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PAROLLES. Ten o'clock. Within these three hours 'twill be time |
enough to go home. What shall I say I have done? It must be a |
very plausive invention that carries it. They begin to smoke me; |
and disgraces have of late knock'd to often at my door. I find my |
tongue is too foolhardy; but my heart hath the fear of Mars |
before it, and of his creatures, not daring the reports of my |
tongue. |
SECOND LORD. This is the first truth that e'er thine own tongue was |
guilty of. |
PAROLLES. What the devil should move me to undertake the recovery |
of this drum, being not ignorant of the impossibility, and |
knowing I had no such purpose? I must give myself some hurts, and |
say I got them in exploit. Yet slight ones will not carry it. |
They will say 'Came you off with so little?' And great ones I |
dare not give. Wherefore, what's the instance? Tongue, I must put |
you into a butterwoman's mouth, and buy myself another of |
Bajazet's mule, if you prattle me into these perils. |
SECOND LORD. Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that |
he is? |
PAROLLES. I would the cutting of my garments would serve the turn, |
or the breaking of my Spanish sword. |
SECOND LORD. We cannot afford you so. |
PAROLLES. Or the baring of my beard; and to say it was in |
stratagem. |
SECOND LORD. 'Twould not do. |
PAROLLES. Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripp'd. |
SECOND LORD. Hardly serve. |
PAROLLES. Though I swore I leap'd from the window of the citadel- |
SECOND LORD. How deep? |
PAROLLES. Thirty fathom. |
SECOND LORD. Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed. |
PAROLLES. I would I had any drum of the enemy's; I would swear I |
recover'd it. |
SECOND LORD. You shall hear one anon. [Alarum within] |
PAROLLES. A drum now of the enemy's! |
SECOND LORD. Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo. |
ALL. Cargo, cargo, cargo, villianda par corbo, cargo. |
PAROLLES. O, ransom, ransom! Do not hide mine eyes. |
[They blindfold him] |
FIRST SOLDIER. Boskos thromuldo boskos. |
PAROLLES. I know you are the Muskos' regiment, |
And I shall lose my life for want of language. |
If there be here German, or Dane, Low Dutch, |
Italian, or French, let him speak to me; |
I'll discover that which shall undo the Florentine. |
FIRST SOLDIER. Boskos vauvado. I understand thee, and can speak thy |
tongue. Kerely-bonto, sir, betake thee to thy faith, for |
seventeen poniards are at thy bosom. |
PAROLLES. O! |
FIRST SOLDIER. O, pray, pray, pray! Manka revania dulche. |
SECOND LORD. Oscorbidulchos volivorco. |
FIRST SOLDIER. The General is content to spare thee yet; |
And, hoodwink'd as thou art, will lead thee on |
To gather from thee. Haply thou mayst inform |
Something to save thy life. |
PAROLLES. O, let me live, |
And all the secrets of our camp I'll show, |
Their force, their purposes. Nay, I'll speak that |
Which you will wonder at. |
FIRST SOLDIER. But wilt thou faithfully? |
PAROLLES. If I do not, damn me. |
FIRST SOLDIER. Acordo linta. |
Come on; thou art granted space. |
Exit, PAROLLES guarded. A short alarum within |
SECOND LORD. Go, tell the Count Rousillon and my brother |
We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled |
Till we do hear from them. |
SECOND SOLDIER. Captain, I will. |
SECOND LORD. 'A will betray us all unto ourselves- |
Inform on that. |
SECOND SOLDIER. So I will, sir. |
SECOND LORD. Till then I'll keep him dark and safely lock'd. |
Exeunt |
ACT IV. SCENE 2. |
Florence. The WIDOW'S house |
Enter BERTRAM and DIANA |
BERTRAM. They told me that your name was Fontibell. |
DIANA. No, my good lord, Diana. |
BERTRAM. Titled goddess; |
And worth it, with addition! But, fair soul, |
In your fine frame hath love no quality? |
If the quick fire of youth light not your mind, |
You are no maiden, but a monument; |
When you are dead, you should be such a one |
As you are now, for you are cold and stern; |
And now you should be as your mother was |
When your sweet self was got. |
DIANA. She then was honest. |
BERTRAM. So should you be. |
DIANA. No. |
My mother did but duty; such, my lord, |
As you owe to your wife. |
BERTRAM. No more o'that! |
I prithee do not strive against my vows. |
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