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BERTRAM) Well, we cannot greatly condemn our success. Some dishonour we had in the loss of that drum, but it is not to be recovered.
PAROLES It might have been recovered.
BERTRAM It might, but it is not now.
PAROLES It is to be recovered. But that the merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer, I would have that drum or another, or
‘hic
iacet’.
‘hic
iacet’.
BERTRAM Why, if you have a stomach, to’t, monsieur. If you think your mystery in stratagem can bring this instrument of honour again into his native quarter, be magnanimous in the enterprise and go on. I will grace the attempt for a worthy exploit. If you speed well in it, the Duke shall both speak of it and extend to you what further becomes his greatness, even to the utmost syllable of your worthiness.
PAROLES By the hand of a soldier, I will undertake it.
BERTRAM) But you must not now slumber in it.
PAROLES I’ll about it this evening, and I will presently pen down my dilemmas, encourage myself in my certainty, put myself into my mortal preparation; and by midnight look to hear further from me.
BERTRAM) May I be bold to acquaint his grace you are gone about it?
PAROLES I know not what the success will be, my lord, but the attempt I vow.
BERTRAM) I know thou’rt valiant, and to the possibility of thy soldiership will subscribe for thee. Farewell.
PAROLES I love not many words. Exit
SECOND LORD DUMAINE No more than a fish loves water. (To Bertram) Is not this a strange fellow, my lord, that so confidently seems to undertake this business, which he knows is not to be done? Damns himself to do, and dares better be damned than to do’t.
FIRST LORD DUMAINE (to Bertram) You do not know him, my lord, as we do. Certain it is that he will steal himself into a man’s favour, and for a week escape a great deal of discoveries, but when you find him out, you have him ever after.
BERTRAM) Why, do you think he will make no deed at all of this that so seriously he does address himself unto?
SECOND LORD DUMAINE None in the world, but return with an invention, and clap upon you two or three probable lies. But we have almost embosked him. You shall see his fall tonight; for indeed he is not for your lordship’s respect.
FIRST LORD DUMAINE (
to Bertram
) We’ll make you some sport with the fox ere we case him. He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu. When his disguise and he is parted, tell me what a sprat you shall find him, which you shall see this very night. 106
to Bertram
) We’ll make you some sport with the fox ere we case him. He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu. When his disguise and he is parted, tell me what a sprat you shall find him, which you shall see this very night. 106
SECOND LORD DUMAINE
I must go look my twigs. He shall be caught.
BERTRAM
Your brother, he shall go along with me.
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE As’t please your lordship. I’ll leave you. Exit
BERTRAM
Now will I lead you to the house, and show you 111
The lass I spoke of.
⌈FIRST⌉ LORD DUMAINE But you say she’s honest.
The lass I spoke of.
⌈FIRST⌉ LORD DUMAINE But you say she’s honest.
BERTRAM
That’s all the fault. I spoke with her but once
And found her wondrous cold, but I sent to her
By this same coxcomb that we have i’th’ wind 115
Tokens and letters, which she did re-send,
And this is all I have done. She’s a fair creature.
Will you go see her?
And found her wondrous cold, but I sent to her
By this same coxcomb that we have i’th’ wind 115
Tokens and letters, which she did re-send,
And this is all I have done. She’s a fair creature.
Will you go see her?
⌈FIRST⌉ LORD DUMAINE With all my heart, my lord.
Exeunt
3.7Enter Helen and the Widow
HELEN
If you misdoubt me that I am not she,
I know not how I shall assure you further
But I shall lose the grounds I work upon.
I know not how I shall assure you further
But I shall lose the grounds I work upon.
WIDOW
Though my estate be fall’n, I was well born,
Nothing acquainted with these businesses,
And would not put my reputation now
In any staining act.
Nothing acquainted with these businesses,
And would not put my reputation now
In any staining act.
HELEN
Nor would I wish you.
First give me trust the Count he is my husband,
And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken
Is so from word to word, and then you cannot,
By the good aid that I of you shall borrow,
Err in bestowing it.
And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken
Is so from word to word, and then you cannot,
By the good aid that I of you shall borrow,
Err in bestowing it.
WIDOW
I should believe you,
For you have showed me that which well approves
You’re great in fortune.
You’re great in fortune.
HELEN
Take this purse of gold,
And let me buy your friendly help thus far,
Which I will over-pay, and pay again
When I have found it. The Count he woos your
daughter,
Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty,
Resolved to carry her. Let her in fine consent,
As we’ll direct her how ‘tis best to bear it.
Now his important blood will naught deny
That she’ll demand. A ring the County wears,
That downward hath succeeded in his house
From son to son some four or five descents
Since the first father wore it. This ring he holds
In most rich choice; yet in his idle fire
To buy his will it would not seem too dear,
Howe’er repented after.
Which I will over-pay, and pay again
When I have found it. The Count he woos your
daughter,
Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty,
Resolved to carry her. Let her in fine consent,
As we’ll direct her how ‘tis best to bear it.
Now his important blood will naught deny
That she’ll demand. A ring the County wears,
That downward hath succeeded in his house
From son to son some four or five descents
Since the first father wore it. This ring he holds
In most rich choice; yet in his idle fire
To buy his will it would not seem too dear,
Howe’er repented after.
WIDOW
Now I see the bottom of your purpose.
HELEN
You see it lawful then. It is no more
But that your daughter ere she seems as won
Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter;
In fine, delivers me to fill the time,
Herself most chastely absent. After,
To marry her I’ll add three thousand crowns
To what is passed already.
But that your daughter ere she seems as won
Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter;
In fine, delivers me to fill the time,
Herself most chastely absent. After,
To marry her I’ll add three thousand crowns
To what is passed already.
WIDOW
I have yielded.
Instruct my daughter how she shall persever,
That time and place with this deceit so lawful
May prove coherent. Every night he comes
With musics of all sorts, and songs composed
To her unworthiness. It nothing steads us
To chide him from our eaves, for he persists
As if his life lay on’t.
That time and place with this deceit so lawful
May prove coherent. Every night he comes
With musics of all sorts, and songs composed
To her unworthiness. It nothing steads us
To chide him from our eaves, for he persists
As if his life lay on’t.
HELEN
Why then tonight
Let us essay our plot, which if it speed
Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed
And lawful meaning in a wicked act,
Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact.
But let’s about it. Exeunt
4.1Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed
And lawful meaning in a wicked act,
Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact.
But let’s about it. Exeunt
Enter
⌈
Second Lord Dumaine
⌉
, with five or six other soldiers, in ambush
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE He can come no other way but by this hedge corner. When you sally upon him, speak what terrible language you will. Though you understand it not yourselves, no matter, for we must not seem to understand him, unless some one among us, whom we must produce for an interpreter. 6
INTERPRETER Good captain, let me be th’interpreter.
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE Art not acquainted with him? Knows he not thy voice?
INTERPRETER No, sir, I warrant you.
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again?
INTERPRETER E’en such as you speak to me.
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE He must think us some band of strangers i’th’ adversary’s entertainment. Now he hath a smack of all neighbouring languages, therefore we must every one be a man of his own fancy. Not to know what we speak one to another, so we seem to know, is to know straight our purpose: choughs’ language, gabble enough and good enough. As for you, interpreter, you must seem very politic. But couch, ho! Here he comes, to beguile two hours in a sleep, and then to return and swear the lies he forges.
They hide. Enter Paroles. ⌈
Clock strikes
⌉
PAROLES 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 knocked too 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. 31
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE (
aside
) This is the first truth that e’er thine own tongue was guilty of.
aside
) This is the first truth that e’er thine own tongue was guilty of.
PAROLES 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 butter-woman’s mouth, and buy myself another of Bajazet’s mute, if you prattle me into these perils.
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE (
aside
) Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?
aside
) Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?
PAROLES I would the cutting of my garments would serve the turn, or the breaking of my Spanish sword.
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE (
aside
) We cannot afford you so.
aside
) We cannot afford you so.
PAROLES Or the baring of my beard, and to say it was in stratagem.
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE (
aside
) ’Twould not do.
aside
) ’Twould not do.
PAROLES Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped.
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE
(aside)
Hardly serve.
(aside)
Hardly serve.
PAROLES Though I swore I leapt from the window of the citadel? 55 ⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE (
aside
) How deep?
aside
) How deep?
PAROLES Thirty fathom.
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE (
aside
) Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed.
aside
) Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed.
PAROLES I would I had any drum of the enemy’s. I would swear I recovered it.
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE (
aside
) You shall hear one anon.
aside
) You shall hear one anon.
PAROLES A drum now of the enemy’s—
Alarum within
. ⌈
The ambush rushes forth
⌉
Alarum within
. ⌈
The ambush rushes forth
⌉
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE
Throca movousus, cargo, cargo
,
cargo
.
Throca movousus, cargo, cargo
,
cargo
.
⌈SOLDIERS⌉ (
severally
)
Cargo, cargo, cargo
,
villianda par corbo
,
cargo
.
severally
)
Cargo, cargo, cargo
,
villianda par corbo
,
cargo
.
⌈
They seize and blindfold him
⌉
PAROLES
O ransom, ransom, do not hide mine eyes.
INTERPRETER
Boskos thromuldo boskos
.
Boskos thromuldo boskos
.
PAROLES
I know you are the Moscows 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.
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.
INTERPRETER
Boskos vauvado.
—
Boskos vauvado.
—
I understand thee, and can speak thy tongue.—
Kerelybonto.
—Sir,
Betake thee to thy faith, for seventeen poniards
Are at thy bosom.
Kerelybonto.
—Sir,
Betake thee to thy faith, for seventeen poniards
Are at thy bosom.
PAROLES
O!
INTERPRETER
O pray, pray, pray!—
Manka revania dulche?
80
80
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE
Oscorbidulchos volivorco
.
.
INTERPRETER
The general is content to spare thee yet,
And, hoodwinked as thou art, will lead thee on
To gather from thee. Haply thou mayst inform
Something to save thy life.
And, hoodwinked as thou art, will lead thee on
To gather from thee. Haply thou mayst inform
Something to save thy life.
PAROLES
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.
Their force, their purposes;
nay, I’ll speak that
Which you will wonder at.
INTERPRETER
But wilt thou faithfully?
PAROLES
If I do not, damn me.
INTERPRETER
Acordo linta.
—
—
Come on, thou art granted space. 90
Exeunt all but
⌈
Second⌉ Lord Dumaine and a Soldier
A short alarum within
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE
Go tell the Count Roussillon and my brother
We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him
muffled
Till we do hear from them.
We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him
muffled
Till we do hear from them.
SOLDIER
Captain, I will.
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE
A will betray us all unto ourselves.
Inform on that.
Inform on that.
SOLDIER
So I will, sir.
⌈SECOND⌉ LORD DUMAINE
Till then I’ll keep him dark and safely locked.
Exeunt severally
4.2Enter Bertram and the maid called Diana
BERTRAM
They told me that your name was Fontibel.
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.
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.
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