Chapter XIV: Act II: Actus Secundus. Ff (Sæcundus F2)

Enter ... attended....] Capell. Enter ... warre: Count Rosse, and
Parolles. Florish Cornets. Ff.

divers] two Hanmer. om. Steevens.

[1, 2] _lords ... lords_] Ff. _lord ... lord_ Hanmer. See note (VI).

[2] _and you_] _you_ Pope.

[3] _both gain, all_] Ff. _both gain,_ Pope, _both gain, well!_
Hanmer. _both gain all,_ Johnson. _back again,_ Jackson conj. _both
gain, All_ Anon. conj. See note (VII).

[5] First Lord] i. Lord. Rowe. Lord G. Ff.

_'Tis_] Ff. _It is_ Steevens.

[9] _he owes_] _it owns_ Pope. _he owns_ Long MS.

[12] _higher_] _hired_ Coleridge conj.

[13] _bated_] _bastards_ Hanmer. _'bated ones_ Capell conj.

[15, 16] _wed it; when ... shrinks,_] Pope, _wed it, when ...
shrinkes:_ F1 F2 F3. _wed it, when ... shrinks;_ F4.

[16] _questant_] F1. _question_ F2 F3 F4. _questor_ Collier MS.

[18] Sec. Lord.] 2. Lord Rowe (ed. 2). L. G. Ff. 1. Lord Rowe (ed.
1).

[22] Both.] Rowe. Bo. Ff.

[23] _Come ... me_] _Come ... me_ [to Bert.] Pope. om. Hanmer. _Come
... me_ [to Attendants]. Theobald.

Exit.] Pope. om. Ff. Retires to a Couch; Attendants leading him.
Capell. See note (VIII).

[24, 34, 37] First Lord.] 1. Lord. Rowe. 1. Lo. G. Ff.

[25] _fault, the spark._] F3 F4. _fault the spark._ F1 F2. _fault, the
spark_-- Rowe. _fault; the spark_-- Theobald.]

[25, 35, 38] Sec. Lord.] 2. Lord. Rowe. 2. Lo. E. Ff.

[27] _a coil_] _acoyle_ F2.

[27, 28] _with 'Too young'_] Pope. _with, Too young_ Ff. _with; 'Too
young'_ Capell.

[29] _An ... to't, boy, ... bravely_] Theobald. _And ... too't boy,
Steale away bravely_ F1 F2 F3. _And ... to it ..._ F4. _And thy
mind--stand to it, boy; steal away bravely._ Pope.

[30] _I shall stay_] _I stay_ Rowe. _Shall I stay_ Pope.

[36] _I ... our ... a tortured body_] _I ... this our ... A tortur'd
body_ Hanmer. _I ... our ... the parting of a tortured body_ Johnson
conj. _I ... our ... a torture_ Capell. _I ... our ... as a tortured
body_ S. Walker conj., reading lines 34-37 _Commit ... captain._ as
three lines, ending _accessary ... parting ... captain._

_to you_] _t' ye_ S. Walker conj.

[37] _captain_] _worthy captain_ Hanmer.

[39] _yours_] _yours_ [measuring swords with them] Capell.

[40. _a word_] _in a word_ Long MS.

[41, 42] _with his cicatrice, an emblem_] Theobald. _his cicatrice,
with an emblem_ Ff (_sicatrice_ F1). _he's cicatriced with an emblem_
Rann conj.

[44] _for_] F1 F2. _of_ F3 F4.

[45] First Lord.] 1. Lord. Rowe. Lo. G. F1 F2. L.G. F3 F4. 2. Lord.
Warburton. Both. Edd. conj.

[46] _novices! what will ye do?_] _novices, what will ye do?_ Ff
(_doe_ F1 F2). See note (IX).

_ye_] _you_ Hanmer.

[47] _Stay: the king._] F2 F3 F4. _Stay the king._ F1. _Stay; the
king--_ Pope. _Stay with the king_ Grant White (Collier conj.).

Re-enter King.] Edd. See note (VIII).

[51] _there do muster_] _there, to muster_ Warburton. _they do muster
with the_ Johnson conj. _there do master_ Heath conj. _they do master_
Collier conj. _there demonstrate_ Anon. conj.

[51, 52] _there ... gait_] _do muster your true gaité_ Becket conj.
om. Collier MS.

_true gait_] _together_ Hanmer.

[52] _eat_] _dress_ Hanmer. _they eat_ Singer conj.

_move_] F1. _more_ F2 F3 F4.

[57] Exeunt B. and P.] Exeunt. Ff.

[58] SCENE II. Pope.

Enter L.] Enter the King and L. Pope. Enter L. hastily. Capell.

Kneeling] Johnson, om. Ff.]

[59] _I'll fee_] Theobald. _Ile see_ Ff. _I'll sue_ Staunton. _I'll
free_ Anon. ap. Halliwell conj. _I beseech_ Keightley conj.

[59-62] Capell ends the lines _man ... I would you ... mercy; and ...
up._

[60] _has_] F1. _hath_ F2 F3 F4.

_brought_] Ff. _bought_ Theobald.

[63, 64] _I would ... for't_] _You would ... for't?_ Anon. conj.

[64-70. Capell ends the lines _across: ... cur'd ... eat ... will ...
fox ... medicine._

[65] _across_] _a cross_ F4.

[69] _my noble grapes_] omitted by Hanmer, ending the line at _fox.
aye, noble grapes_ Collier MS.

[70] _seen a medicine_] _seen A medicine_ Anon. conj.

_medicine_] _med'cin_ (in italics) Theobald. _medecin_ Steevens.

[74] _araise_] _raise_ Pope. _upraise_ Collier MS.

_Pepin_] Theobald. _Pippen_ Ff.

[75] _To give_] _And give_ Capell.

_in's_] _in his_ Capell. Malone supposes a line to be lost after
this.

[76] _And write_] _To write_ Hanmer. _And cause him write_ Singer
conj.

_to her a love-line_] _a love-line to her_ Hanmer.

[77] _Doctor She_] Grant White. _doctor she_ Ff. _Doctor-she_
Theobald.

[79] _convey_] _convay_ F1. _convoy_ F2 F3 F4.

[83] _Than ... weakness_] _Than_ (_blame my weakness_) _I dare_--
Becket conj.

_blame_] _blaze_ Theobald conj.

[89] Exit] Theobald. om. Ff.

[90] _nothing_] _nothings_ Hanmer.

Re-enter L. with H.] Enter Hellen. Ff (after line 91 _come your
ways_).

[91] Laf. _Nay, ... ways_] Laf. [Returns.] _Nay ... ways_ [Bringing in
Helena. Theobald.

[95] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.

[96] Exit] Ff. Exit. Attendants retire. Capell. See note (VIII).

[97] SCENE III.] Pope.

[98-100] _Ay ... him_] As in Ff. As three lines, ending _was ... found
... him._ Hanmer. As two, ending _father ... him._ Capell.

[99] _Gerard de Narbon_] _Gerardo of Narbona_ Anon. conj.

[100] _In_] _One in_ S. Walker conj.

[101] _praises_] _praise_ Theobald.

[102] _On's_] _On his_ Capell.

[103] _receipts_] Rowe. _receits_ Ff.

[105] _the_] _th'_ Ff.

[107] _two, more dear_] Steevens. _two: dear_ Ff.

[109, 110] _honour ... power_] _power ...honour_ Rann (Johnson
conj.).

[116] _ransom_] _answer_ Steevens (1778).

[117] _inaidible_] _inaydible_ F1 F2. _unaydible_ F3 F4. _unaidable_
Rowe. _inaidable_ Capell.

_estate_] _state_ S. Walker conj.

_I say_] om. Pope.

[118] _stain_] _strain_ Anon. conj.

[124] _mine_] F1. _my_ F2 F3 F4.

[139] _miracles ... greatest_] _miracles ... great'st_ Ff. _mir'cles
... greatest_ Theobald. Johnson supposes a line lost after this.

[142] _fits_] Collier (Theobald conj.). _shifts_ Ff. _sits_ Pope. See
note (X).

[153] _impostor_] F3 F4. _impostrue_ F1 F2. _imposture_ Capell.

[158] _The great'st grace lending_] Capell. _The greatest grace
lending_ Ff. _The Greatest lending_ Rowe.

[162] _his_] Rowe. _her_ Ff.

[169, 170] _shame ... ballads: my maidens name_] Ff. _shame; ...
ballads my maiden's name,_ Theobald conj. _shame; ... ballads: my
maiden's name_ Id. conj. _shame, ... ballads my maiden name_ Johnson
conj.

[171] _Sear'd otherwise, ne worse of ...]_ F1. _Seard otherwise, no
worse of ..._ F2 F3 F4. _Sear'd otherwise no worse of worst: extended_
Theobald conj. _Sear'd, otherwise no worse of worst extended;_ Id.
conj. _Sear'd: otherwise, the worst of ..._ Hanmer. _Sear'd otherwise,
to worst of ..._ Johnson conj. _Fear otherwise to worst of ..._ Id.
conj. _Sear'd; otherwise the worst to ..._ Id. conj. _Fear, otherwise,
to worst of worse_ Heath conj. _Sear'd otherwise; or, worse to ..._
Capell. _Seard otherwise, as worse of ..._ Long MS. _Fear'd o' the
wise no worse if ..._ Mason conj. _Sear'd otherwise; nay, worst of
..._ Malone conj. _Scar'd otherwise; the worst of ..._ Id. conj.
_Sear'd otherwise; the worst of ..._ Rann. _Sear'd otherwise; nay,
worse of ..._ Singer.

_ne ... extended_] _and worse, if worse, attended_ Becket conj. _and,
worse of worst expended_ Staunton conj. _on worst of racks extended_
Anon. conj. _nay, worse, if worse, extended_ Anon. conj.

[173, 174] _speak His powerful sound_] _speak, It powerful sounds_
Hanmer. _speak: His power full sounds_ Warburton. _O powerful sound_
Becket conj. (transposing lines 173, 174.)

[174] _within_] F1. _wherein_ F2 F3 F4.

[179] _courage_] _courage, virtue_ Theobald. _courage, honour_ Collier
(Collier MS.).

[180] _and prime_] _and pride_ Tyrwhitt conj. _in prime_ Rann (Mason
conj.).

[190] _heaven_] Theobald (Thirlby conj.). _helpe_ F1 F2. _help_ F3
F4.

[196] _image_] _impage_ Warburton.

[201] _make the_] _make thee_ Anon. conj.

_thy_] F1. _thine_ F2 F3 F4.

[208] _thy deed_] _thy meed_ Anon. conj.

[Flourish. Exeunt.] Florish. Exit. F1. Exeunt. F2 F3 F4.

SCENE II. _Rousillon._ _The_ COUNT'S _palace_.

_Enter_ COUNTESS _and_ CLOWN.

_Count._ Come on, sir; I shall now put you to the height
of your breeding.

_Clo._ I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught: I
know my business is but to the court.

COUNT. To the court! why, what place make you special, 5
when you put off that with such contempt? But to the court!

_Clo._ Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any manners,
he may easily put it off at court: he that cannot make
a leg, put off's cap, kiss his hand, and say nothing, has
neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap; and, indeed, such a fellow, 10
to say precisely, were not for the court; but for me, I have
an answer will serve all men.

_Count._ Marry, that's a bountiful answer that fits all
questions.

_Clo._ It is like a barber's chair, that fits all buttocks, the 15
pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn-buttock, or any
buttock.

_Count._ Will your answer serve fit to all questions?

_Clo._ As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney,
as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as Tib's rush 20
for Tom's forefinger, as a pancake for Shrove Tuesday, a
morris for May-day, as the nail to his hole, the cuckold to his
horn, as a scolding quean to a wrangling knave, as the nun's
lip to the friar's mouth, nay, as the pudding to his skin.

_Count._ Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for 25
all questions?

_Clo._ From below your duke to beneath your constable,
it will fit any question.

_Count._ It must be an answer of most monstrous size
that must fit all demands. 30

_Clo._ But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned
should speak truth of it: here it is, and all that belongs to't.
Ask me if I am a courtier: it shall do you no harm to learn.

_Count._ To be young again, if we could: I will be a
fool in question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. 35
I pray you, sir, are you a courtier?

_Clo._ O Lord, sir! There's a simple putting off. More,
more, a hundred of them.

_Count._ Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves you.

_Clo._ O Lord, sir! Thick, thick, spare not me. 40

_Count._ I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely meat.

_Clo._ O Lord, sir! Nay, put me to't, I warrant you.

_Count._ You were lately whipped, sir, as I think.

_Clo._ O Lord, sir! spare not me.

_Count._ Do you cry, 'O Lord, sir!' at your whipping, 45
and 'spare not me'? Indeed your 'O Lord, sir!' is very
sequent to your whipping: you would answer very well to
a whipping, if you were but bound to't.

_Clo._ I ne'er had worse luck in my life in my 'O Lord,
sir!' I see things may serve long, but not serve ever. 50

_Count._ I play the noble housewife with the time,
To entertain 't so merrily with a fool.

_Clo._ O Lord, sir! why, there't serves well again.

_Count._ An end, sir; to your business. Give Helen this,
And urge her to a present answer back: 55
Commend me to my kinsmen and my son:
This is not much.

_Clo._ Not much commendation to them.

_Count._ Not much employment for you: you understand
me? 60

_Clo._ Most fruitfully: I am there before my legs.

_Count._ Haste you again. [_Exeunt severally._

LINENOTES:

SCENE II.] SCENE IV. Pope.

[1. Count.] Lady. Ff (and Lady. or La. throughout the scene).

[5] _To the court_] _But to the court_ Theobald.

[6] _contempt? ... court!_] Pope. _contempt, ... Court?_ Ff.

[11] _court; but for me,_] Rowe. _court, but for me,_ Ff. _court, but
for me:_ Pope.

[18] _serve fit_] _sir, fit_ Anon. conj. _fit_ Anon. conj.

[20, 21] _Tib's ... Tom's_] _Tom's ... Tib's_ Hawkins conj.

[36] _I pray ..._] F3. La. _I pray ..._ F1 F2. Lady. _I pray ..._ F4.

[50] _but_] _and_ Hanmer.

[51, 52] Printed as prose in Ff. As verse first by Knight.

[51] _housewife_] _huswife_ Ff.

[52] _entertain 't_] Edd. (S. Walker conj.). _entertain it_ Ff.

[54] _An end, sir; to_] Rowe (ed. 2). _And end sir to_ F1 F2. _And
end; sir to_ F3 F4.

[57] _is not_] _isn't_ Hanmer.

[62] [Exeunt severally] Capell. Exeunt. Ff.

SCENE III. _Paris._ _The_ KING'S _palace_.

_Enter_ BERTRAM, LAFEU, _and_ PAROLLES.

_Laf._ They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical
persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural
and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles
of terrors; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge,
when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. 5

_Par._ Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that
hath shot out in our latter times.

_Ber._ And so 'tis.

_Laf._ To be relinquished of the artists,--

_Par._ So I say; both of Galen and Paracelsus. 10

_Laf._ Of all the learned and authentic fellows,--

_Par._ Right; so I say.

_Laf._ That gave him out incurable,--

_Par._ Why, there 'tis; so say I too.

_Laf._ Not to be helped,-- 15

_Par._ Right; as 'twere, a man assured of a--

_Laf._ Uncertain life, and sure death.

_Par._ Just, you say well; so would I have said.

_Laf._ I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world.

_Par._ It is, indeed: if you will have it in showing, you 20
shall read it in--what do ye call there?

_Laf._ A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor.

_Par._ That's it; I would have said the very same.

_Laf._ Why, your dolphin is not lustier: 'fore me, I
speak in respect-- 25

_Par._ Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is the brief
and the tedious of it; and he's of a most facinerious spirit
that will not acknowledge it to be the--

_Laf._ Very hand of heaven.

_Par._ Ay, so I say. 30

_Laf._ In a most weak--

_Par._ And debile minister, great power, great transcendence:
which should, indeed, give us a further use to be
made than alone the recovery of the king, as to be--

_Laf._ Generally thankful. 35

_Par._ I would have said it; you say well. Here comes
the king.

_Enter_ KING, HELENA, _and_ Attendants.

_Laf._ Lustig, as the Dutchman says: I'll like a maid
the better, whilst I have a tooth in my head: why, he's
able to lead her a coranto. 40

_Par._ Mort du vinaigre! is not this Helen?

_Laf._ 'Fore God, I think so.

_King._ Go, call before me all the lords in court.
Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side;
And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense 45
Thou hast repeal'd, a second time receive
The confirmation of my promised gift,
Which but attends thy naming.

_Enter three or four_ Lords.

Fair maid, send forth thine eye: this youthful parcel
Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing, 50
O'er whom both sovereign power and father's voice
I have to use: thy frank election make;
Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake.

_Hel._ To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress
Fall, when Love please! marry, to each, but one! 55

_Laf._ I'd give bay Curtal and his furniture,
My mouth no more were broken than these boys',
And writ as little beard.

_King._ Peruse them well:
Not one of those but had a noble father.

_Hel._ Gentlemen, 60
Heaven hath through me restored the king to health.

_All._ We understand it, and thank heaven for you.

_Hel._ I am a simple maid; and therein wealthiest,
That I protest I simply am a maid.
Please it your majesty, I have done already: 65
The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me,
'We blush that thou shouldst choose; but, be refused,
Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever;
We'll ne'er come there again.'

_King._ Make choice; and, see,
Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me. 70

_Hel._ Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly;
And to imperial Love, that god most high,
Do my sighs stream. Sir, will you hear my suit?

_First Lord._ And grant it.

_Hel._ Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.

_Laf._ I had rather be in this choice than throw 75
Ames-ace for my life.

_Hel._ The honour, sir, that flames in your fair eyes,
Before I speak, too threateningly replies:
Love make your fortunes twenty times above
Her that so wishes and her humble love! 80

_Sec. Lord._ No better, if you please.

_Hel._ My wish receive,
Which great Love grant! and so, I take my leave.

_Laf._ Do all they deny her? An they were sons of
mine, I'd have them whipped; or I would send them to
the Turk, to make eunuchs of. 85

_Hel._ Be not afraid that I your hand should take;
I'll never do you wrong for your own sake:
Blessing upon your vows! and in your bed
Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed!

_Laf._ These boys are boys of ice, they'll none have 90
her: sure, they are bastards to the English; the French
ne'er got 'em.

_Hel._ You are too young, too happy, and too good,
To make yourself a son out of my blood.

_Fourth Lord._ Fair one, I think not so. 95

_Laf._ There's one grape yet; I am sure thy father
drunk wine: but if thou be'st not an ass, I am a youth of
fourteen; I have known thee already.

_Hel._ [_To Bertram_] I dare not say I take you; but I give
Me and my service, ever whilst I live, 100
Into your guiding power. This is the man.

_King._ Why, then, young Bertram, take her; she's thy wife.

_Ber._ My wife, my liege! I shall beseech your highness,
In such a business give me leave to use
The help of mine own eyes.

_King._ Know'st thou not, Bertram, 105
What she has done for me?

_Ber._ Yes, my good lord;
But never hope to know why I should marry her.

_King._ Thou know'st she has raised me from my sickly bed.

_Ber._ But follows it, my lord, to bring me down
Must answer for your raising? I know her well: 110
She had her breeding at my father's charge.
A poor physician's daughter my wife! Disdain
Rather corrupt me ever!

_King._ 'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the which
I can build up. Strange is it, that our bloods, 115
Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together,
Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off
In differences so mighty. If she be
All that is virtuous, save what thou dislikest,
A poor physician's daughter, thou dislikest 120
Of virtue for the name: but do not so:
From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignified by the doer's deed:
Where great additions swell's, and virtue none,
It is a dropsied honour. Good alone 125
Is good without a name. Vileness is so:
The property by what it is should go,
Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair;
In these to nature she's immediate heir,
And these breed honour: that is honour's scorn, 130
Which challenges itself as honour's born,
And is not like the sire: honours thrive,
When rather from our acts we them derive
Than our foregoers: the mere word's a slave
Debosh'd on every tomb, on every grave 135
A lying trophy; and as oft is dumb
Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb
Of honour'd bones indeed. What should be said?
If thou canst like this creature as a maid,
I can create the rest: virtue and she 140
Is her own dower; honour and wealth from me.

_Ber._ I cannot love her, nor will strive to do't.

_King._ Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou shouldst strive to
choose.

_Hel._ That you are well restored, my lord, I'm glad:
Let the rest go. 145

_King._ My honour's at the stake; which to defeat,
I must produce my power. Here, take her hand,
Proud scornful boy, unworthy this good gift;
That dost in vile misprision shackle up
My love and her desert; that canst not dream, 150
We, poising us in her defective scale,
Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know,
It is in us to plant thine honour where
We please to have it grow. Check thy contempt:
Obey our will, which travails in thy good: 155
Believe not thy disdain, but presently
Do thine own fortunes that obedient right
Which both thy duty owes and our power claims;
Or I will throw thee from my care for ever
Into the staggers and the careless lapse 160
Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate
Loosing upon thee, in the name of justice,
Without all terms of pity. Speak; thine answer.

_Ber._ Pardon, my gracious lord; for I submit
My fancy to your eyes: when I consider 165
What great creation and what dole of honour
Flies where you bid it, I find that she, which late
Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now
The praised of the king; who, so ennobled,
Is as 't were born so.

_King._ Take her by the hand, 170
And tell her she is thine: to whom I promise
A counterpoise; if not to thy estate,
A balance more replete.

_Ber._ I take her hand.

_King._ Good fortune and the favour of the king
Smile upon this contract; whose ceremony 175
Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief,
And be perform'd to-night: the solemn feast
Shall more attend upon the coming space,
Expecting absent friends. As thou lovest her,
Thy love's to me religious; else, does err. 180
[_Exeunt all but Lafeu and Parolles._

_Laf._ Do you hear, monsieur? a word with you.

_Par._ Your pleasure, sir?

_Laf._ Your lord and master did well to make his recantation.

_Par._ Recantation! My lord! my master! 185

_Laf._ Ay; is it not a language I speak?

_Par._ A most harsh one, and not to be understood
without bloody succeeding. My master!

_Laf._ Are you companion to the Count Rousillon?

_Par._ To any count, to all counts, to what is man. 190

_Laf._ To what is count's man: count's master is of
another style.

_Par._ You are too old, sir; let it satisfy you, you are
too old.

_Laf._ I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which 195
title age cannot bring thee.

_Par._ What I dare too well do, I dare not do.

_Laf._ I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty
wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy travel;
it might pass: yet the scarfs and the bannerets about thee 200
did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a vessel of
too great a burthen. I have now found thee; when I lose
thee again, I care not: yet art thou good for nothing but
taking up; and that thou'rt scarce worth.

_Par._ Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon 205
thee,--

_Laf._ Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou
hasten thy trial; which if--Lord have mercy on thee for
a hen! So, my good window of lattice, fare thee well:
thy casement I need not open, for I look through thee. 210
Give me thy hand.

_Par._ My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.

_Laf._ Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of it.

_Par._ I have not, my lord, deserved it.

_Laf._ Yes, good faith, every dram of it; and I will not 215
bate thee a scruple.

_Par._ Well, I shall be wiser.

_Laf._ Ev'n as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at
a smack o' the contrary. If ever thou be'st bound in thy
scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of 220
thy bondage. I have a desire to hold my acquaintance
with thee, or rather my knowledge, that I may say in the
default, he is a man I know.

_Par._ My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation.

_Laf._ I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my 225
poor doing eternal: for doing I am past; as I will by thee,
in what motion age will give me leave. [_Exit._

_Par._ Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off
me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord! Well, I must be patient;
there is no fettering of authority. I'll beat him, by 230
my life, if I can meet him with any convenience, an he were
double and double a lord. I'll have no more pity of his
age than I would have of--I'll beat him, an if I could but
meet him again.

_Re-enter_ LAFEU.

_Laf._ Sirrah, your lord and master's married; there's 235
news for you: you have a new mistress.

_Par._ I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make
some reservation of your wrongs: he is my good lord:
whom I serve above is my master.

_Laf._ Who? God? 240

_Par._ Ay, sir.

_Laf._ The devil it is that's thy master. Why dost thou
garter up thy arms o' this fashion? dost make hose of thy
sleeves? do other servants so? Thou wert best set thy lower
part where thy nose stands. By mine honour, if I were but 245
two hours younger, I'd beat thee: methinks't, thou art a
general offence, and every man should beat thee: I think
thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee.

_Par._ This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord.

_Laf._ Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a 250
kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a vagabond, and no
true traveller: you are more saucy with lords and honourable
personages than the commission of your birth and
virtue gives you heraldry. You are not worth another
word, else I'd call you knave. I leave you. [_Exit._ 255

_Par._ Good, very good; it is so then: good, very
good; let it be concealed awhile.

_Re-enter_ BERTRAM.

_Ber._ Undone, and forfeited to cares for ever!

_Par._ What's the matter, sweet-heart?

_Ber._ Although before the solemn priest I have sworn, 260
I will not bed her.

_Par._ What, what, sweet-heart?

_Ber._ O my Parolles, they have married me!
I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her.

_Par._ France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits 265
The tread of a man's foot: to the wars!

_Ber._ There's letters from my mother: what the import
is, I know not yet.

_Par._ Ay, that would be known. To the wars, my
boy, to the wars!

He wears his honour in a box unseen, 270
That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home.
Spending his manly marrow in her arms,
Which should sustain the bound and high curvet
Of Mars's fiery steed. To other regions
France is a stable; we that dwell in't jades; 275
Therefore, to the war!

_Ber._ It shall be so: I'll send her to my house,
Acquaint my mother with my hate to her,
And wherefore I am fled; write to the king
That which I durst not speak: his present gift 280
Shall furnish me to those Italian fields,
Where noble fellows strike: war is no strife
To the dark house and the detested wife.

_Par._ Will this capriccio hold in thee, art sure?

_Ber._ Go with me to my chamber, and advise me. 285
I'll send her straight away: to-morrow
I'll to the wars, she to her single sorrow.

_Par._ Why, these balls bound; there's noise in it. 'Tis hard:
A young man married is a man that's marr'd:
Therefore away, and leave her bravely; go: 290
The king has done you wrong: but, hush, 'tis so. [_Exeunt._

LINENOTES:

SCENE III.] SCENE V. Pope.

[1] Laf.] Ol. Laf. Ff (and throughout the scene).

_and_] _yet_ Anon. apud Halliwell.

[2] _persons_] _person_ F3 F4. _reasons_ Long MS.

_familiar, things_] Theobald. _familiar things_ Ff. _familiar things,_
Steevens.

[6] Par.] Ber. S. Walker conj.

[7] _latter_] _later_ Hanmer.

[8] Ber.] Par. S. Walker conj.

[10, 11] Par. _So ... Paracelsus._ Laf. _Of all ..._] Par. _So I say._
Laf. _Both ... Paracelsus, of all ..._ Johnson conj. Par. _So I say._
Laf. _Both ... Paracelsus._ Par. _So I say._ Laf. _Of all ..._ Edd.
conj.

[11] Laf.] Ol. Laf. F1 F3 F4. Ol. Fal. F2.

[16] _a--_] _an--_ Rowe.

[20] _in showing_] _in shewing_ F1 F2. _in the shewing_ F3 F4. _a
showing_ Rann (Tyrwhitt conj.).

[23] _it; ... said the_] _it, ... said the_ F4. _it, ... said, the_ F1
F2 F3. _it, ... said; the_ Capell.

[24] _dolphin_] _Dauphin_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).

_'fore_] Capell. _fore_ F1. _for_ F2 F3 F4.

[27] _facinerious_] Ff. _facinorous_ Steevens.

[31-34] Laf. _In a most weak--_ Par. _And ... king, as to be_--] Laf.
_In a most ... king._ Par. _As to be_-- Rann (Johnson conj.). Laf. _In
... weak_-- Par. _Ay, so I say._ Laf. _And debile ... king, as to be_
[after a pause] _generally thankful_ Edd. conj.

[33] _give us a further_] _give us a further_ Warburton.

[34] _alone_] F1. _only_ F2 F3 F4.

[36] SCENE VI. Pope.

_say_] F1. _said_ F2 F3 F4

[37] Enter ...] Ff (after line 35).

[38] _Lustig_] _Lustique_ F1 F2. _Lustick_ F3 F4. _Lustigh_ Capell.

[39] _whilst_] F1. _while_ F2 F3 F4.

[40] _coranto_] _carranto_ Ff. _corranto_ Rowe.

[41] _Mort du vinaigre_] _Mor du vinager_ Ff. _Mort du vainqueur_
Collier.

[43] Exeunt some attendants. Capell.

[51] _sovereign_] _sovereign's_ Collier MS.

[54, 55] _mistress Fall,_] Rowe. _mistress; Fall_ Ff.

[54] [coming from her Seat, and addressing herself to the Lords.
Capell.

[55] _marry ... one!_] Par. _Marry ... one!_ Tyrwhitt conj.

[58] _writ_] _with_ Collier MS.

[60] [She addresses her to a Lord. Ff.

[60, 61] _Gentlemen ... health_] Arranged as in Capell. Printed as
prose in Ff; as two lines by Theobald, ending _restor'd ... health._

[67] _choose; but, be refused,_] Rann. _choose, but be refused;_ Ff.
_chuse; but being refused_ Hanmer.

[67-69] _We blush ... again_] Kin. _We blush ... again_ F3 F4.

[68] _Let the_] _Let not_ F3 F4.

_death_] _dearth_ Warburton conj.

_cheek_] _cheeks_ F3 F4.

[69] King.] om. F3 F4.

[72] _imperial Love_] _imperiall loue_ F1. _imperiall Iove_ F2.
_impartiall Jove_ F3. _impartial Jove_ F4. _impartial love_
Warburton.

[73] _stream_] _steam_ Collier MS.

[74] _is mute_] _are mute_ Pope.

[75] Laf.] Par. Theobald conj.

[76] _Ames-ace_] F1 _A deaus-ace_ F2 F3 F4.

[78] _threateningly_] _threatingly_ F2.

[82] _Love_ F1 F2. _Jove_ F3 F4.

[83] _all they_] _they all_ Capell conj.

_An_] Capell. _And_ Ff. If Pope.

[84, 85] _to the_] _to'th_ Ff.

[89] _fairer_] _fair_ Rann. _ever_] F1. _ere_ F2 F3 F4.

[90, 91] _have her_] _haue heere_ F1. _of her_ Rowe.

[90-92] S. Walker would read as three lines of verse, ending _her ...
English ... got 'em._

[92] _'em_] _them_ Capell.

[93] Hel.] F3 F2. La. F1 F2.

[96, 98] Laf. _There's ... already_] Laf. _There's ... yet,_-- Par. _I
am sure ... wine.--_ Laf. _But ... already_ Theobald.

[96] _thy_] F1. _my_ F2 F3 F4.

[99] [To Bertram] Rowe.

[105, 107] _Know'st thou not ... her_] Arranged as in Pope; printed as
prose in Ff.

[106] _has_] _h'as_ F1 F2. _hath_ F3 F4.

[112] _my wife! Disdain Rather_] _she my wife! Disdain rather_ Hanmer.

[114] _only title_] _But title_ Hanmer. _only lack of title_ S. Walker
conj.

[116] _Of colour_] _Alike of colour_ Capell.

[117] _stand_] Rowe (ed. 2). _stands_ Ff.

[118] _so_] F1. _of_ F2 F3 F4. om. Long MS.

[121] _the name_] _a name_ Collier conj.

[122] _place when_] Theobald (Thirlby conj). _place, whence_ Ff.

[123] _by the_] _by th'_ Ff.

[124] _additions swell's_] F1. _addition swell's_ F2. _addition
swells_ F3 F4. _additions swell_ Malone.

[125] _honour._] _honour,_ Ff.

[125, 126] _Good ... so:_] _Good a lone,_ _Is good without a name?
Vilenesse is so:_ F1 F2. _Good alone, ... name? Vileness is so:_ F3.
_Good alone, ... name. Vileness is so:_ F4. _good ... name, in't self
is so:_ Hanmer. _good alone Is good; and, with a name, vileness is
so:_ Warburton. _good alone Is good, without a name vileness is so:_
Johnson. _Virtue alone Is good without a name; Helen is so:_ Johnson
conj. _good alone Is good, without a name; in vileness is so_ Steevens
conj. _good alone Is good;--without a name, vileness is so_ Mason
conj.

[127] _it is_] _is is_ F1.

[128] _young_] _good_ Warburton. _sprung_ Becket conj.

[131] _honour's born_] _honour-born_ Hanmer.

[132] _thrive_] F1. _best thrive_ F2 F3 F4.

[134] _word's_] F2 F3 F4. _words,_ F1.

[135] _grave_] _grave:_ Ff.

[137, 138] _tomb Of ... indeed._] Theobald (Thirlby conj.). _tomb. Of
... indeed,_ Ff.

[146] _defeat,_] Ff. _defend_ Theobald. _defeat,_-- Id. conj.

[155] _travails_] _trauailes_ F1. _travailes_ F2. _travells_ F3.
_travels_ F4.

[159] _throw_] _through_ F2.

_care_] F1 F2. _cares_ F3 F4.

[160] _staggers and the_] _staggering and_ Long MS.

_the careless_] F1. _careless_ F2. _the cureless_ S. Walker conj.

[161] _both_] om. Theobald.

[162] _Loosing_] _Let loose_ Hanmer.

[163] _Speak: thine_] _Speak, thine_ F1 F2 F3. _Speak thine_ F4.

[167] _bid it_] Ff. _bid_ Rowe.

[169] _praised_] _prised_ Warburton.

_who, so_] _who's so_ Long MS.

[172] _to_] F1. _in_ F2 F3 F4.

[175] _this_] F1. _the_ F2 F3 F4.

[175-177] _whose ... And be_] _what ... Shall be_ Johnson conj.

[176] _now-born_] _now born_ F3 F4. _now borne_ F1 F2. _new-born_
Warburton.

[180] [Exeunt...] Exeunt. Parolles and Lafew stay behind, commenting
of this wedding. Ff.

[181] SCENE VII. Pope.

[199] _thou_] F1 F2. _if thou_ F3 F4.

[200] _bannerets_] F1 F2. _banners_ F3 F4.

[208] _if_--] Theobald. _if,_ F1 F2. _is,_ F3 F4.

[209] _lattice_] F3 F4. _lettice_ F1 F2.

[210] _for_] om. F3 F4.

[217] _wiser._] _wiser_-- Theobald.

[219] _o' the_] Rowe (ed. 2). _a' th_ Ff.

[220] _shalt_] _shall_ F1.

[222, 223] _in the default_] _on thy defaults_ Hanmer.

[226, 227] _for doing ... leave_] Put in the margin as spurious by
Hanmer.

[226] _past; as I will_] _past; * * * as I will_ Warburton, who
supposes a line to be lost. _past; as I will be_ Capell conj. _past,
so I will by thee_ Staunton conj.

[229] _scurvy lord_] _scabby lord_ Collier conj.

[238, 239] _he ... whom_] _he my good lord, whom_ Rowe (ed. 2). _he,
my good lord, whom_ Pope.

[239] _whom_] _he whom_ Capell.

[243] _o'_] Rowe (ed. 2). _a_ Ff.

[246] _methinks't_] Dyce (S. Walker conj.). _methink'st_ Ff.
_methinks_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[253, 254] _commission ... heraldry_] Ff. _heraldry ... commission_
Hanmer. _condition ... heraldry_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[256] SCENE VIII. Pope.

[257] Re-enter B.] Enter Count Rossillion. Ff (after line 255).

[259] _What's_] _What is_ F4.

[260, 261] _Although ... her_] Printed as prose in Ff, as verse first
by Rowe (ed. 2).

[265, 266] _France ... wars_] Printed as verse in Ff, as prose by
Pope.

[266] _wars!_] _wars, Bertram!_ or _wars, Rousillon!_ Anon. conj.

[271] _kicky-wicky_] _kickie wickie_ F1. _kicksie wicksie_ F2 F3.
_kicksy wicksy_ F4. _kicksy-winsy_ Collier conj.

[274, 275] _regions France_] Pope. _regions, France_ Ff. _regions!
France_ Capell.

[282] _war_] _warres_ F1.

[283] _detested_] Rowe. _detected_ Ff. See note (XI).

[286] _to-morrow_] _even to-morrow_ Hanmer. _betimes to-morrow_
Steevens conj.

[290] _her bravely; go_] _her; bravely go_ Delius.

SCENE IV. _Paris. The King's Palace._

_Enter_ HELENA _and_ CLOWN.

_Hel._ My mother greets me kindly: is she well?

_Clo._ She is not well; but yet she has her health: she's
very merry; but yet she is not well: but thanks be given,
she's very well and wants nothing i' the world; but yet
she is not well. 5

_Hel._ If she be very well, what does she ail, that she's
not very well?

_Clo._ Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two things.

_Hel._ What two things?

_Clo._ One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send 10
her quickly! the other, that she's in earth, from whence
God send her quickly!

_Enter_ PAROLLES.

_Par._ Bless you, my fortunate lady!

_Hel._ I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine
own good fortunes. 15

_Par._ You had my prayers to lead them on; and to
keep them on, have them still. O, my knave, how does
my old lady?

_Clo._ So that you had her wrinkles, and I her money, I
would she did as you say. 20

_Par._ Why, I say nothing.

_Clo._ Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's
tongue shakes out his master's undoing: to say nothing, to
do nothing, to know nothing, and to have nothing, is to be
a great part of your title; which is within a very little of 25
nothing.

_Par._ Away! thou'rt a knave.

_Clo._ You should have said, sir, before a knave thou'rt
a knave; that's, before me thou'rt a knave: this had been
truth, sir. 30

_Par._ Go to, thou art a witty fool; I have found thee.

_Clo._ Did you find me in yourself, sir? or were you
taught to find me? The search, sir, was profitable; and
much fool may you find in you, even to the world's pleasure
and the increase of laughter. 35

_Par._ A good knave, i' faith, and well fed.
Madam, my lord will go away to-night;
A very serious business calls on him.
The great prerogative and rite of love,
Which, as your due, time claims, he does acknowledge; 40
But puts it off to a compell'd restraint;
Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets,
Which they distil now in the curbed time,
To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy,
And pleasure drown the brim.

_Hel._ What's his will else? 45

_Par._ That you will take your instant leave o' the king,
And make this haste as your own good proceeding,
Strengthen'd with what apology you think
May make it probable need.

_Hel._ What more commands he?

_Par._ That, having this obtain'd, you presently 50
Attend his further pleasure.

_Hel._ In every thing I wait upon his will.

_Par._ I shall report it so.

_Hel._ I pray you. [_Exit Parolles._]

Come, sirrah. [_Exeunt._

LINENOTES:

SCENE IV.] SCENE IX. Pope.

The King's Palace.] Another room in the same. Capell.

[2-5] S. Walker would read as four lines of verse, ending _health ...
not well ... wants ... well._

[3] _but thanks_] _thanks_ Hanmer.

[10] _she's_] F1. _she is_ F2 F3 F4.

[11] _in earth_] _on earth_ Hanmer.

_from whence_] _whence_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[15] _fortunes_] Capell (Heath conj.). _fortune_ Ff.

[23] _shakes out_] _speaks out_ Warburton. _shapes out_ Anon. conj.
_shakes to_ Anon. conj.

[27] _thou'rt_] Rowe. _th' art_ Ff. _Before God thou'rt_ Anon. conj.

[28, 29] _knave ... knave; ... me thou'rt_] _knave, ... knave, ... me
th' art_ F1 F2. _knave, ... knave, ... th' art_ F3 F4. _knave; thou
art a knave; and I am before thee that art_ Hanmer.

[28] _thou'rt_] Capell. _th' art_ Ff.

[33] _find me? The search_] Rowe. _find me?_ Clo. _The search_ Ff.
_find me?_ Par. _Go to, I say: I have found thee: no more; I have
found thee, a witty fool._ Clo. _The search_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[39] _rite_] _right_ Capell.

[40] _due, time claims_] _duteous claim_ or _duty's claim_ Anon.
conj.

[41] _to_] F1 F2. _by_ F3 F4. _on_ Capell.

[42] _is_] _are_ Hanmer.

[43] _curbed_] _cup of_ Collier conj.

[46] _o'_] Rowe. _a'_ Ff.

[53] [Exit Par.] Ff (after _so_).

[_you. Come_] Theobald. _you come_ Ff.

[Exeunt.] Exit. Ff.

SCENE V. _Paris. The Kings Palace._

_Enter_ LAFEU _and_ BERTRAM.

_Laf._ But I hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier.

_Ber._ Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof.

_Laf._ You have it from his own deliverance.

_Ber._ And by other warranted testimony.

_Laf._ Then my dial goes not true: I took this lark for 5
a bunting.

_Ber._ I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in
knowledge, and accordingly valiant.

_Laf._ I have then sinned against his experience and
transgressed against his valour; and my state that way is 10
dangerous, since I cannot yet find in my heart to repent.
Here he comes: I pray you, make us friends; I will pursue
the amity.

_Enter_ PAROLLES.

_Par._ These things shall be done, sir. [_To Bertram._

_Laf._ Pray you, sir, who's his tailor? 15

_Par._ Sir?

_Laf._ O, I know him well, I, sir; he, sir, 's a good
workman, a very good tailor.

_Ber._ Is she gone to the king? [_Aside to Parolles._

_Par._ She is. 20

_Ber._ Will she away to-night?

_Par._ As you'll have her.

_Ber._ I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure,
Given order for our horses; and to-night,
When I should take possession of the bride, 25
End ere I do begin.

_Laf._ A good traveller is something at the latter end of
a dinner; but one that lies three thirds, and uses a known
truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once
heard, and thrice beaten. God save you, captain. 30

_Ber._ Is there any unkindness between my lord and
you, monsieur?

_Par._ I know not how I have deserved to run into my
lord's displeasure.

_Laf._ You have made shift to run into't, boots and spurs 35
and all, like him that leaped into the custard; and out of
it you'll run again, rather than suffer question for your
residence.

_Ber._ It may be you have mistaken him, my lord.

_Laf._ And shall do so ever, though I took him at's 40
prayers. Fare you well, my lord; and believe this of me,
there can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this
man is his clothes. Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence;
I have kept of them tame, and know their natures.
Farewell, monsieur: I have spoken better of you 45
than you have or will to deserve at my hand; but we must
do good against evil. [_Exit._

_Par._ An idle lord, I swear.

_Ber._ I think so.

_Par._ Why, do you not know him? 50

_Ber._ Yes, I do know him well, and common speech
Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog.

_Enter_ HELENA.

_Hel._ I have, sir, as I was commanded from you,
Spoke with the king, and have procured his leave
For present parting; only he desires 55
Some private speech with you.

_Ber._ I shall obey his will.
You must not marvel, Helen, at my course,
Which holds not colour with the time, nor does
The ministration and required office
On my particular. Prepared I was not 60
For such a business; therefore am I found
So much unsettled: this drives me to entreat you,
That presently you take your way for home,
And rather muse than ask why I entreat you;
For my respects are better than they seem, 65
And my appointments have in them a need
Greater than shows itself at the first view
To you that know them not. This to my mother:
[_Giving a letter._

'Twill be two days ere I shall see you; so,
I leave you to your wisdom.

_Hel._ Sir, I can nothing say, 70
But that I am your most obedient servant.

_Ber._ Come, come, no more of that.

_Hel._ And ever shall
With true observance seek to eke out that
Wherein toward me my homely stars have fail'd
To equal my great fortune.

_Ber._ Let that go: 75
My haste is very great: farewell; hie home.

_Hel._ Pray, sir, your pardon.

_Ber._ Well, what would you say?

_Hel._ I am not worthy of the wealth I owe;
Nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is;
But, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal 80
What law does vouch mine own.

_Ber._ What would you have?

_Hel._ Something; and scarce so much: nothing, indeed.
I would not tell you what I would, my lord: faith, yes;
Strangers and foes do sunder, and not kiss.

_Ber._ I pray you, stay not, but in haste to horse. 85

_Hel._ I shall not break your bidding, good my lord.

_Ber._ Where are my other men, monsieur? Farewell.
[_Exit Helena._

Go thou toward home; where I will never come,
Whilst I can shake my sword, or hear the drum.
Away, and for our flight.

_Par._ Bravely, coragio! [_Exeunt._ 90

LINENOTES:

SCENE V.] SCENE X. Pope.

The King's Palace.] Another room in the same. Capell.

[11] _yet_] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.

[14] [To Bertram.] Capell.

[15] _Pray you_] _I pray you_ Rowe.

_who's_] _whose_ F1.

[17] _sir, 's_] Theobald. _sir's_ F2 F3 F4. _sirs_ F1. _sits_ Pope.

[19] [Aside ...] Rowe.

[23-26] _I have ... begin_] Printed as prose by Pope.

[24] _horses_] F1. _horse_ F2 F3 F4.

[25, 26] _bride, End ... begin._] Collier (Egerton MS.), _bride, And
... begin_ Ff. _bride--And ... begin--_ Rowe.

[28] _one that_] Rowe (ed. 2). _on that_ Ff. _if on that he_ Rowe (ed.
1).

[30] _heard_] _hard_ F1.

_you_] _your_ F2.

[36] _leaped_] _leapt_ F1. _leapes_ F2. _leaps_ F3 F4.

_custard_] See note (XII).

[46] _or will_] _qualities or will_ Malone conj. _wit or will_ Singer
conj.

[_to_] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.

[_hand_] F1 F2. _hands_ F3 F4.

[47] [Exit.] Rowe.

[49] _so_] _not so_ Long MS.

[51, 52] _Yes ... clog_] As prose in Hanmer.

[53] SCENE XI. Pope.

[57] _must_] _must must_ F2.

[64] _ask why I_] _ask why, I_ Hanmer.

[_entreat you_] _dismiss you_ S. Walker conj. _request it_
Bailey conj.

[68] [Giving a letter.] Rowe.

[75, 76] _Let ... home_] Printed as prose in Ff.

[83, 84] _I would ... kiss_] Arranged as in Ff. As three lines, ending
_lord ... yes ... kiss._ Dyce conj.

[83] _my lord_] om. Hanmer.

[87] Ber. _Where are ... Farewell_] Hanmer (Theobald conj.): continued
to Helena in Ff.

_men, monsieur?_] Hanmer (Theobald conj.). _men? Monsieur:_
Ff.

[Exit H.] Hanmer. [Exit. Ff. [Exit Hel. Warburton (after
line 86).

[90] [Exeunt] om. Ff.

[... attended] Capell. om. Ff.