2 Lord. Health, at your bidding, serve your ma jesty! King. Those girls of Italy, take heed of them; Before you serve. Both. Our hearts receive your warnings. King. Farewell.-Come hither to me. [The King retires to a couch. 1 Lord. O my sweet lord, that you will stay behind us! Par. 'Tis not his fault; the spark 2 Lord. O, 'tis brave wars! Par. Most admirable: I have seen those wars. Ber. I am commanded here, and kept a coil,' with Too young, and the next year, and 'tis too early. Par. An thy mind stand to it, boy, steal away bravely. Ber. I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock, Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry, Till honor be bought up, and no sword worn, But one to dance with! By Heaven, I'll steal away. 1 Lord. There's honor in the theft. Commit it, count. Par. 2 Lord. I am your accessary; and so farewell. Ber. I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured body.2 1 Lord. Farewell, captain. 2 Lord. Sweet monsieur Parolles! Par. Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin. Good sparks and lustrous, a word, good metals.-You shall find in the regiment of the Spinii, one captain Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek; it was this very sword entrenched it. Say to him, I live; and observe his reports for me. 2 Lord. We shall, noble captain. 1 To be kept a coil is to be vexed or troubled with a stir or noise. 2 "I grow to you, and our parting is, as it were, to dissever or torture a body." Par. Mars dote on you for his novices! [Exeunt [Seeing him rise. Par. Use a more spacious ceremony to the noble lords: you have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu; be more expressive to them; for they wear themselves in the cap of the time,' there do muster true gait; eat, speak, and move under the influence of the most received star; and though the devil lead the measure, such are to be followed. After them, and take a more dilated farewell. Ber. And I will do so. Par. Worthy fellows; and like to prove most sinewy sword-men. [Exeunt BERTRAM and PAROLLes. Enter LAFEU. Laf. Pardon, my lord, [Kneeling.] for me and for my tidings. King. I'll fee thee to stand up. Laf. Then here's a man Stands, that has brought his pardon. I would you King. I would I had; so I had broke thy pate, And asked thee mercy for't. Laf. Goodfaith across : But, my good lord, 'tis thus: Will you be cured Of your infirmity? King. Laf. No. O, will you eat 1 They are the foremost in the fashion. 2 It would seem that this passage has been wrongly pointed and improperly explained, there do muster true gait; if addressed to Bertram, it means there exercise yourself in the gait of fashion; eat, &c. But perhaps we should read they instead of there, or else insert they after gait ; either of these slight emendations would render this obscure passage perfectly intelligible. 3 The dance. 4 This word, which is taken from breaking a spear across, in chivalric exercises, is used elsewhere by Shakspeare, where a pass of wit miscarries. See As You Like It, Act iii. Sc. 4. you will, No grapes, my royal fox? Yes, but To give great Charlemain a pen in his hand, King. What her is this? Laf. Why, doctor she. My lord, there's one arrived, In this my light deliverance, I have spoke King. Laf. And not be all day neither. Nay, I'll fit you, [Exit LAFEU. King. Thus he his special nothing ever prologues. Re-enter LAFEU, with HELENA. This haste hath wings indeed. Laf. Nay, come your ways. King. Laf. Nay, come your ways. This is his majesty; say your mind to him: His majesty seldom fears. I am Cressid's uncle,3 [Exit. 1 It has been before observed that the canary was a kind of lively dance. 2 By profession is meant her declaration of the object of her coming. 3 I am like Pandarus. See Troilus and Cressida. King. Now, fair one, does your business follow us? Hel. Ay, my good lord. Gerard de Narbon was My father; in what he did profess, well found. King. I knew him. Hel. The rather will I spare my praises towards him; Knowing him, is enough. On his bed of death Safer than mine own two, more dear. I have so: We thank you, maiden; King. To empirics; or to dissever so Our great self and our credit, to esteem A senseless help, when help past sense we deem. King. I cannot give thee less, to be called grateful 1 A third eye. Hel. What I can do, can do no hurt to try, flown Great floods have From simple sources; and great seas have dried, Where most it promises, and oft it hits, King. I must not hear thee; fare thee well, kind maid; Thy pains, not used, must by thyself be paid. But know I think, and think I know most sure, King. Art thou so confident? Within what space Hop'st thou my cure? Hel. The greatest grace lending grace,* Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring; Ere twice in murk and occidental damp Moist Hesperus hath quenched his sleepy lamp; 1 i. e." Since you have determined or made up your mind that there is no remedy." 2 An allusion to Daniel judging the two elders. 3 I am not an impostor, that proclaim one thing and design another, that proclaim a cure and aim at a fraud. I think what I speak. 4e. the divine grace, lending me grace or power to accomplish it. |