Enter Parolles. Ber. My lord, I do confess the ring was hers. Dia. King. Come, come, to the purpose: did he love this Par. Faith, sir, he did love her; but how? King. How, I pray you? Par. He did love her, sir, as a gentleman loves a woman. King. How is that? Par. He loved her, sir, and loved her not. King. As thou art a knave, and no knave. What an equivocal companion is this! Par. I am a poor man, and at your majesty's command. them, as I said; but more than that, he loved 240 250 know not what: yet I was in that credit with 260 them at that time, that I knew of their going to bed, and of other motions, as promising her marriage, and things which would derive me ill-will to speak of; therefore I will not speak what I know. King. Thou hast spoken all already, unless thou canst say they are married: but thou art too fine in thy evidence; therefore stand aside. This ring, you say, was yours? Dia. Dia. It was not lent me neither. King. Where did you find it then? I found it not. King. If it were yours by none of all these ways, Dia. I never gave it him. Laf. This woman 's an easy glove, my lord; she goes off and on at pleasure. King. This ring was mine; I gave it his first wife. Dia. To prison with her: and away with him. King. Take her away. Dia. I'll never tell you. I'll put in bail, my liege. King. I think thee now some common customer. Dia. By Jove, if ever I knew man, 'twas you. 270 280 King. Wherefore hast thou accused him all this while? He knows I am no maid, and he 'll swear to 't; I am either maid, or else this old man's wife. 290 King. She does abuse our ears: to prison with her. 'King. Hel. Re-enter Widow, with Helena. Is there no exorcist Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes? No, my good lord; 'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see, Ber. 310 Will you be mine, now you are doubly won? Hel. If it appear not plain and prove untrue, [To Parolles] Good Tom Drum, lend me a hand- I thank thee: wait on me home, I'll make sport with thee: Let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones. King. Let us from point to point this story know, To make the even truth in pleasure flow. 320 [To Diana] If thou be'st yet a fresh uncropped flower, 330 [Flourish. EPILOGUE. King. The king's a beggar, now the play is done: That you express content; which we will pay, 3 Glossary. A one; I. iii. 243. About; "go not about," "do not beat about the bush"; I. iii. 193. Accordingly, equally; II. v. 8. Across; "break across," a term used in tilting; here used for a passage at arms of wit; II. i. 70. Act, action; I. ii. 31. Admiration, that which excites admiration; II. i. 91. Advice, discretion; III. iv. 19. Alone; alone must think," must only think; I. i. 194. Ample, amply; III. v. 46. Anatomized, laid open, shown up; IV. iii. 35. Antiquity, old age; II. iii. 212. Appeach'd impeached, informed against (you); I. iii. 196. Applications, attempts at healing; I. ii. 75. Apprehensive," ruled by imaginations and caprices," fantastic; I. ii. 61. Approof; so in a. lives not his epitaph as in your royal speech 66 ="his epitaph re ceives by nothing such confirmation and living truth as by your speech"; I. ii. 52; valiant a. = approved valour; II. v. 2. Approved, proved; I. ii. II. Araise, raise from the dead; II. i. 79. Armipotent, omnipotent; IV. iii. 250. Artists; 'relinquished of the artists," i. e. given up, despaired of by learned doctors; II. iii. 10. Attempt, venture; I. iii. 259. |