin-left: 3em; 14995 color: #ccccff; 14996 ">exploit: yet slight ones will not carry it; they</div> 14997 14998<div style=" 14999 margin-left: 3em; 15000 color: #ccccff; 15001 ">will say, 'Came you off with so little?' and great</div> 15002 15003<div style=" 15004 margin-left: 3em; 15005 color: #ccccff; 15006 ">ones I dare not give. Wherefore, what's the</div> 15007 15008<div style=" 15009 margin-left: 3em; 15010 color: #ccccff; 15011 ">instance? Tongue, I must put you into a</div> 15012 15013<div style=" 15014 margin-left: 3em; 15015 color: #ccccff; 15016 ">butter-woman's mouth and buy myself another of</div> 15017 15018<div style=" 15019 margin-left: 3em; 15020 color: #ccccff; 15021 ">Bajazet's mule, if you prattle me into these perils.</div> 15022 15023 15024 15025 15026<div style=" 15027 color: #ff9900; 15028 ">Second Lord</div> 15029 15030<div style=" 15031 margin-left: 3em; 15032 color: #ccccff; 15033 ">Is it possible he should know what he is, and be</div> 15034 15035<div style=" 15036 margin-left: 3em; 15037 color: #ccccff; 15038 ">that he is?</div> 15039 15040 15041 15042 15043<div style=" 15044 color: #ff9900; 15045 ">PAROLLES</div> 15046 15047<div style=" 15048 margin-left: 3em; 15049 color: #ccccff; 15050 ">I would the cutting of my garments would serve the</div> 15051 15052<div style=" 15053 margin-left: 3em; 15054 color: #ccccff; 15055 ">turn, or the breaking of my Spanish sword.</div> 15056 15057 15058 15059 15060<div style=" 15061 color: #ff9900; 15062 ">Second Lord</div> 15063 15064<div style=" 15065 margin-left: 3em; 15066 color: #ccccff; 15067 ">We cannot afford you so.</div> 15068 15069 15070 15071 15072<div style=" 15073 color: #ff9900; 15074 ">PAROLLES</div> 15075 15076<div style=" 15077 margin-left: 3em; 15078 color: #ccccff; 15079 ">Or the baring of my beard; and to say it was in</div> 15080 15081<div style=" 15082 margin-left: 3em; 15083 color: #ccccff; 15084 ">stratagem.</div> 15085 15086 15087 15088 15089<div style=" 15090 color: #ff9900; 15091 ">Second Lord</div> 15092 15093<div style=" 15094 margin-left: 3em; 15095 color: #ccccff; 15096 ">'Twould not do.</div> 15097 15098 15099 15100 15101<div style=" 15102 color: #ff9900; 15103 ">PAROLLES</div> 15104 15105<div style=" 15106 margin-left: 3em; 15107 color: #ccccff; 15108 ">Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped.</div> 15109 15110 15111 15112 15113<div style=" 15114 color: #ff9900; 15115 ">Second Lord</div> 15116 15117<div style=" 15118 margin-left: 3em; 15119 color: #ccccff; 15120 ">Hardly serve.</div> 15121 15122 15123 15124 15125<div style=" 15126 color: #ff9900; 15127 ">PAROLLES</div> 15128 15129<div style=" 15130 margin-left: 3em; 15131 color: #ccccff; 15132 ">Though I swore I leaped from the window of the citadel.</div> 15133 15134 15135 15136 15137<div style=" 15138 color: #ff9900; 15139 ">Second Lord</div> 15140 15141<div style=" 15142 margin-left: 3em; 15143 color: #ccccff; 15144 ">How deep?</div> 15145 15146 15147 15148 15149<div style=" 15150 color: #ff9900; 15151 ">PAROLLES</div> 15152 15153<div style=" 15154 margin-left: 3em; 15155 color: #ccccff; 15156 ">Thirty fathom.</div> 15157 15158 15159 15160 15161<div style=" 15162 color: #ff9900; 15163 ">Second Lord</div> 15164 15165<div style=" 15166 margin-left: 3em; 15167 color: #ccccff; 15168 ">Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed.</div> 15169 15170 15171 15172 15173<div style=" 15174 color: #ff9900; 15175 ">PAROLLES</div> 15176 15177<div style=" 15178 margin-left: 3em; 15179 color: #ccccff; 15180 ">I would I had any drum of the enemy's: I would swear</div> 15181 15182<div style=" 15183 margin-left: 3em; 15184 color: #ccccff; 15185 ">I recovered it.</div> 15186 15187 15188 15189 15190<div style=" 15191 color: #ff9900; 15192 ">Second Lord</div> 15193 15194<div style=" 15195 margin-left: 3em; 15196 color: #ccccff; 15197 ">You shall hear one anon.</div> 15198 15199 15200 15201 15202<div style=" 15203 color: #ff9900; 15204 ">PAROLLES</div> 15205 15206<div style=" 15207 margin-left: 3em; 15208 color: #ccccff; 15209 ">A drum now of the enemy's,--</div> 15210 15211 15212 15213<div style=" 15214 position: relative; 15215 width: 40%; 15216 left: 50%; 15217 text-align: right; 15218 margin: 0.5em; 15219 padding-right: 1em; 15220 padding-left: 1em; 15221 border-color: #ff9900; 15222 border-width: 1px; 15223 border-bottom-style: solid; 15224 border-top-style: solid; 15225 font-size: 9pt; 15226 color: #9999cc; 15227 ">Alarum within</div> 15228 15229 15230 15231<div style=" 15232 color: #ff9900; 15233 ">Second Lord</div> 15234 15235<div style=" 15236 margin-left: 3em; 15237 color: #ccccff; 15238 ">Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo.</div> 15239 15240 15241 15242 15243<div style=" 15244 color: #ff9900; 15245 ">All</div> 15246 15247<div style=" 15248 margin-left: 3em; 15249 color: #ccccff; 15250 ">Cargo, cargo, cargo, villiando par corbo, cargo.</div> 15251 15252 15253 15254 15255<div style=" 15256 color: #ff9900; 15257 ">PAROLLES</div> 15258 15259<div style=" 15260 margin-left: 3em; 15261 color: #ccccff; 15262 ">O, ransom, ransom! do not hide mine eyes.</div> 15263 15264 15265 15266<div style=" 15267 position: relative; 15268 width: 40%; 15269 left: 50%; 15270 text-align: right; 15271 margin: 0.5em; 15272 padding-right: 1em; 15273 padding-left: 1em; 15274 border-color: #ff9900; 15275 border-width: 1px; 15276 border-bottom-style: solid; 15277 border-top-style: solid; 15278 font-size: 9pt; 15279 color: #9999cc; 15280 ">They seize and blindfold him</div> 15281 15282 15283 15284<div style=" 15285 color: #ff9900; 15286 ">First Soldier</div> 15287 15288<div style=" 15289 margin-left: 3em; 15290 color: #ccccff; 15291 ">Boskos thromuldo boskos.</div> 15292 15293 15294 15295 15296<div style=" 15297 color: #ff9900; 15298 ">PAROLLES</div> 15299 15300<div style=" 15301 margin-left: 3em; 15302 color: #ccccff; 15303 ">I know you are the Muskos' regiment:</div> 15304 15305<div style=" 15306 margin-left: 3em; 15307 color: #ccccff; 15308 ">And I shall lose my life for want of language;</div> 15309 15310<div style=" 15311 margin-left: 3em; 15312 color: #ccccff; 15313 ">If there be here German, or Dane, low Dutch,</div> 15314 15315<div style=" 15316 margin-left: 3em; 15317 color: #ccccff; 15318 ">Italian, or French, let him speak to me; I'll</div> 15319 15320<div style=" 15321 margin-left: 3em; 15322 color: #ccccff; 15323 ">Discover that which shall undo the Florentine.</div> 15324 15325 15326 15327 15328<div style=" 15329 color: #ff9900; 15330 ">First Soldier</div> 15331 15332<div style=" 15333 margin-left: 3em; 15334 color: #ccccff; 15335 ">Boskos vauvado: I understand thee, and can speak</div> 15336 15337<div style=" 15338 margin-left: 3em; 15339 color: #ccccff; 15340 ">thy tongue. Kerely bonto, sir, betake thee to thy</div> 15341 15342<div style=" 15343 margin-left: 3em; 15344 color: #ccccff; 15345 ">faith, for seventeen poniards are at thy bosom.</div> 15346 15347 15348 15349 15350<div style=" 15351 color: #ff9900; 15352 ">PAROLLES</div> 15353 15354<div style=" 15355 margin-left: 3em; 15356 color: #ccccff; 15357 ">O!</div> 15358 15359 15360 15361 15362<div style=" 15363 color: #ff9900; 15364 ">First Soldier</div> 15365 15366<div style=" 15367 margin-left: 3em; 15368 color: #ccccff; 15369 ">O, pray, pray, pray! Manka revania dulche.</div> 15370 15371 15372 15373 15374<div style=" 15375 color: #ff9900; 15376 ">Second Lord</div> 15377 15378<div style=" 15379 margin-left: 3em; 15380 color: #ccccff; 15381 ">Oscorbidulchos volivorco.</div> 15382 15383 15384 15385 15386<div style=" 15387 color: #ff9900; 15388 ">First Soldier</div> 15389 15390<div style=" 15391 margin-left: 3em; 15392 color: #ccccff; 15393 ">The general is content to spare thee yet;</div> 15394 15395<div style=" 15396 margin-left: 3em; 15397 color: #ccccff; 15398 ">And, hoodwink'd as thou art, will lead thee on</div> 15399 15400<div style=" 15401 margin-left: 3em; 15402 color: #ccccff; 15403 ">To gather from thee: haply thou mayst inform</div> 15404 15405<div style=" 15406 margin-left: 3em; 15407 color: #ccccff; 15408 ">Something to save thy life.</div> 15409 15410 15411 15412 15413<div style=" 15414 color: #ff9900; 15415 ">PAROLLES</div> 15416 15417<div style=" 15418 margin-left: 3em; 15419 color: #ccccff; 15420 ">O, let me live!</div> 15421 15422<div style=" 15423 margin-left: 3em; 15424 color: #ccccff; 15425 ">And all the secrets of our camp I'll show,</div> 15426 15427<div style=" 15428 margin-left: 3em; 15429 color: #ccccff; 15430 ">Their force, their purposes; nay, I'll speak that</div> 15431 15432<div style=" 15433 margin-left: 3em; 15434 color: #ccccff; 15435 ">Which you will wonder at.</div> 15436 15437 15438 15439 15440<div style=" 15441 color: #ff9900; 15442 ">First Soldier</div> 15443 15444<div style=" 15445 margin-left: 3em; 15446 color: #ccccff; 15447 ">But wilt thou faithfully?</div> 15448 15449 15450 15451 15452<div style=" 15453 color: #ff9900; 15454 ">PAROLLES</div> 15455 15456<div style=" 15457 margin-left: 3em; 15458 color: #ccccff; 15459 ">If I do not, damn me.</div> 15460 15461 15462 15463 15464<div style=" 15465 color: #ff9900; 15466 ">First Soldier</div> 15467 15468<div style=" 15469 margin-left: 3em; 15470 color: #ccccff; 15471 ">Acordo linta.</div> 15472 15473<div style=" 15474 margin-left: 3em; 15475 color: #ccccff; 15476 ">Come on; thou art granted space.</div> 15477 15478 15479 15480<div style=" 15481 position: relative; 15482 width: 40%; 15483 left: 50%; 15484 text-align: right; 15485 margin: 0.5em; 15486 padding-right: 1em; 15487 padding-left: 1em; 15488 border-color: #ff9900; 15489 border-width: 1px; 15490 border-bottom-style: solid; 15491 border-top-style: solid; 15492 font-size: 9pt; 15493 color: #9999cc; 15494 ">Exit, with PAROLLES guarded. A short alarum within</div> 15495 15496 15497 15498<div style=" 15499 color: #ff9900; 15500 ">Second Lord</div> 15501 15502<div style=" 15503 margin-left: 3em; 15504 color: #ccccff; 15505 ">Go, tell the Count Rousillon, and my brother,</div> 15506 15507<div style=" 15508 margin-left: 3em; 15509 color: #ccccff; 15510 ">We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled</div> 15511 15512<div style=" 15513 margin-left: 3em; 15514 color: #ccccff; 15515 ">Till we do hear from them.</div> 15516 15517 15518 15519 15520<div style=" 15521 color: #ff9900; 15522 ">Second Soldier</div> 15523 15524<div style=" 15525 margin-left: 3em; 15526 color: #ccccff; 15527 ">Captain, I will.</div> 15528 15529 15530 15531 15532<div style=" 15533 color: #ff9900; 15534 ">Second Lord</div> 15535 15536<div style=" 15537 margin-left: 3em; 15538 color: #ccccff; 15539 ">A' will betray us all unto ourselves:</div> 15540 15541<div style=" 15542 margin-left: 3em; 15543 color: #ccccff; 15544 ">Inform on that.</div> 15545 15546 15547 15548 15549<div style=" 15550 color: #ff9900; 15551 ">Second Soldier</div> 15552 15553<div style=" 15554 margin-left: 3em; 15555 color: #ccccff; 15556 ">So I will, sir.</div> 15557 15558 15559 15560 15561<div style=" 15562 color: #ff9900; 15563 ">Second Lord</div> 15564 15565<div style=" 15566 margin-left: 3em; 15567 color: #ccccff; 15568 ">Till then I'll keep him dark and safely lock'd.</div> 15569 15570 15571 15572<div style=" 15573 position: relative; 15574 width: 40%; 15575 left: 50%; 15576 text-align: right; 15577 margin: 0.5em; 15578 padding-right: 1em; 15579 padding-left: 1em; 15580 border-color: #ff9900; 15581 border-width: 1px; 15582 border-bottom-style: solid; 15583 border-top-style: solid; 15584 font-size: 9pt; 15585 color: #9999cc; 15586 ">Exeunt</div> 15587 15588</div> 15589 15590 15591<div> 15592<div style=" 15593 margin-bottom: 1em; 15594 padding-left: 1em; 15595 border-color: #ff9900; 15596 border-width: 1px; 15597 border-bottom-style: solid; 15598 border-top-style: solid; 15599 background-color: #cc6600; 15600 color: #000000; 15601 ">SCENE II. Florence. The Widow's house.</div> 15602 15603<div style=" 15604 position: relative; 15605 width: 40%; 15606 left: 50%; 15607 text-align: right; 15608 margin: 0.5em; 15609 padding-right: 1em; 15610 padding-left: 1em; 15611 border-color: #ff9900; 15612 border-width: 1px; 15613 border-bottom-style: solid; 15614 border-top-style: solid; 15615 font-size: 9pt; 15616 color: #9999cc; 15617 ">Enter BERTRAM and DIANA</div> 15618 15619 15620 15621<div style=" 15622 color: #ff9900; 15623 ">BERTRAM</div> 15624 15625<div style=" 15626 margin-left: 3em; 15627 color: #ccccff; 15628 ">They told me that your name was Fontibell.</div> 15629 15630 15631 15632 15633<div style=" 15634 color: #ff9900; 15635 ">DIANA</div> 15636 15637<div style=" 15638 margin-left: 3em; 15639 color: #ccccff; 15640 ">No, my good lord, Diana.</div> 15641 15642 15643 15644 15645<div style=" 15646 color: #ff9900; 15647 ">BERTRAM</div> 15648 15649<div style=" 15650 margin-left: 3em; 15651 color: #ccccff; 15652 ">Titled goddess;</div> 15653 15654<div style=" 15655 margin-left: 3em; 15656 color: #ccccff; 15657 ">And worth it, with addition! But, fair soul,</div> 15658 15659<div style=" 15660 margin-left: 3em; 15661 color: #ccccff; 15662 ">In your fine frame hath love no quality?</div> 15663 15664<div style=" 15665 margin-left: 3em; 15666 color: #ccccff; 15667 ">If quick fire of youth light not your mind,</div> 15668 15669<div style=" 15670 margin-left: 3em; 15671 color: #ccccff; 15672 ">You are no maiden, but a monument:</div> 15673 15674<div style=" 15675 margin-left: 3em; 15676 color: #ccccff; 15677 ">When you are dead, you should be such a one</div> 15678 15679<div style=" 15680 margin-left: 3em; 15681 color: #ccccff; 15682 ">As you are now, for you are cold and stem;</div> 15683 15684<div style=" 15685 margin-left: 3em; 15686 color: #ccccff; 15687 ">And now you should be as your mother was</div> 15688 15689<div style=" 15690 margin-left: 3em; 15691 color: #ccccff; 15692 ">When your sweet self was got.</div> 15693 15694 15695 15696 15697<div style=" 15698 color: #ff9900; 15699 ">DIANA</div> 15700 15701<div style=" 15702 margin-left: 3em; 15703 color: #ccccff; 15704 ">She then was honest.</div> 15705 15706 15707 15708 15709<div style=" 15710 color: #ff9900; 15711 ">BERTRAM</div> 15712 15713<div style=" 15714 margin-left: 3em; 15715 color: #ccccff; 15716 ">So should you be.</div> 15717 15718 15719 15720 15721<div style=" 15722 color: #ff9900; 15723 ">DIANA</div> 15724 15725<div style=" 15726 margin-left: 3em; 15727 color: #ccccff; 15728 ">No:</div> 15729 15730<div style=" 15731 margin-left: 3em; 15732 color: #ccccff; 15733 ">My mother did but duty; such, my lord,</div> 15734 15735<div style=" 15736 margin-left: 3em; 15737 color: #ccccff; 15738 ">As you owe to your wife.</div> 15739 15740 15741 15742 15743<div style=" 15744 color: #ff9900; 15745 ">BERTRAM</div> 15746 15747<div style=" 15748 margin-left: 3em; 15749 color: #ccccff; 15750 ">No more o' that;</div> 15751 15752<div style=" 15753 margin-left: 3em; 15754 color: #ccccff; 15755 ">I prithee, do not strive against my vows:</div> 15756 15757<div style=" 15758 margin-left: 3em; 15759 color: #ccccff; 15760 ">I was compell'd to her; but I love thee</div> 15761 15762<div style=" 15763 margin-left: 3em; 15764 color: #ccccff; 15765 ">By love's own sweet constraint, and will for ever</div> 15766 15767<div style=" 15768 margin-left: 3em; 15769 color: #ccccff; 15770 ">Do thee all rights of service.</div> 15771 15772 15773 15774 15775<div style=" 15776 color: #ff9900; 15777 ">DIANA</div> 15778 15779<div style=" 15780 margin-left: 3em; 15781 color: #ccccff; 15782 ">Ay, so you serve us</div> 15783 15784<div style=" 15785 margin-left: 3em; 15786 color: #ccccff; 15787 ">Till we serve you; but when you have our roses,</div> 15788 15789<div style=" 15790 margin-left: 3em; 15791 color: #ccccff; 15792 ">You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves</div> 15793 15794<div style=" 15795 margin-left: 3em; 15796 color: #ccccff; 15797 ">And mock us with our bareness.</div> 15798 15799 15800 15801 15802<div style=" 15803 color: #ff9900; 15804 ">BERTRAM</div> 15805 15806<div style=" 15807 margin-left: 3em; 15808 color: #ccccff; 15809 ">How have I sworn!</div> 15810 15811 15812 15813 15814<div style=" 15815 color: #ff9900; 15816 ">DIANA</div> 15817 15818<div style=" 15819 margin-left: 3em; 15820 color: #ccccff; 15821 ">'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth,</div> 15822 15823<div style=" 15824 margin-left: 3em; 15825 color: #ccccff; 15826 ">But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.</div> 15827 15828<div style=" 15829 margin-left: 3em; 15830 color: #ccccff; 15831 ">What is not holy, that we swear not by,</div> 15832 15833<div style=" 15834 margin-left: 3em; 15835 color: #ccccff; 15836 ">But take the High'st to witness: then, pray you, tell me,</div> 15837 15838<div style=" 15839 margin-left: 3em; 15840 color: #ccccff; 15841 ">If I should swear by God's great attributes,</div> 15842 15843<div style=" 15844 margin-left: 3em; 15845 color: #ccccff; 15846 ">I loved you dearly, would you believe my oaths,</div> 15847 15848<div style=" 15849 margin-left: 3em; 15850 color: #ccccff; 15851 ">When I did love you ill? This has no holding,</div> 15852 15853<div style=" 15854 margin-left: 3em; 15855 color: #ccccff; 15856 ">To swear by him whom I protest to love,</div> 15857 15858<div style=" 15859 margin-left: 3em; 15860 color: #ccccff; 15861 ">That I will work against him: therefore your oaths</div> 15862 15863<div style=" 15864 margin-left: 3em; 15865 color: #ccccff; 15866 ">Are words and poor conditions, but unseal'd,</div> 15867 15868<div style=" 15869 margin-left: 3em; 15870 color: #ccccff; 15871 ">At least in my opinion.</div> 15872 15873 15874 15875 15876<div style=" 15877 color: #ff9900; 15878 ">BERTRAM</div> 15879 15880<div style=" 15881 margin-left: 3em; 15882 color: #ccccff; 15883 ">Change it, change it;</div> 15884 15885<div style=" 15886 margin-left: 3em; 15887 color: #ccccff; 15888 ">Be not so holy-cruel: love is holy;</div> 15889 15890<div style=" 15891 margin-left: 3em; 15892 color: #ccccff; 15893 ">And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts</div> 15894 15895<div style=" 15896 margin-left: 3em; 15897 color: #ccccff; 15898 ">That you do charge men with. Stand no more off,</div> 15899 15900<div style=" 15901 margin-left: 3em; 15902 color: #ccccff; 15903 ">But give thyself unto my sick desires,</div> 15904 15905<div style=" 15906 margin-left: 3em; 15907 color: #ccccff; 15908 ">Who then recover: say thou art mine, and ever</div> 15909 15910<div style=" 15911 margin-left: 3em; 15912 color: #ccccff; 15913 ">My love as it begins shall so persever.</div> 15914 15915 15916 15917 15918<div style=" 15919 color: #ff9900; 15920 ">DIANA</div> 15921 15922<div style=" 15923 margin-left: 3em; 15924 color: #ccccff; 15925 ">I see that men make ropes in such a scarre</div> 15926 15927<div style=" 15928 margin-left: 3em; 15929 color: #ccccff; 15930 ">That we'll forsake ourselves. Give me that ring.</div> 15931 15932 15933 15934 15935<div style=" 15936 color: #ff9900; 15937 ">BERTRAM</div> 15938 15939<div style=" 15940 margin-left: 3em; 15941 color: #ccccff; 15942 ">I'll lend it thee, my dear; but have no power</div> 15943 15944<div style=" 15945 margin-left: 3em; 15946 color: #ccccff; 15947 ">To give it from me.</div> 15948 15949 15950 15951 15952<div style=" 15953 color: #ff9900; 15954 ">DIANA</div> 15955 15956<div style=" 15957 margin-left: 3em; 15958 color: #ccccff; 15959 ">Will you not, my lord?</div> 15960 15961 15962 15963 15964<div style=" 15965 color: #ff9900; 15966 ">BERTRAM</div> 15967 15968<div style=" 15969 margin-left: 3em; 15970 color: #ccccff; 15971 ">It is an honour 'longing to our house,</div> 15972 15973<div style=" 15974 margin-left: 3em; 15975 color: #ccccff; 15976 ">Bequeathed down from many ancestors;</div> 15977 15978<div style=" 15979 margin-left: 3em; 15980 color: #ccccff; 15981 ">Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world</div> 15982 15983<div style=" 15984 margin-left: 3em; 15985 color: #ccccff; 15986 ">In me to lose.</div> 15987 15988 15989 15990 15991<div style=" 15992 color: #ff9900; 15993 ">DIANA</div> 15994 15995<div style=" 15996 margin-left: 3em; 15997 color: #ccccff; 15998 ">Mine honour's such a ring:</div> 15999 16000<div style=" 16001 margin-left: 3em; 16002 color: #ccccff; 16003 ">My chastity's the jewel of our house,</div> 16004 16005<div style=" 16006 margin-left: 3em; 16007 color: #ccccff; 16008 ">Bequeathed down from many ancestors;</div> 16009 16010<div style=" 16011 margin-left: 3em; 16012 color: #ccccff; 16013 ">Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world</div> 16014 16015<div style=" 16016 margin-left: 3em; 16017 color: #ccccff; 16018 ">In me to lose: thus your own proper wisdom</div> 16019 16020<div style=" 16021 margin-left: 3em; 16022 color: #ccccff; 16023 ">Brings in the champion Honour on my part,</div> 16024 16025<div style=" 16026 margin-left: 3em; 16027 color: #ccccff; 16028 ">Against your vain assault.</div> 16029 16030 16031 16032 16033<div style=" 16034 color: #ff9900; 16035 ">BERTRAM</div> 16036 16037<div style=" 16038 margin-left: 3em; 16039 color: #ccccff; 16040 ">Here, take my ring:</div> 16041 16042<div style=" 16043 margin-left: 3em; 16044 color: #ccccff; 16045 ">My house, mine honour, yea, my life, be thine,</div> 16046 16047<div style=" 16048 margin-left: 3em; 16049 color: #ccccff; 16050 ">And I'll be bid by thee.</div> 16051 16052 16053 16054 16055<div style=" 16056 color: #ff9900; 16057 ">DIANA</div> 16058 16059<div style=" 16060 margin-left: 3em; 16061 color: #ccccff; 16062 ">When midnight comes, knock at my chamber-window:</div> 16063 16064<div style=" 16065 margin-left: 3em; 16066 color: #ccccff; 16067 ">I'll order take my mother shall not hear.</div> 16068 16069<div style=" 16070 margin-left: 3em; 16071 color: #ccccff; 16072 ">Now will I charge you in the band of truth,</div> 16073 16074<div style=" 16075 margin-left: 3em; 16076 color: #ccccff; 16077 ">When you have conquer'd my yet maiden bed,</div> 16078 16079<div style=" 16080 margin-left: 3em; 16081 color: #ccccff; 16082 ">Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me:</div> 16083 16084<div style=" 16085 margin-left: 3em; 16086 color: #ccccff; 16087 ">My reasons are most strong; and you shall know them</div> 16088 16089<div style=" 16090 margin-left: 3em; 16091 color: #ccccff; 16092 ">When back again this ring shall be deliver'd:</div> 16093 16094<div style=" 16095 margin-left: 3em; 16096 color: #ccccff; 16097 ">And on your finger in the night I'll put</div> 16098 16099<div style=" 16100 margin-left: 3em; 16101 color: #ccccff; 16102 ">Another ring, that what in time proceeds</div> 16103 16104<div style=" 16105 margin-left: 3em; 16106 color: #ccccff; 16107 ">May token to the future our past deeds.</div> 16108 16109<div style=" 16110 margin-left: 3em; 16111 color: #ccccff; 16112 ">Adieu, till then; then, fail not. You have won</div> 16113 16114<div style=" 16115 margin-left: 3em; 16116 color: #ccccff; 16117 ">A wife of me, though there my hope be done.</div> 16118 16119 16120 16121 16122<div style=" 16123 color: #ff9900; 16124 ">BERTRAM</div> 16125 16126<div style=" 16127 margin-left: 3em; 16128 color: #ccccff; 16129 ">A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.</div> 16130 16131 16132 16133<div style=" 16134 position: relative; 16135 width: 40%; 16136 left: 50%; 16137 text-align: right; 16138 margin: 0.5em; 16139 padding-right: 1em; 16140 padding-left: 1em; 16141 border-color: #ff9900; 16142 border-width: 1px; 16143 border-bottom-style: solid; 16144 border-top-style: solid; 16145 font-size: 9pt; 16146 color: #9999cc; 16147 ">Exit</div> 16148 16149 16150 16151<div style=" 16152 color: #ff9900; 16153 ">DIANA</div> 16154 16155<div style=" 16156 margin-left: 3em; 16157 color: #ccccff; 16158 ">For which live long to thank both heaven and me!</div> 16159 16160<div style=" 16161 margin-left: 3em; 16162 color: #ccccff; 16163 ">You may so in the end.</div> 16164 16165<div style=" 16166 margin-left: 3em; 16167 color: #ccccff; 16168 ">My mother told me just how he would woo,</div> 16169 16170<div style=" 16171 margin-left: 3em; 16172 color: #ccccff; 16173 ">As if she sat in 's heart; she says all men</div> 16174 16175<div style=" 16176 margin-left: 3em; 16177 color: #ccccff; 16178 ">Have the like oaths: he had sworn to marry me</div> 16179 16180<div style=" 16181 margin-left: 3em; 16182 color: #ccccff; 16183 ">When his wife's dead; therefore I'll lie with him</div> 16184 16185<div style=" 16186 margin-left: 3em; 16187 color: #ccccff; 16188 ">When I am buried. Since Frenchmen are so braid,</div> 16189 16190<div style=" 16191 margin-left: 3em; 16192 color: #ccccff; 16193 ">Marry that will, I live and die a maid:</div> 16194 16195<div style=" 16196 margin-left: 3em; 16197 color: #ccccff; 16198 ">Only in this disguise I think't no sin</div> 16199 16200<div style=" 16201 margin-left: 3em; 16202 color: #ccccff; 16203 ">To cozen him that would unjustly win.</div> 16204 16205 16206 16207<div style=" 16208 position: relative; 16209 width: 40%; 16210 left: 50%; 16211 text-align: right; 16212 margin: 0.5em; 16213 padding-right: 1em; 16214 padding-left: 1em; 16215 border-color: #ff9900; 16216 border-width: 1px; 16217 border-bottom-style: solid; 16218 border-top-style: solid; 16219 font-size: 9pt; 16220 color: #9999cc; 16221 ">Exit</div> 16222 16223</div> 16224 16225 16226<div> 16227<div style=" 16228 margin-bottom: 1em; 16229 padding-left: 1em; 16230 border-color: #ff9900; 16231 border-width: 1px; 16232 border-bottom-style: solid; 16233 border-top-style: solid; 16234 background-color: #cc6600; 16235 color: #000000; 16236 ">SCENE III. The Florentine camp.</div> 16237 16238<div style=" 16239 position: relative; 16240 width: 40%; 16241 left: 50%; 16242 text-align: right; 16243 margin: 0.5em; 16244 padding-right: 1em; 16245 padding-left: 1em; 16246 border-color: #ff9900; 16247 border-width: 1px; 16248 border-bottom-style: solid; 16249 border-top-style: solid; 16250 font-size: 9pt; 16251 color: #9999cc; 16252 ">Enter the two French Lords and some two or three Soldiers</div> 16253 16254 16255 16256<div style=" 16257 color: #ff9900; 16258 ">First Lord</div> 16259 16260<div style=" 16261 margin-left: 3em; 16262 color: #ccccff; 16263 ">You have not given him his mother's letter?</div> 16264 16265 16266 16267 16268<div style=" 16269 color: #ff9900; 16270 ">Second Lord</div> 16271 16272<div style=" 16273 margin-left: 3em; 16274 color: #ccccff; 16275 ">I have delivered it an hour since: there is</div> 16276 16277<div style=" 16278 margin-left: 3em; 16279 color: #ccccff; 16280 ">something in't that stings his nature; for on the</div> 16281 16282<div style=" 16283 margin-left: 3em; 16284 color: #ccccff; 16285 ">reading it he changed almost into another man.</div> 16286 16287 16288 16289 16290<div style=" 16291 color: #ff9900; 16292 ">First Lord</div> 16293 16294<div style=" 16295 margin-left: 3em; 16296 color: #ccccff; 16297 ">He has much worthy blame laid upon him for shaking</div> 16298 16299<div style=" 16300 margin-left: 3em; 16301 color: #ccccff; 16302 ">off so good a wife and so sweet a lady.</div> 16303 16304 16305 16306 16307<div style=" 16308 color: #ff9900; 16309 ">Second Lord</div> 16310 16311<div style=" 16312 margin-left: 3em; 16313 color: #ccccff; 16314 ">Especially he hath incurred the everlasting</div> 16315 16316<div style=" 16317 margin-left: 3em; 16318 color: #ccccff; 16319 ">displeasure of the king, who had even tuned his</div> 16320 16321<div style=" 16322 margin-left: 3em; 16323 color: #ccccff; 16324 ">bounty to sing happiness to him. I will tell you a</div> 16325 16326<div style=" 16327 margin-left: 3em; 16328 color: #ccccff; 16329 ">thing, but you shall let it dwell darkly with you.</div> 16330 16331 16332 16333 16334<div style=" 16335 color: #ff9900; 16336 ">First Lord</div> 16337 16338<div style=" 16339 margin-left: 3em; 16340 color: #ccccff; 16341 ">When you have spoken it, 'tis dead, and I am the</div> 16342 16343<div style=" 16344 margin-left: 3em; 16345 color: #ccccff; 16346 ">grave of it.</div> 16347 16348 16349 16350 16351<div style=" 16352 color: #ff9900; 16353 ">Second Lord</div> 16354 16355<div style=" 16356 margin-left: 3em; 16357 color: #ccccff; 16358 ">He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in</div> 16359 16360<div style=" 16361 margin-left: 3em; 16362 color: #ccccff; 16363 ">Florence, of a most chaste renown; and this night he</div> 16364 16365<div style=" 16366 margin-left: 3em; 16367 color: #ccccff; 16368 ">fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour: he hath</div> 16369 16370<div style=" 16371 margin-left: 3em; 16372 color: #ccccff; 16373 ">given her his monumental ring, and thinks himself</div> 16374 16375<div style=" 16376 margin-left: 3em; 16377 color: #ccccff; 16378 ">made in the unchaste composition.</div> 16379 16380 16381 16382 16383<div style=" 16384 color: #ff9900; 16385 ">First Lord</div> 16386 16387<div style=" 16388 margin-left: 3em; 16389 color: #ccccff; 16390 ">Now, God delay our rebellion! as we are ourselves,</div> 16391 16392<div style=" 16393 margin-left: 3em; 16394 color: #ccccff; 16395 ">what things are we!</div> 16396 16397 16398 16399 16400<div style=" 16401 color: #ff9900; 16402 ">Second Lord</div> 16403 16404<div style=" 16405 margin-left: 3em; 16406 color: #ccccff; 16407 ">Merely our own traitors. And as in the common course</div> 16408 16409<div style=" 16410 margin-left: 3em; 16411 color: #ccccff; 16412 ">of all treasons, we still see them reveal</div> 16413 16414<div style=" 16415 margin-left: 3em; 16416 color: #ccccff; 16417 ">themselves, till they attain to their abhorred ends,</div> 16418 16419<div style=" 16420 margin-left: 3em; 16421 color: #ccccff; 16422 ">so he that in this action contrives against his own</div> 16423 16424<div style=" 16425 margin-left: 3em; 16426 color: #ccccff; 16427 ">nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself.</div> 16428 16429 16430 16431 16432<div style=" 16433 color: #ff9900; 16434 ">First Lord</div> 16435 16436<div style=" 16437 margin-left: 3em; 16438 color: #ccccff; 16439 ">Is it not meant damnable in us, to be trumpeters of</div> 16440 16441<div style=" 16442 margin-left: 3em; 16443 color: #ccccff; 16444 ">our unlawful intents? We shall not then have his</div> 16445 16446<div style=" 16447 margin-left: 3em; 16448 color: #ccccff; 16449 ">company to-night?</div> 16450 16451 16452 16453 16454<div style=" 16455 color: #ff9900; 16456 ">Second Lord</div> 16457 16458<div style=" 16459 margin-left: 3em; 16460 color: #ccccff; 16461 ">Not till after midnight; for he is dieted to his hour.</div> 16462 16463 16464 16465 16466<div style=" 16467 color: #ff9900; 16468 ">First Lord</div> 16469 16470<div style=" 16471 margin-left: 3em; 16472 color: #ccccff; 16473 ">That approaches apace; I would gladly have him see</div> 16474 16475<div style=" 16476 margin-left: 3em; 16477 color: #ccccff; 16478 ">his company anatomized, that he might take a measure</div> 16479 16480<div style=" 16481 margin-left: 3em; 16482 color: #ccccff; 16483 ">of his own judgments, wherein so curiously he had</div> 16484 16485<div style=" 16486 margin-left: 3em; 16487 color: #ccccff; 16488 ">set this counterfeit.</div> 16489 16490 16491 16492 16493<div style=" 16494 color: #ff9900; 16495 ">Second Lord</div> 16496 16497<div style=" 16498 margin-left: 3em; 16499 color: #ccccff; 16500 ">We will not meddle with him till he come; for his</div> 16501 16502<div style=" 16503 margin-left: 3em; 16504 color: #ccccff; 16505 ">presence must be the whip of the other.</div> 16506 16507 16508 16509 16510<div style=" 16511 color: #ff9900; 16512 ">First Lord</div> 16513 16514<div style=" 16515 margin-left: 3em; 16516 color: #ccccff; 16517 ">In the mean time, what hear you of these wars?</div> 16518 16519 16520 16521 16522<div style=" 16523 color: #ff9900; 16524 ">Second Lord</div> 16525 16526<div style=" 16527 margin-left: 3em; 16528 color: #ccccff; 16529 ">I hear there is an overture of peace.</div> 16530 16531 16532 16533 16534<div style=" 16535 color: #ff9900; 16536 ">First Lord</div> 16537 16538<div style=" 16539 margin-left: 3em; 16540 color: #ccccff; 16541 ">Nay, I assure you, a peace concluded.</div> 16542 16543 16544 16545 16546<div style=" 16547 color: #ff9900; 16548 ">Second Lord</div> 16549 16550<div style=" 16551 margin-left: 3em; 16552 color: #ccccff; 16553 ">What will Count Rousillon do then? will he travel</div> 16554 16555<div style=" 16556 margin-left: 3em; 16557 color: #ccccff; 16558 ">higher, or return again into France?</div> 16559 16560 16561 16562 16563<div style=" 16564 color: #ff9900; 16565 ">First Lord</div> 16566 16567<div style=" 16568 margin-left: 3em; 16569 color: #ccccff; 16570 ">I perceive, by this demand, you are not altogether</div> 16571 16572<div style=" 16573 margin-left: 3em; 16574 color: #ccccff; 16575 ">of his council.</div> 16576 16577 16578 16579 16580<div style=" 16581 color: #ff9900; 16582 ">Second Lord</div> 16583 16584<div style=" 16585 margin-left: 3em; 16586 color: #ccccff; 16587 ">Let it be forbid, sir; so should I be a great deal</div> 16588 16589<div style=" 16590 margin-left: 3em; 16591 color: #ccccff; 16592 ">of his act.</div> 16593 16594 16595 16596 16597<div style=" 16598 color: #ff9900; 16599 ">First Lord</div> 16600 16601<div style=" 16602 margin-left: 3em; 16603 color: #ccccff; 16604 ">Sir, his wife some two months since fled from his</div> 16605 16606<div style=" 16607 margin-left: 3em; 16608 color: #ccccff; 16609 ">house: her pretence is a pilgrimage to Saint Jaques</div> 16610 16611<div style=" 16612 margin-left: 3em; 16613 color: #ccccff; 16614 ">le Grand; which holy undertaking with most austere</div> 16615 16616<div style=" 16617 margin-left: 3em; 16618 color: #ccccff; 16619 ">sanctimony she accomplished; and, there residing the</div> 16620 16621<div style=" 16622 margin-left: 3em; 16623 color: #ccccff; 16624 ">tenderness of her nature became as a prey to her</div> 16625 16626<div style=" 16627 margin-left: 3em; 16628 color: #ccccff; 16629 ">grief; in fine, made a groan of her last breath, and</div> 16630 16631<div style=" 16632 margin-left: 3em; 16633 color: #ccccff; 16634 ">now she sings in heaven.</div> 16635 16636 16637 16638 16639<div style=" 16640 color: #ff9900; 16641 ">Second Lord</div> 16642 16643<div style=" 16644 margin-left: 3em; 16645 color: #ccccff; 16646 ">How is this justified?</div> 16647 16648 16649 16650 16651<div style=" 16652 color: #ff9900; 16653 ">First Lord</div> 16654 16655<div style=" 16656 margin-left: 3em; 16657 color: #ccccff; 16658 ">The stronger part of it by her own letters, which</div> 16659 16660<div style=" 16661 margin-left: 3em; 16662 color: #ccccff; 16663 ">makes her story true, even to the point of her</div> 16664 16665<div style=" 16666 margin-left: 3em; 16667 color: #ccccff; 16668 ">death: her death itself, which could not be her</div> 16669 16670<div style=" 16671 margin-left: 3em; 16672 color: #ccccff; 16673 ">office to say is come, was faithfully confirmed by</div> 16674 16675<div style=" 16676 margin-left: 3em; 16677 color: #ccccff; 16678 ">the rector of the place.</div> 16679 16680 16681 16682 16683<div style=" 16684 color: #ff9900; 16685 ">Second Lord</div> 16686 16687<div style=" 16688 margin-left: 3em; 16689 color: #ccccff; 16690 ">Hath the count all this intelligence?</div> 16691 16692 16693 16694 16695<div style=" 16696 color: #ff9900; 16697 ">First Lord</div> 16698 16699<div style=" 16700 margin-left: 3em; 16701 color: #ccccff; 16702 ">Ay, and the particular confirmations, point from</div> 16703 16704<div style=" 16705 margin-left: 3em; 16706 color: #ccccff; 16707 ">point, so to the full arming of the verity.</div> 16708 16709 16710 16711 16712<div style=" 16713 color: #ff9900; 16714 ">Second Lord</div> 16715 16716<div style=" 16717 margin-left: 3em; 16718 color: #ccccff; 16719 ">I am heartily sorry that he'll be glad of this.</div> 16720 16721 16722 16723 16724<div style=" 16725 color: #ff9900; 16726 ">First Lord</div> 16727 16728<div style=" 16729 margin-left: 3em; 16730 color: #ccccff; 16731 ">How mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our losses!</div> 16732 16733 16734 16735 16736<div style=" 16737 color: #ff9900; 16738 ">Second Lord</div> 16739 16740<div style=" 16741 margin-left: 3em; 16742 color: #ccccff; 16743 ">And how mightily some other times we drown our gain</div> 16744 16745<div style=" 16746 margin-left: 3em; 16747 color: #ccccff; 16748 ">in tears! The great dignity that his valour hath</div> 16749 16750<div style=" 16751 margin-left: 3em; 16752 color: #ccccff; 16753 ">here acquired for him shall at home be encountered</div> 16754 16755<div style=" 16756 margin-left: 3em; 16757 color: #ccccff; 16758 ">with a shame as ample.</div> 16759 16760 16761 16762 16763<div style=" 16764 color: #ff9900; 16765 ">First Lord</div> 16766 16767<div style=" 16768 margin-left: 3em; 16769 color: #ccccff; 16770 ">The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and</div> 16771 16772<div style=" 16773 margin-left: 3em; 16774 color: #ccccff; 16775 ">ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our</div> 16776 16777<div style=" 16778 margin-left: 3em; 16779 color: #ccccff; 16780 ">faults whipped them not; and our crimes would</div> 16781 16782<div style=" 16783 margin-left: 3em; 16784 color: #ccccff; 16785 ">despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.</div> 16786 16787<div style=" 16788 position: relative; 16789 width: 40%; 16790 left: 50%; 16791 text-align: right; 16792 margin: 0.5em; 16793 padding-right: 1em; 16794 padding-left: 1em; 16795 border-color: #ff9900; 16796 border-width: 1px; 16797 border-bottom-style: solid; 16798 border-top-style: solid; 16799 font-size: 9pt; 16800 color: #9999cc; 16801 ">Enter a Messenger</div> 16802 16803<div style=" 16804 margin-left: 3em; 16805 color: #ccccff; 16806 ">How now! where's your master?</div> 16807 16808 16809 16810 16811<div style=" 16812 color: #ff9900; 16813 ">Servant</div> 16814 16815<div style=" 16816 margin-left: 3em; 16817 color: #ccccff; 16818 ">He met the duke in the street, sir, of whom he hath</div> 16819 16820<div style=" 16821 margin-left: 3em; 16822 color: #ccccff; 16823 ">taken a solemn leave: his lordship will next</div> 16824 16825<div style=" 16826 margin-left: 3em; 16827 color: #ccccff; 16828 ">morning for France. The duke hath offered him</div> 16829 16830<div style=" 16831 margin-left: 3em; 16832 color: #ccccff; 16833 ">letters of commendations to the king.</div> 16834 16835 16836 16837 16838<div style=" 16839 color: #ff9900; 16840 ">Second Lord</div> 16841 16842<div style=" 16843 margin-left: 3em; 16844 color: #ccccff; 16845 ">They shall be no more than needful there, if they</div> 16846 16847<div style=" 16848 margin-left: 3em; 16849 color: #ccccff; 16850 ">were more than they can commend.</div> 16851 16852 16853 16854 16855<div style=" 16856 color: #ff9900; 16857 ">First Lord</div> 16858 16859<div style=" 16860 margin-left: 3em; 16861 color: #ccccff; 16862 ">They cannot be too sweet for the king's tartness.</div> 16863 16864<div style=" 16865 margin-left: 3em; 16866 color: #ccccff; 16867 ">Here's his lordship now.</div> 16868 16869<div style=" 16870 position: relative; 16871 width: 40%; 16872 left: 50%; 16873 text-align: right; 16874 margin: 0.5em; 16875 padding-right: 1em; 16876 padding-left: 1em; 16877 border-color: #ff9900; 16878 border-width: 1px; 16879 border-bottom-style: solid; 16880 border-top-style: solid; 16881 font-size: 9pt; 16882 color: #9999cc; 16883 ">Enter BERTRAM</div> 16884 16885<div style=" 16886 margin-left: 3em; 16887 color: #ccccff; 16888 ">How now, my lord! is't not after midnight?</div> 16889 16890 16891 16892 16893<div style=" 16894 color: #ff9900; 16895 ">BERTRAM</div> 16896 16897<div style=" 16898 margin-left: 3em; 16899 color: #ccccff; 16900 ">I have to-night dispatched sixteen businesses, a</div> 16901 16902<div style=" 16903 margin-left: 3em; 16904 color: #ccccff; 16905 ">month's length a-piece, by an abstract of success:</div> 16906 16907<div style=" 16908 margin-left: 3em; 16909 color: #ccccff; 16910 ">I have congied with the duke, done my adieu with his</div> 16911 16912<div style=" 16913 margin-left: 3em; 16914 color: #ccccff; 16915 ">nearest; buried a wife, mourned for her; writ to my</div> 16916 16917<div style=" 16918 margin-left: 3em; 16919 color: #ccccff; 16920 ">lady mother I am returning; entertained my convoy;</div> 16921 16922<div style=" 16923 margin-left: 3em; 16924 color: #ccccff; 16925 ">and between these main parcels of dispatch effected</div> 16926 16927<div style=" 16928 margin-left: 3em; 16929 color: #ccccff; 16930 ">many nicer needs; the last was the greatest, but</div> 16931 16932<div style=" 16933 margin-left: 3em; 16934 color: #ccccff; 16935 ">that I have not ended yet.</div> 16936 16937 16938 16939 16940<div style=" 16941 color: #ff9900; 16942 ">Second Lord</div> 16943 16944<div style=" 16945 margin-left: 3em; 16946 color: #ccccff; 16947 ">If the business be of any difficulty, and this</div> 16948 16949<div style=" 16950 margin-left: 3em; 16951 color: #ccccff; 16952 ">morning your departure hence, it requires haste of</div> 16953 16954<div style=" 16955 margin-left: 3em; 16956 color: #ccccff; 16957 ">your lordship.</div> 16958 16959 16960 16961 16962<div style=" 16963 color: #ff9900; 16964 ">BERTRAM</div> 16965 16966<div style=" 16967 margin-left: 3em; 16968 color: #ccccff; 16969 ">I mean, the business is not ended, as fearing to</div> 16970 16971<div style=" 16972 margin-left: 3em; 16973 color: #ccccff; 16974 ">hear of it hereafter. But shall we have this</div> 16975 16976<div style=" 16977 margin-left: 3em; 16978 color: #ccccff; 16979 ">dialogue between the fool and the soldier? Come,</div> 16980 16981<div style=" 16982 margin-left: 3em; 16983 color: #ccccff; 16984 ">bring forth this counterfeit module, he has deceived</div> 16985 16986<div style=" 16987 margin-left: 3em; 16988 color: #ccccff; 16989 ">me, like a double-meaning prophesier.</div> 16990 16991 16992 16993 16994<div style=" 16995 color: #ff9900; 16996 ">Second Lord</div> 16997 16998<div style=" 16999 margin-left: 3em; 17000 color: #ccccff; 17001 ">Bring him forth: has sat i' the stocks all night,</div> 17002 17003<div style=" 17004 margin-left: 3em; 17005 color: #ccccff; 17006 ">poor gallant knave.</div> 17007 17008 17009 17010 17011<div style=" 17012 color: #ff9900; 17013 ">BERTRAM</div> 17014 17015<div style=" 17016 margin-left: 3em; 17017 color: #ccccff; 17018 ">No matter: his heels have deserved it, in usurping</div> 17019 17020<div style=" 17021 margin-left: 3em; 17022 color: #ccccff; 17023 ">his spurs so long. How does he carry himself?</div> 17024 17025 17026 17027 17028<div style=" 17029 color: #ff9900; 17030 ">Second Lord</div> 17031 17032<div style=" 17033 margin-left: 3em; 17034 color: #ccccff; 17035 ">I have told your lordship already, the stocks carry</div> 17036 17037<div style=" 17038 margin-left: 3em; 17039 color: #ccccff; 17040 ">him. But to answer you as you would be understood;</div> 17041 17042<div style=" 17043 margin-left: 3em; 17044 color: #ccccff; 17045 ">he weeps like a wench that had shed her milk: he</div> 17046 17047<div style=" 17048 margin-left: 3em; 17049 color: #ccccff; 17050 ">hath confessed himself to Morgan, whom he supposes</div> 17051 17052<div style=" 17053 margin-left: 3em; 17054 color: #ccccff; 17055 ">to be a friar, from the time of his remembrance to</div> 17056 17057<div style=" 17058 margin-left: 3em; 17059 color: #ccccff; 17060 ">this very instant disaster of his setting i' the</div> 17061 17062<div style=" 17063 margin-left: 3em; 17064 color: #ccccff; 17065 ">stocks: and what think you he hath confessed?</div> 17066 17067 17068 17069 17070<div style=" 17071 color: #ff9900; 17072 ">BERTRAM</div> 17073 17074<div style=" 17075 margin-left: 3em; 17076 color: #ccccff; 17077 ">Nothing of me, has a'?</div> 17078 17079 17080 17081 17082<div style=" 17083 color: #ff9900; 17084 ">Second Lord</div> 17085 17086<div style=" 17087 margin-left: 3em; 17088 color: #ccccff; 17089 ">His confession is taken, and it shall be read to his</div> 17090 17091<div style=" 17092 margin-left: 3em; 17093 color: #ccccff; 17094 ">face: if your lordship be in't, as I believe you</div> 17095 17096<div style=" 17097 margin-left: 3em; 17098 color: #ccccff; 17099 ">are, you must have the patience to hear it.</div> 17100 17101 17102 17103<div style=" 17104 position: relative; 17105 width: 40%; 17106 left: 50%; 17107 text-align: right; 17108 margin: 0.5em; 17109 padding-right: 1em; 17110 padding-left: 1em; 17111 border-color: #ff9900; 17112 border-width: 1px; 17113 border-bottom-style: solid; 17114 border-top-style: solid; 17115 font-size: 9pt; 17116 color: #9999cc; 17117 ">Enter PAROLLES guarded, and First Soldier</div> 17118 17119 17120 17121<div style=" 17122 color: #ff9900; 17123 ">BERTRAM</div> 17124 17125<div style=" 17126 margin-left: 3em; 17127 color: #ccccff; 17128 ">A plague upon him! muffled! he can say nothing of</div> 17129 17130<div style=" 17131 margin-left: 3em; 17132 color: #ccccff; 17133 ">me: hush, hush!</div> 17134 17135 17136 17137 17138<div style=" 17139 color: #ff9900; 17140 ">First Lord</div> 17141 17142<div style=" 17143 margin-left: 3em; 17144 color: #ccccff; 17145 ">Hoodman comes! Portotartarosa</div> 17146 17147 17148 17149 17150<div style=" 17151 color: #ff9900; 17152 ">First Soldier</div> 17153 17154<div style=" 17155 margin-left: 3em; 17156 color: #ccccff; 17157 ">He calls for the tortures: what will you say</div> 17158 17159<div style=" 17160 margin-left: 3em; 17161 color: #ccccff; 17162 ">without 'em?</div> 17163 17164 17165 17166 17167<div style=" 17168 color: #ff9900; 17169 ">PAROLLES</div> 17170 17171<div style=" 17172 margin-left: 3em; 17173 color: #ccccff; 17174 ">I will confess what I know without constraint: if</div> 17175 17176<div style=" 17177 margin-left: 3em; 17178 color: #ccccff; 17179 ">ye pinch me like a pasty, I can say no more.</div> 17180 17181 17182 17183 17184<div style=" 17185 color: #ff9900; 17186 ">First Soldier</div> 17187 17188<div style=" 17189 margin-left: 3em; 17190 color: #ccccff; 17191 ">Bosko chimurcho.</div> 17192 17193 17194 17195 17196<div style=" 17197 color: #ff9900; 17198 ">First Lord</div> 17199 17200<div style=" 17201 margin-left: 3em; 17202 color: #ccccff; 17203 ">Boblibindo chicurmurco.</div> 17204 17205 17206 17207 17208<div style=" 17209 color: #ff9900; 17210 ">First Soldier</div> 17211 17212<div style=" 17213 margin-left: 3em; 17214 color: #ccccff; 17215 ">You are a merciful general. Our general bids you</div> 17216 17217<div style=" 17218 margin-left: 3em; 17219 color: #ccccff; 17220 ">answer to what I shall ask you out of a note.</div> 17221 17222 17223 17224 17225<div style=" 17226 color: #ff9900; 17227 ">PAROLLES</div> 17228 17229<div style=" 17230 margin-left: 3em; 17231 color: #ccccff; 17232 ">And truly, as I hope to live.</div> 17233 17234 17235 17236 17237<div style=" 17238 color: #ff9900; 17239 ">First Soldier</div> 17240 17241<div style=" 17242 margin-left: 3em; 17243 color: #ccccff; 17244 ">Reads 'First demand of him how many horse the</div> 17245 17246<div style=" 17247 margin-left: 3em; 17248 color: #ccccff; 17249 ">duke is strong.' What say you to that?</div> 17250 17251 17252 17253 17254<div style=" 17255 color: #ff9900; 17256 ">PAROLLES</div> 17257 17258<div style=" 17259 margin-left: 3em; 17260 color: #ccccff; 17261 ">Five or six thousand; but very weak and</div> 17262 17263<div style=" 17264 margin-left: 3em; 17265 color: #ccccff; 17266 ">unserviceable: the troops are all scattered, and</div> 17267 17268<div style=" 17269 margin-left: 3em; 17270 color: #ccccff; 17271 ">the commanders very poor rogues, upon my reputation</div> 17272 17273<div style=" 17274 margin-left: 3em; 17275 color: #ccccff; 17276 ">and credit and as I hope to live.</div> 17277 17278 17279 17280 17281<div style=" 17282 color: #ff9900; 17283 ">First Soldier</div> 17284 17285<div style=" 17286 margin-left: 3em; 17287 color: #ccccff; 17288 ">Shall I set down your answer so?</div> 17289 17290 17291 17292 17293<div style=" 17294 color: #ff9900; 17295 ">PAROLLES</div> 17296 17297<div style=" 17298 margin-left: 3em; 17299 color: #ccccff; 17300 ">Do: I'll take the sacrament on't, how and which way you will.</div> 17301 17302 17303 17304 17305<div style=" 17306 color: #ff9900; 17307 ">BERTRAM</div> 17308 17309<div style=" 17310 margin-left: 3em; 17311 color: #ccccff; 17312 ">All's one to him. What a past-saving slave is this!</div> 17313 17314 17315 17316 17317<div style=" 17318 color: #ff9900; 17319 ">First Lord</div> 17320 17321<div style=" 17322 margin-left: 3em; 17323 color: #ccccff; 17324 ">You're deceived, my lord: this is Monsieur</div> 17325 17326<div style=" 17327 margin-left: 3em; 17328 color: #ccccff; 17329 ">Parolles, the gallant militarist,--that was his own</div> 17330 17331<div style=" 17332 margin-left: 3em; 17333 color: #ccccff; 17334 ">phrase,--that had the whole theoric of war in the</div> 17335 17336<div style=" 17337 margin-left: 3em; 17338 color: #ccccff; 17339 ">knot of his scarf, and the practise in the chape of</div> 17340 17341<div style=" 17342 margin-left: 3em; 17343 color: #ccccff; 17344 ">his dagger.</div> 17345 17346 17347 17348 17349<div style=" 17350 color: #ff9900; 17351 ">Second Lord</div> 17352 17353<div style=" 17354 margin-left: 3em; 17355 color: #ccccff; 17356 ">I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword</div> 17357 17358<div style=" 17359 margin-left: 3em; 17360 color: #ccccff; 17361 ">clean. nor believe he can have every thing in him</div> 17362 17363<div style=" 17364 margin-left: 3em; 17365 color: #ccccff; 17366 ">by wearing his apparel neatly.</div> 17367 17368 17369 17370 17371<div style=" 17372 color: #ff9900; 17373 ">First Soldier</div> 17374 17375<div style=" 17376 margin-left: 3em; 17377 color: #ccccff; 17378 ">Well, that's set down.</div> 17379 17380 17381 17382 17383<div style=" 17384 color: #ff9900; 17385 ">PAROLLES</div> 17386 17387<div style=" 17388 margin-left: 3em; 17389 color: #ccccff; 17390 ">Five or six thousand horse, I said,-- I will say</div> 17391 17392<div style=" 17393 margin-left: 3em; 17394 color: #ccccff; 17395 ">true,--or thereabouts, set down, for I'll speak truth.</div> 17396 17397 17398 17399 17400<div style=" 17401 color: #ff9900; 17402 ">First Lord</div> 17403 17404<div style=" 17405 margin-left: 3em; 17406 color: #ccccff; 17407 ">He's very near the truth in this.</div> 17408 17409 17410 17411 17412<div style=" 17413 color: #ff9900; 17414 ">BERTRAM</div> 17415 17416<div style=" 17417 margin-left: 3em; 17418 color: #ccccff; 17419 ">But I con him no thanks for't, in the nature he</div> 17420 17421<div style=" 17422 margin-left: 3em; 17423 color: #ccccff; 17424 ">delivers it.</div> 17425 17426 17427 17428 17429<div style=" 17430 color: #ff9900; 17431 ">PAROLLES</div> 17432 17433<div style=" 17434 margin-left: 3em; 17435 color: #ccccff; 17436 ">Poor rogues, I pray you, say.</div> 17437 17438 17439 17440 17441<div style=" 17442 color: #ff9900; 17443 ">First Soldier</div> 17444 17445<div style=" 17446 margin-left: 3em; 17447 color: #ccccff; 17448 ">Well, that's set down.</div> 17449 17450 17451 17452 17453<div style=" 17454 color: #ff9900; 17455 ">PAROLLES</div> 17456 17457<div style=" 17458 margin-left: 3em; 17459 color: #ccccff; 17460 ">I humbly thank you, sir: a truth's a truth, the</div> 17461 17462<div style=" 17463 margin-left: 3em; 17464 color: #ccccff; 17465 ">rogues are marvellous poor.</div> 17466 17467 17468 17469 17470<div style=" 17471 color: #ff9900; 17472 ">First Soldier</div> 17473 17474<div style=" 17475 margin-left: 3em; 17476 color: #ccccff; 17477 ">Reads 'Demand of him, of what strength they are</div> 17478 17479<div style=" 17480 margin-left: 3em; 17481 color: #ccccff; 17482 ">a-foot.' What say you to that?</div> 17483 17484 17485 17486 17487<div style=" 17488 color: #ff9900; 17489 ">PAROLLES</div> 17490 17491<div style=" 17492 margin-left: 3em; 17493 color: #ccccff; 17494 ">By my troth, sir, if I were to live this present</div> 17495 17496<div style=" 17497 margin-left: 3em; 17498 color: #ccccff; 17499 ">hour, I will tell true. Let me see: Spurio, a</div> 17500 17501<div style=" 17502 margin-left: 3em; 17503 color: #ccccff; 17504 ">hundred and fifty; Sebastian, so many; Corambus, so</div> 17505 17506<div style=" 17507 margin-left: 3em; 17508 color: #ccccff; 17509 ">many; Jaques, so many; Guiltian, Cosmo, Lodowick,</div> 17510 17511<div style=" 17512 margin-left: 3em; 17513 color: #ccccff; 17514 ">and Gratii, two hundred and fifty each; mine own</div> 17515 17516<div style=" 17517 margin-left: 3em; 17518 color: #ccccff; 17519 ">company, Chitopher, Vaumond, Bentii, two hundred and</div> 17520 17521<div style=" 17522 margin-left: 3em; 17523 color: #ccccff; 17524 ">fifty each: so that the muster-file, rotten and</div> 17525 17526<div style=" 17527 margin-left: 3em; 17528 color: #ccccff; 17529 ">sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand</div> 17530 17531<div style=" 17532 margin-left: 3em; 17533 color: #ccccff; 17534 ">poll; half of the which dare not shake snow from off</div> 17535 17536<div style=" 17537 margin-left: 3em; 17538 color: #ccccff; 17539 ">their cassocks, lest they shake themselves to pieces.</div> 17540 17541 17542 17543 17544<div style=" 17545 color: #ff9900; 17546 ">BERTRAM</div> 17547 17548<div style=" 17549 margin-left: 3em; 17550 color: #ccccff; 17551 ">What shall be done to him?</div> 17552 17553 17554 17555 17556<div style=" 17557 color: #ff9900; 17558 ">First Lord</div> 17559 17560<div style=" 17561 margin-left: 3em; 17562 color: #ccccff; 17563 ">Nothing, but let him have thanks. Demand of him my</div> 17564 17565<div style=" 17566 margin-left: 3em; 17567 color: #ccccff; 17568 ">condition, and what credit I have with the duke.</div> 17569 17570 17571 17572 17573<div style=" 17574 color: #ff9900; 17575 ">First Soldier</div> 17576 17577<div style=" 17578 margin-left: 3em; 17579 color: #ccccff; 17580 ">Well, that's set down.</div> 17581 17582<div style=" 17583 position: relative; 17584 width: 40%; 17585 left: 50%; 17586 text-align: right; 17587 margin: 0.5em; 17588 padding-right: 1em; 17589 padding-left: 1em; 17590 border-color: #ff9900; 17591 border-width: 1px; 17592 border-bottom-style: solid; 17593 border-top-style: solid; 17594 font-size: 9pt; 17595 color: #9999cc; 17596 ">Reads</div> 17597 17598<div style=" 17599 margin-left: 3em; 17600 color: #ccccff; 17601 ">'You shall demand of him, whether one Captain Dumain</div> 17602 17603<div style=" 17604 margin-left: 3em; 17605 color: #ccccff; 17606 ">be i' the camp, a Frenchman; what his reputation is</div> 17607 17608<div style=" 17609 margin-left: 3em; 17610 color: #ccccff; 17611 ">with the duke; what his valour, honesty, and</div> 17612 17613<div style=" 17614 margin-left: 3em; 17615 color: #ccccff; 17616 ">expertness in wars; or whether he thinks it were not</div> 17617 17618<div style=" 17619 margin-left: 3em; 17620 color: #ccccff; 17621 ">possible, with well-weighing sums of gold, to</div> 17622 17623<div style=" 17624 margin-left: 3em; 17625 color: #ccccff; 17626 ">corrupt him to revolt.' What say you to this? what</div> 17627 17628<div style=" 17629 margin-left: 3em; 17630 color: #ccccff; 17631 ">do you know of it?</div> 17632 17633 17634 17635 17636<div style=" 17637 color: #ff9900; 17638 ">PAROLLES</div> 17639 17640<div style=" 17641 margin-left: 3em; 17642 color: #ccccff; 17643 ">I beseech you, let me answer to the particular of</div> 17644 17645<div style=" 17646 margin-left: 3em; 17647 color: #ccccff; 17648 ">the inter'gatories: demand them singly.</div> 17649 17650 17651 17652 17653<div style=" 17654 color: #ff9900; 17655 ">First Soldier</div> 17656 17657<div style=" 17658 margin-left: 3em; 17659 color: #ccccff; 17660 ">Do you know this Captain Dumain?</div> 17661 17662 17663 17664 17665<div style=" 17666 color: #ff9900; 17667 ">PAROLLES</div> 17668 17669<div style=" 17670 margin-left: 3em; 17671 color: #ccccff; 17672 ">I know him: a' was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris,</div> 17673 17674<div style=" 17675 margin-left: 3em; 17676 color: #ccccff; 17677 ">from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's</div> 17678 17679<div style=" 17680 margin-left: 3em; 17681 color: #ccccff; 17682 ">fool with child,--a dumb innocent, that could not</div> 17683 17684<div style=" 17685 margin-left: 3em; 17686 color: #ccccff; 17687 ">say him nay.</div> 17688 17689 17690 17691 17692<div style=" 17693 color: #ff9900; 17694 ">BERTRAM</div> 17695 17696<div style=" 17697 margin-left: 3em; 17698 color: #ccccff; 17699 ">Nay, by your leave, hold your hands; though I know</div> 17700 17701<div style=" 17702 margin-left: 3em; 17703 color: #ccccff; 17704 ">his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls.</div> 17705 17706 17707 17708 17709<div style=" 17710 color: #ff9900; 17711 ">First Soldier</div> 17712 17713<div style=" 17714 margin-left: 3em; 17715 color: #ccccff; 17716 ">Well, is this captain in the duke of Florence's camp?</div> 17717 17718 17719 17720 17721<div style=" 17722 color: #ff9900; 17723 ">PAROLLES</div> 17724 17725<div style=" 17726 margin-left: 3em; 17727 color: #ccccff; 17728 ">Upon my knowledge, he is, and lousy.</div> 17729 17730 17731 17732 17733<div style=" 17734 color: #ff9900; 17735 ">First Lord</div> 17736 17737<div style=" 17738 margin-left: 3em; 17739 color: #ccccff; 17740 ">Nay look not so upon me; we shall hear of your</div> 17741 17742<div style=" 17743 margin-left: 3em; 17744 color: #ccccff; 17745 ">lordship anon.</div> 17746 17747 17748 17749 17750<div style=" 17751 color: #ff9900; 17752 ">First Soldier</div> 17753 17754<div style=" 17755 margin-left: 3em; 17756 color: #ccccff; 17757 ">What is his reputation with the duke?</div> 17758 17759 17760 17761 17762<div style=" 17763 color: #ff9900; 17764 ">PAROLLES</div> 17765 17766<div style=" 17767 margin-left: 3em; 17768 color: #ccccff; 17769 ">The duke knows him for no other but a poor officer</div> 17770 17771<div style=" 17772 margin-left: 3em; 17773 color: #ccccff; 17774 ">of mine; and writ to me this other day to turn him</div> 17775 17776<div style=" 17777 margin-left: 3em; 17778 color: #ccccff; 17779 ">out o' the band: I think I have his letter in my pocket.</div> 17780 17781 17782 17783 17784<div style=" 17785 color: #ff9900; 17786 ">First Soldier</div> 17787 17788<div style=" 17789 margin-left: 3em; 17790 color: #ccccff; 17791 ">Marry, we'll search.</div> 17792 17793 17794 17795 17796<div style=" 17797 color: #ff9900; 17798 ">PAROLLES</div> 17799 17800<div style=" 17801 margin-left: 3em; 17802 color: #ccccff; 17803 ">In good sadness, I do not know; either it is there,</div> 17804 17805<div style=" 17806 margin-left: 3em; 17807 color: #ccccff; 17808 ">or it is upon a file with the duke's other letters</div> 17809 17810<div style=" 17811 margin-left: 3em; 17812 color: #ccccff; 17813 ">in my tent.</div> 17814 17815 17816 17817 17818<div style=" 17819 color: #ff9900; 17820 ">First Soldier</div> 17821 17822<div style=" 17823 margin-left: 3em; 17824 color: #ccccff; 17825 ">Here 'tis; here's a paper: shall I read it to you?</div> 17826 17827 17828 17829 17830<div style=" 17831 color: #ff9900; 17832 ">PAROLLES</div> 17833 17834<div style=" 17835 margin-left: 3em; 17836 color: #ccccff; 17837 ">I do not know if it be it or no.</div> 17838 17839 17840 17841 17842<div style=" 17843 color: #ff9900; 17844 ">BERTRAM</div> 17845 17846<div style=" 17847 margin-left: 3em; 17848 color: #ccccff; 17849 ">Our interpreter does it well.</div> 17850 17851 17852 17853 17854<div style=" 17855 color: #ff9900; 17856 ">First Lord</div> 17857 17858<div style=" 17859 margin-left: 3em; 17860 color: #ccccff; 17861 ">Excellently.</div> 17862 17863 17864 17865 17866<div style=" 17867 color: #ff9900; 17868 ">First Soldier</div> 17869 17870<div style=" 17871 margin-left: 3em; 17872 color: #ccccff; 17873 ">Reads 'Dian, the count's a fool, and full of gold,'--</div> 17874 17875 17876 17877 17878<div style=" 17879 color: #ff9900; 17880 ">PAROLLES</div> 17881 17882<div style=" 17883 margin-left: 3em; 17884 color: #ccccff; 17885 ">That is not the duke's letter, sir; that is an</div> 17886 17887<div style=" 17888 margin-left: 3em; 17889 color: #ccccff; 17890 ">advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one</div> 17891 17892<div style=" 17893 margin-left: 3em; 17894 color: #ccccff; 17895 ">Diana, to take heed of the allurement of one Count</div> 17896 17897<div style=" 17898 margin-left: 3em; 17899 color: #ccccff; 17900 ">Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that very</div> 17901 17902<div style=" 17903 margin-left: 3em; 17904 color: #ccccff; 17905 ">ruttish: I pray you, sir, put it up again.</div> 17906 17907 17908 17909 17910<div style=" 17911 color: #ff9900; 17912 ">First Soldier</div> 17913 17914<div style=" 17915 margin-left: 3em; 17916 color: #ccccff; 17917 ">Nay, I'll read it first, by your favour.</div> 17918 17919 17920 17921 17922<div style=" 17923 color: #ff9900; 17924 ">PAROLLES</div> 17925 17926<div style=" 17927 margin-left: 3em; 17928 color: #ccccff; 17929 ">My meaning in't, I protest, was very honest in the</div> 17930 17931<div style=" 17932 margin-left: 3em; 17933 color: #ccccff; 17934 ">behalf of the maid; for I knew the young count to be</div> 17935 17936<div style=" 17937 margin-left: 3em; 17938 color: #ccccff; 17939 ">a dangerous and lascivious boy, who is a whale to</div> 17940 17941<div style=" 17942 margin-left: 3em; 17943 color: #ccccff; 17944 ">virginity and devours up all the fry it finds.</div> 17945 17946 17947 17948 17949<div style=" 17950 color: #ff9900; 17951 ">BERTRAM</div> 17952 17953<div style=" 17954 margin-left: 3em; 17955 color: #ccccff; 17956 ">Damnable both-sides rogue!</div> 17957 17958 17959 17960 17961<div style=" 17962 color: #ff9900; 17963 ">First Soldier</div> 17964 17965<div style=" 17966 margin-left: 3em; 17967 color: #ccccff; 17968 ">Reads 'When he swears oaths, bid him drop gold, and take it;</div> 17969 17970<div style=" 17971 margin-left: 3em; 17972 color: #ccccff; 17973 ">After he scores, he never pays the score:</div> 17974 17975<div style=" 17976 margin-left: 3em; 17977 color: #ccccff; 17978 ">Half won is match well made; match, and well make it;</div> 17979 17980<div style=" 17981 margin-left: 3em; 17982 color: #ccccff; 17983 ">He ne'er pays after-debts, take it before;</div> 17984 17985<div style=" 17986 margin-left: 3em; 17987 color: #ccccff; 17988 ">And say a soldier, Dian, told thee this,</div> 17989 17990<div style=" 17991 margin-left: 3em; 17992 color: #ccccff; 17993 ">Men are to mell with, boys are not to kiss:</div> 17994 17995<div style=" 17996 margin-left: 3em; 17997 color: #ccccff; 17998 ">For count of this, the count's a fool, I know it,</div> 17999 18000<div style=" 18001 margin-left: 3em; 18002 color: #ccccff; 18003 ">Who pays before, but not when he does owe it.</div> 18004 18005<div style=" 18006 margin-left: 3em; 18007 color: #ccccff; 18008 ">Thine, as he vowed to thee in thine ear,</div> 18009 18010<div style=" 18011 margin-left: 3em; 18012 color: #ccccff; 18013 ">PAROLLES.'</div> 18014 18015 18016 18017 18018<div style=" 18019 color: #ff9900; 18020 ">BERTRAM</div> 18021 18022<div style=" 18023 margin-left: 3em; 18024 color: #ccccff; 18025 ">He shall be whipped through the army with this rhyme</div> 18026 18027<div style=" 18028 margin-left: 3em; 18029 color: #ccccff; 18030 ">in's forehead.</div> 18031 18032 18033 18034 18035<div style=" 18036 color: #ff9900; 18037 ">Second Lord</div> 18038 18039<div style=" 18040 margin-left: 3em; 18041 color: #ccccff; 18042 ">This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold</div> 18043 18044<div style=" 18045 margin-left: 3em; 18046 color: #ccccff; 18047 ">linguist and the armipotent soldier.</div> 18048 18049 18050 18051 18052<div style=" 18053 color: #ff9900; 18054 ">BERTRAM</div> 18055 18056<div style=" 18057 margin-left: 3em; 18058 color: #ccccff; 18059 ">I could endure any thing before but a cat, and now</div> 18060 18061<div style=" 18062 margin-left: 3em; 18063 color: #ccccff; 18064 ">he's a cat to me.</div> 18065 18066 18067 18068 18069<div style=" 18070 color: #ff9900; 18071 ">First Soldier</div> 18072 18073<div style=" 18074 margin-left: 3em; 18075 color: #ccccff; 18076 ">I perceive, sir, by the general's looks, we shall be</div> 18077 18078<div style=" 18079 margin-left: 3em; 18080 color: #ccccff; 18081 ">fain to hang you.</div> 18082 18083 18084 18085 18086<div style=" 18087 color: #ff9900; 18088 ">PAROLLES</div> 18089 18090<div style=" 18091 margin-left: 3em; 18092 color: #ccccff; 18093 ">My life, sir, in any case: not that I am afraid to</div> 18094 18095<div style=" 18096 margin-left: 3em; 18097 color: #ccccff; 18098 ">die; but that, my offences being many, I would</div> 18099 18100<div style=" 18101 margin-left: 3em; 18102 color: #ccccff; 18103 ">repent out the remainder of nature: let me live,</div> 18104 18105<div style=" 18106 margin-left: 3em; 18107 color: #ccccff; 18108 ">sir, in a dungeon, i' the stocks, or any where, so I may live.</div> 18109 18110 18111 18112 18113<div style=" 18114 color: #ff9900; 18115 ">First Soldier</div> 18116 18117<div style=" 18118 margin-left: 3em; 18119 color: #ccccff; 18120 ">We'll see what may be done, so you confess freely;</div> 18121 18122<div style=" 18123 margin-left: 3em; 18124 color: #ccccff; 18125 ">therefore, once more to this Captain Dumain: you</div> 18126 18127<div style=" 18128 margin-left: 3em; 18129 color: #ccccff; 18130 ">have answered to his reputation with the duke and to</div> 18131 18132<div style=" 18133 margin-left: 3em; 18134 color: #ccccff; 18135 ">his valour: what is his honesty?</div> 18136 18137 18138 18139 18140<div style=" 18141 color: #ff9900; 18142 ">PAROLLES</div> 18143 18144<div style=" 18145 margin-left: 3em; 18146 color: #ccccff; 18147 ">He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister: for</div> 18148 18149<div style=" 18150 margin-left: 3em; 18151 color: #ccccff; 18152 ">rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus: he</div> 18153 18154<div style=" 18155 margin-left: 3em; 18156 color: #ccccff; 18157 ">professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking 'em he</div> 18158 18159<div style=" 18160 margin-left: 3em; 18161 color: #ccccff; 18162 ">is stronger than Hercules: he will lie, sir, with</div> 18163 18164<div style=" 18165 margin-left: 3em; 18166 color: #ccccff; 18167 ">such volubility, that you would think truth were a</div> 18168 18169<div style=" 18170 margin-left: 3em; 18171 color: #ccccff; 18172 ">fool: drunkenness is his best virtue, for he will</div> 18173 18174<div style=" 18175 margin-left: 3em; 18176 color: #ccccff; 18177 ">be swine-drunk; and in his sleep he does little</div> 18178 18179<div style=" 18180 margin-left: 3em; 18181 color: #ccccff; 18182 ">harm, save to his bed-clothes about him; but they</div> 18183 18184<div style=" 18185 margin-left: 3em; 18186 color: #ccccff; 18187 ">know his conditions and lay him in straw. I have but</div> 18188 18189<div style=" 18190 margin-left: 3em; 18191 color: #ccccff; 18192 ">little more to say, sir, of his honesty: he has</div> 18193 18194<div style=" 18195 margin-left: 3em; 18196 color: #ccccff; 18197 ">every thing that an honest man should not have; what</div> 18198 18199<div style=" 18200 margin-left: 3em; 18201 color: #ccccff; 18202 ">an honest man should have, he has nothing.</div> 18203 18204 18205 18206 18207<div style=" 18208 color: #ff9900; 18209 ">First Lord</div> 18210 18211<div style=" 18212 margin-left: 3em; 18213 color: #ccccff; 18214 ">I begin to love him for this.</div> 18215 18216 18217 18218 18219<div style=" 18220 color: #ff9900; 18221 ">BERTRAM</div> 18222 18223<div style=" 18224 margin-left: 3em; 18225 color: #ccccff; 18226 ">For this description of thine honesty? A pox upon</div> 18227 18228<div style=" 18229 margin-left: 3em; 18230 color: #ccccff; 18231 ">him for me, he's more and more a cat.</div> 18232 18233 18234 18235 18236<div style=" 18237 color: #ff9900; 18238 ">First Soldier</div> 18239 18240<div style=" 18241 margin-left: 3em; 18242 color: #ccccff; 18243 ">What say you to his expertness in war?</div> 18244 18245 18246 18247 18248<div style=" 18249 color: #ff9900; 18250 ">PAROLLES</div> 18251 18252<div style=" 18253 margin-left: 3em; 18254 color: #ccccff; 18255 ">Faith, sir, he has led the drum before the English</div> 18256 18257<div style=" 18258 margin-left: 3em; 18259 color: #ccccff; 18260 ">tragedians; to belie him, I will not, and more of</div> 18261 18262<div style=" 18263 margin-left: 3em; 18264 color: #ccccff; 18265 ">his soldiership I know not; except, in that country</div> 18266 18267<div style=" 18268 margin-left: 3em; 18269 color: #ccccff; 18270 ">he had the honour to be the officer at a place there</div> 18271 18272<div style=" 18273 margin-left: 3em; 18274 color: #ccccff; 18275 ">called Mile-end, to instruct for the doubling of</div> 18276 18277<div style=" 18278 margin-left: 3em; 18279 color: #ccccff; 18280 ">files: I would do the man what honour I can, but of</div> 18281 18282<div style=" 18283 margin-left: 3em; 18284 color: #ccccff; 18285 ">this I am not certain.</div> 18286 18287 18288 18289 18290<div style=" 18291 color: #ff9900; 18292 ">First Lord</div> 18293 18294<div style=" 18295 margin-left: 3em; 18296 color: #ccccff; 18297 ">He hath out-villained villany so far, that the</div> 18298 18299<div style=" 18300 margin-left: 3em; 18301 color: #ccccff; 18302 ">rarity redeems him.</div> 18303 18304 18305 18306 18307<div style=" 18308 color: #ff9900; 18309 ">BERTRAM</div> 18310 18311<div style=" 18312 margin-left: 3em; 18313 color: #ccccff; 18314 ">A pox on him, he's a cat still.</div> 18315 18316 18317 18318 18319<div style=" 18320 color: #ff9900; 18321 ">First Soldier</div> 18322 18323<div style=" 18324 margin-left: 3em; 18325 color: #ccccff; 18326 ">His qualities being at this poor price, I need not</div> 18327 18328<div style=" 18329 margin-left: 3em; 18330 color: #ccccff; 18331 ">to ask you if gold will corrupt him to revolt.</div> 18332 18333 18334 18335 18336<div style=" 18337 color: #ff9900; 18338 ">PAROLLES</div> 18339 18340<div style=" 18341 margin-left: 3em; 18342 color: #ccccff; 18343 ">Sir, for a quart d'ecu he will sell the fee-simple</div> 18344 18345<div style=" 18346 margin-left: 3em; 18347 color: #ccccff; 18348 ">of his salvation, the inheritance of it; and cut the</div> 18349 18350<div style=" 18351 margin-left: 3em; 18352 color: #ccccff; 18353 ">entail from all remainders, and a perpetual</div> 18354 18355<div style=" 18356 margin-left: 3em; 18357 color: #ccccff; 18358 ">succession for it perpetually.</div> 18359 18360 18361 18362 18363<div style=" 18364 color: #ff9900; 18365 ">First Soldier</div> 18366 18367<div style=" 18368 margin-left: 3em; 18369 color: #ccccff; 18370 ">What's his brother, the other Captain Dumain?</div> 18371 18372 18373 18374 18375<div style=" 18376 color: #ff9900; 18377 ">Second Lord</div> 18378 18379<div style=" 18380 margin-left: 3em; 18381 color: #ccccff; 18382 ">Why does be ask him of me?</div> 18383 18384 18385 18386 18387<div style=" 18388 color: #ff9900; 18389 ">First Soldier</div> 18390 18391<div style=" 18392 margin-left: 3em; 18393 color: #ccccff; 18394 ">What's he?</div> 18395 18396 18397 18398 18399<div style=" 18400 color: #ff9900; 18401 ">PAROLLES</div> 18402 18403<div style=" 18404 margin-left: 3em; 18405 color: #ccccff; 18406 ">E'en a crow o' the same nest; not altogether so</div> 18407 18408<div style=" 18409 margin-left: 3em; 18410 color: #ccccff; 18411 ">great as the first in goodness, but greater a great</div> 18412 18413<div style=" 18414 margin-left: 3em; 18415 color: #ccccff; 18416 ">deal in evil: he excels his brother for a coward,</div> 18417 18418<div style=" 18419 margin-left: 3em; 18420 color: #ccccff; 18421 ">yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is:</div> 18422 18423<div style=" 18424 margin-left: 3em; 18425 color: #ccccff; 18426 ">in a retreat he outruns any lackey; marry, in coming</div> 18427 18428<div style=" 18429 margin-left: 3em; 18430 color: #ccccff; 18431 ">on he has the cramp.</div> 18432 18433 18434 18435 18436<div style=" 18437 color: #ff9900; 18438 ">First Soldier</div> 18439 18440<div style=" 18441 margin-left: 3em; 18442 color: #ccccff; 18443 ">If your life be saved, will you undertake to betray</div> 18444 18445<div style=" 18446 margin-left: 3em; 18447 color: #ccccff; 18448 ">the Florentine?</div> 18449 18450 18451 18452 18453<div style=" 18454 color: #ff9900; 18455 ">PAROLLES</div> 18456 18457<div style=" 18458 margin-left: 3em; 18459 color: #ccccff; 18460 ">Ay, and the captain of his horse, Count Rousillon.</div> 18461 18462 18463 18464 18465<div style=" 18466 color: #ff9900; 18467 ">First Soldier</div> 18468 18469<div style=" 18470 margin-left: 3em; 18471 color: #ccccff; 18472 ">I'll whisper with the general, and know his pleasure.</div> 18473 18474 18475 18476 18477<div style=" 18478 color: #ff9900; 18479 ">PAROLLES</div> 18480 18481<div style=" 18482 margin-left: 3em; 18483 color: #ccccff; 18484 ">Aside I'll no more drumming; a plague of all</div> 18485 18486<div style=" 18487 margin-left: 3em; 18488 color: #ccccff; 18489 ">drums! Only to seem to deserve well, and to</div> 18490 18491<div style=" 18492 margin-left: 3em; 18493 color: #ccccff; 18494 ">beguile the supposition of that lascivious young boy</div> 18495 18496<div style=" 18497 margin-left: 3em; 18498 color: #ccccff; 18499 ">the count, have I run into this danger. Yet who</div> 18500 18501<div style=" 18502 margin-left: 3em; 18503 color: #ccccff; 18504 ">would have suspected an ambush where I was taken?</div> 18505 18506 18507 18508 18509<div style=" 18510 color: #ff9900; 18511 ">First Soldier</div> 18512 18513<div style=" 18514 margin-left: 3em; 18515 color: #ccccff; 18516 ">There is no remedy, sir, but you must die: the</div> 18517 18518<div style=" 18519 margin-left: 3em; 18520 color: #ccccff; 18521 ">general says, you that have so traitorously</div> 18522 18523<div style=" 18524 margin-left: 3em; 18525 color: #ccccff; 18526 ">discovered the secrets of your army and made such</div> 18527 18528<div style=" 18529 margin-left: 3em; 18530 color: #ccccff; 18531 ">pestiferous reports of men very nobly held, can</div> 18532 18533<div style=" 18534 margin-left: 3em; 18535 color: #ccccff; 18536 ">serve the world for no honest use; therefore you</div> 18537 18538<div style=" 18539 margin-left: 3em; 18540 color: #ccccff; 18541 ">must die. Come, headsman, off with his head.</div> 18542 18543 18544 18545 18546<div style=" 18547 color: #ff9900; 18548 ">PAROLLES</div> 18549 18550<div style=" 18551 margin-left: 3em; 18552 color: #ccccff; 18553 ">O Lord, sir, let me live, or let me see my death!</div> 18554 18555 18556 18557 18558<div style=" 18559 color: #ff9900; 18560 ">First Lord</div> 18561 18562<div style=" 18563 margin-left: 3em; 18564 color: #ccccff; 18565 ">That shall you, and take your leave of all your friends.</div> 18566 18567<div style=" 18568 position: relative; 18569 width: 40%; 18570 left: 50%; 18571 text-align: right; 18572 margin: 0.5em; 18573 padding-right: 1em; 18574 padding-left: 1em; 18575 border-color: #ff9900; 18576 border-width: 1px; 18577 border-bottom-style: solid; 18578 border-top-style: solid; 18579 font-size: 9pt; 18580 color: #9999cc; 18581 ">Unblinding him</div> 18582 18583<div style=" 18584 margin-left: 3em; 18585 color: #ccccff; 18586 ">So, look about you: know you any here?</div> 18587 18588 18589 18590 18591<div style=" 18592 color: #ff9900; 18593 ">BERTRAM</div> 18594 18595<div style=" 18596 margin-left: 3em; 18597 color: #ccccff; 18598 ">Good morrow, noble captain.</div> 18599 18600 18601 18602 18603<div style=" 18604 color: #ff9900; 18605 ">Second Lord</div> 18606 18607<div style=" 18608 margin-left: 3em; 18609 color: #ccccff; 18610 ">God bless you, Captain Parolles.</div> 18611 18612 18613 18614 18615<div style=" 18616 color: #ff9900; 18617 ">First Lord</div> 18618 18619<div style=" 18620 margin-left: 3em; 18621 color: #ccccff; 18622 ">God save you, noble captain.</div> 18623 18624 18625 18626 18627<div style=" 18628 color: #ff9900; 18629 ">Second Lord</div> 18630 18631<div style=" 18632 margin-left: 3em; 18633 color: #ccccff; 18634 ">Captain, what greeting will you to my Lord Lafeu?</div> 18635 18636<div style=" 18637 margin-left: 3em; 18638 color: #ccccff; 18639 ">I am for France.</div> 18640 18641 18642 18643 18644<div style=" 18645 color: #ff9900; 18646 ">First Lord</div> 18647 18648<div style=" 18649 margin-left: 3em; 18650 color: #ccccff; 18651 ">Good captain, will you give me a copy of the sonnet</div> 18652 18653<div style=" 18654 margin-left: 3em; 18655 color: #ccccff; 18656 ">you writ to Diana in behalf of the Count Rousillon?</div> 18657 18658<div style=" 18659 margin-left: 3em; 18660 color: #ccccff; 18661 ">an I were not a very coward, I'ld compel it of you:</div> 18662 18663<div style=" 18664 margin-left: 3em; 18665 color: #ccccff; 18666 ">but fare you well.</div> 18667 18668 18669 18670<div style=" 18671 position: relative; 18672 width: 40%; 18673 left: 50%; 18674 text-align: right; 18675 margin: 0.5em; 18676 padding-right: 1em; 18677 padding-left: 1em; 18678 border-color: #ff9900; 18679 border-width: 1px; 18680 border-bottom-style: solid; 18681 border-top-style: solid; 18682 font-size: 9pt; 18683 color: #9999cc; 18684 ">Exeunt BERTRAM and Lords</div> 18685 18686 18687 18688<div style=" 18689 color: #ff9900; 18690 ">First Soldier</div> 18691 18692<div style=" 18693 margin-left: 3em; 18694 color: #ccccff; 18695 ">You are undone, captain, all but your scarf; that</div> 18696 18697<div style=" 18698 margin-left: 3em; 18699 color: #ccccff; 18700 ">has a knot on't yet</div> 18701 18702 18703 18704 18705<div style=" 18706 color: #ff9900; 18707 ">PAROLLES</div> 18708 18709<div style=" 18710 margin-left: 3em; 18711 color: #ccccff; 18712 ">Who cannot be crushed with a plot?</div> 18713 18714 18715 18716 18717<div style=" 18718 color: #ff9900; 18719 ">First Soldier</div> 18720 18721<div style=" 18722 margin-left: 3em; 18723 color: #ccccff; 18724 ">If you could find out a country where but women were</div> 18725 18726<div style=" 18727 margin-left: 3em; 18728 color: #ccccff; 18729 ">that had received so much shame, you might begin an</div> 18730 18731<div style=" 18732 margin-left: 3em; 18733 color: #ccccff; 18734 ">impudent nation. Fare ye well, sir; I am for France</div> 18735 18736<div style=" 18737 margin-left: 3em; 18738 color: #ccccff; 18739 ">too: we shall speak of you there.</div> 18740 18741 18742 18743<div style=" 18744 position: relative; 18745 width: 40%; 18746 left: 50%; 18747 text-align: right; 18748 margin: 0.5em; 18749 padding-right: 1em; 18750 padding-left: 1em; 18751 border-color: #ff9900; 18752 border-width: 1px; 18753 border-bottom-style: solid; 18754 border-top-style: solid; 18755 font-size: 9pt; 18756 color: #9999cc; 18757 ">Exit with Soldiers</div> 18758 18759 18760 18761<div style=" 18762 color: #ff9900; 18763 ">PAROLLES</div> 18764 18765<div style=" 18766 margin-left: 3em; 18767 color: #ccccff; 18768 ">Yet am I thankful: if my heart were great,</div> 18769 18770<div style=" 18771 margin-left: 3em; 18772 color: #ccccff; 18773 ">'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more;</div> 18774 18775<div style=" 18776 margin-left: 3em; 18777 color: #ccccff; 18778 ">But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft</div> 18779 18780<div style=" 18781 margin-left: 3em; 18782 color: #ccccff; 18783 ">As captain shall: simply the thing I am</div> 18784 18785<div style=" 18786 margin-left: 3em; 18787 color: #ccccff; 18788 ">Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart,</div> 18789 18790<div style=" 18791 margin-left: 3em; 18792 color: #ccccff; 18793 ">Let him fear this, for it will come to pass</div> 18794 18795<div style=" 18796 margin-left: 3em; 18797 color: #ccccff; 18798 ">that every braggart shall be found an ass.</div> 18799 18800<div style=" 18801 margin-left: 3em; 18802 color: #ccccff; 18803 ">Rust, sword? cool, blushes! and, Parolles, live</div> 18804 18805<div style=" 18806 margin-left: 3em; 18807 color: #ccccff; 18808 ">Safest in shame! being fool'd, by foolery thrive!</div> 18809 18810<div style=" 18811 margin-left: 3em; 18812 color: #ccccff; 18813 ">There's place and means for every man alive.</div> 18814 18815<div style=" 18816 margin-left: 3em; 18817 color: #ccccff; 18818 ">I'll after them.</div> 18819 18820 18821 18822<div style=" 18823 position: relative; 18824 width: 40%; 18825 left: 50%; 18826 text-align: right; 18827 margin: 0.5em; 18828 padding-right: 1em; 18829 padding-left: 1em; 18830 border-color: #ff9900; 18831 border-width: 1px; 18832 border-bottom-style: solid; 18833 border-top-style: solid; 18834 font-size: 9pt; 18835 color: #9999cc; 18836 ">Exit</div> 18837 18838</div> 18839 18840 18841<div> 18842<div style=" 18843 margin-bottom: 1em; 18844 padding-left: 1em; 18845 border-color: #ff9900; 18846 border-width: 1px; 18847 border-bottom-style: solid; 18848 border-top-style: solid; 18849 background-color: #cc6600; 18850 color: #000000; 18851 ">SCENE IV. Florence. The Widow's house.</div> 18852 18853<div style=" 18854 position: relative; 18855 width: 40%; 18856 left: 50%; 18857 text-align: right; 18858 margin: 0.5em; 18859 padding-right: 1em; 18860 padding-left: 1em; 18861 border-color: #ff9900; 18862 border-width: 1px; 18863 border-bottom-style: solid; 18864 border-top-style: solid; 18865 font-size: 9pt; 18866 color: #9999cc; 18867 ">Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA</div> 18868 18869 18870 18871<div style=" 18872 color: #ff9900; 18873 ">HELENA</div> 18874 18875<div style=" 18876 margin-left: 3em; 18877 color: #ccccff; 18878 ">That you may well perceive I have not wrong'd you,</div> 18879 18880<div style=" 18881 margin-left: 3em; 18882 color: #ccccff; 18883 ">One of the greatest in the Christian world</div> 18884 18885<div style=" 18886 margin-left: 3em; 18887 color: #ccccff; 18888 ">Shall be my surety; 'fore whose throne 'tis needful,</div> 18889 18890<div style=" 18891 margin-left: 3em; 18892 color: #ccccff; 18893 ">Ere I can perfect mine intents, to kneel:</div> 18894 18895<div style=" 18896 margin-left: 3em; 18897 color: #ccccff; 18898 ">Time was, I did him a desired office,</div> 18899 18900<div style=" 18901 margin-left: 3em; 18902 color: #ccccff; 18903 ">Dear almost as his life; which gratitude</div> 18904 18905<div style=" 18906 margin-left: 3em; 18907 color: #ccccff; 18908 ">Through flinty Tartar's bosom would peep forth,</div> 18909 18910<div style=" 18911 margin-left: 3em; 18912 color: #ccccff; 18913 ">And answer, thanks: I duly am inform'd</div> 18914 18915<div style=" 18916 margin-left: 3em; 18917 color: #ccccff; 18918 ">His grace is at Marseilles; to which place</div> 18919 18920<div style=" 18921 margin-left: 3em; 18922 color: #ccccff; 18923 ">We have convenient convoy. You must know</div> 18924 18925<div style=" 18926 margin-left: 3em; 18927 color: #ccccff; 18928 ">I am supposed dead: the army breaking,</div> 18929 18930<div style=" 18931 margin-left: 3em; 18932 color: #ccccff; 18933 ">My husband hies him home; where, heaven aiding,</div> 18934 18935<div style=" 18936 margin-left: 3em; 18937 color: #ccccff; 18938 ">And by the leave of my good lord the king,</div> 18939 18940<div style=" 18941 margin-left: 3em; 18942 color: #ccccff; 18943 ">We'll be before our welcome.</div> 18944 18945 18946 18947 18948<div style=" 18949 color: #ff9900; 18950 ">Widow</div> 18951 18952<div style=" 18953 margin-left: 3em; 18954 color: #ccccff; 18955 ">Gentle madam,</div> 18956 18957<div style=" 18958 margin-left: 3em; 18959 color: #ccccff; 18960 ">You never had a servant to whose trust</div> 18961 18962<div style=" 18963 margin-left: 3em; 18964 color: #ccccff; 18965 ">Your business was more welcome.</div> 18966 18967 18968 18969 18970<div style=" 18971 color: #ff9900; 18972 ">HELENA</div> 18973 18974<div style=" 18975 margin-left: 3em; 18976 color: #ccccff; 18977 ">Nor you, mistress,</div> 18978 18979<div style=" 18980 margin-left: 3em; 18981 color: #ccccff; 18982 ">Ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour</div> 18983 18984<div style=" 18985 margin-left: 3em; 18986 color: #ccccff; 18987 ">To recompense your love: doubt not but heaven</div> 18988 18989<div style=" 18990 margin-left: 3em; 18991 color: #ccccff; 18992 ">Hath brought me up to be your daughter's dower,</div> 18993 18994<div style=" 18995 margin-left: 3em; 18996 color: #ccccff; 18997 ">As it hath fated her to be my motive</div> 18998 18999<div style=" 19000 margin-left: 3em; 19001 color: #ccccff; 19002 ">And helper to a husband. But, O strange men!</div> 19003 19004<div style=" 19005 margin-left: 3em; 19006 color: #ccccff; 19007 ">That can such sweet use make of what they hate,</div> 19008 19009<div style=" 19010 margin-left: 3em; 19011 color: #ccccff; 19012 ">When saucy trusting of the cozen'd thoughts</div> 19013 19014<div style=" 19015 margin-left: 3em; 19016 color: #ccccff; 19017 ">Defiles the pitchy night: so lust doth play</div> 19018 19019<div style=" 19020 margin-left: 3em; 19021 color: #ccccff; 19022 ">With what it loathes for that which is away.</div> 19023 19024<div style=" 19025 margin-left: 3em; 19026 color: #ccccff; 19027 ">But more of this hereafter. You, Diana,</div> 19028 19029<div style=" 19030 margin-left: 3em; 19031 color: #ccccff; 19032 ">Under my poor instructions yet must suffer</div> 19033 19034<div style=" 19035 margin-left: 3em; 19036 color: #ccccff; 19037 ">Something in my behalf.</div> 19038 19039 19040 19041 19042<div style=" 19043 color: #ff9900; 19044 ">DIANA</div> 19045 19046<div style=" 19047 margin-left: 3em; 19048 color: #ccccff; 19049 ">Let death and honesty</div> 19050 19051<div style=" 19052 margin-left: 3em; 19053 color: #ccccff; 19054 ">Go with your impositions, I am yours</div> 19055 19056<div style=" 19057 margin-left: 3em; 19058 color: #ccccff; 19059 ">Upon your will to suffer.</div> 19060 19061 19062 19063 19064<div style=" 19065 color: #ff9900; 19066 ">HELENA</div> 19067 19068<div style=" 19069 margin-left: 3em; 19070 color: #ccccff; 19071 ">Yet, I pray you:</div> 19072 19073<div style=" 19074 margin-left: 3em; 19075 color: #ccccff; 19076 ">But with the word the time will bring on summer,</div> 19077 19078<div style=" 19079 margin-left: 3em; 19080 color: #ccccff; 19081 ">When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns,</div> 19082 19083<div style=" 19084 margin-left: 3em; 19085 color: #ccccff; 19086 ">And be as sweet as sharp. We must away;</div> 19087 19088<div style=" 19089 margin-left: 3em; 19090 color: #ccccff; 19091 ">Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us:</div> 19092 19093<div style=" 19094 margin-left: 3em; 19095 color: #ccccff; 19096 ">All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown;</div> 19097 19098<div style=" 19099 margin-left: 3em; 19100 color: #ccccff; 19101 ">Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.</div> 19102 19103 19104 19105<div style=" 19106 position: relative; 19107 width: 40%; 19108 left: 50%; 19109 text-align: right; 19110 margin: 0.5em; 19111 padding-right: 1em; 19112 padding-left: 1em; 19113 border-color: #ff9900; 19114 border-width: 1px; 19115 border-bottom-style: solid; 19116 border-top-style: solid; 19117 font-size: 9pt; 19118 color: #9999cc; 19119 ">Exeunt</div> 19120 19121</div> 19122 19123 19124<div> 19125<div style=" 19126 margin-bottom: 1em; 19127 padding-left: 1em; 19128 border-color: #ff9900; 19129 border-width: 1px; 19130 border-bottom-style: solid; 19131 border-top-style: solid; 19132 background-color: #cc6600; 19133 color: #000000; 19134 ">SCENE V. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</div> 19135 19136<div style=" 19137 position: relative; 19138 width: 40%; 19139 left: 50%; 19140 text-align: right; 19141 margin: 0.5em; 19142 padding-right: 1em; 19143 padding-left: 1em; 19144 border-color: #ff9900; 19145 border-width: 1px; 19146 border-bottom-style: solid; 19147 border-top-style: solid; 19148 font-size: 9pt; 19149 color: #9999cc; 19150 ">Enter COUNTESS, LAFEU, and Clown</div> 19151 19152 19153 19154<div style=" 19155 color: #ff9900; 19156 ">LAFEU</div> 19157 19158<div style=" 19159 margin-left: 3em; 19160 color: #ccccff; 19161 ">No, no, no, your son was misled with a snipt-taffeta</div> 19162 19163<div style=" 19164 margin-left: 3em; 19165 color: #ccccff; 19166 ">fellow there, whose villanous saffron would have</div> 19167 19168<div style=" 19169 margin-left: 3em; 19170 color: #ccccff; 19171 ">made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in</div> 19172 19173<div style=" 19174 margin-left: 3em; 19175 color: #ccccff; 19176 ">his colour: your daughter-in-law had been alive at</div> 19177 19178<div style=" 19179 margin-left: 3em; 19180 color: #ccccff; 19181 ">this hour, and your son here at home, more advanced</div> 19182 19183<div style=" 19184 margin-left: 3em; 19185 color: #ccccff; 19186 ">by the king than by that red-tailed humble-bee I speak of.</div> 19187 19188 19189 19190 19191<div style=" 19192 color: #ff9900; 19193 ">COUNTESS</div> 19194 19195<div style=" 19196 margin-left: 3em; 19197 color: #ccccff; 19198 ">I would I had not known him; it was the death of the</div> 19199 19200<div style=" 19201 margin-left: 3em; 19202 color: #ccccff; 19203 ">most virtuous gentlewoman that ever nature had</div> 19204 19205<div style=" 19206 margin-left: 3em; 19207 color: #ccccff; 19208 ">praise for creating. If she had partaken of my</div> 19209 19210<div style=" 19211 margin-left: 3em; 19212 color: #ccccff; 19213 ">flesh, and cost me the dearest groans of a mother, I</div> 19214 19215<div style=" 19216 margin-left: 3em; 19217 color: #ccccff; 19218 ">could not have owed her a more rooted love.</div> 19219 19220 19221 19222 19223<div style=" 19224 color: #ff9900; 19225 ">LAFEU</div> 19226 19227<div style=" 19228 margin-left: 3em; 19229 color: #ccccff; 19230 ">'Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick a</div> 19231 19232<div style=" 19233 margin-left: 3em; 19234 color: #ccccff; 19235 ">thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.</div> 19236 19237 19238 19239 19240<div style=" 19241 color: #ff9900; 19242 ">Clown</div> 19243 19244<div style=" 19245 margin-left: 3em; 19246 color: #ccccff; 19247 ">Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the</div> 19248 19249<div style=" 19250 margin-left: 3em; 19251 color: #ccccff; 19252 ">salad, or rather, the herb of grace.</div> 19253 19254 19255 19256 19257<div style=" 19258 color: #ff9900; 19259 ">LAFEU</div> 19260 19261<div style=" 19262 margin-left: 3em; 19263 color: #ccccff; 19264 ">They are not herbs, you knave; they are nose-herbs.</div> 19265 19266 19267 19268 19269<div style=" 19270 color: #ff9900; 19271 ">Clown</div> 19272 19273<div style=" 19274 margin-left: 3em; 19275 color: #ccccff; 19276 ">I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir; I have not much</div> 19277 19278<div style=" 19279 margin-left: 3em; 19280 color: #ccccff; 19281 ">skill in grass.</div> 19282 19283 19284 19285 19286<div style=" 19287 color: #ff9900; 19288 ">LAFEU</div> 19289 19290<div style=" 19291 margin-left: 3em; 19292 color: #ccccff; 19293 ">Whether dost thou profess thyself, a knave or a fool?</div> 19294 19295 19296 19297 19298<div style=" 19299 color: #ff9900; 19300 ">Clown</div> 19301 19302<div style=" 19303 margin-left: 3em; 19304 color: #ccccff; 19305 ">A fool, sir, at a woman's service, and a knave at a man's.</div> 19306 19307 19308 19309 19310<div style=" 19311 color: #ff9900; 19312 ">LAFEU</div> 19313 19314<div style=" 19315 margin-left: 3em; 19316 color: #ccccff; 19317 ">Your distinction?</div> 19318 19319 19320 19321 19322<div style=" 19323 color: #ff9900; 19324 ">Clown</div> 19325 19326<div style=" 19327 margin-left: 3em; 19328 color: #ccccff; 19329 ">I would cozen the man of his wife and do his service.</div> 19330 19331 19332 19333 19334<div style=" 19335 color: #ff9900; 19336 ">LAFEU</div> 19337 19338<div style=" 19339 margin-left: 3em; 19340 color: #ccccff; 19341 ">So you were a knave at his service, indeed.</div> 19342 19343 19344 19345 19346<div style=" 19347 color: #ff9900; 19348 ">Clown</div> 19349 19350<div style=" 19351 margin-left: 3em; 19352 color: #ccccff; 19353 ">And I would give his wife my bauble, sir, to do her service.</div> 19354 19355 19356 19357 19358<div style=" 19359 color: #ff9900; 19360 ">LAFEU</div> 19361 19362<div style=" 19363 margin-left: 3em; 19364 color: #ccccff; 19365 ">I will subscribe for thee, thou art both knave and fool.</div> 19366 19367 19368 19369 19370<div style=" 19371 color: #ff9900; 19372 ">Clown</div> 19373 19374<div style=" 19375 margin-left: 3em; 19376 color: #ccccff; 19377 ">At your service.</div> 19378 19379 19380 19381 19382<div style=" 19383 color: #ff9900; 19384 ">LAFEU</div> 19385 19386<div style=" 19387 margin-left: 3em; 19388 color: #ccccff; 19389 ">No, no, no.</div> 19390 19391 19392 19393 19394<div style=" 19395 color: #ff9900; 19396 ">Clown</div> 19397 19398<div style=" 19399 margin-left: 3em; 19400 color: #ccccff; 19401 ">Why, sir, if I cannot serve you, I can serve as</div> 19402 19403<div style=" 19404 margin-left: 3em; 19405 color: #ccccff; 19406 ">great a prince as you are.</div> 19407 19408 19409 19410 19411<div style=" 19412 color: #ff9900; 19413 ">LAFEU</div> 19414 19415<div style=" 19416 margin-left: 3em; 19417 color: #ccccff; 19418 ">Who's that? a Frenchman?</div> 19419 19420 19421 19422 19423<div style=" 19424 color: #ff9900; 19425 ">Clown</div> 19426 19427<div style=" 19428 margin-left: 3em; 19429 color: #ccccff; 19430 ">Faith, sir, a' has an English name; but his fisnomy</div> 19431 19432<div style=" 19433 margin-left: 3em; 19434 color: #ccccff; 19435 ">is more hotter in France than there.</div> 19436 19437 19438 19439 19440<div style=" 19441 color: #ff9900; 19442 ">LAFEU</div> 19443 19444<div style=" 19445 margin-left: 3em; 19446 color: #ccccff; 19447 ">What prince is that?</div> 19448 19449 19450 19451 19452<div style=" 19453 color: #ff9900; 19454 ">Clown</div> 19455 19456<div style=" 19457 margin-left: 3em; 19458 color: #ccccff; 19459 ">The black prince, sir; alias, the prince of</div> 19460 19461<div style=" 19462 margin-left: 3em; 19463 color: #ccccff; 19464 ">darkness; alias, the devil.</div> 19465 19466 19467 19468 19469<div style=" 19470 color: #ff9900; 19471 ">LAFEU</div> 19472 19473<div style=" 19474 margin-left: 3em; 19475 color: #ccccff; 19476 ">Hold thee, there's my purse: I give thee not this</div> 19477 19478<div style=" 19479 margin-left: 3em; 19480 color: #ccccff; 19481 ">to suggest thee from thy master thou talkest of;</div> 19482 19483<div style=" 19484 margin-left: 3em; 19485 color: #ccccff; 19486 ">serve him still.</div> 19487 19488 19489 19490 19491<div style=" 19492 color: #ff9900; 19493 ">Clown</div> 19494 19495<div style=" 19496 margin-left: 3em; 19497 color: #ccccff; 19498 ">I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always loved a</div> 19499 19500<div style=" 19501 margin-left: 3em; 19502 color: #ccccff; 19503 ">great fire; and the master I speak of ever keeps a</div> 19504 19505<div style=" 19506 margin-left: 3em; 19507 color: #ccccff; 19508 ">good fire. But, sure, he is the prince of the</div> 19509 19510<div style=" 19511 margin-left: 3em; 19512 color: #ccccff; 19513 ">world; let his nobility remain in's court. I am for</div> 19514 19515<div style=" 19516 margin-left: 3em; 19517 color: #ccccff; 19518 ">the house with the narrow gate, which I take to be</div> 19519 19520<div style=" 19521 margin-left: 3em; 19522 color: #ccccff; 19523 ">too little for pomp to enter: some that humble</div> 19524 19525<div style=" 19526 margin-left: 3em; 19527 color: #ccccff; 19528 ">themselves may; but the many will be too chill and</div> 19529 19530<div style=" 19531 margin-left: 3em; 19532 color: #ccccff; 19533 ">tender, and they'll be for the flowery way that</div> 19534 19535<div style=" 19536 margin-left: 3em; 19537 color: #ccccff; 19538 ">leads to the broad gate and the great fire.</div> 19539 19540 19541 19542 19543<div style=" 19544 color: #ff9900; 19545 ">LAFEU</div> 19546 19547<div style=" 19548 margin-left: 3em; 19549 color: #ccccff; 19550 ">Go thy ways, I begin to be aweary of thee; and I</div> 19551 19552<div style=" 19553 margin-left: 3em; 19554 color: #ccccff; 19555 ">tell thee so before, because I would not fall out</div> 19556 19557<div style=" 19558 margin-left: 3em; 19559 color: #ccccff; 19560 ">with thee. Go thy ways: let my horses be well</div> 19561 19562<div style=" 19563 margin-left: 3em; 19564 color: #ccccff; 19565 ">looked to, without any tricks.</div> 19566 19567 19568 19569 19570<div style=" 19571 color: #ff9900; 19572 ">Clown</div> 19573 19574<div style=" 19575 margin-left: 3em; 19576 color: #ccccff; 19577 ">If I put any tricks upon 'em, sir, they shall be</div> 19578 19579<div style=" 19580 margin-left: 3em; 19581 color: #ccccff; 19582 ">jades' tricks; which are their own right by the law of nature.</div> 19583 19584 19585 19586<div style=" 19587 position: relative; 19588 width: 40%; 19589 left: 50%; 19590 text-align: right; 19591 margin: 0.5em; 19592 padding-right: 1em; 19593 padding-left: 1em; 19594 border-color: #ff9900; 19595 border-width: 1px; 19596 border-bottom-style: solid; 19597 border-top-style: solid; 19598 font-size: 9pt; 19599 color: #9999cc; 19600 ">Exit</div> 19601 19602 19603 19604<div style=" 19605 color: #ff9900; 19606 ">LAFEU</div> 19607 19608<div style=" 19609 margin-left: 3em; 19610 color: #ccccff; 19611 ">A shrewd knave and an unhappy.</div> 19612 19613 19614 19615 19616<div style=" 19617 color: #ff9900; 19618 ">COUNTESS</div> 19619 19620<div style=" 19621 margin-left: 3em; 19622 color: #ccccff; 19623 ">So he is. My lord that's gone made himself much</div> 19624 19625<div style=" 19626 margin-left: 3em; 19627 color: #ccccff; 19628 ">sport out of him: by his authority he remains here,</div> 19629 19630<div style=" 19631 margin-left: 3em; 19632 color: #ccccff; 19633 ">which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness; and,</div> 19634 19635<div style=" 19636 margin-left: 3em; 19637 color: #ccccff; 19638 ">indeed, he has no pace, but runs where he will.</div> 19639 19640 19641 19642 19643<div style=" 19644 color: #ff9900; 19645 ">LAFEU</div> 19646 19647<div style=" 19648 margin-left: 3em; 19649 color: #ccccff; 19650 ">I like him well; 'tis not amiss. And I was about to</div> 19651 19652<div style=" 19653 margin-left: 3em; 19654 color: #ccccff; 19655 ">tell you, since I heard of the good lady's death and</div> 19656 19657<div style=" 19658 margin-left: 3em; 19659 color: #ccccff; 19660 ">that my lord your son was upon his return home, I</div> 19661 19662<div style=" 19663 margin-left: 3em; 19664 color: #ccccff; 19665 ">moved the king my master to speak in the behalf of</div> 19666 19667<div style=" 19668 margin-left: 3em; 19669 color: #ccccff; 19670 ">my daughter; which, in the minority of them both,</div> 19671 19672<div style=" 19673 margin-left: 3em; 19674 color: #ccccff; 19675 ">his majesty, out of a self-gracious remembrance, did</div> 19676 19677<div style=" 19678 margin-left: 3em; 19679 color: #ccccff; 19680 ">first propose: his highness hath promised me to do</div> 19681 19682<div style=" 19683 margin-left: 3em; 19684 color: #ccccff; 19685 ">it: and, to stop up the displeasure he hath</div> 19686 19687<div style=" 19688 margin-left: 3em; 19689 color: #ccccff; 19690 ">conceived against your son, there is no fitter</div> 19691 19692<div style=" 19693 margin-left: 3em; 19694 color: #ccccff; 19695 ">matter. How does your ladyship like it?</div> 19696 19697 19698 19699 19700<div style=" 19701 color: #ff9900; 19702 ">COUNTESS</div> 19703 19704<div style=" 19705 margin-left: 3em; 19706 color: #ccccff; 19707 ">With very much content, my lord; and I wish it</div> 19708 19709<div style=" 19710 margin-left: 3em; 19711 color: #ccccff; 19712 ">happily effected.</div> 19713 19714 19715 19716 19717<div style=" 19718 color: #ff9900; 19719 ">LAFEU</div> 19720 19721<div style=" 19722 margin-left: 3em; 19723 color: #ccccff; 19724 ">His highness comes post from Marseilles, of as able</div> 19725 19726<div style=" 19727 margin-left: 3em; 19728 color: #ccccff; 19729 ">body as when he numbered thirty: he will be here</div> 19730 19731<div style=" 19732 margin-left: 3em; 19733 color: #ccccff; 19734 ">to-morrow, or I am deceived by him that in such</div> 19735 19736<div style=" 19737 margin-left: 3em; 19738 color: #ccccff; 19739 ">intelligence hath seldom failed.</div> 19740 19741 19742 19743 19744<div style=" 19745 color: #ff9900; 19746 ">COUNTESS</div> 19747 19748<div style=" 19749 margin-left: 3em; 19750 color: #ccccff; 19751 ">It rejoices me, that I hope I shall see him ere I</div> 19752 19753<div style=" 19754 margin-left: 3em; 19755 color: #ccccff; 19756 ">die. I have letters that my son will be here</div> 19757 19758<div style=" 19759 margin-left: 3em; 19760 color: #ccccff; 19761 ">to-night: I shall beseech your lordship to remain</div> 19762 19763<div style=" 19764 margin-left: 3em; 19765 color: #ccccff; 19766 ">with me till they meet together.</div> 19767 19768 19769 19770 19771<div style=" 19772 color: #ff9900; 19773 ">LAFEU</div> 19774 19775<div style=" 19776 margin-left: 3em; 19777 color: #ccccff; 19778 ">Madam, I was thinking with what manners I might</div> 19779 19780<div style=" 19781 margin-left: 3em; 19782 color: #ccccff; 19783 ">safely be admitted.</div> 19784 19785 19786 19787 19788<div style=" 19789 color: #ff9900; 19790 ">COUNTESS</div> 19791 19792<div style=" 19793 margin-left: 3em; 19794 color: #ccccff; 19795 ">You need but plead your honourable privilege.</div> 19796 19797 19798 19799 19800<div style=" 19801 color: #ff9900; 19802 ">LAFEU</div> 19803 19804<div style=" 19805 margin-left: 3em; 19806 color: #ccccff; 19807 ">Lady, of that I have made a bold charter; but I</div> 19808 19809<div style=" 19810 margin-left: 3em; 19811 color: #ccccff; 19812 ">thank my God it holds yet.</div> 19813 19814 19815 19816<div style=" 19817 position: relative; 19818 width: 40%; 19819 left: 50%; 19820 text-align: right; 19821 margin: 0.5em; 19822 padding-right: 1em; 19823 padding-left: 1em; 19824 border-color: #ff9900; 19825 border-width: 1px; 19826 border-bottom-style: solid; 19827 border-top-style: solid; 19828 font-size: 9pt; 19829 color: #9999cc; 19830 ">Re-enter Clown</div> 19831 19832 19833 19834<div style=" 19835 color: #ff9900; 19836 ">Clown</div> 19837 19838<div style=" 19839 margin-left: 3em; 19840 color: #ccccff; 19841 ">O madam, yonder's my lord your son with a patch of</div> 19842 19843<div style=" 19844 margin-left: 3em; 19845 color: #ccccff; 19846 ">velvet on's face: whether there be a scar under't</div> 19847 19848<div style=" 19849 margin-left: 3em; 19850 color: #ccccff; 19851 ">or no, the velvet knows; but 'tis a goodly patch of</div> 19852 19853<div style=" 19854 margin-left: 3em; 19855 color: #ccccff; 19856 ">velvet: his left cheek is a cheek of two pile and a</div> 19857 19858<div style=" 19859 margin-left: 3em; 19860 color: #ccccff; 19861 ">half, but his right cheek is worn bare.</div> 19862 19863 19864 19865 19866<div style=" 19867 color: #ff9900; 19868 ">LAFEU</div> 19869 19870<div style=" 19871 margin-left: 3em; 19872 color: #ccccff; 19873 ">A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery</div> 19874 19875<div style=" 19876 margin-left: 3em; 19877 color: #ccccff; 19878 ">of honour; so belike is that.</div> 19879 19880 19881 19882 19883<div style=" 19884 color: #ff9900; 19885 ">Clown</div> 19886 19887<div style=" 19888 margin-left: 3em; 19889 color: #ccccff; 19890 ">But it is your carbonadoed face.</div> 19891 19892 19893 19894 19895<div style=" 19896 color: #ff9900; 19897 ">LAFEU</div> 19898 19899<div style=" 19900 margin-left: 3em; 19901 color: #ccccff; 19902 ">Let us go see your son, I pray you: I long to talk</div> 19903 19904<div style=" 19905 margin-left: 3em; 19906 color: #ccccff; 19907 ">with the young noble soldier.</div> 19908 19909 19910 19911 19912<div style=" 19913 color: #ff9900; 19914 ">Clown</div> 19915 19916<div style=" 19917 margin-left: 3em; 19918 color: #ccccff; 19919 ">Faith there's a dozen of 'em, with delicate fine</div> 19920 19921<div style=" 19922 margin-left: 3em; 19923 color: #ccccff; 19924 ">hats and most courteous feathers, which bow the head</div> 19925 19926<div style=" 19927 margin-left: 3em; 19928 color: #ccccff; 19929 ">and nod at every man.</div> 19930 19931 19932 19933<div style=" 19934 position: relative; 19935 width: 40%; 19936 left: 50%; 19937 text-align: right; 19938 margin: 0.5em; 19939 padding-right: 1em; 19940 padding-left: 1em; 19941 border-color: #ff9900; 19942 border-width: 1px; 19943 border-bottom-style: solid; 19944 border-top-style: solid; 19945 font-size: 9pt; 19946 color: #9999cc; 19947 ">Exeunt</div> 19948 19949</div> 19950 19951 19952 19953 19954<div style=" 19955 text-align: right; 19956 "> 19957<span style=" 19958 width: 25%; 19959 padding: 1px; 19960 padding-right: 1em; 19961 color: #000000; 19962 background-color: #ff9900; 19963 ">ACT V</span> 19964</div> 19965 19966 19967<div> 19968<div style=" 19969 margin-bottom: 1em; 19970 padding-left: 1em; 19971 border-color: #ff9900; 19972 border-width: 1px; 19973 border-bottom-style: solid; 19974 border-top-style: solid; 19975 background-color: #cc6600; 19976 color: #000000; 19977 ">SCENE I. Marseilles. A street.</div> 19978 19979<div style=" 19980 position: relative; 19981 width: 40%; 19982 left: 50%; 19983 text-align: right; 19984 margin: 0.5em; 19985 padding-right: 1em; 19986 padding-left: 1em; 19987 border-color: #ff9900; 19988 border-width: 1px; 19989 border-bottom-style: solid; 19990 border-top-style: solid; 19991 font-size: 9pt; 19992 color: #9999cc; 19993 ">Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA, with two 19994Attendants</div> 19995 19996 19997 19998<div style=" 19999 color: #ff9900; 20000 ">HELENA</div> 20001 20002<div style=" 20003 margin-left: 3em; 20004 color: #ccccff; 20005 ">But this exceeding posting day and night</div> 20006 20007<div style=" 20008 margin-left: 3em; 20009 color: #ccccff; 20010 ">Must wear your spirits low; we cannot help it:</div> 20011 20012<div style=" 20013 margin-left: 3em; 20014 color: #ccccff; 20015 ">But since you have made the days and nights as one,</div> 20016 20017<div style=" 20018 margin-left: 3em; 20019 color: #ccccff; 20020 ">To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs,</div> 20021 20022<div style=" 20023 margin-left: 3em; 20024 color: #ccccff; 20025 ">Be bold you do so grow in my requital</div> 20026 20027<div style=" 20028 margin-left: 3em; 20029 color: #ccccff; 20030 ">As nothing can unroot you. In happy time;</div> 20031 20032<div style=" 20033 position: relative; 20034 width: 40%; 20035 left: 50%; 20036 text-align: right; 20037 margin: 0.5em; 20038 padding-right: 1em; 20039 padding-left: 1em; 20040 border-color: #ff9900; 20041 border-width: 1px; 20042 border-bottom-style: solid; 20043 border-top-style: solid; 20044 font-size: 9pt; 20045 color: #9999cc; 20046 ">Enter a Gentleman</div> 20047 20048<div style=" 20049 margin-left: 3em; 20050 color: #ccccff; 20051 ">This man may help me to his majesty's ear,</div> 20052 20053<div style=" 20054 margin-left: 3em; 20055 color: #ccccff; 20056 ">If he would spend his power. God save you, sir.</div> 20057 20058 20059 20060 20061<div style=" 20062 color: #ff9900; 20063 ">Gentleman</div> 20064 20065<div style=" 20066 margin-left: 3em; 20067 color: #ccccff; 20068 ">And you.</div> 20069 20070 20071 20072 20073<div style=" 20074 color: #ff9900; 20075 ">HELENA</div> 20076 20077<div style=" 20078 margin-left: 3em; 20079 color: #ccccff; 20080 ">Sir, I have seen you in the court of France.</div> 20081 20082 20083 20084 20085<div style=" 20086 color: #ff9900; 20087 ">Gentleman</div> 20088 20089<div style=" 20090 margin-left: 3em; 20091 color: #ccccff; 20092 ">I have been sometimes there.</div> 20093 20094 20095 20096 20097<div style=" 20098 color: #ff9900; 20099 ">HELENA</div> 20100 20101<div style=" 20102 margin-left: 3em; 20103 color: #ccccff; 20104 ">I do presume, sir, that you are not fallen</div> 20105 20106<div style=" 20107 margin-left: 3em; 20108 color: #ccccff; 20109 ">From the report that goes upon your goodness;</div> 20110 20111<div style=" 20112 margin-left: 3em; 20113 color: #ccccff; 20114 ">An therefore, goaded with most sharp occasions,</div> 20115 20116<div style=" 20117 margin-left: 3em; 20118 color: #ccccff; 20119 ">Which lay nice manners by, I put you to</div> 20120 20121<div style=" 20122 margin-left: 3em; 20123 color: #ccccff; 20124 ">The use of your own virtues, for the which</div> 20125 20126<div style=" 20127 margin-left: 3em; 20128 color: #ccccff; 20129 ">I shall continue thankful.</div> 20130 20131 20132 20133 20134<div style=" 20135 color: #ff9900; 20136 ">Gentleman</div> 20137 20138<div style=" 20139 margin-left: 3em; 20140 color: #ccccff; 20141 ">What's your will?</div> 20142 20143 20144 20145 20146<div style=" 20147 color: #ff9900; 20148 ">HELENA</div> 20149 20150<div style=" 20151 margin-left: 3em; 20152 color: #ccccff; 20153 ">That it will please you</div> 20154 20155<div style=" 20156 margin-left: 3em; 20157 color: #ccccff; 20158 ">To give this poor petition to the king,</div> 20159 20160<div style=" 20161 margin-left: 3em; 20162 color: #ccccff; 20163 ">And aid me with that store of power you have</div> 20164 20165<div style=" 20166 margin-left: 3em; 20167 color: #ccccff; 20168 ">To come into his presence.</div> 20169 20170 20171 20172 20173<div style=" 20174 color: #ff9900; 20175 ">Gentleman</div> 20176 20177<div style=" 20178 margin-left: 3em; 20179 color: #ccccff; 20180 ">The king's not here.</div> 20181 20182 20183 20184 20185<div style=" 20186 color: #ff9900; 20187 ">HELENA</div> 20188 20189<div style=" 20190 margin-left: 3em; 20191 color: #ccccff; 20192 ">Not here, sir!</div> 20193 20194 20195 20196 20197<div style=" 20198 color: #ff9900; 20199 ">Gentleman</div> 20200 20201<div style=" 20202 margin-left: 3em; 20203 color: #ccccff; 20204 ">Not, indeed:</div> 20205 20206<div style=" 20207 margin-left: 3em; 20208 color: #ccccff; 20209 ">He hence removed last night and with more haste</div> 20210 20211<div style=" 20212 margin-left: 3em; 20213 color: #ccccff; 20214 ">Than is his use.</div> 20215 20216 20217 20218 20219<div style=" 20220 color: #ff9900; 20221 ">Widow</div> 20222 20223<div style=" 20224 margin-left: 3em; 20225 color: #ccccff; 20226 ">Lord, how we lose our pains!</div> 20227 20228 20229 20230 20231<div style=" 20232 color: #ff9900; 20233 ">HELENA</div> 20234 20235<div style=" 20236 margin-left: 3em; 20237 color: #ccccff; 20238 ">All's well that ends well yet,</div> 20239 20240<div style=" 20241 margin-left: 3em; 20242 color: #ccccff; 20243 ">Though time seem so adverse and means unfit.</div> 20244 20245<div style=" 20246 margin-left: 3em; 20247 color: #ccccff; 20248 ">I do beseech you, whither is he gone?</div> 20249 20250 20251 20252 20253<div style=" 20254 color: #ff9900; 20255 ">Gentleman</div> 20256 20257<div style=" 20258 margin-left: 3em; 20259 color: #ccccff; 20260 ">Marry, as I take it, to Rousillon;</div> 20261 20262<div style=" 20263 margin-left: 3em; 20264 color: #ccccff; 20265 ">Whither I am going.</div> 20266 20267 20268 20269 20270<div style=" 20271 color: #ff9900; 20272 ">HELENA</div> 20273 20274<div style=" 20275 margin-left: 3em; 20276 color: #ccccff; 20277 ">I do beseech you, sir,</div> 20278 20279<div style=" 20280 margin-left: 3em; 20281 color: #ccccff; 20282 ">Since you are like to see the king before me,</div> 20283 20284<div style=" 20285 margin-left: 3em; 20286 color: #ccccff; 20287 ">Commend the paper to his gracious hand,</div> 20288 20289<div style=" 20290 margin-left: 3em; 20291 color: #ccccff; 20292 ">Which I presume shall render you no blame</div> 20293 20294<div style=" 20295 margin-left: 3em; 20296 color: #ccccff; 20297 ">But rather make you thank your pains for it.</div> 20298 20299<div style=" 20300 margin-left: 3em; 20301 color: #ccccff; 20302 ">I will come after you with what good speed</div> 20303 20304<div style=" 20305 margin-left: 3em; 20306 color: #ccccff; 20307 ">Our means will make us means.</div> 20308 20309 20310 20311 20312<div style=" 20313 color: #ff9900; 20314 ">Gentleman</div> 20315 20316<div style=" 20317 margin-left: 3em; 20318 color: #ccccff; 20319 ">This I'll do for you.</div> 20320 20321 20322 20323 20324<div style=" 20325 color: #ff9900; 20326 ">HELENA</div> 20327 20328<div style=" 20329 margin-left: 3em; 20330 color: #ccccff; 20331 ">And you shall find yourself to be well thank'd,</div> 20332 20333<div style=" 20334 margin-left: 3em; 20335 color: #ccccff; 20336 ">Whate'er falls more. We must to horse again.</div> 20337 20338<div style=" 20339 margin-left: 3em; 20340 color: #ccccff; 20341 ">Go, go, provide.</div> 20342 20343 20344 20345<div style=" 20346 position: relative; 20347 width: 40%; 20348 left: 50%; 20349 text-align: right; 20350 margin: 0.5em; 20351 padding-right: 1em; 20352 padding-left: 1em; 20353 border-color: #ff9900; 20354 border-width: 1px; 20355 border-bottom-style: solid; 20356 border-top-style: solid; 20357 font-size: 9pt; 20358 color: #9999cc; 20359 ">Exeunt</div> 20360 20361</div> 20362 20363 20364<div> 20365<div style=" 20366 margin-bottom: 1em; 20367 padding-left: 1em; 20368 border-color: #ff9900; 20369 border-width: 1px; 20370 border-bottom-style: solid; 20371 border-top-style: solid; 20372 background-color: #cc6600; 20373 color: #000000; 20374 ">SCENE II. Rousillon. Before the COUNT's palace.</div> 20375 20376<div style=" 20377 position: relative; 20378 width: 40%; 20379 left: 50%; 20380 text-align: right; 20381 margin: 0.5em; 20382 padding-right: 1em; 20383 padding-left: 1em; 20384 border-color: #ff9900; 20385 border-width: 1px; 20386 border-bottom-style: solid; 20387 border-top-style: solid; 20388 font-size: 9pt; 20389 color: #9999cc; 20390 ">Enter Clown, and PAROLLES, following</div> 20391 20392 20393 20394<div style=" 20395 color: #ff9900; 20396 ">PAROLLES</div> 20397 20398<div style=" 20399 margin-left: 3em; 20400 color: #ccccff; 20401 ">Good Monsieur Lavache, give my Lord Lafeu this</div> 20402 20403<div style=" 20404 margin-left: 3em; 20405 color: #ccccff; 20406 ">letter: I have ere now, sir, been better known to</div> 20407 20408<div style=" 20409 margin-left: 3em; 20410 color: #ccccff; 20411 ">you, when I have held familiarity with fresher</div> 20412 20413<div style=" 20414 margin-left: 3em; 20415 color: #ccccff; 20416 ">clothes; but I am now, sir, muddied in fortune's</div> 20417 20418<div style=" 20419 margin-left: 3em; 20420 color: #ccccff; 20421 ">mood, and smell somewhat strong of her strong</div> 20422 20423<div style=" 20424 margin-left: 3em; 20425 color: #ccccff; 20426 ">displeasure.</div> 20427 20428 20429 20430 20431<div style=" 20432 color: #ff9900; 20433 ">Clown</div> 20434 20435<div style=" 20436 margin-left: 3em; 20437 color: #ccccff; 20438 ">Truly, fortune's displeasure is but sluttish, if it</div> 20439 20440<div style=" 20441 margin-left: 3em; 20442 color: #ccccff; 20443 ">smell so strongly as thou speakest of: I will</div> 20444 20445<div style=" 20446 margin-left: 3em; 20447 color: #ccccff; 20448 ">henceforth eat no fish of fortune's buttering.</div> 20449 20450<div style=" 20451 margin-left: 3em; 20452 color: #ccccff; 20453 ">Prithee, allow the wind.</div> 20454 20455 20456 20457 20458<div style=" 20459 color: #ff9900; 20460 ">PAROLLES</div> 20461 20462<div style=" 20463 margin-left: 3em; 20464 color: #ccccff; 20465 ">Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir; I spake</div> 20466 20467<div style=" 20468 margin-left: 3em; 20469 color: #ccccff; 20470 ">but by a metaphor.</div> 20471 20472 20473 20474 20475<div style=" 20476 color: #ff9900; 20477 ">Clown</div> 20478 20479<div style=" 20480 margin-left: 3em; 20481 color: #ccccff; 20482 ">Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop my</div> 20483 20484<div style=" 20485 margin-left: 3em; 20486 color: #ccccff; 20487 ">nose; or against any man's metaphor. Prithee, get</div> 20488 20489<div style=" 20490 margin-left: 3em; 20491 color: #ccccff; 20492 ">thee further.</div> 20493 20494 20495 20496 20497<div style=" 20498 color: #ff9900; 20499 ">PAROLLES</div> 20500 20501<div style=" 20502 margin-left: 3em; 20503 color: #ccccff; 20504 ">Pray you, sir, deliver me this paper.</div> 20505 20506 20507 20508 20509<div style=" 20510 color: #ff9900; 20511 ">Clown</div> 20512 20513<div style=" 20514 margin-left: 3em; 20515 color: #ccccff; 20516 ">Foh! prithee, stand away: a paper from fortune's</div> 20517 20518<div style=" 20519 margin-left: 3em; 20520 color: #ccccff; 20521 ">close-stool to give to a nobleman! Look, here he</div> 20522 20523<div style=" 20524 margin-left: 3em; 20525 color: #ccccff; 20526 ">comes himself.</div> 20527 20528<div style=" 20529 position: relative; 20530 width: 40%; 20531 left: 50%; 20532 text-align: right; 20533 margin: 0.5em; 20534 padding-right: 1em; 20535 padding-left: 1em; 20536 border-color: #ff9900; 20537 border-width: 1px; 20538 border-bottom-style: solid; 20539 border-top-style: solid; 20540 font-size: 9pt; 20541 color: #9999cc; 20542 ">Enter LAFEU</div> 20543 20544<div style=" 20545 margin-left: 3em; 20546 color: #ccccff; 20547 ">Here is a purr of fortune's, sir, or of fortune's</div> 20548 20549<div style=" 20550 margin-left: 3em; 20551 color: #ccccff; 20552 ">cat,--but not a musk-cat,--that has fallen into the</div> 20553 20554<div style=" 20555 margin-left: 3em; 20556 color: #ccccff; 20557 ">unclean fishpond of her displeasure, and, as he</div> 20558 20559<div style=" 20560 margin-left: 3em; 20561 color: #ccccff; 20562 ">says, is muddied withal: pray you, sir, use the</div> 20563 20564<div style=" 20565 margin-left: 3em; 20566 color: #ccccff; 20567 ">carp as you may; for he looks like a poor, decayed,</div> 20568 20569<div style=" 20570 margin-left: 3em; 20571 color: #ccccff; 20572 ">ingenious, foolish, rascally knave. I do pity his</div> 20573 20574<div style=" 20575 margin-left: 3em; 20576 color: #ccccff; 20577 ">distress in my similes of comfort and leave him to</div> 20578 20579<div style=" 20580 margin-left: 3em; 20581 color: #ccccff; 20582 ">your lordship.</div> 20583 20584 20585 20586<div style=" 20587 position: relative; 20588 width: 40%; 20589 left: 50%; 20590 text-align: right; 20591 margin: 0.5em; 20592 padding-right: 1em; 20593 padding-left: 1em; 20594 border-color: #ff9900; 20595 border-width: 1px; 20596 border-bottom-style: solid; 20597 border-top-style: solid; 20598 font-size: 9pt; 20599 color: #9999cc; 20600 ">Exit</div> 20601 20602 20603 20604<div style=" 20605 color: #ff9900; 20606 ">PAROLLES</div> 20607 20608<div style=" 20609 margin-left: 3em; 20610 color: #ccccff; 20611 ">My lord, I am a man whom fortune hath cruelly</div> 20612 20613<div style=" 20614 margin-left: 3em; 20615 color: #ccccff; 20616 ">scratched.</div> 20617 20618 20619 20620 20621<div style=" 20622 color: #ff9900; 20623 ">LAFEU</div> 20624 20625<div style=" 20626 margin-left: 3em; 20627 color: #ccccff; 20628 ">And what would you have me to do? 'Tis too late to</div> 20629 20630<div style=" 20631 margin-left: 3em; 20632 color: #ccccff; 20633 ">pare her nails now. Wherein have you played the</div> 20634 20635<div style=" 20636 margin-left: 3em; 20637 color: #ccccff; 20638 ">knave with fortune, that she should scratch you, who</div> 20639 20640<div style=" 20641 margin-left: 3em; 20642 color: #ccccff; 20643 ">of herself is a good lady and would not have knaves</div> 20644 20645<div style=" 20646 margin-left: 3em; 20647 color: #ccccff; 20648 ">thrive long under her? There's a quart d'ecu for</div> 20649 20650<div style=" 20651 margin-left: 3em; 20652 color: #ccccff; 20653 ">you: let the justices make you and fortune friends:</div> 20654 20655<div style=" 20656 margin-left: 3em; 20657 color: #ccccff; 20658 ">I am for other business.</div> 20659 20660 20661 20662 20663<div style=" 20664 color: #ff9900; 20665 ">PAROLLES</div> 20666 20667<div style=" 20668 margin-left: 3em; 20669 color: #ccccff; 20670 ">I beseech your honour to hear me one single word.</div> 20671 20672 20673 20674 20675<div style=" 20676 color: #ff9900; 20677 ">LAFEU</div> 20678 20679<div style=" 20680 margin-left: 3em; 20681 color: #ccccff; 20682 ">You beg a single penny more: come, you shall ha't;</div> 20683 20684<div style=" 20685 margin-left: 3em; 20686 color: #ccccff; 20687 ">save your word.</div> 20688 20689 20690 20691 20692<div style=" 20693 color: #ff9900; 20694 ">PAROLLES</div> 20695 20696<div style=" 20697 margin-left: 3em; 20698 color: #ccccff; 20699 ">My name, my good lord, is Parolles.</div> 20700 20701 20702 20703 20704<div style=" 20705 color: #ff9900; 20706 ">LAFEU</div> 20707 20708<div style=" 20709 margin-left: 3em; 20710 color: #ccccff; 20711 ">You beg more than 'word,' then. Cox my passion!</div> 20712 20713<div style=" 20714 margin-left: 3em; 20715 color: #ccccff; 20716 ">give me your hand. How does your drum?</div> 20717 20718 20719 20720 20721<div style=" 20722 color: #ff9900; 20723 ">PAROLLES</div> 20724 20725<div style=" 20726 margin-left: 3em; 20727 color: #ccccff; 20728 ">O my good lord, you were the first that found me!</div> 20729 20730 20731 20732 20733<div style=" 20734 color: #ff9900; 20735 ">LAFEU</div> 20736 20737<div style=" 20738 margin-left: 3em; 20739 color: #ccccff; 20740 ">Was I, in sooth? and I was the first that lost thee.</div> 20741 20742 20743 20744 20745<div style=" 20746 color: #ff9900; 20747 ">PAROLLES</div> 20748 20749<div style=" 20750 margin-left: 3em; 20751 color: #ccccff; 20752 ">It lies in you, my lord, to bring me in some grace,</div> 20753 20754<div style=" 20755 margin-left: 3em; 20756 color: #ccccff; 20757 ">for you did bring me out.</div> 20758 20759 20760 20761 20762<div style=" 20763 color: #ff9900; 20764 ">LAFEU</div> 20765 20766<div style=" 20767 margin-left: 3em; 20768 color: #ccccff; 20769 ">Out upon thee, knave! dost thou put upon me at once</div> 20770 20771<div style=" 20772 margin-left: 3em; 20773 color: #ccccff; 20774 ">both the office of God and the devil? One brings</div> 20775 20776<div style=" 20777 margin-left: 3em; 20778 color: #ccccff; 20779 ">thee in grace and the other brings thee out.</div> 20780 20781<div style=" 20782 position: relative; 20783 width: 40%; 20784 left: 50%; 20785 text-align: right; 20786 margin: 0.5em; 20787 padding-right: 1em; 20788 padding-left: 1em; 20789 border-color: #ff9900; 20790 border-width: 1px; 20791 border-bottom-style: solid; 20792 border-top-style: solid; 20793 font-size: 9pt; 20794 color: #9999cc; 20795 ">Trumpets sound</div> 20796 20797<div style=" 20798 margin-left: 3em; 20799 color: #ccccff; 20800 ">The king's coming; I know by his trumpets. Sirrah,</div> 20801 20802<div style=" 20803 margin-left: 3em; 20804 color: #ccccff; 20805 ">inquire further after me; I had talk of you last</div> 20806 20807<div style=" 20808 margin-left: 3em; 20809 color: #ccccff; 20810 ">night: though you are a fool and a knave, you shall</div> 20811 20812<div style=" 20813 margin-left: 3em; 20814 color: #ccccff; 20815 ">eat; go to, follow.</div> 20816 20817 20818 20819 20820<div style=" 20821 color: #ff9900; 20822 ">PAROLLES</div> 20823 20824<div style=" 20825 margin-left: 3em; 20826 color: #ccccff; 20827 ">I praise God for you.</div> 20828 20829 20830 20831<div style=" 20832 position: relative; 20833 width: 40%; 20834 left: 50%; 20835 text-align: right; 20836 margin: 0.5em; 20837 padding-right: 1em; 20838 padding-left: 1em; 20839 border-color: #ff9900; 20840 border-width: 1px; 20841 border-bottom-style: solid; 20842 border-top-style: solid; 20843 font-size: 9pt; 20844 color: #9999cc; 20845 ">Exeunt</div> 20846 20847</div> 20848 20849 20850<div> 20851<div style=" 20852 margin-bottom: 1em; 20853 padding-left: 1em; 20854 border-color: #ff9900; 20855 border-width: 1px; 20856 border-bottom-style: solid; 20857 border-top-style: solid; 20858 background-color: #cc6600; 20859 color: #000000; 20860 ">SCENE III. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.</div> 20861 20862<div style=" 20863 position: relative; 20864 width: 40%; 20865 left: 50%; 20866 text-align: right; 20867 margin: 0.5em; 20868 padding-right: 1em; 20869 padding-left: 1em; 20870 border-color: #ff9900; 20871 border-width: 1px; 20872 border-bottom-style: solid; 20873 border-top-style: solid; 20874 font-size: 9pt; 20875 color: #9999cc; 20876 ">Flourish. Enter KING, COUNTESS, LAFEU, the two 20877French Lords, with Attendants</div> 20878 20879 20880 20881<div style=" 20882 color: #ff9900; 20883 ">KING</div> 20884 20885<div style=" 20886 margin-left: 3em; 20887 color: #ccccff; 20888 ">We lost a jewel of her; and our esteem</div> 20889 20890<div style=" 20891 margin-left: 3em; 20892 color: #ccccff; 20893 ">Was made much poorer by it: but your son,</div> 20894 20895<div style=" 20896 margin-left: 3em; 20897 color: #ccccff; 20898 ">As mad in folly, lack'd the sense to know</div> 20899 20900<div style=" 20901 margin-left: 3em; 20902 color: #ccccff; 20903 ">Her estimation home.</div> 20904 20905 20906 20907 20908<div style=" 20909 color: #ff9900; 20910 ">COUNTESS</div> 20911 20912<div style=" 20913 margin-left: 3em; 20914 color: #ccccff; 20915 ">'Tis past, my liege;</div> 20916 20917<div style=" 20918 margin-left: 3em; 20919 color: #ccccff; 20920 ">And I beseech your majesty to make it</div> 20921 20922<div style=" 20923 margin-left: 3em; 20924 color: #ccccff; 20925 ">Natural rebellion, done i' the blaze of youth;</div> 20926 20927<div style=" 20928 margin-left: 3em; 20929 color: #ccccff; 20930 ">When oil and fire, too strong for reason's force,</div> 20931 20932<div style=" 20933 margin-left: 3em; 20934 color: #ccccff; 20935 ">O'erbears it and burns on.</div> 20936 20937 20938 20939 20940<div style=" 20941 color: #ff9900; 20942 ">KING</div> 20943 20944<div style=" 20945 margin-left: 3em; 20946 color: #ccccff; 20947 ">My honour'd lady,</div> 20948 20949<div style=" 20950 margin-left: 3em; 20951 color: #ccccff; 20952 ">I have forgiven and forgotten all;</div> 20953 20954<div style=" 20955 margin-left: 3em; 20956 color: #ccccff; 20957 ">Though my revenges were high bent upon him,</div> 20958 20959<div style=" 20960 margin-left: 3em; 20961 color: #ccccff; 20962 ">And watch'd the time to shoot.</div> 20963 20964 20965 20966 20967<div style=" 20968 color: #ff9900; 20969 ">LAFEU</div> 20970 20971<div style=" 20972 margin-left: 3em; 20973 color: #ccccff; 20974 ">This I must say,</div> 20975 20976<div style=" 20977 margin-left: 3em; 20978 color: #ccccff; 20979 ">But first I beg my pardon, the young lord</div> 20980 20981<div style=" 20982 margin-left: 3em; 20983 color: #ccccff; 20984 ">Did to his majesty, his mother and his lady</div> 20985 20986<div style=" 20987 margin-left: 3em; 20988 color: #ccccff; 20989 ">Offence of mighty note; but to himself</div> 20990 20991<div style=" 20992 margin-left: 3em; 20993 color: #ccccff; 20994 ">The greatest wrong of all. He lost a wife</div> 20995 20996<div style=" 20997 margin-left: 3em; 20998 color: #ccccff; 20999 ">Whose beauty did astonish the survey</div> 21000 21001<div style=" 21002 margin-left: 3em; 21003 color: #ccccff; 21004 ">Of richest eyes, whose words all ears took captive,</div> 21005 21006<div style=" 21007 margin-left: 3em; 21008 color: #ccccff; 21009 ">Whose dear perfection hearts that scorn'd to serve</div> 21010 21011<div style=" 21012 margin-left: 3em; 21013 color: #ccccff; 21014 ">Humbly call'd mistress.</div> 21015 21016 21017 21018 21019<div style=" 21020 color: #ff9900; 21021 ">KING</div> 21022 21023<div style=" 21024 margin-left: 3em; 21025 color: #ccccff; 21026 ">Praising what is lost</div> 21027 21028<div style=" 21029 margin-left: 3em; 21030 color: #ccccff; 21031 ">Makes the remembrance dear. Well, call him hither;</div> 21032 21033<div style=" 21034 margin-left: 3em; 21035 color: #ccccff; 21036 ">We are reconciled, and the first view shall kill</div> 21037 21038<div style=" 21039 margin-left: 3em; 21040 color: #ccccff; 21041 ">All repetition: let him not ask our pardon;</div> 21042 21043<div style=" 21044 margin-left: 3em; 21045 color: #ccccff; 21046 ">The nature of his great offence is dead,</div> 21047 21048<div style=" 21049 margin-left: 3em; 21050 color: #ccccff; 21051 ">And deeper than oblivion we do bury</div> 21052 21053<div style=" 21054 margin-left: 3em; 21055 color: #ccccff; 21056 ">The incensing relics of it: let him approach,</div> 21057 21058<div style=" 21059 margin-left: 3em; 21060 color: #ccccff; 21061 ">A stranger, no offender; and inform him</div> 21062 21063<div style=" 21064 margin-left: 3em; 21065 color: #ccccff; 21066 ">So 'tis our will he should.</div> 21067 21068 21069 21070 21071<div style=" 21072 color: #ff9900; 21073 ">Gentleman</div> 21074 21075<div style=" 21076 margin-left: 3em; 21077 color: #ccccff; 21078 ">I shall, my liege.</div> 21079 21080 21081 21082<div style=" 21083 position: relative; 21084 width: 40%; 21085 left: 50%; 21086 text-align: right; 21087 margin: 0.5em; 21088 padding-right: 1em; 21089 padding-left: 1em; 21090 border-color: #ff9900; 21091 border-width: 1px; 21092 border-bottom-style: solid; 21093 border-top-style: solid; 21094 font-size: 9pt; 21095 color: #9999cc; 21096 ">Exit</div> 21097 21098 21099 21100<div style=" 21101 color: #ff9900; 21102 ">KING</div> 21103 21104<div style=" 21105 margin-left: 3em; 21106 color: #ccccff; 21107 ">What says he to your daughter? have you spoke?</div> 21108 21109 21110 21111 21112<div style=" 21113 color: #ff9900; 21114 ">LAFEU</div> 21115 21116<div style=" 21117 margin-left: 3em; 21118 color: #ccccff; 21119 ">All that he is hath reference to your highness.</div> 21120 21121 21122 21123 21124<div style=" 21125 color: #ff9900; 21126 ">KING</div> 21127 21128<div style=" 21129 margin-left: 3em; 21130 color: #ccccff; 21131 ">Then shall we have a match. I have letters sent me</div> 21132 21133<div style=" 21134 margin-left: 3em; 21135 color: #ccccff; 21136 ">That set him high in fame.</div> 21137 21138 21139 21140<div style=" 21141 position: relative; 21142 width: 40%; 21143 left: 50%; 21144 text-align: right; 21145 margin: 0.5em; 21146 padding-right: 1em; 21147 padding-left: 1em; 21148 border-color: #ff9900; 21149 border-width: 1px; 21150 border-bottom-style: solid; 21151 border-top-style: solid; 21152 font-size: 9pt; 21153 color: #9999cc; 21154 ">Enter BERTRAM</div> 21155 21156 21157 21158<div style=" 21159 color: #ff9900; 21160 ">LAFEU</div> 21161 21162<div style=" 21163 margin-left: 3em; 21164 color: #ccccff; 21165 ">He looks well on't.</div> 21166 21167 21168 21169 21170<div style=" 21171 color: #ff9900; 21172 ">KING</div> 21173 21174<div style=" 21175 margin-left: 3em; 21176 color: #ccccff; 21177 ">I am not a day of season,</div> 21178 21179<div style=" 21180 margin-left: 3em; 21181 color: #ccccff; 21182 ">For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail</div> 21183 21184<div style=" 21185 margin-left: 3em; 21186 color: #ccccff; 21187 ">In me at once: but to the brightest beams</div> 21188 21189<div style=" 21190 margin-left: 3em; 21191 color: #ccccff; 21192 ">Distracted clouds give way; so stand thou forth;</div> 21193 21194<div style=" 21195 margin-left: 3em; 21196 color: #ccccff; 21197 ">The time is fair again.</div> 21198 21199 21200 21201 21202<div style=" 21203 color: #ff9900; 21204 ">BERTRAM</div> 21205 21206<div style=" 21207 margin-left: 3em; 21208 color: #ccccff; 21209 ">My high-repented blames,</div> 21210 21211<div style=" 21212 margin-left: 3em; 21213 color: #ccccff; 21214 ">Dear sovereign, pardon to me.</div> 21215 21216 21217 21218 21219<div style=" 21220 color: #ff9900; 21221 ">KING</div> 21222 21223<div style=" 21224 margin-left: 3em; 21225 color: #ccccff; 21226 ">All is whole;</div> 21227 21228<div style=" 21229 margin-left: 3em; 21230 color: #ccccff; 21231 ">Not one word more of the consumed time.</div> 21232 21233<div style=" 21234 margin-left: 3em; 21235 color: #ccccff; 21236 ">Let's take the instant by the forward top;</div> 21237 21238<div style=" 21239 margin-left: 3em; 21240 color: #ccccff; 21241 ">For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees</div> 21242 21243<div style=" 21244 margin-left: 3em; 21245 color: #ccccff; 21246 ">The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time</div> 21247 21248<div style=" 21249 margin-left: 3em; 21250 color: #ccccff; 21251 ">Steals ere we can effect them. You remember</div> 21252 21253<div style=" 21254 margin-left: 3em; 21255 color: #ccccff; 21256 ">The daughter of this lord?</div> 21257 21258 21259 21260 21261<div style=" 21262 color: #ff9900; 21263 ">BERTRAM</div> 21264 21265<div style=" 21266 margin-left: 3em; 21267 color: #ccccff; 21268 ">Admiringly, my liege, at first</div> 21269 21270<div style=" 21271 margin-left: 3em; 21272 color: #ccccff; 21273 ">I stuck my choice upon her, ere my heart</div> 21274 21275<div style=" 21276 margin-left: 3em; 21277 color: #ccccff; 21278 ">Durst make too bold a herald of my tongue</div> 21279 21280<div style=" 21281 margin-left: 3em; 21282 color: #ccccff; 21283 ">Where the impression of mine eye infixing,</div> 21284 21285<div style=" 21286 margin-left: 3em; 21287 color: #ccccff; 21288 ">Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me,</div> 21289 21290<div style=" 21291 margin-left: 3em; 21292 color: #ccccff; 21293 ">Which warp'd the line of every other favour;</div> 21294 21295<div style=" 21296 margin-left: 3em; 21297 color: #ccccff; 21298 ">Scorn'd a fair colour, or express'd it stolen;</div> 21299 21300<div style=" 21301 margin-left: 3em; 21302 color: #ccccff; 21303 ">Extended or contracted all proportions</div> 21304 21305<div style=" 21306 margin-left: 3em; 21307 color: #ccccff; 21308 ">To a most hideous object: thence it came</div> 21309 21310<div style=" 21311 margin-left: 3em; 21312 color: #ccccff; 21313 ">That she whom all men praised and whom myself,</div> 21314 21315<div style=" 21316 margin-left: 3em; 21317 color: #ccccff; 21318 ">Since I have lost, have loved, was in mine eye</div> 21319 21320<div style=" 21321 margin-left: 3em; 21322 color: #ccccff; 21323 ">The dust that did offend it.</div> 21324 21325 21326 21327 21328<div style=" 21329 color: #ff9900; 21330 ">KING</div> 21331 21332<div style=" 21333 margin-left: 3em; 21334 color: #ccccff; 21335 ">Well excused:</div> 21336 21337<div style=" 21338 margin-left: 3em; 21339 color: #ccccff; 21340 ">That thou didst love her, strikes some scores away</div> 21341 21342<div style=" 21343 margin-left: 3em; 21344 color: #ccccff; 21345 ">From the great compt: but love that comes too late,</div> 21346 21347<div style=" 21348 margin-left: 3em; 21349 color: #ccccff; 21350 ">Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,</div> 21351 21352<div style=" 21353 margin-left: 3em; 21354 color: #ccccff; 21355 ">To the great sender turns a sour offence,</div> 21356 21357<div style=" 21358 margin-left: 3em; 21359 color: #ccccff; 21360 ">Crying, 'That's good that's gone.' Our rash faults</div> 21361 21362<div style=" 21363 margin-left: 3em; 21364 color: #ccccff; 21365 ">Make trivial price of serious things we have,</div> 21366 21367<div style=" 21368 margin-left: 3em; 21369 color: #ccccff; 21370 ">Not knowing them until we know their grave:</div> 21371 21372<div style=" 21373 margin-left: 3em; 21374 color: #ccccff; 21375 ">Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust,</div> 21376 21377<div style=" 21378 margin-left: 3em; 21379 color: #ccccff; 21380 ">Destroy our friends and after weep their dust</div> 21381 21382<div style=" 21383 margin-left: 3em; 21384 color: #ccccff; 21385 ">Our own love waking cries to see what's done,</div> 21386 21387<div style=" 21388 margin-left: 3em; 21389 color: #ccccff; 21390 ">While shame full late sleeps out the afternoon.</div> 21391 21392<div style=" 21393 margin-left: 3em; 21394 color: #ccccff; 21395 ">Be this sweet Helen's knell, and now forget her.</div> 21396 21397<div style=" 21398 margin-left: 3em; 21399 color: #ccccff; 21400 ">Send forth your amorous token for fair Maudlin:</div> 21401 21402<div style=" 21403 margin-left: 3em; 21404 color: #ccccff; 21405 ">The main consents are had; and here we'll stay</div> 21406 21407<div style=" 21408 margin-left: 3em; 21409 color: #ccccff; 21410 ">To see our widower's second marriage-day.</div> 21411 21412 21413 21414 21415<div style=" 21416 color: #ff9900; 21417 ">COUNTESS</div> 21418 21419<div style=" 21420 margin-left: 3em; 21421 color: #ccccff; 21422 ">Which better than the first, O dear heaven, bless!</div> 21423 21424<div style=" 21425 margin-left: 3em; 21426 color: #ccccff; 21427 ">Or, ere they meet, in me, O nature, cesse!</div> 21428 21429 21430 21431 21432<div style=" 21433 color: #ff9900; 21434 ">LAFEU</div> 21435 21436<div style=" 21437 margin-left: 3em; 21438 color: #ccccff; 21439 ">Come on, my son, in whom my house's name</div> 21440 21441<div style=" 21442 margin-left: 3em; 21443 color: #ccccff; 21444 ">Must be digested, give a favour from you</div> 21445 21446<div style=" 21447 margin-left: 3em; 21448 color: #ccccff; 21449 ">To sparkle in the spirits of my daughter,</div> 21450 21451<div style=" 21452 margin-left: 3em; 21453 color: #ccccff; 21454 ">That she may quickly come.</div> 21455 21456<div style=" 21457 position: relative; 21458 width: 40%; 21459 left: 50%; 21460 text-align: right; 21461 margin: 0.5em; 21462 padding-right: 1em; 21463 padding-left: 1em; 21464 border-color: #ff9900; 21465 border-width: 1px; 21466 border-bottom-style: solid; 21467 border-top-style: solid; 21468 font-size: 9pt; 21469 color: #9999cc; 21470 ">BERTRAM gives a ring</div> 21471 21472<div style=" 21473 margin-left: 3em; 21474 color: #ccccff; 21475 ">By my old beard,</div> 21476 21477<div style=" 21478 margin-left: 3em; 21479 color: #ccccff; 21480 ">And every hair that's on't, Helen, that's dead,</div> 21481 21482<div style=" 21483 margin-left: 3em; 21484 color: #ccccff; 21485 ">Was a sweet creature: such a ring as this,</div> 21486 21487<div style=" 21488 margin-left: 3em; 21489 color: #ccccff; 21490 ">The last that e'er I took her at court,</div> 21491 21492<div style=" 21493 margin-left: 3em; 21494 color: #ccccff; 21495 ">I saw upon her finger.</div> 21496 21497 21498 21499 21500<div style=" 21501 color: #ff9900; 21502 ">BERTRAM</div> 21503 21504<div style=" 21505 margin-left: 3em; 21506 color: #ccccff; 21507 ">Hers it was not.</div> 21508 21509 21510 21511 21512<div style=" 21513 color: #ff9900; 21514 ">KING</div> 21515 21516<div style=" 21517 margin-left: 3em; 21518 color: #ccccff; 21519 ">Now, pray you, let me see it; for mine eye,</div> 21520 21521<div style=" 21522 margin-left: 3em; 21523 color: #ccccff; 21524 ">While I was speaking, oft was fasten'd to't.</div> 21525 21526<div style=" 21527 margin-left: 3em; 21528 color: #ccccff; 21529 ">This ring was mine; and, when I gave it Helen,</div> 21530 21531<div style=" 21532 margin-left: 3em; 21533 color: #ccccff; 21534 ">I bade her, if her fortunes ever stood</div> 21535 21536<div style=" 21537 margin-left: 3em; 21538 color: #ccccff; 21539 ">Necessitied to help, that by this token</div> 21540 21541<div style=" 21542 margin-left: 3em; 21543 color: #ccccff; 21544 ">I would relieve her. Had you that craft, to reave</div> 21545 21546<div style=" 21547 margin-left: 3em; 21548 color: #ccccff; 21549 ">her</div> 21550 21551<div style=" 21552 margin-left: 3em; 21553 color: #ccccff; 21554 ">Of what should stead her most?</div> 21555 21556 21557 21558 21559<div style=" 21560 color: #ff9900; 21561 ">BERTRAM</div> 21562 21563<div style=" 21564 margin-left: 3em; 21565 color: #ccccff; 21566 ">My gracious sovereign,</div> 21567 21568<div style=" 21569 margin-left: 3em; 21570 color: #ccccff; 21571 ">Howe'er it pleases you to take it so,</div> 21572 21573<div style=" 21574 margin-left: 3em; 21575 color: #ccccff; 21576 ">The ring was never hers.</div> 21577 21578 21579 21580 21581<div style=" 21582 color: #ff9900; 21583 ">COUNTESS</div> 21584 21585<div style=" 21586 margin-left: 3em; 21587 color: #ccccff; 21588 ">Son, on my life,</div> 21589 21590<div style=" 21591 margin-left: 3em; 21592 color: #ccccff; 21593 ">I have seen her wear it; and she reckon'd it</div> 21594 21595<div style=" 21596 margin-left: 3em; 21597 color: #ccccff; 21598 ">At her life's rate.</div> 21599 21600 21601 21602 21603<div style=" 21604 color: #ff9900; 21605 ">LAFEU</div> 21606 21607<div style=" 21608 margin-left: 3em; 21609 color: #ccccff; 21610 ">I am sure I saw her wear it.</div> 21611 21612 21613 21614 21615<div style=" 21616 color: #ff9900; 21617 ">BERTRAM</div> 21618 21619<div style=" 21620 margin-left: 3em; 21621 color: #ccccff; 21622 ">You are deceived, my lord; she never saw it:</div> 21623 21624<div style=" 21625 margin-left: 3em; 21626 color: #ccccff; 21627 ">In Florence was it from a casement thrown me,</div> 21628 21629<div style=" 21630 margin-left: 3em; 21631 color: #ccccff; 21632 ">Wrapp'd in a paper, which contain'd the name</div> 21633 21634<div style=" 21635 margin-left: 3em; 21636 color: #ccccff; 21637 ">Of her that threw it: noble she was, and thought</div> 21638 21639<div style=" 21640 margin-left: 3em; 21641 color: #ccccff; 21642 ">I stood engaged: but when I had subscribed</div> 21643 21644<div style=" 21645 margin-left: 3em; 21646 color: #ccccff; 21647 ">To mine own fortune and inform'd her fully</div> 21648 21649<div style=" 21650 margin-left: 3em; 21651 color: #ccccff; 21652 ">I could not answer in that course of honour</div> 21653 21654<div style=" 21655 margin-left: 3em; 21656 color: #ccccff; 21657 ">As she had made the overture, she ceased</div> 21658 21659<div style=" 21660 margin-left: 3em; 21661 color: #ccccff; 21662 ">In heavy satisfaction and would never</div> 21663 21664<div style=" 21665 margin-left: 3em; 21666 color: #ccccff; 21667 ">Receive the ring again.</div> 21668 21669 21670 21671 21672<div style=" 21673 color: #ff9900; 21674 ">KING</div> 21675 21676<div style=" 21677 margin-left: 3em; 21678 color: #ccccff; 21679 ">Plutus himself,</div> 21680 21681<div style=" 21682 margin-left: 3em; 21683 color: #ccccff; 21684 ">That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine,</div> 21685 21686<div style=" 21687 margin-left: 3em; 21688 color: #ccccff; 21689 ">Hath not in nature's mystery more science</div> 21690 21691<div style=" 21692 margin-left: 3em; 21693 color: #ccccff; 21694 ">Than I have in this ring: 'twas mine, 'twas Helen's,</div> 21695 21696<div style=" 21697 margin-left: 3em; 21698 color: #ccccff; 21699 ">Whoever gave it you. Then, if you know</div> 21700 21701<div style=" 21702 margin-left: 3em; 21703 color: #ccccff; 21704 ">That you are well acquainted with yourself,</div> 21705 21706<div style=" 21707 margin-left: 3em; 21708 color: #ccccff; 21709 ">Confess 'twas hers, and by what rough enforcement</div> 21710 21711<div style=" 21712 margin-left: 3em; 21713 color: #ccccff; 21714 ">You got it from her: she call'd the saints to surety</div> 21715 21716<div style=" 21717 margin-left: 3em; 21718 color: #ccccff; 21719 ">That she would never put it from her finger,</div> 21720 21721<div style=" 21722 margin-left: 3em; 21723 color: #ccccff; 21724 ">Unless she gave it to yourself in bed,</div> 21725 21726<div style=" 21727 margin-left: 3em; 21728 color: #ccccff; 21729 ">Where you have never come, or sent it us</div> 21730 21731<div style=" 21732 margin-left: 3em; 21733 color: #ccccff; 21734 ">Upon her great disaster.</div> 21735 21736 21737 21738 21739<div style=" 21740 color: #ff9900; 21741 ">BERTRAM</div> 21742 21743<div style=" 21744 margin-left: 3em; 21745 color: #ccccff; 21746 ">She never saw it.</div> 21747 21748 21749 21750 21751<div style=" 21752 color: #ff9900; 21753 ">KING</div> 21754 21755<div style=" 21756 margin-left: 3em; 21757 color: #ccccff; 21758 ">Thou speak'st it falsely, as I love mine honour;</div> 21759 21760<div style=" 21761 margin-left: 3em; 21762 color: #ccccff; 21763 ">And makest conjectural fears to come into me</div> 21764 21765<div style=" 21766 margin-left: 3em; 21767 color: #ccccff; 21768 ">Which I would fain shut out. If it should prove</div> 21769 21770<div style=" 21771 margin-left: 3em; 21772 color: #ccccff; 21773 ">That thou art so inhuman,--'twill not prove so;--</div> 21774 21775<div style=" 21776 margin-left: 3em; 21777 color: #ccccff; 21778 ">And yet I know not: thou didst hate her deadly,</div> 21779 21780<div style=" 21781 margin-left: 3em; 21782 color: #ccccff; 21783 ">And she is dead; which nothing, but to close</div> 21784 21785<div style=" 21786 margin-left: 3em; 21787 color: #ccccff; 21788 ">Her eyes myself, could win me to believe,</div> 21789 21790<div style=" 21791 margin-left: 3em; 21792 color: #ccccff; 21793 ">More than to see this ring. Take him away.</div> 21794 21795<div style=" 21796 position: relative; 21797 width: 40%; 21798 left: 50%; 21799 text-align: right; 21800 margin: 0.5em; 21801 padding-right: 1em; 21802 padding-left: 1em; 21803 border-color: #ff9900; 21804 border-width: 1px; 21805 border-bottom-style: solid; 21806 border-top-style: solid; 21807 font-size: 9pt; 21808 color: #9999cc; 21809 ">Guards seize BERTRAM</div> 21810 21811<div style=" 21812 margin-left: 3em; 21813 color: #ccccff; 21814 ">My fore-past proofs, howe'er the matter fall,</div> 21815 21816<div style=" 21817 margin-left: 3em; 21818 color: #ccccff; 21819 ">Shall tax my fears of little vanity,</div> 21820 21821<div style=" 21822 margin-left: 3em; 21823 color: #ccccff; 21824 ">Having vainly fear'd too little. Away with him!</div> 21825 21826<div style=" 21827 margin-left: 3em; 21828 color: #ccccff; 21829 ">We'll sift this matter further.</div> 21830 21831 21832 21833 21834<div style=" 21835 color: #ff9900; 21836 ">BERTRAM</div> 21837 21838<div style=" 21839 margin-left: 3em; 21840 color: #ccccff; 21841 ">If you shall prove</div> 21842 21843<div style=" 21844 margin-left: 3em; 21845 color: #ccccff; 21846 ">This ring was ever hers, you shall as easy</div> 21847 21848<div style=" 21849 margin-left: 3em; 21850 color: #ccccff; 21851 ">Prove that I husbanded her bed in Florence,</div> 21852 21853<div style=" 21854 margin-left: 3em; 21855 color: #ccccff; 21856 ">Where yet she never was.</div> 21857 21858 21859 21860<div style=" 21861 position: relative; 21862 width: 40%; 21863 left: 50%; 21864 text-align: right; 21865 margin: 0.5em; 21866 padding-right: 1em; 21867 padding-left: 1em; 21868 border-color: #ff9900; 21869 border-width: 1px; 21870 border-bottom-style: solid; 21871 border-top-style: solid; 21872 font-size: 9pt; 21873 color: #9999cc; 21874 ">Exit, guarded</div> 21875 21876 21877 21878<div style=" 21879 color: #ff9900; 21880 ">KING</div> 21881 21882<div style=" 21883 margin-left: 3em; 21884 color: #ccccff; 21885 ">I am wrapp'd in dismal thinkings.</div> 21886 21887 21888 21889<div style=" 21890 position: relative; 21891 width: 40%; 21892 left: 50%; 21893 text-align: right; 21894 margin: 0.5em; 21895 padding-right: 1em; 21896 padding-left: 1em; 21897 border-color: #ff9900; 21898 border-width: 1px; 21899 border-bottom-style: solid; 21900 border-top-style: solid; 21901 font-size: 9pt; 21902 color: #9999cc; 21903 ">Enter a Gentleman</div> 21904 21905 21906 21907<div style=" 21908 color: #ff9900; 21909 ">Gentleman</div> 21910 21911<div style=" 21912 margin-left: 3em; 21913 color: #ccccff; 21914 ">Gracious sovereign,</div> 21915 21916<div style=" 21917 margin-left: 3em; 21918 color: #ccccff; 21919 ">Whether I have been to blame or no, I know not:</div> 21920 21921<div style=" 21922 margin-left: 3em; 21923 color: #ccccff; 21924 ">Here's a petition from a Florentine,</div> 21925 21926<div style=" 21927 margin-left: 3em; 21928 color: #ccccff; 21929 ">Who hath for four or five removes come short</div> 21930 21931<div style=" 21932 margin-left: 3em; 21933 color: #ccccff; 21934 ">To tender it herself. I undertook it,</div> 21935 21936<div style=" 21937 margin-left: 3em; 21938 color: #ccccff; 21939 ">Vanquish'd thereto by the fair grace and speech</div> 21940 21941<div style=" 21942 margin-left: 3em; 21943 color: #ccccff; 21944 ">Of the poor suppliant, who by this I know</div> 21945 21946<div style=" 21947 margin-left: 3em; 21948 color: #ccccff; 21949 ">Is here attending: her business looks in her</div> 21950 21951<div style=" 21952 margin-left: 3em; 21953 color: #ccccff; 21954 ">With an importing visage; and she told me,</div> 21955 21956<div style=" 21957 margin-left: 3em; 21958 color: #ccccff; 21959 ">In a sweet verbal brief, it did concern</div> 21960 21961<div style=" 21962 margin-left: 3em; 21963 color: #ccccff; 21964 ">Your highness with herself.</div> 21965 21966 21967 21968 21969<div style=" 21970 color: #ff9900; 21971 ">KING</div> 21972 21973<div style=" 21974 margin-left: 3em; 21975 color: #ccccff; 21976 ">Reads Upon his many protestations to marry me</div> 21977 21978<div style=" 21979 margin-left: 3em; 21980 color: #ccccff; 21981 ">when his wife was dead, I blush to say it, he won</div> 21982 21983<div style=" 21984 margin-left: 3em; 21985 color: #ccccff; 21986 ">me. Now is the Count Rousillon a widower: his vows</div> 21987 21988<div style=" 21989 margin-left: 3em; 21990 color: #ccccff; 21991 ">are forfeited to me, and my honour's paid to him. He</div> 21992 21993<div style=" 21994 margin-left: 3em; 21995 color: #ccccff; 21996 ">stole from Florence, taking no leave, and I follow</div> 21997 21998<div style=" 21999 margin-left: 3em; 22000 color: #ccccff; 22001 ">him to his country for justice: grant it me, O</div> 22002 22003<div style=" 22004 margin-left: 3em; 22005 color: #ccccff; 22006 ">king! in you it best lies; otherwise a seducer</div> 22007 22008<div style=" 22009 margin-left: 3em; 22010 color: #ccccff; 22011 ">flourishes, and a poor maid is undone.</div> 22012 22013<div style=" 22014 margin-left: 3em; 22015 color: #ccccff; 22016 ">DIANA CAPILET.</div> 22017 22018 22019 22020 22021<div style=" 22022 color: #ff9900; 22023 ">LAFEU</div> 22024 22025<div style=" 22026 margin-left: 3em; 22027 color: #ccccff; 22028 ">I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll for</div> 22029 22030<div style=" 22031 margin-left: 3em; 22032 color: #ccccff; 22033 ">this: I'll none of him.</div> 22034 22035 22036 22037 22038<div style=" 22039 color: #ff9900; 22040 ">KING</div> 22041 22042<div style=" 22043 margin-left: 3em; 22044 color: #ccccff; 22045 ">The heavens have thought well on thee Lafeu,</div> 22046 22047<div style=" 22048 margin-left: 3em; 22049 color: #ccccff; 22050 ">To bring forth this discovery. Seek these suitors:</div> 22051 22052<div style=" 22053 margin-left: 3em; 22054 color: #ccccff; 22055 ">Go speedily and bring again the count.</div> 22056 22057<div style=" 22058 margin-left: 3em; 22059 color: #ccccff; 22060 ">I am afeard the life of Helen, lady,</div> 22061 22062<div style=" 22063 margin-left: 3em; 22064 color: #ccccff; 22065 ">Was foully snatch'd.</div> 22066 22067 22068 22069 22070<div style=" 22071 color: #ff9900; 22072 ">COUNTESS</div> 22073 22074<div style=" 22075 margin-left: 3em; 22076 color: #ccccff; 22077 ">Now, justice on the doers!</div> 22078 22079 22080 22081<div style=" 22082 position: relative; 22083 width: 40%; 22084 left: 50%; 22085 text-align: right; 22086 margin: 0.5em; 22087 padding-right: 1em; 22088 padding-left: 1em; 22089 border-color: #ff9900; 22090 border-width: 1px; 22091 border-bottom-style: solid; 22092 border-top-style: solid; 22093 font-size: 9pt; 22094 color: #9999cc; 22095 ">Re-enter BERTRAM, guarded</div> 22096 22097 22098 22099<div style=" 22100 color: #ff9900; 22101 ">KING</div> 22102 22103<div style=" 22104 margin-left: 3em; 22105 color: #ccccff; 22106 ">I wonder, sir, sith wives are monsters to you,</div> 22107 22108<div style=" 22109 margin-left: 3em; 22110 color: #ccccff; 22111 ">And that you fly them as you swear them lordship,</div> 22112 22113<div style=" 22114 margin-left: 3em; 22115 color: #ccccff; 22116 ">Yet you desire to marry.</div> 22117 22118<div style=" 22119 position: relative; 22120 width: 40%; 22121 left: 50%; 22122 text-align: right; 22123 margin: 0.5em; 22124 padding-right: 1em; 22125 padding-left: 1em; 22126 border-color: #ff9900; 22127 border-width: 1px; 22128 border-bottom-style: solid; 22129 border-top-style: solid; 22130 font-size: 9pt; 22131 color: #9999cc; 22132 ">Enter Widow and DIANA</div> 22133 22134<div style=" 22135 margin-left: 3em; 22136 color: #ccccff; 22137 ">What woman's that?</div> 22138 22139 22140 22141 22142<div style=" 22143 color: #ff9900; 22144 ">DIANA</div> 22145 22146<div style=" 22147 margin-left: 3em; 22148 color: #ccccff; 22149 ">I am, my lord, a wretched Florentine,</div> 22150 22151<div style=" 22152 margin-left: 3em; 22153 color: #ccccff; 22154 ">Derived from the ancient Capilet:</div> 22155 22156<div style=" 22157 margin-left: 3em; 22158 color: #ccccff; 22159 ">My suit, as I do understand, you know,</div> 22160 22161<div style=" 22162 margin-left: 3em; 22163 color: #ccccff; 22164 ">And therefore know how far I may be pitied.</div> 22165 22166 22167 22168 22169<div style=" 22170 color: #ff9900; 22171 ">Widow</div> 22172 22173<div style=" 22174 margin-left: 3em; 22175 color: #ccccff; 22176 ">I am her mother, sir, whose age and honour</div> 22177 22178<div style=" 22179 margin-left: 3em; 22180 color: #ccccff; 22181 ">Both suffer under this complaint we bring,</div> 22182 22183<div style=" 22184 margin-left: 3em; 22185 color: #ccccff; 22186 ">And both shall cease, without your remedy.</div> 22187 22188 22189 22190 22191<div style=" 22192 color: #ff9900; 22193 ">KING</div> 22194 22195<div style=" 22196 margin-left: 3em; 22197 color: #ccccff; 22198 ">Come hither, count; do you know these women?</div> 22199 22200 22201 22202 22203<div style=" 22204 color: #ff9900; 22205 ">BERTRAM</div> 22206 22207<div style=" 22208 margin-left: 3em; 22209 color: #ccccff; 22210 ">My lord, I neither can nor will deny</div> 22211 22212<div style=" 22213 margin-left: 3em; 22214 color: #ccccff; 22215 ">But that I know them: do they charge me further?</div> 22216 22217 22218 22219 22220<div style=" 22221 color: #ff9900; 22222 ">DIANA</div> 22223 22224<div style=" 22225 margin-left: 3em; 22226 color: #ccccff; 22227 ">Why do you look so strange upon your wife?</div> 22228 22229 22230 22231 22232<div style=" 22233 color: #ff9900; 22234 ">BERTRAM</div> 22235 22236<div style=" 22237 margin-left: 3em; 22238 color: #ccccff; 22239 ">She's none of mine, my lord.</div> 22240 22241 22242 22243 22244<div style=" 22245 color: #ff9900; 22246 ">DIANA</div> 22247 22248<div style=" 22249 margin-left: 3em; 22250 color: #ccccff; 22251 ">If you shall marry,</div> 22252 22253<div style=" 22254 margin-left: 3em; 22255 color: #ccccff; 22256 ">You give away this hand, and that is mine;</div> 22257 22258<div style=" 22259 margin-left: 3em; 22260 color: #ccccff; 22261 ">You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine;</div> 22262 22263<div style=" 22264 margin-left: 3em; 22265 color: #ccccff; 22266 ">You give away myself, which is known mine;</div> 22267 22268<div style=" 22269 margin-left: 3em; 22270 color: #ccccff; 22271 ">For I by vow am so embodied yours,</div> 22272 22273<div style=" 22274 margin-left: 3em; 22275 color: #ccccff; 22276 ">That she which marries you must marry me,</div> 22277 22278<div style=" 22279 margin-left: 3em; 22280 color: #ccccff; 22281 ">Either both or none.</div> 22282 22283 22284 22285 22286<div style=" 22287 color: #ff9900; 22288 ">LAFEU</div> 22289 22290<div style=" 22291 margin-left: 3em; 22292 color: #ccccff; 22293 ">Your reputation comes too short for my daughter; you</div> 22294 22295<div style=" 22296 margin-left: 3em; 22297 color: #ccccff; 22298 ">are no husband for her.</div> 22299 22300 22301 22302 22303<div style=" 22304 color: #ff9900; 22305 ">BERTRAM</div> 22306 22307<div style=" 22308 margin-left: 3em; 22309 color: #ccccff; 22310 ">My lord, this is a fond and desperate creature,</div> 22311 22312<div style=" 22313 margin-left: 3em; 22314 color: #ccccff; 22315 ">Whom sometime I have laugh'd with: let your highness</div> 22316 22317<div style=" 22318 margin-left: 3em; 22319 color: #ccccff; 22320 ">Lay a more noble thought upon mine honour</div> 22321 22322<div style=" 22323 margin-left: 3em; 22324 color: #ccccff; 22325 ">Than for to think that I would sink it here.</div> 22326 22327 22328 22329 22330<div style=" 22331 color: #ff9900; 22332 ">KING</div> 22333 22334<div style=" 22335 margin-left: 3em; 22336 color: #ccccff; 22337 ">Sir, for my thoughts, you have them ill to friend</div> 22338 22339<div style=" 22340 margin-left: 3em; 22341 color: #ccccff; 22342 ">Till your deeds gain them: fairer prove your honour</div> 22343 22344<div style=" 22345 margin-left: 3em; 22346 color: #ccccff; 22347 ">Than in my thought it lies.</div> 22348 22349 22350 22351 22352<div style=" 22353 color: #ff9900; 22354 ">DIANA</div> 22355 22356<div style=" 22357 margin-left: 3em; 22358 color: #ccccff; 22359 ">Good my lord,</div> 22360 22361<div style=" 22362 margin-left: 3em; 22363 color: #ccccff; 22364 ">Ask him upon his oath, if he does think</div> 22365 22366<div style=" 22367 margin-left: 3em; 22368 color: #ccccff; 22369 ">He had not my virginity.</div> 22370 22371 22372 22373 22374<div style=" 22375 color: #ff9900; 22376 ">KING</div> 22377 22378<div style=" 22379 margin-left: 3em; 22380 color: #ccccff; 22381 ">What say'st thou to her?</div> 22382 22383 22384 22385 22386<div style=" 22387 color: #ff9900; 22388 ">BERTRAM</div> 22389 22390<div style=" 22391 margin-left: 3em; 22392 color: #ccccff; 22393 ">She's impudent, my lord,</div> 22394 22395<div style=" 22396 margin-left: 3em; 22397 color: #ccccff; 22398 ">And was a common gamester to the camp.</div> 22399 22400 22401 22402 22403<div style=" 22404 color: #ff9900; 22405 ">DIANA</div> 22406 22407<div style=" 22408 margin-left: 3em; 22409 color: #ccccff; 22410 ">He does me wrong, my lord; if I were so,</div> 22411 22412<div style=" 22413 margin-left: 3em; 22414 color: #ccccff; 22415 ">He might have bought me at a common price:</div> 22416 22417<div style=" 22418 margin-left: 3em; 22419 color: #ccccff; 22420 ">Do not believe him. O, behold this ring,</div> 22421 22422<div style=" 22423 margin-left: 3em; 22424 color: #ccccff; 22425 ">Whose high respect and rich validity</div> 22426 22427<div style=" 22428 margin-left: 3em; 22429 color: #ccccff; 22430 ">Did lack a parallel; yet for all that</div> 22431 22432<div style=" 22433 margin-left: 3em; 22434 color: #ccccff; 22435 ">He gave it to a commoner o' the camp,</div> 22436 22437<div style=" 22438 margin-left: 3em; 22439 color: #ccccff; 22440 ">If I be one.</div> 22441 22442 22443 22444 22445<div style=" 22446 color: #ff9900; 22447 ">COUNTESS</div> 22448 22449<div style=" 22450 margin-left: 3em; 22451 color: #ccccff; 22452 ">He blushes, and 'tis it:</div> 22453 22454<div style=" 22455 margin-left: 3em; 22456 color: #ccccff; 22457 ">Of six preceding ancestors, that gem,</div> 22458 22459<div style=" 22460 margin-left: 3em; 22461 color: #ccccff; 22462 ">Conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue,</div> 22463 22464<div style=" 22465 margin-left: 3em; 22466 color: #ccccff; 22467 ">Hath it been owed and worn. This is his wife;</div> 22468 22469<div style=" 22470 margin-left: 3em; 22471 color: #ccccff; 22472 ">That ring's a thousand proofs.</div> 22473 22474 22475 22476 22477<div style=" 22478 color: #ff9900; 22479 ">KING</div> 22480 22481<div style=" 22482 margin-left: 3em; 22483 color: #ccccff; 22484 ">Methought you said</div> 22485 22486<div style=" 22487 margin-left: 3em; 22488 color: #ccccff; 22489 ">You saw one here in court could witness it.</div> 22490 22491 22492 22493 22494<div style=" 22495 color: #ff9900; 22496 ">DIANA</div> 22497 22498<div style=" 22499 margin-left: 3em; 22500 color: #ccccff; 22501 ">I did, my lord, but loath am to produce</div> 22502 22503<div style=" 22504 margin-left: 3em; 22505 color: #ccccff; 22506 ">So bad an instrument: his name's Parolles.</div> 22507 22508 22509 22510 22511<div style=" 22512 color: #ff9900; 22513 ">LAFEU</div> 22514 22515<div style=" 22516 margin-left: 3em; 22517 color: #ccccff; 22518 ">I saw the man to-day, if man he be.</div> 22519 22520 22521 22522 22523<div style=" 22524 color: #ff9900; 22525 ">KING</div> 22526 22527<div style=" 22528 margin-left: 3em; 22529 color: #ccccff; 22530 ">Find him, and bring him hither.</div> 22531 22532 22533 22534<div style=" 22535 position: relative; 22536 width: 40%; 22537 left: 50%; 22538 text-align: right; 22539 margin: 0.5em; 22540 padding-right: 1em; 22541 padding-left: 1em; 22542 border-color: #ff9900; 22543 border-width: 1px; 22544 border-bottom-style: solid; 22545 border-top-style: solid; 22546 font-size: 9pt; 22547 color: #9999cc; 22548 ">Exit an Attendant</div> 22549 22550 22551 22552<div style=" 22553 color: #ff9900; 22554 ">BERTRAM</div> 22555 22556<div style=" 22557 margin-left: 3em; 22558 color: #ccccff; 22559 ">What of him?</div> 22560 22561<div style=" 22562 margin-left: 3em; 22563 color: #ccccff; 22564 ">He's quoted for a most perfidious slave,</div> 22565 22566<div style=" 22567 margin-left: 3em; 22568 color: #ccccff; 22569 ">With all the spots o' the world tax'd and debosh'd;</div> 22570 22571<div style=" 22572 margin-left: 3em; 22573 color: #ccccff; 22574 ">Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth.</div> 22575 22576<div style=" 22577 margin-left: 3em; 22578 color: #ccccff; 22579 ">Am I or that or this for what he'll utter,</div> 22580 22581<div style=" 22582 margin-left: 3em; 22583 color: #ccccff; 22584 ">That will speak any thing?</div> 22585 22586 22587 22588 22589<div style=" 22590 color: #ff9900; 22591 ">KING</div> 22592 22593<div style=" 22594 margin-left: 3em; 22595 color: #ccccff; 22596 ">She hath that ring of yours.</div> 22597 22598 22599 22600 22601<div style=" 22602 color: #ff9900; 22603 ">BERTRAM</div> 22604 22605<div style=" 22606 margin-left: 3em; 22607 color: #ccccff; 22608 ">I think she has: certain it is I liked her,</div> 22609 22610<div style=" 22611 margin-left: 3em; 22612 color: #ccccff; 22613 ">And boarded her i' the wanton way of youth:</div> 22614 22615<div style=" 22616 margin-left: 3em; 22617 color: #ccccff; 22618 ">She knew her distance and did angle for me,</div> 22619 22620<div style=" 22621 margin-left: 3em; 22622 color: #ccccff; 22623 ">Madding my eagerness with her restraint,</div> 22624 22625<div style=" 22626 margin-left: 3em; 22627 color: #ccccff; 22628 ">As all impediments in fancy's course</div> 22629 22630<div style=" 22631 margin-left: 3em; 22632 color: #ccccff; 22633 ">Are motives of more fancy; and, in fine,</div> 22634 22635<div style=" 22636 margin-left: 3em; 22637 color: #ccccff; 22638 ">Her infinite cunning, with her modern grace,</div> 22639 22640<div style=" 22641 margin-left: 3em; 22642 color: #ccccff; 22643 ">Subdued me to her rate: she got the ring;</div> 22644 22645<div style=" 22646 margin-left: 3em; 22647 color: #ccccff; 22648 ">And I had that which any inferior might</div> 22649 22650<div style=" 22651 margin-left: 3em; 22652 color: #ccccff; 22653 ">At market-price have bought.</div> 22654 22655 22656 22657 22658<div style=" 22659 color: #ff9900; 22660 ">DIANA</div> 22661 22662<div style=" 22663 margin-left: 3em; 22664 color: #ccccff; 22665 ">I must be patient:</div> 22666 22667<div style=" 22668 margin-left: 3em; 22669 color: #ccccff; 22670 ">You, that have turn'd off a first so noble wife,</div> 22671 22672<div style=" 22673 margin-left: 3em; 22674 color: #ccccff; 22675 ">May justly diet me. I pray you yet;</div> 22676 22677<div style=" 22678 margin-left: 3em; 22679 color: #ccccff; 22680 ">Since you lack virtue, I will lose a husband;</div> 22681 22682<div style=" 22683 margin-left: 3em; 22684 color: #ccccff; 22685 ">Send for your ring, I will return it home,</div> 22686 22687<div style=" 22688 margin-left: 3em; 22689 color: #ccccff; 22690 ">And give me mine again.</div> 22691 22692 22693 22694 22695<div style=" 22696 color: #ff9900; 22697 ">BERTRAM</div> 22698 22699<div style=" 22700 margin-left: 3em; 22701 color: #ccccff; 22702 ">I have it not.</div> 22703 22704 22705 22706 22707<div style=" 22708 color: #ff9900; 22709 ">KING</div> 22710 22711<div style=" 22712 margin-left: 3em; 22713 color: #ccccff; 22714 ">What ring was yours, I pray you?</div> 22715 22716 22717 22718 22719<div style=" 22720 color: #ff9900; 22721 ">DIANA</div> 22722 22723<div style=" 22724 margin-left: 3em; 22725 color: #ccccff; 22726 ">Sir, much like</div> 22727 22728<div style=" 22729 margin-left: 3em; 22730 color: #ccccff; 22731 ">The same upon your finger.</div> 22732 22733 22734 22735 22736<div style=" 22737 color: #ff9900; 22738 ">KING</div> 22739 22740<div style=" 22741 margin-left: 3em; 22742 color: #ccccff; 22743 ">Know you this ring? this ring was his of late.</div> 22744 22745 22746 22747 22748<div style=" 22749 color: #ff9900; 22750 ">DIANA</div> 22751 22752<div style=" 22753 margin-left: 3em; 22754 color: #ccccff; 22755 ">And this was it I gave him, being abed.</div> 22756 22757 22758 22759 22760<div style=" 22761 color: #ff9900; 22762 ">KING</div> 22763 22764<div style=" 22765 margin-left: 3em; 22766 color: #ccccff; 22767 ">The story then goes false, you threw it him</div> 22768 22769<div style=" 22770 margin-left: 3em; 22771 color: #ccccff; 22772 ">Out of a casement.</div> 22773 22774 22775 22776 22777<div style=" 22778 color: #ff9900; 22779 ">DIANA</div> 22780 22781<div style=" 22782 margin-left: 3em; 22783 color: #ccccff; 22784 ">I have spoke the truth.</div> 22785 22786 22787 22788<div style=" 22789 position: relative; 22790 width: 40%; 22791 left: 50%; 22792 text-align: right; 22793 margin: 0.5em; 22794 padding-right: 1em; 22795 padding-left: 1em; 22796 border-color: #ff9900; 22797 border-width: 1px; 22798 border-bottom-style: solid; 22799 border-top-style: solid; 22800 font-size: 9pt; 22801 color: #9999cc; 22802 ">Enter PAROLLES</div> 22803 22804 22805 22806<div style=" 22807 color: #ff9900; 22808 ">BERTRAM</div> 22809 22810<div style=" 22811 margin-left: 3em; 22812 color: #ccccff; 22813 ">My lord, I do confess the ring was hers.</div> 22814 22815 22816 22817 22818<div style=" 22819 color: #ff9900; 22820 ">KING</div> 22821 22822<div style=" 22823 margin-left: 3em; 22824 color: #ccccff; 22825 ">You boggle shrewdly, every feather stars you.</div> 22826 22827<div style=" 22828 margin-left: 3em; 22829 color: #ccccff; 22830 ">Is this the man you speak of?</div> 22831 22832 22833 22834 22835<div style=" 22836 color: #ff9900; 22837 ">DIANA</div> 22838 22839<div style=" 22840 margin-left: 3em; 22841 color: #ccccff; 22842 ">Ay, my lord.</div> 22843 22844 22845 22846 22847<div style=" 22848 color: #ff9900; 22849 ">KING</div> 22850 22851<div style=" 22852 margin-left: 3em; 22853 color: #ccccff; 22854 ">Tell me, sirrah, but tell me true, I charge you,</div> 22855 22856<div style=" 22857 margin-left: 3em; 22858 color: #ccccff; 22859 ">Not fearing the displeasure of your master,</div> 22860 22861<div style=" 22862 margin-left: 3em; 22863 color: #ccccff; 22864 ">Which on your just proceeding I'll keep off,</div> 22865 22866<div style=" 22867 margin-left: 3em; 22868 color: #ccccff; 22869 ">By him and by this woman here what know you?</div> 22870 22871 22872 22873 22874<div style=" 22875 color: #ff9900; 22876 ">PAROLLES</div> 22877 22878<div style=" 22879 margin-left: 3em; 22880 color: #ccccff; 22881 ">So please your majesty, my master hath been an</div> 22882 22883<div style=" 22884 margin-left: 3em; 22885 color: #ccccff; 22886 ">honourable gentleman: tricks he hath had in him,</div> 22887 22888<div style=" 22889 margin-left: 3em; 22890 color: #ccccff; 22891 ">which gentlemen have.</div> 22892 22893 22894 22895 22896<div style=" 22897 color: #ff9900; 22898 ">KING</div> 22899 22900<div style=" 22901 margin-left: 3em; 22902 color: #ccccff; 22903 ">Come, come, to the purpose: did he love this woman?</div> 22904 22905 22906 22907 22908<div style=" 22909 color: #ff9900; 22910 ">PAROLLES</div> 22911 22912<div style=" 22913 margin-left: 3em; 22914 color: #ccccff; 22915 ">Faith, sir, he did love her; but how?</div> 22916 22917 22918 22919 22920<div style=" 22921 color: #ff9900; 22922 ">KING</div> 22923 22924<div style=" 22925 margin-left: 3em; 22926 color: #ccccff; 22927 ">How, I pray you?</div> 22928 22929 22930 22931 22932<div style=" 22933 color: #ff9900; 22934 ">PAROLLES</div> 22935 22936<div style=" 22937 margin-left: 3em; 22938 color: #ccccff; 22939 ">He did love her, sir, as a gentleman loves a woman.</div> 22940 22941 22942 22943 22944<div style=" 22945 color: #ff9900; 22946 ">KING</div> 22947 22948<div style=" 22949 margin-left: 3em; 22950 color: #ccccff; 22951 ">How is that?</div> 22952 22953 22954 22955 22956<div style=" 22957 color: #ff9900; 22958 ">PAROLLES</div> 22959 22960<div style=" 22961 margin-left: 3em; 22962 color: #ccccff; 22963 ">He loved her, sir, and loved her not.</div> 22964 22965 22966 22967 22968<div style=" 22969 color: #ff9900; 22970 ">KING</div> 22971 22972<div style=" 22973 margin-left: 3em; 22974 color: #ccccff; 22975 ">As thou art a knave, and no knave. What an</div> 22976 22977<div style=" 22978 margin-left: 3em; 22979 color: #ccccff; 22980 ">equivocal companion is this!</div> 22981 22982 22983 22984 22985<div style=" 22986 color: #ff9900; 22987 ">PAROLLES</div> 22988 22989<div style=" 22990 margin-left: 3em; 22991 color: #ccccff; 22992 ">I am a poor man, and at your majesty's command.</div> 22993 22994 22995 22996 22997<div style=" 22998 color: #ff9900; 22999 ">LAFEU</div> 23000 23001<div style=" 23002 margin-left: 3em; 23003 color: #ccccff; 23004 ">He's a good drum, my lord, but a naughty orator.</div> 23005 23006 23007 23008 23009<div style=" 23010 color: #ff9900; 23011 ">DIANA</div> 23012 23013<div style=" 23014 margin-left: 3em; 23015 color: #ccccff; 23016 ">Do you know he promised me marriage?</div> 23017 23018 23019 23020 23021<div style=" 23022 color: #ff9900; 23023 ">PAROLLES</div> 23024 23025<div style=" 23026 margin-left: 3em; 23027 color: #ccccff; 23028 ">Faith, I know more than I'll speak.</div> 23029 23030 23031 23032 23033<div style=" 23034 color: #ff9900; 23035 ">KING</div> 23036 23037<div style=" 23038 margin-left: 3em; 23039 color: #ccccff; 23040 ">But wilt thou not speak all thou knowest?</div> 23041 23042 23043 23044 23045<div style=" 23046 color: #ff9900; 23047 ">PAROLLES</div> 23048 23049<div style=" 23050 margin-left: 3em; 23051 color: #ccccff; 23052 ">Yes, so please your majesty. I did go between them,</div> 23053 23054<div style=" 23055 margin-left: 3em; 23056 color: #ccccff; 23057 ">as I said; but more than that, he loved her: for</div> 23058 23059<div style=" 23060 margin-left: 3em; 23061 color: #ccccff; 23062 ">indeed he was mad for her, and talked of Satan and</div> 23063 23064<div style=" 23065 margin-left: 3em; 23066 color: #ccccff; 23067 ">of Limbo and of Furies and I know not what: yet I</div> 23068 23069<div style=" 23070 margin-left: 3em; 23071 color: #ccccff; 23072 ">was in that credit with them at that time that I</div> 23073 23074<div style=" 23075 margin-left: 3em; 23076 color: #ccccff; 23077 ">knew of their going to bed, and of other motions,</div> 23078 23079<div style=" 23080 margin-left: 3em; 23081 color: #ccccff; 23082 ">as promising her marriage, and things which would</div> 23083 23084<div style=" 23085 margin-left: 3em; 23086 color: #ccccff; 23087 ">derive me ill will to speak of; therefore I will not</div> 23088 23089<div style=" 23090 margin-left: 3em; 23091 color: #ccccff; 23092 ">speak what I know.</div> 23093 23094 23095 23096 23097<div style=" 23098 color: #ff9900; 23099 ">KING</div> 23100 23101<div style=" 23102 margin-left: 3em; 23103 color: #ccccff; 23104 ">Thou hast spoken all already, unless thou canst say</div> 23105 23106<div style=" 23107 margin-left: 3em; 23108 color: #ccccff; 23109 ">they are married: but thou art too fine in thy</div> 23110 23111<div style=" 23112 margin-left: 3em; 23113 color: #ccccff; 23114 ">evidence; therefore stand aside.</div> 23115 23116<div style=" 23117 margin-left: 3em; 23118 color: #ccccff; 23119 ">This ring, you say, was yours?</div> 23120 23121 23122 23123 23124<div style=" 23125 color: #ff9900; 23126 ">DIANA</div> 23127 23128<div style=" 23129 margin-left: 3em; 23130 color: #ccccff; 23131 ">Ay, my good lord.</div> 23132 23133 23134 23135 23136<div style=" 23137 color: #ff9900; 23138 ">KING</div> 23139 23140<div style=" 23141 margin-left: 3em; 23142 color: #ccccff; 23143 ">Where did you buy it? or who gave it you?</div> 23144 23145 23146 23147 23148<div style=" 23149 color: #ff9900; 23150 ">DIANA</div> 23151 23152<div style=" 23153 margin-left: 3em; 23154 color: #ccccff; 23155 ">It was not given me, nor I did not buy it.</div> 23156 23157 23158 23159 23160<div style=" 23161 color: #ff9900; 23162 ">KING</div> 23163 23164<div style=" 23165 margin-left: 3em; 23166 color: #ccccff; 23167 ">Who lent it you?</div> 23168 23169 23170 23171 23172<div style=" 23173 color: #ff9900; 23174 ">DIANA</div> 23175 23176<div style=" 23177 margin-left: 3em; 23178 color: #ccccff; 23179 ">It was not lent me neither.</div> 23180 23181 23182 23183 23184<div style=" 23185 color: #ff9900; 23186 ">KING</div> 23187 23188<div style=" 23189 margin-left: 3em; 23190 color: #ccccff; 23191 ">Where did you find it, then?</div> 23192 23193 23194 23195 23196<div style=" 23197 color: #ff9900; 23198 ">DIANA</div> 23199 23200<div style=" 23201 margin-left: 3em; 23202 color: #ccccff; 23203 ">I found it not.</div> 23204 23205 23206 23207 23208<div style=" 23209 color: #ff9900; 23210 ">KING</div> 23211 23212<div style=" 23213 margin-left: 3em; 23214 color: #ccccff; 23215 ">If it were yours by none of all these ways,</div> 23216 23217<div style=" 23218 margin-left: 3em; 23219 color: #ccccff; 23220 ">How could you give it him?</div> 23221 23222 23223 23224 23225<div style=" 23226 color: #ff9900; 23227 ">DIANA</div> 23228 23229<div style=" 23230 margin-left: 3em; 23231 color: #ccccff; 23232 ">I never gave it him.</div> 23233 23234 23235 23236 23237<div style=" 23238 color: #ff9900; 23239 ">LAFEU</div> 23240 23241<div style=" 23242 margin-left: 3em; 23243 color: #ccccff; 23244 ">This woman's an easy glove, my lord; she goes off</div> 23245 23246<div style=" 23247 margin-left: 3em; 23248 color: #ccccff; 23249 ">and on at pleasure.</div> 23250 23251 23252 23253 23254<div style=" 23255 color: #ff9900; 23256 ">KING</div> 23257 23258<div style=" 23259 margin-left: 3em; 23260 color: #ccccff; 23261 ">This ring was mine; I gave it his first wife.</div> 23262 23263 23264 23265 23266<div style=" 23267 color: #ff9900; 23268 ">DIANA</div> 23269 23270<div style=" 23271 margin-left: 3em; 23272 color: #ccccff; 23273 ">It might be yours or hers, for aught I know.</div> 23274 23275 23276 23277 23278<div style=" 23279 color: #ff9900; 23280 ">KING</div> 23281 23282<div style=" 23283 margin-left: 3em; 23284 color: #ccccff; 23285 ">Take her away; I do not like her now;</div> 23286 23287<div style=" 23288 margin-left: 3em; 23289 color: #ccccff; 23290 ">To prison with her: and away with him.</div> 23291 23292<div style=" 23293 margin-left: 3em; 23294 color: #ccccff; 23295 ">Unless thou tell'st me where thou hadst this ring,</div> 23296 23297<div style=" 23298 margin-left: 3em; 23299 color: #ccccff; 23300 ">Thou diest within this hour.</div> 23301 23302 23303 23304 23305<div style=" 23306 color: #ff9900; 23307 ">DIANA</div> 23308 23309<div style=" 23310 margin-left: 3em; 23311 color: #ccccff; 23312 ">I'll never tell you.</div> 23313 23314 23315 23316 23317<div style=" 23318 color: #ff9900; 23319 ">KING</div> 23320 23321<div style=" 23322 margin-left: 3em; 23323 color: #ccccff; 23324 ">Take her away.</div> 23325 23326 23327 23328 23329<div style=" 23330 color: #ff9900; 23331 ">DIANA</div> 23332 23333<div style=" 23334 margin-left: 3em; 23335 color: #ccccff; 23336 ">I'll put in bail, my liege.</div> 23337 23338 23339 23340 23341<div style=" 23342 color: #ff9900; 23343 ">KING</div> 23344 23345<div style=" 23346 margin-left: 3em; 23347 color: #ccccff; 23348 ">I think thee now some common customer.</div> 23349 23350 23351 23352 23353<div style=" 23354 color: #ff9900; 23355 ">DIANA</div> 23356 23357<div style=" 23358 margin-left: 3em; 23359 color: #ccccff; 23360 ">By Jove, if ever I knew man, 'twas you.</div> 23361 23362 23363 23364 23365<div style=" 23366 color: #ff9900; 23367 ">KING</div> 23368 23369<div style=" 23370 margin-left: 3em; 23371 color: #ccccff; 23372 ">Wherefore hast thou accused him all this while?</div> 23373 23374 23375 23376 23377<div style=" 23378 color: #ff9900; 23379 ">DIANA</div> 23380 23381<div style=" 23382 margin-left: 3em; 23383 color: #ccccff; 23384 ">Because he's guilty, and he is not guilty:</div> 23385 23386<div style=" 23387 margin-left: 3em; 23388 color: #ccccff; 23389 ">He knows I am no maid, and he'll swear to't;</div> 23390 23391<div style=" 23392 margin-left: 3em; 23393 color: #ccccff; 23394 ">I'll swear I am a maid, and he knows not.</div> 23395 23396<div style=" 23397 margin-left: 3em; 23398 color: #ccccff; 23399 ">Great king, I am no strumpet, by my life;</div> 23400 23401<div style=" 23402 margin-left: 3em; 23403 color: #ccccff; 23404 ">I am either maid, or else this old man's wife.</div> 23405 23406 23407 23408 23409<div style=" 23410 color: #ff9900; 23411 ">KING</div> 23412 23413<div style=" 23414 margin-left: 3em; 23415 color: #ccccff; 23416 ">She does abuse our ears: to prison with her.</div> 23417 23418 23419 23420 23421<div style=" 23422 color: #ff9900; 23423 ">DIANA</div> 23424 23425<div style=" 23426 margin-left: 3em; 23427 color: #ccccff; 23428 ">Good mother, fetch my bail. Stay, royal sir:</div> 23429 23430<div style=" 23431 position: relative; 23432 width: 40%; 23433 left: 50%; 23434 text-align: right; 23435 margin: 0.5em; 23436 padding-right: 1em; 23437 padding-left: 1em; 23438 border-color: #ff9900; 23439 border-width: 1px; 23440 border-bottom-style: solid; 23441 border-top-style: solid; 23442 font-size: 9pt; 23443 color: #9999cc; 23444 ">Exit Widow</div> 23445 23446<div style=" 23447 margin-left: 3em; 23448 color: #ccccff; 23449 ">The jeweller that owes the ring is sent for,</div> 23450 23451<div style=" 23452 margin-left: 3em; 23453 color: #ccccff; 23454 ">And he shall surety me. But for this lord,</div> 23455 23456<div style=" 23457 margin-left: 3em; 23458 color: #ccccff; 23459 ">Who hath abused me, as he knows himself,</div> 23460 23461<div style=" 23462 margin-left: 3em; 23463 color: #ccccff; 23464 ">Though yet he never harm'd me, here I quit him:</div> 23465 23466<div style=" 23467 margin-left: 3em; 23468 color: #ccccff; 23469 ">He knows himself my bed he hath defiled;</div> 23470 23471<div style=" 23472 margin-left: 3em; 23473 color: #ccccff; 23474 ">And at that time he got his wife with child:</div> 23475 23476<div style=" 23477 margin-left: 3em; 23478 color: #ccccff; 23479 ">Dead though she be, she feels her young one kick:</div> 23480 23481<div style=" 23482 margin-left: 3em; 23483 color: #ccccff; 23484 ">So there's my riddle: one that's dead is quick:</div> 23485 23486<div style=" 23487 margin-left: 3em; 23488 color: #ccccff; 23489 ">And now behold the meaning.</div> 23490 23491 23492 23493<div style=" 23494 position: relative; 23495 width: 40%; 23496 left: 50%; 23497 text-align: right; 23498 margin: 0.5em; 23499 padding-right: 1em; 23500 padding-left: 1em; 23501 border-color: #ff9900; 23502 border-width: 1px; 23503 border-bottom-style: solid; 23504 border-top-style: solid; 23505 font-size: 9pt; 23506 color: #9999cc; 23507 ">Re-enter Widow, with HELENA</div> 23508 23509 23510 23511<div style=" 23512 color: #ff9900; 23513 ">KING</div> 23514 23515<div style=" 23516 margin-left: 3em; 23517 color: #ccccff; 23518 ">Is there no exorcist</div> 23519 23520<div style=" 23521 margin-left: 3em; 23522 color: #ccccff; 23523 ">Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes?</div> 23524 23525<div style=" 23526 margin-left: 3em; 23527 color: #ccccff; 23528 ">Is't real that I see?</div> 23529 23530 23531 23532 23533<div style=" 23534 color: #ff9900; 23535 ">HELENA</div> 23536 23537<div style=" 23538 margin-left: 3em; 23539 color: #ccccff; 23540 ">No, my good lord;</div> 23541 23542<div style=" 23543 margin-left: 3em; 23544 color: #ccccff; 23545 ">'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see,</div> 23546 23547<div style=" 23548 margin-left: 3em; 23549 color: #ccccff; 23550 ">The name and not the thing.</div> 23551 23552 23553 23554 23555<div style=" 23556 color: #ff9900; 23557 ">BERTRAM</div> 23558 23559<div style=" 23560 margin-left: 3em; 23561 color: #ccccff; 23562 ">Both, both. O, pardon!</div> 23563 23564 23565 23566 23567<div style=" 23568 color: #ff9900; 23569 ">HELENA</div> 23570 23571<div style=" 23572 margin-left: 3em; 23573 color: #ccccff; 23574 ">O my good lord, when I was like this maid,</div> 23575 23576<div style=" 23577 margin-left: 3em; 23578 color: #ccccff; 23579 ">I found you wondrous kind. There is your ring;</div> 23580 23581<div style=" 23582 margin-left: 3em; 23583 color: #ccccff; 23584 ">And, look you, here's your letter; this it says:</div> 23585 23586<div style=" 23587 margin-left: 3em; 23588 color: #ccccff; 23589 ">'When from my finger you can get this ring</div> 23590 23591<div style=" 23592 margin-left: 3em; 23593 color: #ccccff; 23594 ">And are by me with child,' &c. This is done:</div> 23595 23596<div style=" 23597 margin-left: 3em; 23598 color: #ccccff; 23599 ">Will you be mine, now you are doubly won?</div> 23600 23601 23602 23603 23604<div style=" 23605 color: #ff9900; 23606 ">BERTRAM</div> 23607 23608<div style=" 23609 margin-left: 3em; 23610 color: #ccccff; 23611 ">If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly,</div> 23612 23613<div style=" 23614 margin-left: 3em; 23615 color: #ccccff; 23616 ">I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly.</div> 23617 23618 23619 23620 23621<div style=" 23622 color: #ff9900; 23623 ">HELENA</div> 23624 23625<div style=" 23626 margin-left: 3em; 23627 color: #ccccff; 23628 ">If it appear not plain and prove untrue,</div> 23629 23630<div style=" 23631 margin-left: 3em; 23632 color: #ccccff; 23633 ">Deadly divorce step between me and you!</div> 23634 23635<div style=" 23636 margin-left: 3em; 23637 color: #ccccff; 23638 ">O my dear mother, do I see you living?</div> 23639 23640 23641 23642 23643<div style=" 23644 color: #ff9900; 23645 ">LAFEU</div> 23646 23647<div style=" 23648 margin-left: 3em; 23649 color: #ccccff; 23650 ">Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon:</div> 23651 23652<div style=" 23653 position: relative; 23654 width: 40%; 23655 left: 50%; 23656 text-align: right; 23657 margin: 0.5em; 23658 padding-right: 1em; 23659 padding-left: 1em; 23660 border-color: #ff9900; 23661 border-width: 1px; 23662 border-bottom-style: solid; 23663 border-top-style: solid; 23664 font-size: 9pt; 23665 color: #9999cc; 23666 ">To PAROLLES</div> 23667 23668<div style=" 23669 margin-left: 3em; 23670 color: #ccccff; 23671 ">Good Tom Drum, lend me a handkercher: so,</div> 23672 23673<div style=" 23674 margin-left: 3em; 23675 color: #ccccff; 23676 ">I thank thee: wait on me home, I'll make sport with thee:</div> 23677 23678<div style=" 23679 margin-left: 3em; 23680 color: #ccccff; 23681 ">Let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones.</div> 23682 23683 23684 23685 23686<div style=" 23687 color: #ff9900; 23688 ">KING</div> 23689 23690<div style=" 23691 margin-left: 3em; 23692 color: #ccccff; 23693 ">Let us from point to point this story know,</div> 23694 23695<div style=" 23696 margin-left: 3em; 23697 color: #ccccff; 23698 ">To make the even truth in pleasure flow.</div> 23699 23700<div style=" 23701 position: relative; 23702 width: 40%; 23703 left: 50%; 23704 text-align: right; 23705 margin: 0.5em; 23706 padding-right: 1em; 23707 padding-left: 1em; 23708 border-color: #ff9900; 23709 border-width: 1px; 23710 border-bottom-style: solid; 23711 border-top-style: solid; 23712 font-size: 9pt; 23713 color: #9999cc; 23714 ">To DIANA</div> 23715 23716<div style=" 23717 margin-left: 3em; 23718 color: #ccccff; 23719 ">If thou be'st yet a fresh uncropped flower,</div> 23720 23721<div style=" 23722 margin-left: 3em; 23723 color: #ccccff; 23724 ">Choose thou thy husband, and I'll pay thy dower;</div> 23725 23726<div style=" 23727 margin-left: 3em; 23728 color: #ccccff; 23729 ">For I can guess that by thy honest aid</div> 23730 23731<div style=" 23732 margin-left: 3em; 23733 color: #ccccff; 23734 ">Thou keep'st a wife herself, thyself a maid.</div> 23735 23736<div style=" 23737 margin-left: 3em; 23738 color: #ccccff; 23739 ">Of that and all the progress, more or less,</div> 23740 23741<div style=" 23742 margin-left: 3em; 23743 color: #ccccff; 23744 ">Resolvedly more leisure shall express:</div> 23745 23746<div style=" 23747 margin-left: 3em; 23748 color: #ccccff; 23749 ">All yet seems well; and if it end so meet,</div> 23750 23751<div style=" 23752 margin-left: 3em; 23753 color: #ccccff; 23754 ">The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.</div> 23755 23756 23757<div style=" 23758 position: relative; 23759 width: 40%; 23760 left: 50%; 23761 text-align: right; 23762 margin: 0.5em; 23763 padding-right: 1em; 23764 padding-left: 1em; 23765 border-color: #ff9900; 23766 border-width: 1px; 23767 border-bottom-style: solid; 23768 border-top-style: solid; 23769 font-size: 9pt; 23770 color: #9999cc; 23771 ">Flourish</div> 23772 23773</div> 23774 23775EPILOGUE 23776 23777<div style=" 23778 color: #ff9900; 23779 ">KING</div> 23780 23781<div style=" 23782 margin-left: 3em; 23783 color: #ccccff; 23784 ">The king's a beggar, now the play is done:</div> 23785 23786<div style=" 23787 margin-left: 3em; 23788 color: #ccccff; 23789 ">All is well ended, if this suit be won,</div> 23790 23791<div style=" 23792 margin-left: 3em; 23793 color: #ccccff; 23794 ">That you express content; which we will pay,</div> 23795 23796<div style=" 23797 margin-left: 3em; 23798 color: #ccccff; 23799 ">With strife to please you, day exceeding day:</div> 23800 23801<div style=" 23802 margin-left: 3em; 23803 color: #ccccff; 23804 ">Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts;</div> 23805 23806<div style=" 23807 margin-left: 3em; 23808 color: #ccccff; 23809 ">Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts.</div> 23810 23811 23812 23813<div style=" 23814 position: relative; 23815 width: 40%; 23816 left: 50%; 23817 text-align: right; 23818 margin: 0.5em; 23819 padding-right: 1em; 23820 padding-left: 1em; 23821 border-color: #ff9900; 23822 border-width: 1px; 23823 border-bottom-style: solid; 23824 border-top-style: solid; 23825 font-size: 9pt; 23826 color: #9999cc; 23827 ">Exeunt</div> 23828 23829 23830 23831</div> 23832</body> 23833</html> 23834