All that is virtuous (save what thou dislik'st, Where dust, and damn'd oblivion, is the tomb Hel. That you are well restor'd, my lord, I'm King, My honour's at the stake; which to defeat'; claims; Laf. Your ford and master did well to make his recantation. Par. Recantation?-My lord? my master? Pur. A most harsh one; and not to be under- 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 o'd. Luf. I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which title age cannot bring thee. Par. What I dare too well do, I dare not do. Laf. I did think thee, for two ordinaries', to 30be 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 dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of too great a burden. I have now found thee; when I lose 35 thee again, I care not; yet art thou good for nothing but taking up'; and that thou art scarce worth. 40 I must produce my power: Here, take her hand, King. Take her by the hand, And tell her, she is thine: to whom I promise 50 Par. Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee, Laf. Do not plunge thyselftoo far in anger, lest thou hasten thy trial; which if--Lord have mercy on thee for a hen! So, my good window of lattice, 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. Luf. Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of it. Par. I have not, my lord, deserv'd it. Laf. Yes, good faith, every dram of it; and I will not bate thee a scruple. Pur. Well, I shall be wiser. Laf. E'en as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at a smack o' the contrary. If ever thou be'st 55bound in thy scarf, and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to hold my acquaintance with thee, or rather my 2 The French verb defaire (from whence our defeat) signifies to free, to d sembarrass, as well as to destroy; and in this sense, we apprehend, defeat is here used. Alluding to that species of the staggers, or the horses' apoplexy, which makes the animal dash himself with destructive violence against posts or walls. The brief is the contract of espousal, or the licence of the church, in which the especial cause shall be assigned. Ordinary here means dinner. To take up means to contradict, to call to account, as well as to pick of the ground. 4. knowledge; knowledge; that I may say in the default', he is a man I know. Par. My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation. 5 Laf. I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my poor doing eternal: for doing, I am past, as I will by thee, in what motion age will give me leave. [Exit. Pur. Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord!-10 Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority. I'll beat him, by my life, if I can meet him with any convenience, an he were double and double a lord. I'll have no more pity of his age, than I would have of-I'll beat him, an if I|15 could but meet him again. Re-enter Lafeu. Laf. Sirrah, your lord and master's marry'd, there's news for you; you have a new mistress. Par. I most unfeignedly beseech your lord-20 ship to make some reservation of your wrongs: He is my good lord: whom I serve above, is my master. Laf. Who? God? 25 Laf. The devil it is, that's thy master. Why dost thou garter upthy 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 30 hours younger, I'd beat thee: methinks, thou art a general offence, and every man should beat thee. I think, thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee. Par. This is hard and undeserved measure, 35 my lord. Laf. Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a vagabond, and no true traveller : you are more saucy with lords, and honourable personages, 40 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. [Ex. Enter Bertram. Par. Good, very good; it is so then.-Good, 45 very good; let it be conceal'd a while. Ber. Undone, and forfeited to cares for ever!! [sworn, 50 Par. What? what, sweet-heart? Par, France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits Ber. There's letters from my mother; what the He wears his honour in a box unseen, Which should sustain the bound and high curvet B. r. It shall be so; I'll send her to my house, A So. SCENE IV. Enter Helena and Clɔwn. Hel. My mother greets me kindly; Is she well? Clo. She is not well; but yet she has her health: she's very merry; but yet she's not well: but, thanks be given, she's very well, and wants nothing i' the world; but she is not well. Hel. If she be very well, what does she ail, that she's not very well? Clo. Truly, she's very well, indeed, but for two things. Hel. What two things? Clo. One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send her quickly! the other, that she's on earth, from whence God send her quickly! Enter Parolles. Par. Bless you, my fortunate lady! Hel. I hope, sir, I have your good-will to have mine own good fortunes. Par. You have 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'rt a knave. Clo. You should have said, sir, before a knave, thou art a knave; that is, before me, thou art a 55knave; this had been truth, sir. Par. Go to, thou art a witty fool, I have found thee. Clo. Did you find me yourself, sir? or were you taught to find me? The search, sir, was 60 profitable; and much fool may you find is you, even to the world's pleasure, and the increase of laughter. 1i. e. at a need. Doing is here used obscenely. is a made word in ridicule and disdain of a wife. 4 'Sir T. Hanmer observes, that kicksy-wicksy Probably meaning a smoky house. Par. A good knave, i'faith, and well fed.Madam, my lord will go away to-night; A very serious business calls on him. The great prerogative and right of love, [ledge Which, asyour due, time claims, he does acknowBut puts it off by a compell'd restraint; [sweets, Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with| Which they distil now in the curbed time, To make the curbed hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. Hel. What's his will else? [king, Par. That you will take your instant leave o' the And make this haste as your own good proceeding, Strengthen'd with what apology you think, May make it probable need'. Hel. What more commands he? Par. That, having this obtain'd, you presently Attend his further pleasure. Hel. In every thing I'wait upon his will. [Exit Parolles. 5 10 Jat's Laf. And shall do so ever, though I took him prayers. Fare you well, my lord: and believe this of me, There can be no kernel in this light 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.15 Farewell, mousieur: I have spoken better of you, than you have or will deserve at my hand: but we must do good against evil, Par. An idle lord, I swear. Hel. I pray you.-Come, sirrah. [To the Clown. 20 [Exeunt. 25 30 Laf. I have then sinned against his experience, Par. These things shall be done, sir. Par. Sir? Ber. Will she away to-night? Par. As you'll have her. 40 45 Ber. I have writ my letters, casketed my trea-50 Laf. A good traveller is something at the latter Ber. Is there any unkindness between my lord! 2 Hel. I have, sir, as I was commanded from you, Spoke with the king, and have procur'd his leave For present parting; only, he desires Some private speech with you. Ber. I shall obey his will. You must not marvel, Helen, at my course, On my particular: prepar'd I was not Twill be two days ere I shall see you; so I leave you to your wisdom. Hel. Sir, I can nothing say, But that I am your most obedient servant. 'That is, a specious appearance of necessity. Theobald says, that this odd allusion is not introduced without a view to satire. It was a foolery practised at city entertainments, whilst the jester or zany was in vogue, for him to jump into a large deep custard, set for the purpose, to set on a quantity of barren spectators to laugh, as our poet says in his Hamlet. i, e, wonder. i. e. I own. Flourish. Enter the Duke of Florence, two French 20 Duke. So that, from point to point, now The fundamental reasons of this war; III. sing; pick his teeth, and sing: I know a man that means to come. Clo. I have no mind to Isbel, since I was at court: our old ling and our Isbel's o'the country are nothing like your old ling and your Isbels 'the court: the brain of my Cupid's knock'd out; Whose great decision hath much blood let forth, 25 and I begin to love, as an old man loves money, And more thirsts after. Duke. Therefore we marvel much, our cousin 30 Would, in so just a business, shut his bosom Against our borrowing prayers. 2 Lord. Good my lord, The reasons of our state I cannot yield', Duke. Be it his pleasure. [nature, 2 Lord. But I am sure the younger of our That surfeit on their ease, will, day by day, Come here for physick. Duke. Welcome shall they be; And all the honours, that can fly from us, Shall on them settle: You know your places well;| SCENE II. Rousillon, in France. Enter Countess and Clown. [Exeunt. Count. It hath happened all as I would have had it, save that he comes not along with her. Clo. By my troth, I take my young lord to be a very melancholy man. with no stomach. Count. What have we here? Clo. E'en that you have there. [Exit. Count. [reads a letter.] "I have sent you a daughter-in-law: she hath recover'd the king, "and undone me. I have wedded her, not bed"ded her; and sworn to make the not eternal. "You shall hear, I am run away; know it, be"fore the report come. If there be breadth 35" enough in the world, I will hold a long distance. My duty to you. Your unfortunate son, "BERTRAM." This is not well, rash and unbridled boy, 40 To fly the favours of so good a king; To pluck his indignation on thy head, By the misprising of a maid too virtuous For the contempt of empire. 45 50 55 Count. By what observance, I pray you? Clo. Why, he will look upon his boot, and 60 sing; mend the ruff, and sing; ask questions, andi 1i. e. I cannot inform you of fellows. 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 killed? Clo. So say I, madam, if he run away, as I hear he does: the danger is in standing to't; that's the Here they come, will tell you more: for my part, loss of men, though it be the getting of children. I only hear, your son was run away.. Enter Helena and two Gentlemen. 1 Gen. Save you, good madam. i. e. one not in the secret of affairs. Meaning, our young Corent. Count. Think upon patience.-'Pray you, gen- I have felt so many quirks of joy, and grief, We met him thitherward; for thence we came, [passport. 10 This is a dreadful sentence. Count. Brought you this letter, gentlemen? 1 Gen. Ay, inadam ; 15 Count. Not so, but as we change our courtesies. [Exeunt Countess and Gentlemen, Of smoky muskets? Oyou leaden messengers, And, for the contents' sake, are sorry for our pains. 20 And though I kill him not. I am the cause Count. I pr'ythee, lady, have a better cheer; If thou engrossest, all the griefs are thine, Count. And to be a soldier? 2 Gen. Such is his noble purpose: and, believe't, [speed. 1 Gen. Ay, madam, with the swiftest wing of Hel. ""Till I have no wife, I have nothing in "France." "Tis bitter. Count. Find you that there? Hel. Ay, madam. His death was so effected: better 'twere, I met the ravin lion when he roar'd My being here it is, that holds thee hence; [Reading. 35 1 Gen. "Tis but the boldness of his hand, haply, His heart was not consenting to. Count. Nothing in France, until he have no wife! 40 Count. Parolles, was't not? 1 Gen. Ay, my good lady, he. Count. A very tainted fellow, and full of wick 45 A charge too heavy for my strength; but yet We'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake, To the extreme edge of hazard. Duke. Then go forth; And fortune play upon thy prosperous helm, My son corrupts a well-derived nature [edness: 50 As thy auspicious mistress! With his inducement. 1 Gen. Indeed, good lady, The fellow has a deal of that, too much, Which holds him much to have 2. Count. You are welcome, gentlemen. Iwill entreat you, when you see my son, The honour that he loses more I'll entreat you 2 Gen. We serve you, madam, In that and all your worthiest affairs. 55 Br. This very day, Great Mars, I put myself into thy file: SCENE IV. Rosillon, in France. Enter Countess and Steward. [Exeunt Count. Alas! and would you take the letter ofher? 60 Might younot know, she would do as she has done, By sending me a letter? Read it again. That is, when thou canst get the ring, which is on my finger, into thy possession. vices stand him in stead. 3. e. the air that closes immediately. |