Clo. I will show myself highly fed, and lowly Count. Haste you again. [Exeunt severally. taught: I know my business is but to the court. Count. To the court! why, what place make you SCENE III.-Paris. A room in the King's Paspecial, when you put off that with such contempt? lace. Enter Bertram, Lafeu, and Parolles. But to the court! Laf. They say, miracles are past; and we have Clo. Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any our philosophical persons, to make modern and manners, he may easily put it off at court: he that familiar things, supernatural and causeless. Hence cannot make a leg, put off's cap, kiss his hand, and is it, that we make trifles of terrors; ensconcing say nothing, has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap; ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should and, indeed, such a fellow, to say precisely, were submit ourselves to an unknown fear.' not for the court; but, for me, I have an answer will serve all men. Count. Marry, that's a bountiful answer, that fits all questions. Clo. It is like a barber's chair, that fits all buttocks; the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn-buttock, or any buttock. Count. Will your answer serve to fit all questions? Clo. As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney, as your French crown for your taffata| punk, as Tib's rush for Tom's fore-finger, as a pancake for Shrove-Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding quean to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the friar's mouth; nay, as the pudding to his skin. Count. Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for all questions? Clo. From below your duke, to beneath your constable, it will fit any question. Count. It must be an answer of most monstrous size, that must fit all demands. Par. Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder, Laf. To be relinquished of the artists, Laf. That gave him out incurable,- Par. Right: as 'twere, a man assured of an- Laf. A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor. I Par. That's it I would have said: the very same. Laf. Why, your dolphin is not lustier: 'fore me speak in respect Par. Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is Clo. But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the the brief and the tedious of it; and he is of a most learned should speak truth of it: "here it is, and all facinorous' spirit, that will not acknowledge it to that belongs to't: Ask me, if I am a courtier; it shall do you no harm to learn. be the Laf. Very hand of heaven. Par. Ay, so I say. Laf. In a most weak Par. And debile minister, great power, great Count. To be young again, if we could: I will be a fool in question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. I pray you, sir, are you a courtier? Clo. O Lord, sir,-There's a simple putting off;-transcendence: which should, indeed, give us a more, more, a hundred of them. further use to be made, than alone the recovery of the king, as to be Count. Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves you. Clo. O Lord, sir,-Thick, thick, spare not me. Count. I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely meat. Clo. O Lord, sir,-Nay, put me to't, I warrant you. Count. Do you cry, O Lord, sir, at your whipping, and spare not me? Indeed, your Ő Lord, sir, is very sequent to your whipping; you would answer very well to a whipping, if you were but hound to't. Laf. Generally thankful. Enter King, Helena, and attendants. Par. I would have said it; you say well: Here comes the king. Laf. Lustick, as the Dutchman says: I'll like a maid the better, whilst I have a tooth in my head. Why, he's able to lead her a coranto. Par. Mort du Vinaigre! Is not this Helen? King. Go, call before me all the lords in court.— Clo. I ne'er had worse luck in my life, in my-Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side; O Lord, sir: I see, things may serve long, but not serve ever. And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense Laf. I'd give bay Curtal,' and his furniture, King. Peruse them well: Not one of those, but had a noble father. Hel. Gentlemen, Heaven hath, through me, restor'd the king to All. We understand it, and thank heaven for you. Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever ; King. Hel. Hel. The honour, sir, that flames in your fair eyes, Hel. Be not afraid [To a Lord.] that I your hand I'll never do you wrong for your own sake: Laf. These boys are boys of ice, they'll none have her: sure, they are bastards to the English; the French ne'er got them. Hel. You are too young, too happy, and too good, To make yourself a son out of my blood. 4 Lord. Fair one, I think not so. Laf. There's one grape yet,-I am sure, thy father drank wine.-But if thou be'st not an ass, I am a youth of fourteen; I have known thee already. Hel. I dare not say I take you; [To Bertram.] Me, and my service, ever whilst I live, Ber. My wife, my liege? I shall beseech your In such a business give me leave to use King. Know'st thou not, Bertram, What she has done for me? Yes, my good lord; Ber. But follows it, my lord, to bring me down, Must answer for your raising? I knew her well; She had her breeding at my father's charge: (1) A docked horse. (2) i. e. I have no more to say to you. (3) The lowest chance of the dice. A poor physician's daughter my wife !-Disdain Rather corrupt me ever! King. 'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the I can build up. Strange is it, that our bloods, Hel. That you are well restor'd, my lord, I am King. My honour's at the stake; which to defeat, Ber. Pardon, my gracious lord; for I submit Ber. (4) i. e. The want of title. (5) Titles. And be perform'd to-night: the solemn feast [Exeunt King, Bertram, Helena, Lords, and Laf. Do you hear, monsieur? a word with you. Laf. Your lord and master did well to make his recantation. there's news for you; you have a new mistress. Par. I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make some reservation of your wrongs: He is my good lord: whom I serve above, is my master. Laf. Who? God? Par. Ay, sir. Laf. The devil it is, that's thy master. Why dost thou garter up thy arms o' this fashion? dost make hose of thy sleeves? do other servants so? Thou wert best set thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine honour, if I were but two hours younger, I'd beat thee: methinks, thou art a gene Par. Recantation ?-My lord? my master? man. Laf. To what is count's man; count's master is of another style. Par. You are too old, sir; let it satisfy you, you are too old. Laf. I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which title age cannot bring thee. offence, and every man should beat thee. I think, thou wast created for men to breath3 themselves upon thee. Par. This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord. Laf. Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a kernel out of a pomegrante; you are a vagabond, and no true traveller: you are more saucy with lords, and honourable personages, than the heraldry of your birth and virtue gives you commission. You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave. I leave you. Enter Bertram. [Exil. Par. What I dare too well do, I dare not do. Laf. I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel; it might pass yet the scarfs,| and the bannerets, about thee, did manifoldly dis- very good; let it be concealed a while. suade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burden. I have now found thee; when I lose thee again, I care not: yet art thou good for nothing but taking up; and that thou art scarce worth. Par. Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee, Par. Good, very good; it is so then.-Good, Laf. Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou hasten thy trial; which if-Lord have on thee for a hen! So, my good window of lattice, mercy fare thee well; thy casement I need not open, for I look through thee. Give me thy hand. Par. My lord, you give me most egregious indignity. Laf. Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of it. Par. I have not, my lord, deserved it. I Ber. Undone, and forfeited to cares for ever! Ber. Although before the solemn priest I have will not bed her. Par. What? what, sweet heart? Ber. O my Parolles, they have married me:- I know not yet. Par. Ay, that would be known: To the wars, my boy, to the wars! He wears his honour in a box unseen, Laf. Yes, good faith, every dram of it; and I That hugs his kicksy-wicksy here at home; will not bate thee a scruple. Spending his manly marrow in her arms, Ber. It shall be so; I'll send her to my house, 5 Par. Will this capricio hold in thee, art sure? Ber. Go with me to my chamber, and advise me. [Exit.'ll send her straight away: To-morrow Par. Well, thou hast a son shall take this dis-I'll to the wars, she to her single sorrow. grace off me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord!- Par. Why, these balls bound: there's noise in it. Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of -"Tis hard; authority. I'll beat him, by my life, if I can meet A young man, married, is a man that's marr'd: him with any convenience, an he were double and Therefore away, and leave her bravely; go: double a lord. I'll have no more pity of his The king has done you wrong; but, hush! 'tis so. than I would have of-I'll beat him, an if I could age, but meet him again. Re-enter Lafeu. Laf. Sirrah, your lord and master's married, (1) i. e. While I sat twice with thee at dinner (2) At a need. [Exeunt. SCENE IV.-The same. Another room in the same. Enter Helena and Clown. Hel. My mother greets me kindly: Is she well? Clo. She is not well; but yet she has her health; (3) Exercise. (4) A cant term for a wife. 75) The house made gloomy by discontent. Par. Bless you, my fortunate lady! Hel. I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine own good fortunes. Par. You had my prayers to lead them on: and to keep them on, have them still.-O, my knave! How does my old lady? Clo. So that you had her wrinkles, and I her money, I would she did as you say. Par. Why, I say nothing. Clo. Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing: To say nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to have nothing, is to be a great part of your title; which is within a very little of nothing. Par. Away, thou art a knave. Clo. You should have said, sir, before a knave thou art a knave; that is, before me thou art a knave: this had been truth, sir. Par. Goto, thou art a witty fool, I have found thee. But puts it off by a compell'd restraint; sweets, Which they distil now in the curbed time, Hel. What's his will else? Par. That you will take your instant leave o' the king, And make this haste as your own good proceeding, Hel. What more commands he? Par. That, having this obtain'd, you presently Hel. In every thing I wait upon his will. SCENE V.-Another room in the same. When I should take possession of the bride, ter end of a dinner; but one that lies three thirds, Laf. A good traveller is something at the latand uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard, and thrice beaten.God save you, captain. Ber. Is there any unkindness between my lord and you, monsieur? Par. I know not how I have deserved to rur into my lord's displeasure. and spurs, and all, like him that leap'd into the Laf. You have made shift to run into't, boots custard; and out of it you'll run again, rather than suffer question for your residence. Ber. It may be, you have mistaken him, my lord. Laf. And shall do so ever, though I took him at this of me, There can be no kernel in this light his prayers. Fare you well, my lord; and believe nut; the soul of this man is his clothes: trust him not in matter of heavy consequence; I have kept of them tame, and know their natures.-Farewell, monsieur: I have spoken better of you, than you have or will deserve at my hand; but we must do [Exit. good against evil. Par. An idle lord, I swear. Par. Why, do you not know him? Ber. Yes, I do know him well; and common speech Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog. Enter Helena. Hel. I have, sir, as I was commanded from you, Ber. I pray you.-Come, sirrah. Laf. But, I hope, your lordship thinks not him a soldier. Ber. Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof. (1) A specious appearance of necessity. but has little or no song, which gives estimation to Greater than shows itself, at the first view, Let that go: Ber. Well, what would you say? I would not tell you what I would: my lord-'faith, yes; Strangers, and foes, do sunder, and not kiss. And all the honours, that can fly from us, Clo. By my troth, I take my young lord to be a very melancholy man. Count. By what observance, I pray you? 5 Clo. Why, he will look upon his boot, and sing mend the ruff, and sing; ask questions, and sing; pick his teeth, and sing: I know a man that had this trick of melancholy, sold a goodly manor for Ber. Where are my other men, monsieur ?-I [Erit. Count. What have we here? Clo. E'en that you have there. Count. [Reads.] I have sent you a daughter-inlaw: she hath recovered the king, and undone me. have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to [Exit Helena. make the not eternal. You shall hear, I am run Go thou toward home; where I will never come, away; know it, before the report come. If there Whilst I can shake my sword, or hear the drum:-be breadth enough in the world, I will hold a long Away, and for our flight. distance. My duty to you. Par. Bravely, coragio! [Exe. Duke. Therefore we marvel much, our cousin Would, in so just a business, shut his bosom Good my lord, Be it his pleasure. Your unfortunate son, Re-enter Clown. Clo. O madam, yonder is heavy news within, between two soldiers and my young lady. Count. What is the matter? Clo. Nay, there is some comfort in the news, some comfort; your son will not be killed so soon as I thought he would. Count. Why should he be kill'd? Clo. So say I, madam, if he run away, as I hear he does: the danger is in standing to't; that's the loss of men, though it be the getting of children. Here they come, will tell you more: for my part, I only hear, your son was run away. [Exit Clown. Enter Helena and two Gentlemen. 1 Gent. Save you, good madam. Hel. Madam, my lord is gone, for ever gone. 2 Gent. Do not say so. Count. Think upon patience.-'Pray you, gen- I have felt so many quirks of joy, and grief, 2 Lord. But I am sure, the younger of our na- Can woman me unto't :-Where is my son, I pray you? 2 Gent. Madam, he's gone to serve the duke of Florence: |