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fecrets of your army, and made fuch peftiferous reports of men very nobly held, can ferve the world for no very honest use; therefore you must die. Come,' headsman, off with his head.

Par. O Lord, fir; let me live, or let me fee my death! Inter. That fhall you, and take your leave of all your friends.

So, look about you; Know you any here?
Ber. Good morrow, noble captain.

2 Lord. God bless you, captain Parolles.
1 Lord. God fave you, noble captain.

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2 Lord. Captain, what greeting will you to my lord Lafeu? I am for France.

I Lord. Good captain, will you give me a copy of that fame fonnet you writ to Diana in behalf of the count Roufillon ? an I were not a very coward, I'd compel it of you; but fare you well. [Exeunt. Inter. You are undone, captain; all but your scarf, that has a knot on't yet.

Par. Who cannot be crufh'd with a plot?

Inter. If you could find out a country where but women were that had received so much shame, you might begin an impudent nation. Fare you well, fir; I am for France too; we shall speak of you there. [Exit. Par. Yet am I thankful: if my heart were great, 'Twould burft at this: Captain, l'il be no more; But I will eat and drink, and fleep as foft As captain fhall: fimply the thing I am

Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart,
Let him fear this; for it will come to pass,
That every braggart fhall be found an afs.
Ruft, fword! cool, blufhes! and, Parolles, live
Safeft in shame! being fool'd, by foolery thrive!
There's place, and means, for every man alive.
I'll after them.

1 beadfman]-executioner.

[Exit.

SCENE

SCENE IV.

The Widow's House at Florence.

Enter Helena, Widow, and Diana.

Hel. That you may well perceive I have not wrong'd

you,

One of the greatest in the Chriftian world

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Shall be my furety; 'fore whose throne, 'tis needful,
Ere I can perfect mine intents, to kneel:
Time was, I did him a defired office,
Dear almost as his life; " which gratitude
Through flinty Tartar's bofom would
peep forth,
And anfwer, thanks: I duly am inform'd,
grace
is at Marseilles; to which place
We have convenient convoy. You must know,
I am fuppofed dead: the army "breaking,

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My husband hies him home; where, heaven aiding,
And by the leave of my good lord the king,
We'll be, before our welcome.

Wid. Gentle madam,

You never had a servant, to whose trust

Your bufinefs was more welcome.

Hel. Nor you, mistress,

Ever a friend, whofe thoughts more truly labour
To recompence your love; doubt not, but heaven
Hath brought me up to be your daughter's dower,
As it hath fated her to be my motive

And helper to a husband. But O ftrange men!
That can fuch fweet ufe make of what they hate,

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When faucy trufting of the cozen'd thoughts
Defiles the pitchy night! fo luft doth play
With what it loaths, for that which is away:
But more of this hereafter :-You, Diana,
Under my poor inftructions yet must suffer
Something in my
behalf.

Dia. Let death and honefty

Go with your impofitions, I am yours
Upon your will to fuffer.

Hel. Yer, I 'fray you,

But with the word: the time will bring on fummer,
When briars fhall have leaves as well as thorns,
And be as fweet as fharp. We must away;
Our waggon is prepar'd, and time revives us :
All's well, that ends well: ftill the fine's the crown;
"Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.

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Laf. No, no, no, your fon was mif-led with a ' foipttaffata fellow there; whofe " villainous faffron would have

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Snipt taffata fellow-coxcomb.

villainous faffron]-deep-died vices were enough to infect a whole nation. Yellow ftarch was then much in wear, and faffron used in pastry.

"I must have faffron to colour the warden pyes." WINTER'S TALE, A& ÍV, Sc. 2. Cle.

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made all the unbak'd and doughy youth of a nation in his colour your daughter-in-law had been alive at this hour; and your fon here at home, more advanced by the king, than by that " red-tail'd humble-bee I speak of.

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Count, I would, I had not known him! it was the death of the most virtuous gentlewoman, that ever nature had praise for creating: if she had partaken of my flesh, and coft me the dearest groans of a mother, I could not have owed her a more rooted love.

Laf. 'Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand fallads, ere we light on such another herb.

Clo. Indeed, fir, fhe was the fweet-marjoram of the fallet, or, rather, the herb of grace.

Laf. They are not fallet-herbs, you knave, they are, nofe-herbs.

Clo. I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, fir, I have not much skill in grass.

Laf. Whether doft thou profess thyself; a knave, or a fool?

Clo. A fool, fir, at a woman's fervice, and a knave at a man's.

Laf. Your diftinction?

Clo. I would cozen the man of his wife, and do his service.

Laf. So you were a knave at his fervice, indeed.

Clo. And I would give his wife my bauble, fir, to do her service.

Laf. I will fubfcribe for thee; thou art both knave and fool.

Clo. At your service.

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Laf. No, no, no.

Clo. Why, fir, if I cannot serve you, I can ferve as great a prince as you are.

Laf. Who's that? a Frenchman?

Clo. Faith, fir, he has an English name; but his phifnomy is more honour'd in France, than there.

Laf. What prince is that?

Clo. The black prince, fir, alias, the prince of darkness; alias, the devil.

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Laf. Hold thee, there's my purse: I give thee not this to fuggeft thee from thy mafter thou talk'st of; serve him ftill.

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Clo. I am a woodland fellow, fir, that always lov'd a great fire; and the master I speak of, ever keeps a good fire. But, for, he is the prince of the world, let his nobility remain in his court: I am for the house with the narrow gate, which I take to be too little for pomp to enter: fome, that humble themselves, may; but the many will be too chill and tender; and they'll be for the flowery way, that leads to the broad gate, and the great fire.

Laf. Go thy ways, I begin to be a-weary of thee; and I tell thee fo before, because I would not fall out with thee. Go thy ways; let my horfes be well look'd to, without any tricks.

Clo. If I put any tricks upon 'em, fir, they fhall be jades' tricks; which are their own right by the law of na

ture.

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Laf. A fhrewd knave, and an unhappy.

[Exit.

Count. So he is. My lord, that's gone, made himself much sport out of him: by his authority he remains here, which he thinks is a patent for his faucinefs; and, indeed, he has no place, but runs where he will.

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Laf.

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