Array ( [TITLE] => All's Well That Ends Well [PERSONA] => Array ( [TITLE] => Introduction Actors [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => KING OF FRANCE [1] => DUKE OF FLORENCE [2] => BERTRAM, Count of Rousillon. [3] => LAFEU, an old lord. [4] => PAROLLES, a follower of Bertram. [5] => A Page. [6] => COUNTESS OF ROUSILLON, mother to Bertram. [7] => HELENA, a gentlewoman protected by the Countess. [8] => An old Widow of Florence. [9] => DIANA, daughter to the Widow. [10] => Lords, Officers, Soldiers, &c., French and Florentine. ) [ACTORS] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => Steward [1] => Clown ) [GRPDESCR] => servants to the Countess of Rousillon. ) [1] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => VIOLENTA [1] => MARIANA ) [GRPDESCR] => neighbours and friends to the Widow. ) ) ) [SCNDESCR] => SCENE Rousillon; Paris; Florence; Marseilles. [PLAYSUBT] => ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL [ACT] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT I [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS of Rousillon, HELENA, and LAFEU, all in black [1] => Exit [2] => Exeunt BERTRAM and LAFEU [3] => Enter Page [4] => Exit [5] => Exit [6] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband. ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death [1] => anew: but I must attend his majesty's command, to [2] => whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You shall find of the king a husband, madam; you, [1] => sir, a father: he that so generally is at all times [2] => good must of necessity hold his virtue to you; whose [3] => worthiness would stir it up where it wanted rather [4] => than lack it where there is such abundance. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => What hope is there of his majesty's amendment? ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He hath abandoned his physicians, madam; under whose [1] => practises he hath persecuted time with hope, and [2] => finds no other advantage in the process but only the [3] => losing of hope by time. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This young gentlewoman had a father,--O, that [1] => 'had'! how sad a passage 'tis!--whose skill was [2] => almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched so [3] => far, would have made nature immortal, and death [4] => should have play for lack of work. Would, for the [5] => king's sake, he were living! I think it would be [6] => the death of the king's disease. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => How called you the man you speak of, madam? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was [1] => his great right to be so: Gerard de Narbon. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very [1] => lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly: he [2] => was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge [3] => could be set up against mortality. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => What is it, my good lord, the king languishes of? ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => A fistula, my lord. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => I heard not of it before. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would it were not notorious. Was this gentlewoman [1] => the daughter of Gerard de Narbon? ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my [1] => overlooking. I have those hopes of her good that [2] => her education promises; her dispositions she [3] => inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer; for where [4] => an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there [5] => commendations go with pity; they are virtues and [6] => traitors too; in her they are the better for their [7] => simpleness; she derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Your commendations, madam, get from her tears. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise [1] => in. The remembrance of her father never approaches [2] => her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all [3] => livelihood from her cheek. No more of this, Helena; [4] => go to, no more; lest it be rather thought you affect [5] => a sorrow than have it. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, [1] => excessive grief the enemy to the living. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess [1] => makes it soon mortal. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Madam, I desire your holy wishes. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => How understand we that? ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Be thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father [1] => In manners, as in shape! thy blood and virtue [2] => Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness [3] => Share with thy birthright! Love all, trust a few, [4] => Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy [5] => Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend [6] => Under thy own life's key: be cheque'd for silence, [7] => But never tax'd for speech. What heaven more will, [8] => That thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down, [9] => Fall on thy head! Farewell, my lord; [10] => 'Tis an unseason'd courtier; good my lord, [11] => Advise him. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He cannot want the best [1] => That shall attend his love. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Heaven bless him! Farewell, Bertram. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To HELENA ) [1] => your thoughts be servants to you! Be comfortable [2] => to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Farewell, pretty lady: you must hold the credit of [1] => your father. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, were that all! I think not on my father; [1] => And these great tears grace his remembrance more [2] => Than those I shed for him. What was he like? [3] => I have forgot him: my imagination [4] => Carries no favour in't but Bertram's. [5] => I am undone: there is no living, none, [6] => If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one [7] => That I should love a bright particular star [8] => And think to wed it, he is so above me: [9] => In his bright radiance and collateral light [10] => Must I be comforted, not in his sphere. [11] => The ambition in my love thus plagues itself: [12] => The hind that would be mated by the lion [13] => Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though plague, [14] => To see him every hour; to sit and draw [15] => His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls, [16] => In our heart's table; heart too capable [17] => Of every line and trick of his sweet favour: [18] => But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy [19] => Must sanctify his reliques. Who comes here? [20] => One that goes with him: I love him for his sake; [21] => And yet I know him a notorious liar, [22] => Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; [23] => Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him, [24] => That they take place, when virtue's steely bones [25] => Look bleak i' the cold wind: withal, full oft we see [26] => Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter PAROLLES [1] => Aside ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Save you, fair queen! ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => And you, monarch! ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => No. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => And no. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Are you meditating on virginity? ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you: let me [1] => ask you a question. Man is enemy to virginity; how [2] => may we barricado it against him? ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Keep him out. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But he assails; and our virginity, though valiant, [1] => in the defence yet is weak: unfold to us some [2] => warlike resistance. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There is none: man, sitting down before you, will [1] => undermine you and blow you up. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Bless our poor virginity from underminers and [1] => blowers up! Is there no military policy, how [2] => virgins might blow up men? ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be [1] => blown up: marry, in blowing him down again, with [2] => the breach yourselves made, you lose your city. It [3] => is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to [4] => preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational [5] => increase and there was never virgin got till [6] => virginity was first lost. That you were made of is [7] => metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost [8] => may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is [9] => ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with 't! ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => I will stand for 't a little, though therefore I die a virgin. ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There's little can be said in 't; 'tis against the [1] => rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity, [2] => is to accuse your mothers; which is most infallible [3] => disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin: [4] => virginity murders itself and should be buried in [5] => highways out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate [6] => offendress against nature. Virginity breeds mites, [7] => much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very [8] => paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach. [9] => Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of [10] => self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the [11] => canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but loose [12] => by't: out with 't! within ten year it will make [13] => itself ten, which is a goodly increase; and the [14] => principal itself not much the worse: away with 't! ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking? ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let me see: marry, ill, to like him that ne'er it [1] => likes. 'Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with [2] => lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with 't [3] => while 'tis vendible; answer the time of request. [4] => Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out [5] => of fashion: richly suited, but unsuitable: just [6] => like the brooch and the tooth-pick, which wear not [7] => now. Your date is better in your pie and your [8] => porridge than in your cheek; and your virginity, [9] => your old virginity, is like one of our French [10] => withered pears, it looks ill, it eats drily; marry, [11] => 'tis a withered pear; it was formerly better; [12] => marry, yet 'tis a withered pear: will you anything with it? ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not my virginity yet [1] => There shall your master have a thousand loves, [2] => A mother and a mistress and a friend, [3] => A phoenix, captain and an enemy, [4] => A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign, [5] => A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear; [6] => His humble ambition, proud humility, [7] => His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet, [8] => His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world [9] => Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms, [10] => That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he-- [11] => I know not what he shall. God send him well! [12] => The court's a learning place, and he is one-- ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => What one, i' faith? ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => That I wish well. 'Tis pity-- ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => What's pity? ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That wishing well had not a body in't, [1] => Which might be felt; that we, the poorer born, [2] => Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes, [3] => Might with effects of them follow our friends, [4] => And show what we alone must think, which never [5] => Return us thanks. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Page [LINE] => Monsieur Parolles, my lord calls for you. ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Little Helen, farewell; if I can remember thee, I [1] => will think of thee at court. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Monsieur Parolles, you were born under a charitable star. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Under Mars, I. ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => I especially think, under Mars. ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Why under Mars? ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The wars have so kept you under that you must needs [1] => be born under Mars. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => When he was predominant. ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => When he was retrograde, I think, rather. ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Why think you so? ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => You go so much backward when you fight. ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => That's for advantage. ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So is running away, when fear proposes the safety; [1] => but the composition that your valour and fear makes [2] => in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am so full of businesses, I cannot answer thee [1] => acutely. I will return perfect courtier; in the [2] => which, my instruction shall serve to naturalize [3] => thee, so thou wilt be capable of a courtier's [4] => counsel and understand what advice shall thrust upon [5] => thee; else thou diest in thine unthankfulness, and [6] => thine ignorance makes thee away: farewell. When [7] => thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when thou hast [8] => none, remember thy friends; get thee a good husband, [9] => and use him as he uses thee; so, farewell. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, [1] => Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky [2] => Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull [3] => Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. [4] => What power is it which mounts my love so high, [5] => That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye? [6] => The mightiest space in fortune nature brings [7] => To join like likes and kiss like native things. [8] => Impossible be strange attempts to those [9] => That weigh their pains in sense and do suppose [10] => What hath been cannot be: who ever strove [11] => So show her merit, that did miss her love? [12] => The king's disease--my project may deceive me, [13] => But my intents are fix'd and will not leave me. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Paris. The KING's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING of France, with letters, and divers Attendants [1] => Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES [2] => Exeunt. Flourish ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The Florentines and Senoys are by the ears; [1] => Have fought with equal fortune and continue [2] => A braving war. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => So 'tis reported, sir. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, 'tis most credible; we here received it [1] => A certainty, vouch'd from our cousin Austria, [2] => With caution that the Florentine will move us [3] => For speedy aid; wherein our dearest friend [4] => Prejudicates the business and would seem [5] => To have us make denial. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His love and wisdom, [1] => Approved so to your majesty, may plead [2] => For amplest credence. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He hath arm'd our answer, [1] => And Florence is denied before he comes: [2] => Yet, for our gentlemen that mean to see [3] => The Tuscan service, freely have they leave [4] => To stand on either part. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It well may serve [1] => A nursery to our gentry, who are sick [2] => For breathing and exploit. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => What's he comes here? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is the Count Rousillon, my good lord, [1] => Young Bertram. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Youth, thou bear'st thy father's face; [1] => Frank nature, rather curious than in haste, [2] => Hath well composed thee. Thy father's moral parts [3] => Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => My thanks and duty are your majesty's. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would I had that corporal soundness now, [1] => As when thy father and myself in friendship [2] => First tried our soldiership! He did look far [3] => Into the service of the time and was [4] => Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long; [5] => But on us both did haggish age steal on [6] => And wore us out of act. It much repairs me [7] => To talk of your good father. In his youth [8] => He had the wit which I can well observe [9] => To-day in our young lords; but they may jest [10] => Till their own scorn return to them unnoted [11] => Ere they can hide their levity in honour; [12] => So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness [13] => Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were, [14] => His equal had awaked them, and his honour, [15] => Clock to itself, knew the true minute when [16] => Exception bid him speak, and at this time [17] => His tongue obey'd his hand: who were below him [18] => He used as creatures of another place [19] => And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks, [20] => Making them proud of his humility, [21] => In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man [22] => Might be a copy to these younger times; [23] => Which, follow'd well, would demonstrate them now [24] => But goers backward. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His good remembrance, sir, [1] => Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb; [2] => So in approof lives not his epitaph [3] => As in your royal speech. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Would I were with him! He would always say-- [1] => Methinks I hear him now; his plausive words [2] => He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them, [3] => To grow there and to bear,--'Let me not live,'-- [4] => This his good melancholy oft began, [5] => On the catastrophe and heel of pastime, [6] => When it was out,--'Let me not live,' quoth he, [7] => 'After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff [8] => Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses [9] => All but new things disdain; whose judgments are [10] => Mere fathers of their garments; whose constancies [11] => Expire before their fashions.' This he wish'd; [12] => I after him do after him wish too, [13] => Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home, [14] => I quickly were dissolved from my hive, [15] => To give some labourers room. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You are loved, sir: [1] => They that least lend it you shall lack you first. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I fill a place, I know't. How long is't, count, [1] => Since the physician at your father's died? [2] => He was much famed. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Some six months since, my lord. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If he were living, I would try him yet. [1] => Lend me an arm; the rest have worn me out [2] => With several applications; nature and sickness [3] => Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, count; [4] => My son's no dearer. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Thank your majesty. ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter COUNTESS, Steward, and Clown [1] => Exit [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => I will now hear; what say you of this gentlewoman? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Steward [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, the care I have had to even your content, I [1] => wish might be found in the calendar of my past [2] => endeavours; for then we wound our modesty and make [3] => foul the clearness of our deservings, when of [4] => ourselves we publish them. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What does this knave here? Get you gone, sirrah: [1] => the complaints I have heard of you I do not all [2] => believe: 'tis my slowness that I do not; for I know [3] => you lack not folly to commit them, and have ability [4] => enough to make such knaveries yours. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => 'Tis not unknown to you, madam, I am a poor fellow. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Well, sir. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor, though [1] => many of the rich are damned: but, if I may have [2] => your ladyship's good will to go to the world, Isbel [3] => the woman and I will do as we may. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Wilt thou needs be a beggar? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => I do beg your good will in this case. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => In what case? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In Isbel's case and mine own. Service is no [1] => heritage: and I think I shall never have the [2] => blessing of God till I have issue o' my body; for [3] => they say barnes are blessings. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on [1] => by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Is this all your worship's reason? ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons such as they [1] => are. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => May the world know them? ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you and [1] => all flesh and blood are; and, indeed, I do marry [2] => that I may repent. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Thy marriage, sooner than thy wickedness. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am out o' friends, madam; and I hope to have [1] => friends for my wife's sake. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Such friends are thine enemies, knave. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You're shallow, madam, in great friends; for the [1] => knaves come to do that for me which I am aweary of. [2] => He that ears my land spares my team and gives me [3] => leave to in the crop; if I be his cuckold, he's my [4] => drudge: he that comforts my wife is the cherisher [5] => of my flesh and blood; he that cherishes my flesh [6] => and blood loves my flesh and blood; he that loves my [7] => flesh and blood is my friend: ergo, he that kisses [8] => my wife is my friend. If men could be contented to [9] => be what they are, there were no fear in marriage; [10] => for young Charbon the Puritan and old Poysam the [11] => Papist, howsome'er their hearts are severed in [12] => religion, their heads are both one; they may jowl [13] => horns together, like any deer i' the herd. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouthed and calumnious knave? ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A prophet I, madam; and I speak the truth the next [1] => way: [2] => For I the ballad will repeat, [3] => Which men full true shall find; [4] => Your marriage comes by destiny, [5] => Your cuckoo sings by kind. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Get you gone, sir; I'll talk with you more anon. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Steward [LINE] => Array ( [0] => May it please you, madam, that he bid Helen come to [1] => you: of her I am to speak. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sirrah, tell my gentlewoman I would speak with her; [1] => Helen, I mean. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Was this fair face the cause, quoth she, [1] => Why the Grecians sacked Troy? [2] => Fond done, done fond, [3] => Was this King Priam's joy? [4] => With that she sighed as she stood, [5] => With that she sighed as she stood, [6] => And gave this sentence then; [7] => Among nine bad if one be good, [8] => Among nine bad if one be good, [9] => There's yet one good in ten. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => What, one good in ten? you corrupt the song, sirrah. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => One good woman in ten, madam; which is a purifying [1] => o' the song: would God would serve the world so all [2] => the year! we'ld find no fault with the tithe-woman, [3] => if I were the parson. One in ten, quoth a'! An we [4] => might have a good woman born but one every blazing [5] => star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the lottery [6] => well: a man may draw his heart out, ere a' pluck [7] => one. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => You'll be gone, sir knave, and do as I command you. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That man should be at woman's command, and yet no [1] => hurt done! Though honesty be no puritan, yet it [2] => will do no hurt; it will wear the surplice of [3] => humility over the black gown of a big heart. I am [4] => going, forsooth: the business is for Helen to come hither. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Well, now. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Steward [LINE] => I know, madam, you love your gentlewoman entirely. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Faith, I do: her father bequeathed her to me; and [1] => she herself, without other advantage, may lawfully [2] => make title to as much love as she finds: there is [3] => more owing her than is paid; and more shall be paid [4] => her than she'll demand. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Steward [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, I was very late more near her than I think [1] => she wished me: alone she was, and did communicate [2] => to herself her own words to her own ears; she [3] => thought, I dare vow for her, they touched not any [4] => stranger sense. Her matter was, she loved your son: [5] => Fortune, she said, was no goddess, that had put [6] => such difference betwixt their two estates; Love no [7] => god, that would not extend his might, only where [8] => qualities were level; Dian no queen of virgins, that [9] => would suffer her poor knight surprised, without [10] => rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward. [11] => This she delivered in the most bitter touch of [12] => sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim in: which I [13] => held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal; [14] => sithence, in the loss that may happen, it concerns [15] => you something to know it. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have discharged this honestly; keep it to [1] => yourself: many likelihoods informed me of this [2] => before, which hung so tottering in the balance that [3] => I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Pray you, [4] => leave me: stall this in your bosom; and I thank you [5] => for your honest care: I will speak with you further anon. [6] => Even so it was with me when I was young: [7] => If ever we are nature's, these are ours; this thorn [8] => Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong; [9] => Our blood to us, this to our blood is born; [10] => It is the show and seal of nature's truth, [11] => Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth: [12] => By our remembrances of days foregone, [13] => Such were our faults, or then we thought them none. [14] => Her eye is sick on't: I observe her now. ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Exit Steward [1] => Enter HELENA ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => What is your pleasure, madam? ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You know, Helen, [1] => I am a mother to you. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Mine honourable mistress. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, a mother: [1] => Why not a mother? When I said 'a mother,' [2] => Methought you saw a serpent: what's in 'mother,' [3] => That you start at it? I say, I am your mother; [4] => And put you in the catalogue of those [5] => That were enwombed mine: 'tis often seen [6] => Adoption strives with nature and choice breeds [7] => A native slip to us from foreign seeds: [8] => You ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan, [9] => Yet I express to you a mother's care: [10] => God's mercy, maiden! does it curd thy blood [11] => To say I am thy mother? What's the matter, [12] => That this distemper'd messenger of wet, [13] => The many-colour'd Iris, rounds thine eye? [14] => Why? that you are my daughter? ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => That I am not. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => I say, I am your mother. ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pardon, madam; [1] => The Count Rousillon cannot be my brother: [2] => I am from humble, he from honour'd name; [3] => No note upon my parents, his all noble: [4] => My master, my dear lord he is; and I [5] => His servant live, and will his vassal die: [6] => He must not be my brother. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Nor I your mother? ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You are my mother, madam; would you were,-- [1] => So that my lord your son were not my brother,-- [2] => Indeed my mother! or were you both our mothers, [3] => I care no more for than I do for heaven, [4] => So I were not his sister. Can't no other, [5] => But, I your daughter, he must be my brother? ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law: [1] => God shield you mean it not! daughter and mother [2] => So strive upon your pulse. What, pale again? [3] => My fear hath catch'd your fondness: now I see [4] => The mystery of your loneliness, and find [5] => Your salt tears' head: now to all sense 'tis gross [6] => You love my son; invention is ashamed, [7] => Against the proclamation of thy passion, [8] => To say thou dost not: therefore tell me true; [9] => But tell me then, 'tis so; for, look thy cheeks [10] => Confess it, th' one to th' other; and thine eyes [11] => See it so grossly shown in thy behaviors [12] => That in their kind they speak it: only sin [13] => And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue, [14] => That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so? [15] => If it be so, you have wound a goodly clew; [16] => If it be not, forswear't: howe'er, I charge thee, [17] => As heaven shall work in me for thine avail, [18] => Tell me truly. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Good madam, pardon me! ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Do you love my son? ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Your pardon, noble mistress! ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Love you my son? ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Do not you love him, madam? ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go not about; my love hath in't a bond, [1] => Whereof the world takes note: come, come, disclose [2] => The state of your affection; for your passions [3] => Have to the full appeach'd. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then, I confess, [1] => Here on my knee, before high heaven and you, [2] => That before you, and next unto high heaven, [3] => I love your son. [4] => My friends were poor, but honest; so's my love: [5] => Be not offended; for it hurts not him [6] => That he is loved of me: I follow him not [7] => By any token of presumptuous suit; [8] => Nor would I have him till I do deserve him; [9] => Yet never know how that desert should be. [10] => I know I love in vain, strive against hope; [11] => Yet in this captious and intenible sieve [12] => I still pour in the waters of my love [13] => And lack not to lose still: thus, Indian-like, [14] => Religious in mine error, I adore [15] => The sun, that looks upon his worshipper, [16] => But knows of him no more. My dearest madam, [17] => Let not your hate encounter with my love [18] => For loving where you do: but if yourself, [19] => Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth, [20] => Did ever in so true a flame of liking [21] => Wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian [22] => Was both herself and love: O, then, give pity [23] => To her, whose state is such that cannot choose [24] => But lend and give where she is sure to lose; [25] => That seeks not to find that her search implies, [26] => But riddle-like lives sweetly where she dies! ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Had you not lately an intent,--speak truly,-- [1] => To go to Paris? ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Madam, I had. ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Wherefore? tell true. ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will tell truth; by grace itself I swear. [1] => You know my father left me some prescriptions [2] => Of rare and proved effects, such as his reading [3] => And manifest experience had collected [4] => For general sovereignty; and that he will'd me [5] => In heedfull'st reservation to bestow them, [6] => As notes whose faculties inclusive were [7] => More than they were in note: amongst the rest, [8] => There is a remedy, approved, set down, [9] => To cure the desperate languishings whereof [10] => The king is render'd lost. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This was your motive [1] => For Paris, was it? speak. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord your son made me to think of this; [1] => Else Paris and the medicine and the king [2] => Had from the conversation of my thoughts [3] => Haply been absent then. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But think you, Helen, [1] => If you should tender your supposed aid, [2] => He would receive it? he and his physicians [3] => Are of a mind; he, that they cannot help him, [4] => They, that they cannot help: how shall they credit [5] => A poor unlearned virgin, when the schools, [6] => Embowell'd of their doctrine, have left off [7] => The danger to itself? ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There's something in't, [1] => More than my father's skill, which was the greatest [2] => Of his profession, that his good receipt [3] => Shall for my legacy be sanctified [4] => By the luckiest stars in heaven: and, would your honour [5] => But give me leave to try success, I'ld venture [6] => The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure [7] => By such a day and hour. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Dost thou believe't? ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Ay, madam, knowingly. ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, Helen, thou shalt have my leave and love, [1] => Means and attendants and my loving greetings [2] => To those of mine in court: I'll stay at home [3] => And pray God's blessing into thy attempt: [4] => Be gone to-morrow; and be sure of this, [5] => What I can help thee to thou shalt not miss. ) ) ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT II [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Paris. The KING's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING, attended with divers young Lords taking leave for the Florentine war; BERTRAM, and PAROLLES [1] => Exit, attended [2] => Exeunt Lords [3] => Re-enter KING. BERTRAM and PAROLLES retire [4] => Exeunt BERTRAM and PAROLLES [5] => Enter LAFEU [6] => Exit [7] => Re-enter LAFEU, with HELENA [8] => Exit [9] => Flourish. Exeunt ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Farewell, young lords; these warlike principles [1] => Do not throw from you: and you, my lords, farewell: [2] => Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain, all [3] => The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received, [4] => And is enough for both. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis our hope, sir, [1] => After well enter'd soldiers, to return [2] => And find your grace in health. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, no, it cannot be; and yet my heart [1] => Will not confess he owes the malady [2] => That doth my life besiege. Farewell, young lords; [3] => Whether I live or die, be you the sons [4] => Of worthy Frenchmen: let higher Italy,-- [5] => Those bated that inherit but the fall [6] => Of the last monarchy,--see that you come [7] => Not to woo honour, but to wed it; when [8] => The bravest questant shrinks, find what you seek, [9] => That fame may cry you loud: I say, farewell. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Health, at your bidding, serve your majesty! ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Those girls of Italy, take heed of them: [1] => They say, our French lack language to deny, [2] => If they demand: beware of being captives, [3] => Before you serve. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Both [LINE] => Our hearts receive your warnings. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Farewell. Come hither to me. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => O, my sweet lord, that you will stay behind us! ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => 'Tis not his fault, the spark. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => O, 'tis brave wars! ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Most admirable: I have seen those wars. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am commanded here, and kept a coil with [1] => 'Too young' and 'the next year' and ''tis too early.' ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => An thy mind stand to't, boy, steal away bravely. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock, [1] => Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry, [2] => Till honour be bought up and no sword worn [3] => But one to dance with! By heaven, I'll steal away. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => There's honour in the theft. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Commit it, count. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => I am your accessary; and so, farewell. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured body. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Farewell, captain. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Sweet Monsieur Parolles! ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin. Good [1] => sparks and lustrous, a word, good metals: you shall [2] => find in the regiment of the Spinii one Captain [3] => Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here [4] => on his sinister cheek; it was this very sword [5] => entrenched it: say to him, I live; and observe his [6] => reports for me. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => We shall, noble captain. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Mars dote on you for his novices! what will ye do? ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Stay: the king. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To BERTRAM ) [1] => noble lords; you have restrained yourself within the [2] => list of too cold an adieu: be more expressive to [3] => them: for they wear themselves in the cap of the [4] => time, there do muster true gait, eat, speak, and [5] => move under the influence of the most received star; [6] => and though the devil lead the measure, such are to [7] => be followed: after them, and take a more dilated farewell. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => And I will do so. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Worthy fellows; and like to prove most sinewy sword-men. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Kneeling ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => I'll fee thee to stand up. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then here's a man stands, that has brought his pardon. [1] => I would you had kneel'd, my lord, to ask me mercy, [2] => And that at my bidding you could so stand up. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would I had; so I had broke thy pate, [1] => And ask'd thee mercy for't. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good faith, across: but, my good lord 'tis thus; [1] => Will you be cured of your infirmity? ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => No. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, will you eat no grapes, my royal fox? [1] => Yes, but you will my noble grapes, an if [2] => My royal fox could reach them: I have seen a medicine [3] => That's able to breathe life into a stone, [4] => Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary [5] => With spritely fire and motion; whose simple touch, [6] => Is powerful to araise King Pepin, nay, [7] => To give great Charlemain a pen in's hand, [8] => And write to her a love-line. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => What 'her' is this? ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, Doctor She: my lord, there's one arrived, [1] => If you will see her: now, by my faith and honour, [2] => If seriously I may convey my thoughts [3] => In this my light deliverance, I have spoke [4] => With one that, in her sex, her years, profession, [5] => Wisdom and constancy, hath amazed me more [6] => Than I dare blame my weakness: will you see her [7] => For that is her demand, and know her business? [8] => That done, laugh well at me. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, good Lafeu, [1] => Bring in the admiration; that we with thee [2] => May spend our wonder too, or take off thine [3] => By wondering how thou took'st it. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, I'll fit you, [1] => And not be all day neither. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Thus he his special nothing ever prologues. ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Nay, come your ways. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => This haste hath wings indeed. ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, come your ways: [1] => This is his majesty; say your mind to him: [2] => A traitor you do look like; but such traitors [3] => His majesty seldom fears: I am Cressid's uncle, [4] => That dare leave two together; fare you well. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Now, fair one, does your business follow us? ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, my good lord. [1] => Gerard de Narbon was my father; [2] => In what he did profess, well found. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => I knew him. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The rather will I spare my praises towards him: [1] => Knowing him is enough. On's bed of death [2] => Many receipts he gave me: chiefly one. [3] => Which, as the dearest issue of his practise, [4] => And of his old experience the oily darling, [5] => He bade me store up, as a triple eye, [6] => Safer than mine own two, more dear; I have so; [7] => And hearing your high majesty is touch'd [8] => With that malignant cause wherein the honour [9] => Of my dear father's gift stands chief in power, [10] => I come to tender it and my appliance [11] => With all bound humbleness. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We thank you, maiden; [1] => But may not be so credulous of cure, [2] => When our most learned doctors leave us and [3] => The congregated college have concluded [4] => That labouring art can never ransom nature [5] => From her inaidible estate; I say we must not [6] => So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope, [7] => To prostitute our past-cure malady [8] => To empirics, or to dissever so [9] => Our great self and our credit, to esteem [10] => A senseless help when help past sense we deem. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My duty then shall pay me for my pains: [1] => I will no more enforce mine office on you. [2] => Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts [3] => A modest one, to bear me back a again. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I cannot give thee less, to be call'd grateful: [1] => Thou thought'st to help me; and such thanks I give [2] => As one near death to those that wish him live: [3] => But what at full I know, thou know'st no part, [4] => I knowing all my peril, thou no art. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What I can do can do no hurt to try, [1] => Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy. [2] => He that of greatest works is finisher [3] => Oft does them by the weakest minister: [4] => So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown, [5] => When judges have been babes; great floods have flown [6] => From simple sources, and great seas have dried [7] => When miracles have by the greatest been denied. [8] => Oft expectation fails and most oft there [9] => Where most it promises, and oft it hits [10] => Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I must not hear thee; fare thee well, kind maid; [1] => Thy pains not used must by thyself be paid: [2] => Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Inspired merit so by breath is barr'd: [1] => It is not so with Him that all things knows [2] => As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows; [3] => But most it is presumption in us when [4] => The help of heaven we count the act of men. [5] => Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent; [6] => Of heaven, not me, make an experiment. [7] => I am not an impostor that proclaim [8] => Myself against the level of mine aim; [9] => But know I think and think I know most sure [10] => My art is not past power nor you past cure. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Are thou so confident? within what space [1] => Hopest thou my cure? ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The great'st grace lending grace [1] => Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring [2] => Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring, [3] => Ere twice in murk and occidental damp [4] => Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp, [5] => Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass [6] => Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass, [7] => What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly, [8] => Health shall live free and sickness freely die. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Upon thy certainty and confidence [1] => What darest thou venture? ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Tax of impudence, [1] => A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame [2] => Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name [3] => Sear'd otherwise; nay, worse--if worse--extended [4] => With vilest torture let my life be ended. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak [1] => His powerful sound within an organ weak: [2] => And what impossibility would slay [3] => In common sense, sense saves another way. [4] => Thy life is dear; for all that life can rate [5] => Worth name of life in thee hath estimate, [6] => Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all [7] => That happiness and prime can happy call: [8] => Thou this to hazard needs must intimate [9] => Skill infinite or monstrous desperate. [10] => Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try, [11] => That ministers thine own death if I die. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If I break time, or flinch in property [1] => Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die, [2] => And well deserved: not helping, death's my fee; [3] => But, if I help, what do you promise me? ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Make thy demand. ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => But will you make it even? ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Ay, by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven. ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand [1] => What husband in thy power I will command: [2] => Exempted be from me the arrogance [3] => To choose from forth the royal blood of France, [4] => My low and humble name to propagate [5] => With any branch or image of thy state; [6] => But such a one, thy vassal, whom I know [7] => Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow. ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here is my hand; the premises observed, [1] => Thy will by my performance shall be served: [2] => So make the choice of thy own time, for I, [3] => Thy resolved patient, on thee still rely. [4] => More should I question thee, and more I must, [5] => Though more to know could not be more to trust, [6] => From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest [7] => Unquestion'd welcome and undoubted blest. [8] => Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed [9] => As high as word, my deed shall match thy meed. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter COUNTESS and Clown [1] => Exeunt severally ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come on, sir; I shall now put you to the height of [1] => your breeding. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught: I [1] => know my business is but to the court. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To the court! why, what place make you special, [1] => when you put off that with such contempt? But to the court! ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any manners, he [1] => may easily put it off at court: he that cannot make [2] => a leg, put off's cap, kiss his hand and say nothing, [3] => has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap; and indeed [4] => such a fellow, to say precisely, were not for the [5] => court; but for me, I have an answer will serve all [6] => men. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, that's a bountiful answer that fits all [1] => questions. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks, [1] => the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn [2] => buttock, or any buttock. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Will your answer serve fit to all questions? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney, [1] => as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as Tib's [2] => rush for Tom's forefinger, as a pancake for Shrove [3] => Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his [4] => hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding queen [5] => to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the [6] => friar's mouth, nay, as the pudding to his skin. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for all [1] => questions? ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => From below your duke to beneath your constable, it [1] => will fit any question. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It must be an answer of most monstrous size that [1] => must fit all demands. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned [1] => should speak truth of it: here it is, and all that [2] => belongs to't. Ask me if I am a courtier: it shall [3] => do you no harm to learn. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To be young again, if we could: I will be a fool in [1] => question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. I [2] => pray you, sir, are you a courtier? ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Lord, sir! There's a simple putting off. More, [1] => more, a hundred of them. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves you. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => O Lord, sir! Thick, thick, spare not me. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely meat. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => O Lord, sir! Nay, put me to't, I warrant you. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => You were lately whipped, sir, as I think. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => O Lord, sir! spare not me. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Do you cry, 'O Lord, sir!' at your whipping, and [1] => 'spare not me?' Indeed your 'O Lord, sir!' is very [2] => sequent to your whipping: you would answer very well [3] => to a whipping, if you were but bound to't. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I ne'er had worse luck in my life in my 'O Lord, [1] => sir!' I see things may serve long, but not serve ever. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I play the noble housewife with the time [1] => To entertain't so merrily with a fool. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => O Lord, sir! why, there't serves well again. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => An end, sir; to your business. Give Helen this, [1] => And urge her to a present answer back: [2] => Commend me to my kinsmen and my son: [3] => This is not much. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Not much commendation to them. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Not much employment for you: you understand me? ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Most fruitfully: I am there before my legs. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Haste you again. ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. Paris. The KING's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES [1] => Enter KING, HELENA, and Attendants. LAFEU and PAROLLES retire [2] => Exeunt all but LAFEU and PAROLLES [3] => Exit [4] => Re-enter LAFEU [5] => Exit [6] => Re-enter BERTRAM [7] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => They say miracles are past; and we have our [1] => philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, [2] => things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that [3] => we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves [4] => into seeming knowledge, when we should submit [5] => ourselves to an unknown fear. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath [1] => shot out in our latter times. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => And so 'tis. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => To be relinquish'd of the artists,-- ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => So I say. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Both of Galen and Paracelsus. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => So I say. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Of all the learned and authentic fellows,-- ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Right; so I say. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => That gave him out incurable,-- ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Why, there 'tis; so say I too. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Not to be helped,-- ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Right; as 'twere, a man assured of a-- ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Uncertain life, and sure death. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Just, you say well; so would I have said. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is, indeed: if you will have it in showing, you [1] => shall read it in--what do you call there? ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => That's it; I would have said the very same. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, your dolphin is not lustier: 'fore me, [1] => I speak in respect-- ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is the [1] => brief and the tedious of it; and he's of a most [2] => facinerious spirit that will not acknowledge it to be the-- ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Very hand of heaven. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Ay, so I say. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In a most weak-- [1] => and debile minister, great power, great [2] => transcendence: which should, indeed, give us a [3] => further use to be made than alone the recovery of [4] => the king, as to be-- [5] => generally thankful. ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => pausing [1] => pausing ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => I would have said it; you say well. Here comes the king. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lustig, as the Dutchman says: I'll like a maid the [1] => better, whilst I have a tooth in my head: why, he's [2] => able to lead her a coranto. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Mort du vinaigre! is not this Helen? ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => 'Fore God, I think so. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go, call before me all the lords in court. [1] => Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side; [2] => And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense [3] => Thou hast repeal'd, a second time receive [4] => The confirmation of my promised gift, [5] => Which but attends thy naming. [6] => Fair maid, send forth thine eye: this youthful parcel [7] => Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing, [8] => O'er whom both sovereign power and father's voice [9] => I have to use: thy frank election make; [10] => Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter three or four Lords ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress [1] => Fall, when Love please! marry, to each, but one! ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'ld give bay Curtal and his furniture, [1] => My mouth no more were broken than these boys', [2] => And writ as little beard. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Peruse them well: [1] => Not one of those but had a noble father. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Gentlemen, [1] => Heaven hath through me restored the king to health. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => All [LINE] => We understand it, and thank heaven for you. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest, [1] => That I protest I simply am a maid. [2] => Please it your majesty, I have done already: [3] => The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me, [4] => 'We blush that thou shouldst choose; but, be refused, [5] => Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever; [6] => We'll ne'er come there again.' ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Make choice; and, see, [1] => Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly, [1] => And to imperial Love, that god most high, [2] => Do my sighs stream. Sir, will you hear my suit? ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => And grant it. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute. ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I had rather be in this choice than throw ames-ace [1] => for my life. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The honour, sir, that flames in your fair eyes, [1] => Before I speak, too threateningly replies: [2] => Love make your fortunes twenty times above [3] => Her that so wishes and her humble love! ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => No better, if you please. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My wish receive, [1] => Which great Love grant! and so, I take my leave. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Do all they deny her? An they were sons of mine, [1] => I'd have them whipped; or I would send them to the [2] => Turk, to make eunuchs of. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Be not afraid that I your hand should take; [1] => I'll never do you wrong for your own sake: [2] => Blessing upon your vows! and in your bed [3] => Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed! ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => These boys are boys of ice, they'll none have her: [1] => sure, they are bastards to the English; the French [2] => ne'er got 'em. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You are too young, too happy, and too good, [1] => To make yourself a son out of my blood. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Fourth Lord [LINE] => Fair one, I think not so. ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There's one grape yet; I am sure thy father drunk [1] => wine: but if thou be'st not an ass, I am a youth [2] => of fourteen; I have known thee already. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To BERTRAM ) [1] => Me and my service, ever whilst I live, [2] => Into your guiding power. This is the man. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Why, then, young Bertram, take her; she's thy wife. ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My wife, my liege! I shall beseech your highness, [1] => In such a business give me leave to use [2] => The help of mine own eyes. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Know'st thou not, Bertram, [1] => What she has done for me? ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, my good lord; [1] => But never hope to know why I should marry her. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Thou know'st she has raised me from my sickly bed. ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But follows it, my lord, to bring me down [1] => Must answer for your raising? I know her well: [2] => She had her breeding at my father's charge. [3] => A poor physician's daughter my wife! Disdain [4] => Rather corrupt me ever! ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the which [1] => I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods, [2] => Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together, [3] => Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off [4] => In differences so mighty. If she be [5] => All that is virtuous, save what thou dislikest, [6] => A poor physician's daughter, thou dislikest [7] => Of virtue for the name: but do not so: [8] => From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, [9] => The place is dignified by the doer's deed: [10] => Where great additions swell's, and virtue none, [11] => It is a dropsied honour. Good alone [12] => Is good without a name. Vileness is so: [13] => The property by what it is should go, [14] => Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair; [15] => In these to nature she's immediate heir, [16] => And these breed honour: that is honour's scorn, [17] => Which challenges itself as honour's born [18] => And is not like the sire: honours thrive, [19] => When rather from our acts we them derive [20] => Than our foregoers: the mere word's a slave [21] => Debosh'd on every tomb, on every grave [22] => A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb [23] => Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb [24] => Of honour'd bones indeed. What should be said? [25] => If thou canst like this creature as a maid, [26] => I can create the rest: virtue and she [27] => Is her own dower; honour and wealth from me. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => I cannot love her, nor will strive to do't. ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou shouldst strive to choose. ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That you are well restored, my lord, I'm glad: [1] => Let the rest go. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My honour's at the stake; which to defeat, [1] => I must produce my power. Here, take her hand, [2] => Proud scornful boy, unworthy this good gift; [3] => That dost in vile misprision shackle up [4] => My love and her desert; that canst not dream, [5] => We, poising us in her defective scale, [6] => Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know, [7] => It is in us to plant thine honour where [8] => We please to have it grow. Cheque thy contempt: [9] => Obey our will, which travails in thy good: [10] => Believe not thy disdain, but presently [11] => Do thine own fortunes that obedient right [12] => Which both thy duty owes and our power claims; [13] => Or I will throw thee from my care for ever [14] => Into the staggers and the careless lapse [15] => Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate [16] => Loosing upon thee, in the name of justice, [17] => Without all terms of pity. Speak; thine answer. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pardon, my gracious lord; for I submit [1] => My fancy to your eyes: when I consider [2] => What great creation and what dole of honour [3] => Flies where you bid it, I find that she, which late [4] => Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now [5] => The praised of the king; who, so ennobled, [6] => Is as 'twere born so. ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Take her by the hand, [1] => And tell her she is thine: to whom I promise [2] => A counterpoise, if not to thy estate [3] => A balance more replete. ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => I take her hand. ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good fortune and the favour of the king [1] => Smile upon this contract; whose ceremony [2] => Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief, [3] => And be perform'd to-night: the solemn feast [4] => Shall more attend upon the coming space, [5] => Expecting absent friends. As thou lovest her, [6] => Thy love's to me religious; else, does err. ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Advancing ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Your pleasure, sir? ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your lord and master did well to make his [1] => recantation. ) ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Recantation! My lord! my master! ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Ay; is it not a language I speak? ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A most harsh one, and not to be understood without [1] => bloody succeeding. My master! ) ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Are you companion to the Count Rousillon? ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => To any count, to all counts, to what is man. ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To what is count's man: count's master is of [1] => another style. ) ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => You are too old, sir; let it satisfy you, you are too old. ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which [1] => title age cannot bring thee. ) ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => What I dare too well do, I dare not do. ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty [1] => wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy [2] => travel; it might pass: yet the scarfs and the [3] => bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from [4] => believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen. I [5] => have now found thee; when I lose thee again, I care [6] => not: yet art thou good for nothing but taking up; and [7] => that thou't scarce worth. ) ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee,-- ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou [1] => hasten thy trial; which if--Lord have mercy on thee [2] => for a hen! So, my good window of lattice, fare thee [3] => well: thy casement I need not open, for I look [4] => through thee. Give me thy hand. ) ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => My lord, you give me most egregious indignity. ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of it. ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => I have not, my lord, deserved it. ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, good faith, every dram of it; and I will not [1] => bate thee a scruple. ) ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Well, I shall be wiser. ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Even as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at [1] => a smack o' the contrary. If ever thou be'st bound [2] => in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is [3] => to be proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to hold [4] => my acquaintance with thee, or rather my knowledge, [5] => that I may say in the default, he is a man I know. ) ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation. ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my poor [1] => doing eternal: for doing I am past: as I will by [2] => thee, in what motion age will give me leave. ) ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off [1] => me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord! Well, I must [2] => be patient; there is no fettering of authority. [3] => I'll beat him, by my life, if I can meet him with [4] => any convenience, an he were double and double a [5] => lord. I'll have no more pity of his age than I [6] => would of--I'll beat him, an if I could but meet him again. ) ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sirrah, your lord and master's married; there's news [1] => for you: you have a new mistress. ) ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make [1] => some reservation of your wrongs: he is my good [2] => lord: whom I serve above is my master. ) ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Who? God? ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Ay, sir. ) [93] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The devil it is that's thy master. Why dost thou [1] => garter up thy arms o' this fashion? dost make hose of [2] => sleeves? do other servants so? Thou wert best set [3] => thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine [4] => honour, if I were but two hours younger, I'ld beat [5] => thee: methinks, thou art a general offence, and [6] => every man should beat thee: I think thou wast [7] => created for men to breathe themselves upon thee. ) ) [94] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord. ) [95] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a [1] => kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a vagabond and [2] => no true traveller: you are more saucy with lords [3] => and honourable personages than the commission of your [4] => birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not [5] => worth another word, else I'ld call you knave. I leave you. ) ) [96] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good, very good; it is so then: good, very good; [1] => let it be concealed awhile. ) ) [97] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Undone, and forfeited to cares for ever! ) [98] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => What's the matter, sweet-heart? ) [99] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Although before the solemn priest I have sworn, [1] => I will not bed her. ) ) [100] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => What, what, sweet-heart? ) [101] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O my Parolles, they have married me! [1] => I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. ) ) [102] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits [1] => The tread of a man's foot: to the wars! ) ) [103] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There's letters from my mother: what the import is, [1] => I know not yet. ) ) [104] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, that would be known. To the wars, my boy, to the wars! [1] => He wears his honour in a box unseen, [2] => That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home, [3] => Spending his manly marrow in her arms, [4] => Which should sustain the bound and high curvet [5] => Of Mars's fiery steed. To other regions [6] => France is a stable; we that dwell in't jades; [7] => Therefore, to the war! ) ) [105] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It shall be so: I'll send her to my house, [1] => Acquaint my mother with my hate to her, [2] => And wherefore I am fled; write to the king [3] => That which I durst not speak; his present gift [4] => Shall furnish me to those Italian fields, [5] => Where noble fellows strike: war is no strife [6] => To the dark house and the detested wife. ) ) [106] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Will this capriccio hold in thee? art sure? ) [107] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go with me to my chamber, and advise me. [1] => I'll send her straight away: to-morrow [2] => I'll to the wars, she to her single sorrow. ) ) [108] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, these balls bound; there's noise in it. 'Tis hard: [1] => A young man married is a man that's marr'd: [2] => Therefore away, and leave her bravely; go: [3] => The king has done you wrong: but, hush, 'tis so. ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. Paris. The KING's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter HELENA and Clown [1] => Enter PAROLLES [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => My mother greets me kindly; is she well? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She is not well; but yet she has her health: she's [1] => very merry; but yet she is not well: but thanks be [2] => given, she's very well and wants nothing i', the [3] => world; but yet she is not well. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If she be very well, what does she ail, that she's [1] => not very well? ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two things. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => What two things? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send her [1] => quickly! the other that she's in earth, from whence [2] => God send her quickly! ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Bless you, my fortunate lady! ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine own [1] => good fortunes. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You had my prayers to lead them on; and to keep them [1] => on, have them still. O, my knave, how does my old lady? ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So that you had her wrinkles and I her money, [1] => I would she did as you say. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Why, I say nothing. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's [1] => tongue shakes out his master's undoing: to say [2] => nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to have [3] => nothing, is to be a great part of your title; which [4] => is within a very little of nothing. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Away! thou'rt a knave. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You should have said, sir, before a knave thou'rt a [1] => knave; that's, before me thou'rt a knave: this had [2] => been truth, sir. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Go to, thou art a witty fool; I have found thee. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Did you find me in yourself, sir? or were you [1] => taught to find me? The search, sir, was profitable; [2] => and much fool may you find in you, even to the [3] => world's pleasure and the increase of laughter. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A good knave, i' faith, and well fed. [1] => Madam, my lord will go away to-night; [2] => A very serious business calls on him. [3] => The great prerogative and rite of love, [4] => Which, as your due, time claims, he does acknowledge; [5] => But puts it off to a compell'd restraint; [6] => Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets, [7] => Which they distil now in the curbed time, [8] => To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy [9] => And pleasure drown the brim. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => What's his will else? ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That you will take your instant leave o' the king [1] => And make this haste as your own good proceeding, [2] => Strengthen'd with what apology you think [3] => May make it probable need. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => What more commands he? ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That, having this obtain'd, you presently [1] => Attend his further pleasure. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => In every thing I wait upon his will. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => I shall report it so. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I pray you. [1] => Come, sirrah. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit PAROLLES ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE V. Paris. The KING's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LAFEU and BERTRAM [1] => Enter PAROLLES [2] => Exit [3] => Enter HELENA [4] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => But I hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier. ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => You have it from his own deliverance. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => And by other warranted testimony. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Then my dial goes not true: I took this lark for a bunting. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in [1] => knowledge and accordingly valiant. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have then sinned against his experience and [1] => transgressed against his valour; and my state that [2] => way is dangerous, since I cannot yet find in my [3] => heart to repent. Here he comes: I pray you, make [4] => us friends; I will pursue the amity. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To BERTRAM ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Pray you, sir, who's his tailor? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Sir? ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, I know him well, I, sir; he, sir, 's a good [1] => workman, a very good tailor. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to PAROLLES ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => She is. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Will she away to-night? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => As you'll have her. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure, [1] => Given order for our horses; and to-night, [2] => When I should take possession of the bride, [3] => End ere I do begin. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A good traveller is something at the latter end of a [1] => dinner; but one that lies three thirds and uses a [2] => known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should [3] => be once heard and thrice beaten. God save you, captain. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Is there any unkindness between my lord and you, monsieur? ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know not how I have deserved to run into my lord's [1] => displeasure. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have made shift to run into 't, boots and spurs [1] => and all, like him that leaped into the custard; and [2] => out of it you'll run again, rather than suffer [3] => question for your residence. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => It may be you have mistaken him, my lord. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And shall do so ever, though I took him at 's [1] => prayers. Fare you well, my lord; and believe this [2] => of me, there can be no kernel in this light nut; the [3] => soul of this man is his clothes. Trust him not in [4] => matter of heavy consequence; I have kept of them [5] => tame, and know their natures. Farewell, monsieur: [6] => I have spoken better of you than you have or will to [7] => deserve at my hand; but we must do good against evil. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => An idle lord. I swear. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => I think so. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Why, do you not know him? ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, I do know him well, and common speech [1] => Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have, sir, as I was commanded from you, [1] => Spoke with the king and have procured his leave [2] => For present parting; only he desires [3] => Some private speech with you. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I shall obey his will. [1] => You must not marvel, Helen, at my course, [2] => Which holds not colour with the time, nor does [3] => The ministration and required office [4] => On my particular. Prepared I was not [5] => For such a business; therefore am I found [6] => So much unsettled: this drives me to entreat you [7] => That presently you take our way for home; [8] => And rather muse than ask why I entreat you, [9] => For my respects are better than they seem [10] => And my appointments have in them a need [11] => Greater than shows itself at the first view [12] => To you that know them not. This to my mother: [13] => 'Twill be two days ere I shall see you, so [14] => I leave you to your wisdom. ) [STAGEDIR] => Giving a letter ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, I can nothing say, [1] => But that I am your most obedient servant. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Come, come, no more of that. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And ever shall [1] => With true observance seek to eke out that [2] => Wherein toward me my homely stars have fail'd [3] => To equal my great fortune. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let that go: [1] => My haste is very great: farewell; hie home. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Pray, sir, your pardon. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Well, what would you say? ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am not worthy of the wealth I owe, [1] => Nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is; [2] => But, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal [3] => What law does vouch mine own. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => What would you have? ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Something; and scarce so much: nothing, indeed. [1] => I would not tell you what I would, my lord: [2] => Faith yes; [3] => Strangers and foes do sunder, and not kiss. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => I pray you, stay not, but in haste to horse. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => I shall not break your bidding, good my lord. ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Where are my other men, monsieur? Farewell. [1] => Go thou toward home; where I will never come [2] => Whilst I can shake my sword or hear the drum. [3] => Away, and for our flight. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit HELENA ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Bravely, coragio! ) ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT III [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Florence. The DUKE's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence attended; the two Frenchmen, with a troop of soldiers. [1] => Flourish. Exeunt ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So that from point to point now have you heard [1] => The fundamental reasons of this war, [2] => Whose great decision hath much blood let forth [3] => And more thirsts after. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Holy seems the quarrel [1] => Upon your grace's part; black and fearful [2] => On the opposer. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Therefore we marvel much our cousin France [1] => Would in so just a business shut his bosom [2] => Against our borrowing prayers. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good my lord, [1] => The reasons of our state I cannot yield, [2] => But like a common and an outward man, [3] => That the great figure of a council frames [4] => By self-unable motion: therefore dare not [5] => Say what I think of it, since I have found [6] => Myself in my incertain grounds to fail [7] => As often as I guess'd. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Be it his pleasure. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But I am sure the younger of our nature, [1] => That surfeit on their ease, will day by day [2] => Come here for physic. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Welcome shall they be; [1] => And all the honours that can fly from us [2] => Shall on them settle. You know your places well; [3] => When better fall, for your avails they fell: [4] => To-morrow to the field. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter COUNTESS and Clown [1] => Opening a letter [2] => Exit [3] => Re-enter Clown [4] => Exit [5] => Enter HELENA, and two Gentlemen [6] => Exeunt COUNTESS and Gentlemen [7] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It hath happened all as I would have had it, save [1] => that he comes not along with her. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By my troth, I take my young lord to be a very [1] => melancholy man. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => By what observance, I pray you? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, he will look upon his boot and sing; mend the [1] => ruff and sing; ask questions and sing; pick his [2] => teeth and sing. I know a man that had this trick of [3] => melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Let me see what he writes, and when he means to come. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have no mind to Isbel since I was at court: our [1] => old ling and our Isbels o' the country are nothing [2] => like your old ling and your Isbels o' the court: [3] => the brains of my Cupid's knocked out, and I begin to [4] => love, as an old man loves money, with no stomach. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => What have we here? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => E'en that you have there. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Reads ) [1] => recovered the king, and undone me. I have wedded [2] => her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the 'not' [3] => eternal. You shall hear I am run away: know it [4] => before the report come. If there be breadth enough [5] => in the world, I will hold a long distance. My duty [6] => to you. Your unfortunate son, [7] => BERTRAM. [8] => This is not well, rash and unbridled boy. [9] => To fly the favours of so good a king; [10] => To pluck his indignation on thy head [11] => By the misprising of a maid too virtuous [12] => For the contempt of empire. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O madam, yonder is heavy news within between two [1] => soldiers and my young lady! ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => What is the matter? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, there is some comfort in the news, some [1] => comfort; your son will not be killed so soon as I [2] => thought he would. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Why should he be killed? ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So say I, madam, if he run away, as I hear he does: [1] => the danger is in standing to't; that's the loss of [2] => men, though it be the getting of children. Here [3] => they come will tell you more: for my part, I only [4] => hear your son was run away. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Save you, good madam. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Madam, my lord is gone, for ever gone. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Do not say so. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Think upon patience. Pray you, gentlemen, [1] => I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief, [2] => That the first face of neither, on the start, [3] => Can woman me unto't: where is my son, I pray you? ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, he's gone to serve the duke of Florence: [1] => We met him thitherward; for thence we came, [2] => And, after some dispatch in hand at court, [3] => Thither we bend again. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Look on his letter, madam; here's my passport. [1] => When thou canst get the ring upon my finger which [2] => never shall come off, and show me a child begotten [3] => of thy body that I am father to, then call me [4] => husband: but in such a 'then' I write a 'never.' [5] => This is a dreadful sentence. ) [STAGEDIR] => Reads ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Brought you this letter, gentlemen? ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, madam; [1] => And for the contents' sake are sorry for our pain. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I prithee, lady, have a better cheer; [1] => If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, [2] => Thou robb'st me of a moiety: he was my son; [3] => But I do wash his name out of my blood, [4] => And thou art all my child. Towards Florence is he? ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Ay, madam. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => And to be a soldier? ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Such is his noble purpose; and believe 't, [1] => The duke will lay upon him all the honour [2] => That good convenience claims. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Return you thither? ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Ay, madam, with the swiftest wing of speed. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Reads ) [1] => 'Tis bitter. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Find you that there? ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Ay, madam. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis but the boldness of his hand, haply, which his [1] => heart was not consenting to. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nothing in France, until he have no wife! [1] => There's nothing here that is too good for him [2] => But only she; and she deserves a lord [3] => That twenty such rude boys might tend upon [4] => And call her hourly mistress. Who was with him? ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A servant only, and a gentleman [1] => Which I have sometime known. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Parolles, was it not? ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Ay, my good lady, he. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness. [1] => My son corrupts a well-derived nature [2] => With his inducement. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Indeed, good lady, [1] => The fellow has a deal of that too much, [2] => Which holds him much to have. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You're welcome, gentlemen. [1] => I will entreat you, when you see my son, [2] => To tell him that his sword can never win [3] => The honour that he loses: more I'll entreat you [4] => Written to bear along. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We serve you, madam, [1] => In that and all your worthiest affairs. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not so, but as we change our courtesies. [1] => Will you draw near! ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Till I have no wife, I have nothing in France.' [1] => Nothing in France, until he has no wife! [2] => Thou shalt have none, Rousillon, none in France; [3] => Then hast thou all again. Poor lord! is't I [4] => That chase thee from thy country and expose [5] => Those tender limbs of thine to the event [6] => Of the none-sparing war? and is it I [7] => That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou [8] => Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark [9] => Of smoky muskets? O you leaden messengers, [10] => That ride upon the violent speed of fire, [11] => Fly with false aim; move the still-peering air, [12] => That sings with piercing; do not touch my lord. [13] => Whoever shoots at him, I set him there; [14] => Whoever charges on his forward breast, [15] => I am the caitiff that do hold him to't; [16] => And, though I kill him not, I am the cause [17] => His death was so effected: better 'twere [18] => I met the ravin lion when he roar'd [19] => With sharp constraint of hunger; better 'twere [20] => That all the miseries which nature owes [21] => Were mine at once. No, come thou home, Rousillon, [22] => Whence honour but of danger wins a scar, [23] => As oft it loses all: I will be gone; [24] => My being here it is that holds thee hence: [25] => Shall I stay here to do't? no, no, although [26] => The air of paradise did fan the house [27] => And angels officed all: I will be gone, [28] => That pitiful rumour may report my flight, [29] => To consolate thine ear. Come, night; end, day! [30] => For with the dark, poor thief, I'll steal away. ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. Florence. Before the DUKE's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence, BERTRAM, PAROLLES, Soldiers, Drum, and Trumpets [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The general of our horse thou art; and we, [1] => Great in our hope, lay our best love and credence [2] => Upon thy promising fortune. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, it is [1] => A charge too heavy for my strength, but yet [2] => We'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake [3] => To the extreme edge of hazard. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then go thou forth; [1] => And fortune play upon thy prosperous helm, [2] => As thy auspicious mistress! ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This very day, [1] => Great Mars, I put myself into thy file: [2] => Make me but like my thoughts, and I shall prove [3] => A lover of thy drum, hater of love. ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter COUNTESS and Steward [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Alas! and would you take the letter of her? [1] => Might you not know she would do as she has done, [2] => By sending me a letter? Read it again. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Steward [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Reads ) [1] => I am Saint Jaques' pilgrim, thither gone: [2] => Ambitious love hath so in me offended, [3] => That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon, [4] => With sainted vow my faults to have amended. [5] => Write, write, that from the bloody course of war [6] => My dearest master, your dear son, may hie: [7] => Bless him at home in peace, whilst I from far [8] => His name with zealous fervor sanctify: [9] => His taken labours bid him me forgive; [10] => I, his despiteful Juno, sent him forth [11] => From courtly friends, with camping foes to live, [12] => Where death and danger dogs the heels of worth: [13] => He is too good and fair for death and me: [14] => Whom I myself embrace, to set him free. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ah, what sharp stings are in her mildest words! [1] => Rinaldo, you did never lack advice so much, [2] => As letting her pass so: had I spoke with her, [3] => I could have well diverted her intents, [4] => Which thus she hath prevented. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Steward [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pardon me, madam: [1] => If I had given you this at over-night, [2] => She might have been o'erta'en; and yet she writes, [3] => Pursuit would be but vain. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What angel shall [1] => Bless this unworthy husband? he cannot thrive, [2] => Unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear [3] => And loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath [4] => Of greatest justice. Write, write, Rinaldo, [5] => To this unworthy husband of his wife; [6] => Let every word weigh heavy of her worth [7] => That he does weigh too light: my greatest grief. [8] => Though little he do feel it, set down sharply. [9] => Dispatch the most convenient messenger: [10] => When haply he shall hear that she is gone, [11] => He will return; and hope I may that she, [12] => Hearing so much, will speed her foot again, [13] => Led hither by pure love: which of them both [14] => Is dearest to me. I have no skill in sense [15] => To make distinction: provide this messenger: [16] => My heart is heavy and mine age is weak; [17] => Grief would have tears, and sorrow bids me speak. ) ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE V. Florence. Without the walls. A tucket afar off. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter an old Widow of Florence, DIANA, VIOLENTA, and MARIANA, with other Citizens [1] => Exeunt BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and army [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, come; for if they do approach the city, we [1] => shall lose all the sight. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => They say the French count has done most honourable service. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is reported that he has taken their greatest [1] => commander; and that with his own hand he slew the [2] => duke's brother. [3] => We have lost our labour; they are gone a contrary [4] => way: hark! you may know by their trumpets. ) [STAGEDIR] => Tucket ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, let's return again, and suffice ourselves with [1] => the report of it. Well, Diana, take heed of this [2] => French earl: the honour of a maid is her name; and [3] => no legacy is so rich as honesty. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have told my neighbour how you have been solicited [1] => by a gentleman his companion. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know that knave; hang him! one Parolles: a [1] => filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the [2] => young earl. Beware of them, Diana; their promises, [3] => enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of [4] => lust, are not the things they go under: many a maid [5] => hath been seduced by them; and the misery is, [6] => example, that so terrible shows in the wreck of [7] => maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade succession, [8] => but that they are limed with the twigs that threaten [9] => them. I hope I need not to advise you further; but [10] => I hope your own grace will keep you where you are, [11] => though there were no further danger known but the [12] => modesty which is so lost. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => You shall not need to fear me. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I hope so. [1] => Look, here comes a pilgrim: I know she will lie at [2] => my house; thither they send one another: I'll [3] => question her. God save you, pilgrim! whither are you bound? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter HELENA, disguised like a Pilgrim ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To Saint Jaques le Grand. [1] => Where do the palmers lodge, I do beseech you? ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => At the Saint Francis here beside the port. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Is this the way? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, marry, is't. [1] => Hark you! they come this way. [2] => If you will tarry, holy pilgrim, [3] => But till the troops come by, [4] => I will conduct you where you shall be lodged; [5] => The rather, for I think I know your hostess [6] => As ample as myself. ) [STAGEDIR] => A march afar ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Is it yourself? ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => If you shall please so, pilgrim. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => I thank you, and will stay upon your leisure. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => You came, I think, from France? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => I did so. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here you shall see a countryman of yours [1] => That has done worthy service. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => His name, I pray you. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => The Count Rousillon: know you such a one? ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But by the ear, that hears most nobly of him: [1] => His face I know not. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Whatsome'er he is, [1] => He's bravely taken here. He stole from France, [2] => As 'tis reported, for the king had married him [3] => Against his liking: think you it is so? ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Ay, surely, mere the truth: I know his lady. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There is a gentleman that serves the count [1] => Reports but coarsely of her. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => What's his name? ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Monsieur Parolles. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, I believe with him, [1] => In argument of praise, or to the worth [2] => Of the great count himself, she is too mean [3] => To have her name repeated: all her deserving [4] => Is a reserved honesty, and that [5] => I have not heard examined. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Alas, poor lady! [1] => 'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife [2] => Of a detesting lord. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I warrant, good creature, wheresoe'er she is, [1] => Her heart weighs sadly: this young maid might do her [2] => A shrewd turn, if she pleased. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How do you mean? [1] => May be the amorous count solicits her [2] => In the unlawful purpose. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He does indeed; [1] => And brokes with all that can in such a suit [2] => Corrupt the tender honour of a maid: [3] => But she is arm'd for him and keeps her guard [4] => In honestest defence. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => The gods forbid else! ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So, now they come: [1] => That is Antonio, the duke's eldest son; [2] => That, Escalus. ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Drum and Colours [1] => Enter BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and the whole army ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Which is the Frenchman? ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He; [1] => That with the plume: 'tis a most gallant fellow. [2] => I would he loved his wife: if he were honester [3] => He were much goodlier: is't not a handsome gentleman? ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => I like him well. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis pity he is not honest: yond's that same knave [1] => That leads him to these places: were I his lady, [2] => I would Poison that vile rascal. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Which is he? ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => That jack-an-apes with scarfs: why is he melancholy? ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Perchance he's hurt i' the battle. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Lose our drum! well. ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => He's shrewdly vexed at something: look, he has spied us. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Marry, hang you! ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => And your courtesy, for a ring-carrier! ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The troop is past. Come, pilgrim, I will bring you [1] => Where you shall host: of enjoin'd penitents [2] => There's four or five, to great Saint Jaques bound, [3] => Already at my house. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I humbly thank you: [1] => Please it this matron and this gentle maid [2] => To eat with us to-night, the charge and thanking [3] => Shall be for me; and, to requite you further, [4] => I will bestow some precepts of this virgin [5] => Worthy the note. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BOTH [LINE] => We'll take your offer kindly. ) ) ) [5] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE VI. Camp before Florence. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter BERTRAM and the two French Lords [1] => Enter PAROLLES [2] => Exit [3] => Exit [4] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, good my lord, put him to't; let him have his [1] => way. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If your lordship find him not a hilding, hold me no [1] => more in your respect. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => On my life, my lord, a bubble. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Do you think I am so far deceived in him? ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Believe it, my lord, in mine own direct knowledge, [1] => without any malice, but to speak of him as my [2] => kinsman, he's a most notable coward, an infinite and [3] => endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner [4] => of no one good quality worthy your lordship's [5] => entertainment. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It were fit you knew him; lest, reposing too far in [1] => his virtue, which he hath not, he might at some [2] => great and trusty business in a main danger fail you. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => I would I knew in what particular action to try him. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => None better than to let him fetch off his drum, [1] => which you hear him so confidently undertake to do. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I, with a troop of Florentines, will suddenly [1] => surprise him; such I will have, whom I am sure he [2] => knows not from the enemy: we will bind and hoodwink [3] => him so, that he shall suppose no other but that he [4] => is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries, when [5] => we bring him to our own tents. Be but your lordship [6] => present at his examination: if he do not, for the [7] => promise of his life and in the highest compulsion of [8] => base fear, offer to betray you and deliver all the [9] => intelligence in his power against you, and that with [10] => the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath, never [11] => trust my judgment in any thing. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, for the love of laughter, let him fetch his drum; [1] => he says he has a stratagem for't: when your [2] => lordship sees the bottom of his success in't, and to [3] => what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be [4] => melted, if you give him not John Drum's [5] => entertainment, your inclining cannot be removed. [6] => Here he comes. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to BERTRAM ) [1] => hinder not the honour of his design: let him fetch [2] => off his drum in any hand. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How now, monsieur! this drum sticks sorely in your [1] => disposition. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => A pox on't, let it go; 'tis but a drum. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'But a drum'! is't 'but a drum'? A drum so lost! [1] => There was excellent command,--to charge in with our [2] => horse upon our own wings, and to rend our own soldiers! ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That was not to be blamed in the command of the [1] => service: it was a disaster of war that Caesar [2] => himself could not have prevented, if he had been [3] => there to command. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, we cannot greatly condemn our success: some [1] => dishonour we had in the loss of that drum; but it is [2] => not to be recovered. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => It might have been recovered. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => It might; but it is not now. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is to be recovered: but that the merit of [1] => service is seldom attributed to the true and exact [2] => performer, I would have that drum or another, or [3] => 'hic jacet.' ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, if you have a stomach, to't, monsieur: if you [1] => think your mystery in stratagem can bring this [2] => instrument of honour again into his native quarter, [3] => be magnanimous in the enterprise and go on; I will [4] => grace the attempt for a worthy exploit: if you [5] => speed well in it, the duke shall both speak of it. [6] => and extend to you what further becomes his [7] => greatness, even to the utmost syllable of your [8] => worthiness. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => By the hand of a soldier, I will undertake it. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => But you must not now slumber in it. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll about it this evening: and I will presently [1] => pen down my dilemmas, encourage myself in my [2] => certainty, put myself into my mortal preparation; [3] => and by midnight look to hear further from me. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => May I be bold to acquaint his grace you are gone about it? ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know not what the success will be, my lord; but [1] => the attempt I vow. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know thou'rt valiant; and, to the possibility of [1] => thy soldiership, will subscribe for thee. Farewell. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => I love not many words. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No more than a fish loves water. Is not this a [1] => strange fellow, my lord, that so confidently seems [2] => to undertake this business, which he knows is not to [3] => be done; damns himself to do and dares better be [4] => damned than to do't? ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You do not know him, my lord, as we do: certain it [1] => is that he will steal himself into a man's favour and [2] => for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but [3] => when you find him out, you have him ever after. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, do you think he will make no deed at all of [1] => this that so seriously he does address himself unto? ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => None in the world; but return with an invention and [1] => clap upon you two or three probable lies: but we [2] => have almost embossed him; you shall see his fall [3] => to-night; for indeed he is not for your lordship's respect. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We'll make you some sport with the fox ere we case [1] => him. He was first smoked by the old lord Lafeu: [2] => when his disguise and he is parted, tell me what a [3] => sprat you shall find him; which you shall see this [4] => very night. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => I must go look my twigs: he shall be caught. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Your brother he shall go along with me. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => As't please your lordship: I'll leave you. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now will I lead you to the house, and show you [1] => The lass I spoke of. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => But you say she's honest. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That's all the fault: I spoke with her but once [1] => And found her wondrous cold; but I sent to her, [2] => By this same coxcomb that we have i' the wind, [3] => Tokens and letters which she did re-send; [4] => And this is all I have done. She's a fair creature: [5] => Will you go see her? ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => With all my heart, my lord. ) ) ) [6] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE VII. Florence. The Widow's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter HELENA and Widow [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you misdoubt me that I am not she, [1] => I know not how I shall assure you further, [2] => But I shall lose the grounds I work upon. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Though my estate be fallen, I was well born, [1] => Nothing acquainted with these businesses; [2] => And would not put my reputation now [3] => In any staining act. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nor would I wish you. [1] => First, give me trust, the count he is my husband, [2] => And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken [3] => Is so from word to word; and then you cannot, [4] => By the good aid that I of you shall borrow, [5] => Err in bestowing it. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I should believe you: [1] => For you have show'd me that which well approves [2] => You're great in fortune. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Take this purse of gold, [1] => And let me buy your friendly help thus far, [2] => Which I will over-pay and pay again [3] => When I have found it. The count he wooes your daughter, [4] => Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty, [5] => Resolved to carry her: let her in fine consent, [6] => As we'll direct her how 'tis best to bear it. [7] => Now his important blood will nought deny [8] => That she'll demand: a ring the county wears, [9] => That downward hath succeeded in his house [10] => From son to son, some four or five descents [11] => Since the first father wore it: this ring he holds [12] => In most rich choice; yet in his idle fire, [13] => To buy his will, it would not seem too dear, [14] => Howe'er repented after. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now I see [1] => The bottom of your purpose. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You see it lawful, then: it is no more, [1] => But that your daughter, ere she seems as won, [2] => Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter; [3] => In fine, delivers me to fill the time, [4] => Herself most chastely absent: after this, [5] => To marry her, I'll add three thousand crowns [6] => To what is passed already. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have yielded: [1] => Instruct my daughter how she shall persever, [2] => That time and place with this deceit so lawful [3] => May prove coherent. Every night he comes [4] => With musics of all sorts and songs composed [5] => To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us [6] => To chide him from our eaves; for he persists [7] => As if his life lay on't. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why then to-night [1] => Let us assay our plot; which, if it speed, [2] => Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed [3] => And lawful meaning in a lawful act, [4] => Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact: [5] => But let's about it. ) ) ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT IV [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Without the Florentine camp. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter Second French Lord, with five or six other Soldiers in ambush [1] => Enter PAROLLES [2] => Alarum within [3] => They seize and blindfold him [4] => Exit, with PAROLLES guarded. A short alarum within [5] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He can come no other way but by this hedge-corner. [1] => When you sally upon him, speak what terrible [2] => language you will: though you understand it not [3] => yourselves, no matter; for we must not seem to [4] => understand him, unless some one among us whom we [5] => must produce for an interpreter. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Good captain, let me be the interpreter. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Art not acquainted with him? knows he not thy voice? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => No, sir, I warrant you. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => E'en such as you speak to me. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He must think us some band of strangers i' the [1] => adversary's entertainment. Now he hath a smack of [2] => all neighbouring languages; therefore we must every [3] => one be a man of his own fancy, not to know what we [4] => speak one to another; so we seem to know, is to [5] => know straight our purpose: choughs' language, [6] => gabble enough, and good enough. As for you, [7] => interpreter, you must seem very politic. But couch, [8] => ho! here he comes, to beguile two hours in a sleep, [9] => and then to return and swear the lies he forges. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ten o'clock: within these three hours 'twill be [1] => time enough to go home. What shall I say I have [2] => done? It must be a very plausive invention that [3] => carries it: they begin to smoke me; and disgraces [4] => have of late knocked too often at my door. I find [5] => my tongue is too foolhardy; but my heart hath the [6] => fear of Mars before it and of his creatures, not [7] => daring the reports of my tongue. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This is the first truth that e'er thine own tongue [1] => was guilty of. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What the devil should move me to undertake the [1] => recovery of this drum, being not ignorant of the [2] => impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose? I [3] => must give myself some hurts, and say I got them in [4] => exploit: yet slight ones will not carry it; they [5] => will say, 'Came you off with so little?' and great [6] => ones I dare not give. Wherefore, what's the [7] => instance? Tongue, I must put you into a [8] => butter-woman's mouth and buy myself another of [9] => Bajazet's mule, if you prattle me into these perils. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Is it possible he should know what he is, and be [1] => that he is? ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would the cutting of my garments would serve the [1] => turn, or the breaking of my Spanish sword. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => We cannot afford you so. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Or the baring of my beard; and to say it was in [1] => stratagem. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => 'Twould not do. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Hardly serve. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Though I swore I leaped from the window of the citadel. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => How deep? ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Thirty fathom. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would I had any drum of the enemy's: I would swear [1] => I recovered it. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => You shall hear one anon. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => A drum now of the enemy's,-- ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => All [LINE] => Cargo, cargo, cargo, villiando par corbo, cargo. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => O, ransom, ransom! do not hide mine eyes. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Boskos thromuldo boskos. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know you are the Muskos' regiment: [1] => And I shall lose my life for want of language; [2] => If there be here German, or Dane, low Dutch, [3] => Italian, or French, let him speak to me; I'll [4] => Discover that which shall undo the Florentine. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Boskos vauvado: I understand thee, and can speak [1] => thy tongue. Kerely bonto, sir, betake thee to thy [2] => faith, for seventeen poniards are at thy bosom. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => O! ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => O, pray, pray, pray! Manka revania dulche. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Oscorbidulchos volivorco. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The general is content to spare thee yet; [1] => And, hoodwink'd as thou art, will lead thee on [2] => To gather from thee: haply thou mayst inform [3] => Something to save thy life. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, let me live! [1] => And all the secrets of our camp I'll show, [2] => Their force, their purposes; nay, I'll speak that [3] => Which you will wonder at. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => But wilt thou faithfully? ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => If I do not, damn me. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Acordo linta. [1] => Come on; thou art granted space. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go, tell the Count Rousillon, and my brother, [1] => We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled [2] => Till we do hear from them. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Soldier [LINE] => Captain, I will. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A' will betray us all unto ourselves: [1] => Inform on that. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Soldier [LINE] => So I will, sir. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Till then I'll keep him dark and safely lock'd. ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Florence. The Widow's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter BERTRAM and DIANA [1] => Exit [2] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => They told me that your name was Fontibell. ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => No, my good lord, Diana. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Titled goddess; [1] => And worth it, with addition! But, fair soul, [2] => In your fine frame hath love no quality? [3] => If quick fire of youth light not your mind, [4] => You are no maiden, but a monument: [5] => When you are dead, you should be such a one [6] => As you are now, for you are cold and stem; [7] => And now you should be as your mother was [8] => When your sweet self was got. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => She then was honest. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => So should you be. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No: [1] => My mother did but duty; such, my lord, [2] => As you owe to your wife. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No more o' that; [1] => I prithee, do not strive against my vows: [2] => I was compell'd to her; but I love thee [3] => By love's own sweet constraint, and will for ever [4] => Do thee all rights of service. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, so you serve us [1] => Till we serve you; but when you have our roses, [2] => You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves [3] => And mock us with our bareness. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => How have I sworn! ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth, [1] => But the plain single vow that is vow'd true. [2] => What is not holy, that we swear not by, [3] => But take the High'st to witness: then, pray you, tell me, [4] => If I should swear by God's great attributes, [5] => I loved you dearly, would you believe my oaths, [6] => When I did love you ill? This has no holding, [7] => To swear by him whom I protest to love, [8] => That I will work against him: therefore your oaths [9] => Are words and poor conditions, but unseal'd, [10] => At least in my opinion. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Change it, change it; [1] => Be not so holy-cruel: love is holy; [2] => And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts [3] => That you do charge men with. Stand no more off, [4] => But give thyself unto my sick desires, [5] => Who then recover: say thou art mine, and ever [6] => My love as it begins shall so persever. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I see that men make ropes in such a scarre [1] => That we'll forsake ourselves. Give me that ring. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll lend it thee, my dear; but have no power [1] => To give it from me. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Will you not, my lord? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is an honour 'longing to our house, [1] => Bequeathed down from many ancestors; [2] => Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world [3] => In me to lose. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Mine honour's such a ring: [1] => My chastity's the jewel of our house, [2] => Bequeathed down from many ancestors; [3] => Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world [4] => In me to lose: thus your own proper wisdom [5] => Brings in the champion Honour on my part, [6] => Against your vain assault. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here, take my ring: [1] => My house, mine honour, yea, my life, be thine, [2] => And I'll be bid by thee. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => When midnight comes, knock at my chamber-window: [1] => I'll order take my mother shall not hear. [2] => Now will I charge you in the band of truth, [3] => When you have conquer'd my yet maiden bed, [4] => Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me: [5] => My reasons are most strong; and you shall know them [6] => When back again this ring shall be deliver'd: [7] => And on your finger in the night I'll put [8] => Another ring, that what in time proceeds [9] => May token to the future our past deeds. [10] => Adieu, till then; then, fail not. You have won [11] => A wife of me, though there my hope be done. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For which live long to thank both heaven and me! [1] => You may so in the end. [2] => My mother told me just how he would woo, [3] => As if she sat in 's heart; she says all men [4] => Have the like oaths: he had sworn to marry me [5] => When his wife's dead; therefore I'll lie with him [6] => When I am buried. Since Frenchmen are so braid, [7] => Marry that will, I live and die a maid: [8] => Only in this disguise I think't no sin [9] => To cozen him that would unjustly win. ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. The Florentine camp. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter the two French Lords and some two or three Soldiers [1] => Enter PAROLLES guarded, and First Soldier [2] => Exeunt BERTRAM and Lords [3] => Exit with Soldiers [4] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => You have not given him his mother's letter? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have delivered it an hour since: there is [1] => something in't that stings his nature; for on the [2] => reading it he changed almost into another man. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He has much worthy blame laid upon him for shaking [1] => off so good a wife and so sweet a lady. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Especially he hath incurred the everlasting [1] => displeasure of the king, who had even tuned his [2] => bounty to sing happiness to him. I will tell you a [3] => thing, but you shall let it dwell darkly with you. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => When you have spoken it, 'tis dead, and I am the [1] => grave of it. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in [1] => Florence, of a most chaste renown; and this night he [2] => fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour: he hath [3] => given her his monumental ring, and thinks himself [4] => made in the unchaste composition. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, God delay our rebellion! as we are ourselves, [1] => what things are we! ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Merely our own traitors. And as in the common course [1] => of all treasons, we still see them reveal [2] => themselves, till they attain to their abhorred ends, [3] => so he that in this action contrives against his own [4] => nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Is it not meant damnable in us, to be trumpeters of [1] => our unlawful intents? We shall not then have his [2] => company to-night? ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Not till after midnight; for he is dieted to his hour. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That approaches apace; I would gladly have him see [1] => his company anatomized, that he might take a measure [2] => of his own judgments, wherein so curiously he had [3] => set this counterfeit. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We will not meddle with him till he come; for his [1] => presence must be the whip of the other. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => In the mean time, what hear you of these wars? ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => I hear there is an overture of peace. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Nay, I assure you, a peace concluded. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What will Count Rousillon do then? will he travel [1] => higher, or return again into France? ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I perceive, by this demand, you are not altogether [1] => of his council. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let it be forbid, sir; so should I be a great deal [1] => of his act. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, his wife some two months since fled from his [1] => house: her pretence is a pilgrimage to Saint Jaques [2] => le Grand; which holy undertaking with most austere [3] => sanctimony she accomplished; and, there residing the [4] => tenderness of her nature became as a prey to her [5] => grief; in fine, made a groan of her last breath, and [6] => now she sings in heaven. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => How is this justified? ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The stronger part of it by her own letters, which [1] => makes her story true, even to the point of her [2] => death: her death itself, which could not be her [3] => office to say is come, was faithfully confirmed by [4] => the rector of the place. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Hath the count all this intelligence? ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, and the particular confirmations, point from [1] => point, so to the full arming of the verity. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => I am heartily sorry that he'll be glad of this. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => How mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our losses! ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And how mightily some other times we drown our gain [1] => in tears! The great dignity that his valour hath [2] => here acquired for him shall at home be encountered [3] => with a shame as ample. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and [1] => ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our [2] => faults whipped them not; and our crimes would [3] => despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. [4] => How now! where's your master? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter a Messenger ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He met the duke in the street, sir, of whom he hath [1] => taken a solemn leave: his lordship will next [2] => morning for France. The duke hath offered him [3] => letters of commendations to the king. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => They shall be no more than needful there, if they [1] => were more than they can commend. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => They cannot be too sweet for the king's tartness. [1] => Here's his lordship now. [2] => How now, my lord! is't not after midnight? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter BERTRAM ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have to-night dispatched sixteen businesses, a [1] => month's length a-piece, by an abstract of success: [2] => I have congied with the duke, done my adieu with his [3] => nearest; buried a wife, mourned for her; writ to my [4] => lady mother I am returning; entertained my convoy; [5] => and between these main parcels of dispatch effected [6] => many nicer needs; the last was the greatest, but [7] => that I have not ended yet. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If the business be of any difficulty, and this [1] => morning your departure hence, it requires haste of [2] => your lordship. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I mean, the business is not ended, as fearing to [1] => hear of it hereafter. But shall we have this [2] => dialogue between the fool and the soldier? Come, [3] => bring forth this counterfeit module, he has deceived [4] => me, like a double-meaning prophesier. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Bring him forth: has sat i' the stocks all night, [1] => poor gallant knave. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No matter: his heels have deserved it, in usurping [1] => his spurs so long. How does he carry himself? ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have told your lordship already, the stocks carry [1] => him. But to answer you as you would be understood; [2] => he weeps like a wench that had shed her milk: he [3] => hath confessed himself to Morgan, whom he supposes [4] => to be a friar, from the time of his remembrance to [5] => this very instant disaster of his setting i' the [6] => stocks: and what think you he hath confessed? ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Nothing of me, has a'? ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His confession is taken, and it shall be read to his [1] => face: if your lordship be in't, as I believe you [2] => are, you must have the patience to hear it. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A plague upon him! muffled! he can say nothing of [1] => me: hush, hush! ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Hoodman comes! Portotartarosa ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He calls for the tortures: what will you say [1] => without 'em? ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will confess what I know without constraint: if [1] => ye pinch me like a pasty, I can say no more. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Bosko chimurcho. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Boblibindo chicurmurco. ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You are a merciful general. Our general bids you [1] => answer to what I shall ask you out of a note. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => And truly, as I hope to live. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Reads ) [1] => duke is strong.' What say you to that? ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Five or six thousand; but very weak and [1] => unserviceable: the troops are all scattered, and [2] => the commanders very poor rogues, upon my reputation [3] => and credit and as I hope to live. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Shall I set down your answer so? ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Do: I'll take the sacrament on't, how and which way you will. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => All's one to him. What a past-saving slave is this! ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You're deceived, my lord: this is Monsieur [1] => Parolles, the gallant militarist,--that was his own [2] => phrase,--that had the whole theoric of war in the [3] => knot of his scarf, and the practise in the chape of [4] => his dagger. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword [1] => clean. nor believe he can have every thing in him [2] => by wearing his apparel neatly. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Well, that's set down. ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Five or six thousand horse, I said,-- I will say [1] => true,--or thereabouts, set down, for I'll speak truth. ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => He's very near the truth in this. ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But I con him no thanks for't, in the nature he [1] => delivers it. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Poor rogues, I pray you, say. ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Well, that's set down. ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I humbly thank you, sir: a truth's a truth, the [1] => rogues are marvellous poor. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Reads ) [1] => a-foot.' What say you to that? ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By my troth, sir, if I were to live this present [1] => hour, I will tell true. Let me see: Spurio, a [2] => hundred and fifty; Sebastian, so many; Corambus, so [3] => many; Jaques, so many; Guiltian, Cosmo, Lodowick, [4] => and Gratii, two hundred and fifty each; mine own [5] => company, Chitopher, Vaumond, Bentii, two hundred and [6] => fifty each: so that the muster-file, rotten and [7] => sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand [8] => poll; half of the which dare not shake snow from off [9] => their cassocks, lest they shake themselves to pieces. ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => What shall be done to him? ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nothing, but let him have thanks. Demand of him my [1] => condition, and what credit I have with the duke. ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, that's set down. [1] => 'You shall demand of him, whether one Captain Dumain [2] => be i' the camp, a Frenchman; what his reputation is [3] => with the duke; what his valour, honesty, and [4] => expertness in wars; or whether he thinks it were not [5] => possible, with well-weighing sums of gold, to [6] => corrupt him to revolt.' What say you to this? what [7] => do you know of it? ) [STAGEDIR] => Reads ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I beseech you, let me answer to the particular of [1] => the inter'gatories: demand them singly. ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Do you know this Captain Dumain? ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know him: a' was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris, [1] => from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's [2] => fool with child,--a dumb innocent, that could not [3] => say him nay. ) ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, by your leave, hold your hands; though I know [1] => his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls. ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Well, is this captain in the duke of Florence's camp? ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Upon my knowledge, he is, and lousy. ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay look not so upon me; we shall hear of your [1] => lordship anon. ) ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => What is his reputation with the duke? ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The duke knows him for no other but a poor officer [1] => of mine; and writ to me this other day to turn him [2] => out o' the band: I think I have his letter in my pocket. ) ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Marry, we'll search. ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In good sadness, I do not know; either it is there, [1] => or it is upon a file with the duke's other letters [2] => in my tent. ) ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Here 'tis; here's a paper: shall I read it to you? ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => I do not know if it be it or no. ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Our interpreter does it well. ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Excellently. ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Reads ) ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That is not the duke's letter, sir; that is an [1] => advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one [2] => Diana, to take heed of the allurement of one Count [3] => Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that very [4] => ruttish: I pray you, sir, put it up again. ) ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Nay, I'll read it first, by your favour. ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My meaning in't, I protest, was very honest in the [1] => behalf of the maid; for I knew the young count to be [2] => a dangerous and lascivious boy, who is a whale to [3] => virginity and devours up all the fry it finds. ) ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Damnable both-sides rogue! ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Reads ) [1] => After he scores, he never pays the score: [2] => Half won is match well made; match, and well make it; [3] => He ne'er pays after-debts, take it before; [4] => And say a soldier, Dian, told thee this, [5] => Men are to mell with, boys are not to kiss: [6] => For count of this, the count's a fool, I know it, [7] => Who pays before, but not when he does owe it. [8] => Thine, as he vowed to thee in thine ear, [9] => PAROLLES.' ) ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He shall be whipped through the army with this rhyme [1] => in's forehead. ) ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold [1] => linguist and the armipotent soldier. ) ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I could endure any thing before but a cat, and now [1] => he's a cat to me. ) ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I perceive, sir, by the general's looks, we shall be [1] => fain to hang you. ) ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My life, sir, in any case: not that I am afraid to [1] => die; but that, my offences being many, I would [2] => repent out the remainder of nature: let me live, [3] => sir, in a dungeon, i' the stocks, or any where, so I may live. ) ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We'll see what may be done, so you confess freely; [1] => therefore, once more to this Captain Dumain: you [2] => have answered to his reputation with the duke and to [3] => his valour: what is his honesty? ) ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister: for [1] => rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus: he [2] => professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking 'em he [3] => is stronger than Hercules: he will lie, sir, with [4] => such volubility, that you would think truth were a [5] => fool: drunkenness is his best virtue, for he will [6] => be swine-drunk; and in his sleep he does little [7] => harm, save to his bed-clothes about him; but they [8] => know his conditions and lay him in straw. I have but [9] => little more to say, sir, of his honesty: he has [10] => every thing that an honest man should not have; what [11] => an honest man should have, he has nothing. ) ) [93] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => I begin to love him for this. ) [94] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For this description of thine honesty? A pox upon [1] => him for me, he's more and more a cat. ) ) [95] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => What say you to his expertness in war? ) [96] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Faith, sir, he has led the drum before the English [1] => tragedians; to belie him, I will not, and more of [2] => his soldiership I know not; except, in that country [3] => he had the honour to be the officer at a place there [4] => called Mile-end, to instruct for the doubling of [5] => files: I would do the man what honour I can, but of [6] => this I am not certain. ) ) [97] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He hath out-villained villany so far, that the [1] => rarity redeems him. ) ) [98] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => A pox on him, he's a cat still. ) [99] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His qualities being at this poor price, I need not [1] => to ask you if gold will corrupt him to revolt. ) ) [100] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, for a quart d'ecu he will sell the fee-simple [1] => of his salvation, the inheritance of it; and cut the [2] => entail from all remainders, and a perpetual [3] => succession for it perpetually. ) ) [101] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => What's his brother, the other Captain Dumain? ) [102] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Why does be ask him of me? ) [103] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => What's he? ) [104] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => E'en a crow o' the same nest; not altogether so [1] => great as the first in goodness, but greater a great [2] => deal in evil: he excels his brother for a coward, [3] => yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is: [4] => in a retreat he outruns any lackey; marry, in coming [5] => on he has the cramp. ) ) [105] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If your life be saved, will you undertake to betray [1] => the Florentine? ) ) [106] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Ay, and the captain of his horse, Count Rousillon. ) [107] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => I'll whisper with the general, and know his pleasure. ) [108] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => drums! Only to seem to deserve well, and to [2] => beguile the supposition of that lascivious young boy [3] => the count, have I run into this danger. Yet who [4] => would have suspected an ambush where I was taken? ) ) [109] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There is no remedy, sir, but you must die: the [1] => general says, you that have so traitorously [2] => discovered the secrets of your army and made such [3] => pestiferous reports of men very nobly held, can [4] => serve the world for no honest use; therefore you [5] => must die. Come, headsman, off with his head. ) ) [110] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => O Lord, sir, let me live, or let me see my death! ) [111] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That shall you, and take your leave of all your friends. [1] => So, look about you: know you any here? ) [STAGEDIR] => Unblinding him ) [112] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Good morrow, noble captain. ) [113] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => God bless you, Captain Parolles. ) [114] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => God save you, noble captain. ) [115] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Captain, what greeting will you to my Lord Lafeu? [1] => I am for France. ) ) [116] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Lord [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good captain, will you give me a copy of the sonnet [1] => you writ to Diana in behalf of the Count Rousillon? [2] => an I were not a very coward, I'ld compel it of you: [3] => but fare you well. ) ) [117] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You are undone, captain, all but your scarf; that [1] => has a knot on't yet ) ) [118] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Who cannot be crushed with a plot? ) [119] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you could find out a country where but women were [1] => that had received so much shame, you might begin an [2] => impudent nation. Fare ye well, sir; I am for France [3] => too: we shall speak of you there. ) ) [120] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yet am I thankful: if my heart were great, [1] => 'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more; [2] => But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft [3] => As captain shall: simply the thing I am [4] => Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart, [5] => Let him fear this, for it will come to pass [6] => that every braggart shall be found an ass. [7] => Rust, sword? cool, blushes! and, Parolles, live [8] => Safest in shame! being fool'd, by foolery thrive! [9] => There's place and means for every man alive. [10] => I'll after them. ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. Florence. The Widow's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That you may well perceive I have not wrong'd you, [1] => One of the greatest in the Christian world [2] => Shall be my surety; 'fore whose throne 'tis needful, [3] => Ere I can perfect mine intents, to kneel: [4] => Time was, I did him a desired office, [5] => Dear almost as his life; which gratitude [6] => Through flinty Tartar's bosom would peep forth, [7] => And answer, thanks: I duly am inform'd [8] => His grace is at Marseilles; to which place [9] => We have convenient convoy. You must know [10] => I am supposed dead: the army breaking, [11] => My husband hies him home; where, heaven aiding, [12] => And by the leave of my good lord the king, [13] => We'll be before our welcome. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Gentle madam, [1] => You never had a servant to whose trust [2] => Your business was more welcome. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nor you, mistress, [1] => Ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour [2] => To recompense your love: doubt not but heaven [3] => Hath brought me up to be your daughter's dower, [4] => As it hath fated her to be my motive [5] => And helper to a husband. But, O strange men! [6] => That can such sweet use make of what they hate, [7] => When saucy trusting of the cozen'd thoughts [8] => Defiles the pitchy night: so lust doth play [9] => With what it loathes for that which is away. [10] => But more of this hereafter. You, Diana, [11] => Under my poor instructions yet must suffer [12] => Something in my behalf. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let death and honesty [1] => Go with your impositions, I am yours [2] => Upon your will to suffer. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yet, I pray you: [1] => But with the word the time will bring on summer, [2] => When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns, [3] => And be as sweet as sharp. We must away; [4] => Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us: [5] => All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown; [6] => Whate'er the course, the end is the renown. ) ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE V. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter COUNTESS, LAFEU, and Clown [1] => Exit [2] => Re-enter Clown [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, no, no, your son was misled with a snipt-taffeta [1] => fellow there, whose villanous saffron would have [2] => made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in [3] => his colour: your daughter-in-law had been alive at [4] => this hour, and your son here at home, more advanced [5] => by the king than by that red-tailed humble-bee I speak of. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would I had not known him; it was the death of the [1] => most virtuous gentlewoman that ever nature had [2] => praise for creating. If she had partaken of my [3] => flesh, and cost me the dearest groans of a mother, I [4] => could not have owed her a more rooted love. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick a [1] => thousand salads ere we light on such another herb. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the [1] => salad, or rather, the herb of grace. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => They are not herbs, you knave; they are nose-herbs. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir; I have not much [1] => skill in grass. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Whether dost thou profess thyself, a knave or a fool? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => A fool, sir, at a woman's service, and a knave at a man's. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Your distinction? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => I would cozen the man of his wife and do his service. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => So you were a knave at his service, indeed. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => And I would give his wife my bauble, sir, to do her service. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => I will subscribe for thee, thou art both knave and fool. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => At your service. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => No, no, no. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, sir, if I cannot serve you, I can serve as [1] => great a prince as you are. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Who's that? a Frenchman? ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Faith, sir, a' has an English name; but his fisnomy [1] => is more hotter in France than there. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => What prince is that? ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The black prince, sir; alias, the prince of [1] => darkness; alias, the devil. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hold thee, there's my purse: I give thee not this [1] => to suggest thee from thy master thou talkest of; [2] => serve him still. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always loved a [1] => great fire; and the master I speak of ever keeps a [2] => good fire. But, sure, he is the prince of the [3] => world; let his nobility remain in's court. I am for [4] => the house with the narrow gate, which I take to be [5] => too little for pomp to enter: some that humble [6] => themselves may; but the many will be too chill and [7] => tender, and they'll be for the flowery way that [8] => leads to the broad gate and the great fire. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go thy ways, I begin to be aweary of thee; and I [1] => tell thee so before, because I would not fall out [2] => with thee. Go thy ways: let my horses be well [3] => looked to, without any tricks. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If I put any tricks upon 'em, sir, they shall be [1] => jades' tricks; which are their own right by the law of nature. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => A shrewd knave and an unhappy. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So he is. My lord that's gone made himself much [1] => sport out of him: by his authority he remains here, [2] => which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness; and, [3] => indeed, he has no pace, but runs where he will. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I like him well; 'tis not amiss. And I was about to [1] => tell you, since I heard of the good lady's death and [2] => that my lord your son was upon his return home, I [3] => moved the king my master to speak in the behalf of [4] => my daughter; which, in the minority of them both, [5] => his majesty, out of a self-gracious remembrance, did [6] => first propose: his highness hath promised me to do [7] => it: and, to stop up the displeasure he hath [8] => conceived against your son, there is no fitter [9] => matter. How does your ladyship like it? ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => With very much content, my lord; and I wish it [1] => happily effected. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His highness comes post from Marseilles, of as able [1] => body as when he numbered thirty: he will be here [2] => to-morrow, or I am deceived by him that in such [3] => intelligence hath seldom failed. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It rejoices me, that I hope I shall see him ere I [1] => die. I have letters that my son will be here [2] => to-night: I shall beseech your lordship to remain [3] => with me till they meet together. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, I was thinking with what manners I might [1] => safely be admitted. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => You need but plead your honourable privilege. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lady, of that I have made a bold charter; but I [1] => thank my God it holds yet. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O madam, yonder's my lord your son with a patch of [1] => velvet on's face: whether there be a scar under't [2] => or no, the velvet knows; but 'tis a goodly patch of [3] => velvet: his left cheek is a cheek of two pile and a [4] => half, but his right cheek is worn bare. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery [1] => of honour; so belike is that. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => But it is your carbonadoed face. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let us go see your son, I pray you: I long to talk [1] => with the young noble soldier. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Faith there's a dozen of 'em, with delicate fine [1] => hats and most courteous feathers, which bow the head [2] => and nod at every man. ) ) ) ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT V [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Marseilles. A street. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA, with two Attendants [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But this exceeding posting day and night [1] => Must wear your spirits low; we cannot help it: [2] => But since you have made the days and nights as one, [3] => To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs, [4] => Be bold you do so grow in my requital [5] => As nothing can unroot you. In happy time; [6] => This man may help me to his majesty's ear, [7] => If he would spend his power. God save you, sir. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter a Gentleman ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gentleman [LINE] => And you. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Sir, I have seen you in the court of France. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gentleman [LINE] => I have been sometimes there. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do presume, sir, that you are not fallen [1] => From the report that goes upon your goodness; [2] => An therefore, goaded with most sharp occasions, [3] => Which lay nice manners by, I put you to [4] => The use of your own virtues, for the which [5] => I shall continue thankful. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gentleman [LINE] => What's your will? ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That it will please you [1] => To give this poor petition to the king, [2] => And aid me with that store of power you have [3] => To come into his presence. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gentleman [LINE] => The king's not here. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Not here, sir! ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not, indeed: [1] => He hence removed last night and with more haste [2] => Than is his use. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Lord, how we lose our pains! ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => All's well that ends well yet, [1] => Though time seem so adverse and means unfit. [2] => I do beseech you, whither is he gone? ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, as I take it, to Rousillon; [1] => Whither I am going. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do beseech you, sir, [1] => Since you are like to see the king before me, [2] => Commend the paper to his gracious hand, [3] => Which I presume shall render you no blame [4] => But rather make you thank your pains for it. [5] => I will come after you with what good speed [6] => Our means will make us means. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gentleman [LINE] => This I'll do for you. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And you shall find yourself to be well thank'd, [1] => Whate'er falls more. We must to horse again. [2] => Go, go, provide. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Rousillon. Before the COUNT's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter Clown, and PAROLLES, following [1] => Exit [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good Monsieur Lavache, give my Lord Lafeu this [1] => letter: I have ere now, sir, been better known to [2] => you, when I have held familiarity with fresher [3] => clothes; but I am now, sir, muddied in fortune's [4] => mood, and smell somewhat strong of her strong [5] => displeasure. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Truly, fortune's displeasure is but sluttish, if it [1] => smell so strongly as thou speakest of: I will [2] => henceforth eat no fish of fortune's buttering. [3] => Prithee, allow the wind. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir; I spake [1] => but by a metaphor. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop my [1] => nose; or against any man's metaphor. Prithee, get [2] => thee further. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Pray you, sir, deliver me this paper. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Foh! prithee, stand away: a paper from fortune's [1] => close-stool to give to a nobleman! Look, here he [2] => comes himself. [3] => Here is a purr of fortune's, sir, or of fortune's [4] => cat,--but not a musk-cat,--that has fallen into the [5] => unclean fishpond of her displeasure, and, as he [6] => says, is muddied withal: pray you, sir, use the [7] => carp as you may; for he looks like a poor, decayed, [8] => ingenious, foolish, rascally knave. I do pity his [9] => distress in my similes of comfort and leave him to [10] => your lordship. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter LAFEU ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, I am a man whom fortune hath cruelly [1] => scratched. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And what would you have me to do? 'Tis too late to [1] => pare her nails now. Wherein have you played the [2] => knave with fortune, that she should scratch you, who [3] => of herself is a good lady and would not have knaves [4] => thrive long under her? There's a quart d'ecu for [5] => you: let the justices make you and fortune friends: [6] => I am for other business. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => I beseech your honour to hear me one single word. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You beg a single penny more: come, you shall ha't; [1] => save your word. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => My name, my good lord, is Parolles. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You beg more than 'word,' then. Cox my passion! [1] => give me your hand. How does your drum? ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => O my good lord, you were the first that found me! ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Was I, in sooth? and I was the first that lost thee. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It lies in you, my lord, to bring me in some grace, [1] => for you did bring me out. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Out upon thee, knave! dost thou put upon me at once [1] => both the office of God and the devil? One brings [2] => thee in grace and the other brings thee out. [3] => The king's coming; I know by his trumpets. Sirrah, [4] => inquire further after me; I had talk of you last [5] => night: though you are a fool and a knave, you shall [6] => eat; go to, follow. ) [STAGEDIR] => Trumpets sound ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => I praise God for you. ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Flourish. Enter KING, COUNTESS, LAFEU, the two French Lords, with Attendants [1] => Exit [2] => Enter BERTRAM [3] => Exit, guarded [4] => Enter a Gentleman [5] => Re-enter BERTRAM, guarded [6] => Exit an Attendant [7] => Enter PAROLLES [8] => Re-enter Widow, with HELENA [9] => Flourish ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We lost a jewel of her; and our esteem [1] => Was made much poorer by it: but your son, [2] => As mad in folly, lack'd the sense to know [3] => Her estimation home. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis past, my liege; [1] => And I beseech your majesty to make it [2] => Natural rebellion, done i' the blaze of youth; [3] => When oil and fire, too strong for reason's force, [4] => O'erbears it and burns on. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My honour'd lady, [1] => I have forgiven and forgotten all; [2] => Though my revenges were high bent upon him, [3] => And watch'd the time to shoot. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This I must say, [1] => But first I beg my pardon, the young lord [2] => Did to his majesty, his mother and his lady [3] => Offence of mighty note; but to himself [4] => The greatest wrong of all. He lost a wife [5] => Whose beauty did astonish the survey [6] => Of richest eyes, whose words all ears took captive, [7] => Whose dear perfection hearts that scorn'd to serve [8] => Humbly call'd mistress. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Praising what is lost [1] => Makes the remembrance dear. Well, call him hither; [2] => We are reconciled, and the first view shall kill [3] => All repetition: let him not ask our pardon; [4] => The nature of his great offence is dead, [5] => And deeper than oblivion we do bury [6] => The incensing relics of it: let him approach, [7] => A stranger, no offender; and inform him [8] => So 'tis our will he should. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gentleman [LINE] => I shall, my liege. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => What says he to your daughter? have you spoke? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => All that he is hath reference to your highness. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then shall we have a match. I have letters sent me [1] => That set him high in fame. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => He looks well on't. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am not a day of season, [1] => For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail [2] => In me at once: but to the brightest beams [3] => Distracted clouds give way; so stand thou forth; [4] => The time is fair again. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My high-repented blames, [1] => Dear sovereign, pardon to me. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => All is whole; [1] => Not one word more of the consumed time. [2] => Let's take the instant by the forward top; [3] => For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees [4] => The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time [5] => Steals ere we can effect them. You remember [6] => The daughter of this lord? ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Admiringly, my liege, at first [1] => I stuck my choice upon her, ere my heart [2] => Durst make too bold a herald of my tongue [3] => Where the impression of mine eye infixing, [4] => Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me, [5] => Which warp'd the line of every other favour; [6] => Scorn'd a fair colour, or express'd it stolen; [7] => Extended or contracted all proportions [8] => To a most hideous object: thence it came [9] => That she whom all men praised and whom myself, [10] => Since I have lost, have loved, was in mine eye [11] => The dust that did offend it. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well excused: [1] => That thou didst love her, strikes some scores away [2] => From the great compt: but love that comes too late, [3] => Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried, [4] => To the great sender turns a sour offence, [5] => Crying, 'That's good that's gone.' Our rash faults [6] => Make trivial price of serious things we have, [7] => Not knowing them until we know their grave: [8] => Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust, [9] => Destroy our friends and after weep their dust [10] => Our own love waking cries to see what's done, [11] => While shame full late sleeps out the afternoon. [12] => Be this sweet Helen's knell, and now forget her. [13] => Send forth your amorous token for fair Maudlin: [14] => The main consents are had; and here we'll stay [15] => To see our widower's second marriage-day. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Which better than the first, O dear heaven, bless! [1] => Or, ere they meet, in me, O nature, cesse! ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come on, my son, in whom my house's name [1] => Must be digested, give a favour from you [2] => To sparkle in the spirits of my daughter, [3] => That she may quickly come. [4] => By my old beard, [5] => And every hair that's on't, Helen, that's dead, [6] => Was a sweet creature: such a ring as this, [7] => The last that e'er I took her at court, [8] => I saw upon her finger. ) [STAGEDIR] => BERTRAM gives a ring ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Hers it was not. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, pray you, let me see it; for mine eye, [1] => While I was speaking, oft was fasten'd to't. [2] => This ring was mine; and, when I gave it Helen, [3] => I bade her, if her fortunes ever stood [4] => Necessitied to help, that by this token [5] => I would relieve her. Had you that craft, to reave [6] => her [7] => Of what should stead her most? ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My gracious sovereign, [1] => Howe'er it pleases you to take it so, [2] => The ring was never hers. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Son, on my life, [1] => I have seen her wear it; and she reckon'd it [2] => At her life's rate. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => I am sure I saw her wear it. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You are deceived, my lord; she never saw it: [1] => In Florence was it from a casement thrown me, [2] => Wrapp'd in a paper, which contain'd the name [3] => Of her that threw it: noble she was, and thought [4] => I stood engaged: but when I had subscribed [5] => To mine own fortune and inform'd her fully [6] => I could not answer in that course of honour [7] => As she had made the overture, she ceased [8] => In heavy satisfaction and would never [9] => Receive the ring again. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Plutus himself, [1] => That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine, [2] => Hath not in nature's mystery more science [3] => Than I have in this ring: 'twas mine, 'twas Helen's, [4] => Whoever gave it you. Then, if you know [5] => That you are well acquainted with yourself, [6] => Confess 'twas hers, and by what rough enforcement [7] => You got it from her: she call'd the saints to surety [8] => That she would never put it from her finger, [9] => Unless she gave it to yourself in bed, [10] => Where you have never come, or sent it us [11] => Upon her great disaster. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => She never saw it. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou speak'st it falsely, as I love mine honour; [1] => And makest conjectural fears to come into me [2] => Which I would fain shut out. If it should prove [3] => That thou art so inhuman,--'twill not prove so;-- [4] => And yet I know not: thou didst hate her deadly, [5] => And she is dead; which nothing, but to close [6] => Her eyes myself, could win me to believe, [7] => More than to see this ring. Take him away. [8] => My fore-past proofs, howe'er the matter fall, [9] => Shall tax my fears of little vanity, [10] => Having vainly fear'd too little. Away with him! [11] => We'll sift this matter further. ) [STAGEDIR] => Guards seize BERTRAM ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you shall prove [1] => This ring was ever hers, you shall as easy [2] => Prove that I husbanded her bed in Florence, [3] => Where yet she never was. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => I am wrapp'd in dismal thinkings. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Gracious sovereign, [1] => Whether I have been to blame or no, I know not: [2] => Here's a petition from a Florentine, [3] => Who hath for four or five removes come short [4] => To tender it herself. I undertook it, [5] => Vanquish'd thereto by the fair grace and speech [6] => Of the poor suppliant, who by this I know [7] => Is here attending: her business looks in her [8] => With an importing visage; and she told me, [9] => In a sweet verbal brief, it did concern [10] => Your highness with herself. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Reads ) [1] => when his wife was dead, I blush to say it, he won [2] => me. Now is the Count Rousillon a widower: his vows [3] => are forfeited to me, and my honour's paid to him. He [4] => stole from Florence, taking no leave, and I follow [5] => him to his country for justice: grant it me, O [6] => king! in you it best lies; otherwise a seducer [7] => flourishes, and a poor maid is undone. [8] => DIANA CAPILET. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll for [1] => this: I'll none of him. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The heavens have thought well on thee Lafeu, [1] => To bring forth this discovery. Seek these suitors: [2] => Go speedily and bring again the count. [3] => I am afeard the life of Helen, lady, [4] => Was foully snatch'd. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Now, justice on the doers! ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I wonder, sir, sith wives are monsters to you, [1] => And that you fly them as you swear them lordship, [2] => Yet you desire to marry. [3] => What woman's that? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter Widow and DIANA ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am, my lord, a wretched Florentine, [1] => Derived from the ancient Capilet: [2] => My suit, as I do understand, you know, [3] => And therefore know how far I may be pitied. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Widow [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am her mother, sir, whose age and honour [1] => Both suffer under this complaint we bring, [2] => And both shall cease, without your remedy. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Come hither, count; do you know these women? ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, I neither can nor will deny [1] => But that I know them: do they charge me further? ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Why do you look so strange upon your wife? ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => She's none of mine, my lord. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you shall marry, [1] => You give away this hand, and that is mine; [2] => You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; [3] => You give away myself, which is known mine; [4] => For I by vow am so embodied yours, [5] => That she which marries you must marry me, [6] => Either both or none. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your reputation comes too short for my daughter; you [1] => are no husband for her. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, this is a fond and desperate creature, [1] => Whom sometime I have laugh'd with: let your highness [2] => Lay a more noble thought upon mine honour [3] => Than for to think that I would sink it here. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, for my thoughts, you have them ill to friend [1] => Till your deeds gain them: fairer prove your honour [2] => Than in my thought it lies. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good my lord, [1] => Ask him upon his oath, if he does think [2] => He had not my virginity. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => What say'st thou to her? ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She's impudent, my lord, [1] => And was a common gamester to the camp. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He does me wrong, my lord; if I were so, [1] => He might have bought me at a common price: [2] => Do not believe him. O, behold this ring, [3] => Whose high respect and rich validity [4] => Did lack a parallel; yet for all that [5] => He gave it to a commoner o' the camp, [6] => If I be one. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => COUNTESS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He blushes, and 'tis it: [1] => Of six preceding ancestors, that gem, [2] => Conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue, [3] => Hath it been owed and worn. This is his wife; [4] => That ring's a thousand proofs. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Methought you said [1] => You saw one here in court could witness it. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I did, my lord, but loath am to produce [1] => So bad an instrument: his name's Parolles. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => I saw the man to-day, if man he be. ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Find him, and bring him hither. ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What of him? [1] => He's quoted for a most perfidious slave, [2] => With all the spots o' the world tax'd and debosh'd; [3] => Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth. [4] => Am I or that or this for what he'll utter, [5] => That will speak any thing? ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => She hath that ring of yours. ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I think she has: certain it is I liked her, [1] => And boarded her i' the wanton way of youth: [2] => She knew her distance and did angle for me, [3] => Madding my eagerness with her restraint, [4] => As all impediments in fancy's course [5] => Are motives of more fancy; and, in fine, [6] => Her infinite cunning, with her modern grace, [7] => Subdued me to her rate: she got the ring; [8] => And I had that which any inferior might [9] => At market-price have bought. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I must be patient: [1] => You, that have turn'd off a first so noble wife, [2] => May justly diet me. I pray you yet; [3] => Since you lack virtue, I will lose a husband; [4] => Send for your ring, I will return it home, [5] => And give me mine again. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => I have it not. ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => What ring was yours, I pray you? ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, much like [1] => The same upon your finger. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Know you this ring? this ring was his of late. ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => And this was it I gave him, being abed. ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The story then goes false, you threw it him [1] => Out of a casement. ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => I have spoke the truth. ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => My lord, I do confess the ring was hers. ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You boggle shrewdly, every feather stars you. [1] => Is this the man you speak of? ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Ay, my lord. ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Tell me, sirrah, but tell me true, I charge you, [1] => Not fearing the displeasure of your master, [2] => Which on your just proceeding I'll keep off, [3] => By him and by this woman here what know you? ) ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So please your majesty, my master hath been an [1] => honourable gentleman: tricks he hath had in him, [2] => which gentlemen have. ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Come, come, to the purpose: did he love this woman? ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Faith, sir, he did love her; but how? ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => How, I pray you? ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => He did love her, sir, as a gentleman loves a woman. ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => How is that? ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => He loved her, sir, and loved her not. ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As thou art a knave, and no knave. What an [1] => equivocal companion is this! ) ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => I am a poor man, and at your majesty's command. ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => He's a good drum, my lord, but a naughty orator. ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Do you know he promised me marriage? ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Faith, I know more than I'll speak. ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => But wilt thou not speak all thou knowest? ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PAROLLES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, so please your majesty. I did go between them, [1] => as I said; but more than that, he loved her: for [2] => indeed he was mad for her, and talked of Satan and [3] => of Limbo and of Furies and I know not what: yet I [4] => was in that credit with them at that time that I [5] => knew of their going to bed, and of other motions, [6] => as promising her marriage, and things which would [7] => derive me ill will to speak of; therefore I will not [8] => speak what I know. ) ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou hast spoken all already, unless thou canst say [1] => they are married: but thou art too fine in thy [2] => evidence; therefore stand aside. [3] => This ring, you say, was yours? ) ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Ay, my good lord. ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Where did you buy it? or who gave it you? ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => It was not given me, nor I did not buy it. ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Who lent it you? ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => It was not lent me neither. ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Where did you find it, then? ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => I found it not. ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If it were yours by none of all these ways, [1] => How could you give it him? ) ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => I never gave it him. ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This woman's an easy glove, my lord; she goes off [1] => and on at pleasure. ) ) [93] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => This ring was mine; I gave it his first wife. ) [94] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => It might be yours or hers, for aught I know. ) [95] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Take her away; I do not like her now; [1] => To prison with her: and away with him. [2] => Unless thou tell'st me where thou hadst this ring, [3] => Thou diest within this hour. ) ) [96] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => I'll never tell you. ) [97] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Take her away. ) [98] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => I'll put in bail, my liege. ) [99] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => I think thee now some common customer. ) [100] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => By Jove, if ever I knew man, 'twas you. ) [101] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Wherefore hast thou accused him all this while? ) [102] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Because he's guilty, and he is not guilty: [1] => He knows I am no maid, and he'll swear to't; [2] => I'll swear I am a maid, and he knows not. [3] => Great king, I am no strumpet, by my life; [4] => I am either maid, or else this old man's wife. ) ) [103] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => She does abuse our ears: to prison with her. ) [104] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good mother, fetch my bail. Stay, royal sir: [1] => The jeweller that owes the ring is sent for, [2] => And he shall surety me. But for this lord, [3] => Who hath abused me, as he knows himself, [4] => Though yet he never harm'd me, here I quit him: [5] => He knows himself my bed he hath defiled; [6] => And at that time he got his wife with child: [7] => Dead though she be, she feels her young one kick: [8] => So there's my riddle: one that's dead is quick: [9] => And now behold the meaning. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit Widow ) [105] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Is there no exorcist [1] => Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes? [2] => Is't real that I see? ) ) [106] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, my good lord; [1] => 'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see, [2] => The name and not the thing. ) ) [107] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Both, both. O, pardon! ) [108] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O my good lord, when I was like this maid, [1] => I found you wondrous kind. There is your ring; [2] => And, look you, here's your letter; this it says: [3] => 'When from my finger you can get this ring [4] => And are by me with child,' &c. This is done: [5] => Will you be mine, now you are doubly won? ) ) [109] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BERTRAM [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly, [1] => I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly. ) ) [110] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HELENA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If it appear not plain and prove untrue, [1] => Deadly divorce step between me and you! [2] => O my dear mother, do I see you living? ) ) [111] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LAFEU [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon: [1] => Good Tom Drum, lend me a handkercher: so, [2] => I thank thee: wait on me home, I'll make sport with thee: [3] => Let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones. ) [STAGEDIR] => To PAROLLES ) [112] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let us from point to point this story know, [1] => To make the even truth in pleasure flow. [2] => If thou be'st yet a fresh uncropped flower, [3] => Choose thou thy husband, and I'll pay thy dower; [4] => For I can guess that by thy honest aid [5] => Thou keep'st a wife herself, thyself a maid. [6] => Of that and all the progress, more or less, [7] => Resolvedly more leisure shall express: [8] => All yet seems well; and if it end so meet, [9] => The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. ) [STAGEDIR] => To DIANA ) ) ) ) [EPILOGUE] => Array ( [TITLE] => EPILOGUE [SPEECH] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => KING [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The king's a beggar, now the play is done: [1] => All is well ended, if this suit be won, [2] => That you express content; which we will pay, [3] => With strife to please you, day exceeding day: [4] => Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts; [5] => Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts. ) ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit Act ) ) ) )