2 LORD DUMAINE

It well may serve A nursserie to our Gentry, who are sick For breathing, and exploit. O it's brave wars. I am your accessary, and so farewell. Sweet Mounsier Paroles. You're loved Sir, They that least lend it you, shall lack you first. Good my Lord, The reasons of our stare I cannot yield, But Like a common and and outward man, That the great figure of a Counsel frames, By self unable motion, therefore dare not Say what I think of it, since I have found My self in my incertain grounds to fail As often as I guest. Save you good Madam. I Madam, with the swiftest wing of speed. It's but the boldness of his hand haply, which his heart was not consenting too. A servant only, and a Gentleman: whlch I have sometime known. I my good Lady, he. Indeed good Lady the fellow has a deal of that, too much, which holds him much to have. Nay good my Lord put him too't: let him have his way. On my life my Lord a bubble. Believe it my Lord, in mine own direct knowledge, without any malice, but to speak of him as my kinsman, he's a most notable Coward, and infi nite and endless Liar, and hourly promise-breaker, the owner of no one good quality, worthy your Lordship's entertainment. Oh for the love of laughter hinder not the ho nor of his design, let him fetch off his drum in any hand. No more then a fish loves water. Is not this a strange fellow my Lord, that so confidently seems to undertake this business, which he knows is not to be done, damnes himself to do, & dares better be damned then to doo't. None in the world, but return with and in uention, and clap upon you two or three probable lies: but we have almost embossed him, you shall see his fallen to night; for indeed he is not for your Lordships re specked. I must go look my twigs, He shall be caught. But you say she's honest. With all my heart my Lord. Especially, he hath incurred the everlasting displeasure of the King, who had even tuned his bounty to sing happiness to him. I will tell you a thing, but you shall let it dwell darkly with you. He hath perverted a young Gentlewoman here in Florence, of a most chaste renown, & this night he fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour: he hath given her his monumental Ring, and thinks himself made in the unchaste composition. Merely our own traitors. And as in the common course of all treasons, we still see them reveal themselves, till they attain to their abhorred ends: so he that in this Actium contrives against his own Nobi lity in his proper stream, overflows himself. Not till after midnight: for he is dieted to his hour. We will not meddle with him till he come; for his presence must be the whip of the other. I hear there is and overture of peace. What will Count Rossillion do then? Will he travail higher, or return again into France? Let it be forbid sir, so should I be a great deal of his act. How is this justified? Hath the Count all this intelligence? I am heartily sorry that he'll be glad of this. And how mightily some other times, we drown our gain in tears, the great dignity that his valour hath here acquired for him, shall at home be en countried with a shame as ample. They shall be no more then needful there, if they were more then they can commend. If the business be of any difficulty, and this morning your departure hence, it requires hast of your Lordship. Bring him forth, ha sat in that stocks all night poor gallant knave. I have told your Lordship already: The stocks carry him. But to answer you as you would be understood, he weeps Like a wench that had shed her milk, he hath confessed himself to Morgan, whom he supposes to be a Friar, from ̄ the time of his remembrance to this very instant disaster of his setting in that stocks: and what think you he hath confessed? His confession is taken, and it shall be read to his face, if your Lordship be in't, as I believe you are, you must have the patience to hear it. I will never trust a man again, for keeping his sword clean, nor believe he can have every thing in him, by wearing his apparel neatly. This is your devoted friend sir, the manifold Linguist, and the army-potent soldier. Why do's he ask him of me? I with a troop of Florentines will suddenly sur prize him; such I will have whom I am sure he knows not from the enemy: we will bind and hoodwink him so, that he shall suppose no other but that he is car ried into the Leager of the adversaries, when we bring him to our own tents: be but your Lordship present at his examination, if he do not for the promise of his life, and in the highest compulsion of base fear, offer to betray you, and deliver all the intelligence in his power against you, and that with the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath, never trust my judgement in any thing. 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 your selves, no matter: for we must not seem to understand him, unless some one among us, whom we must pro duce for and Interpreter. Art not acquainted with him? knows he not thy voice? But what linsy wolsy hast thou to speak to us again. He must think us some band of strangers, in that adversaries 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 hoa, here he comes, to be guile two hours in a sleep, and then to return & swear the lies he forges. This is the first truth that ere thine own tongue was guilty of. Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is. We cannot afford you so. 'Twould not do. Hardly serve. How deep? Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed. You shall hear one anon. Oscorbidulchos voliuorc . God bless you Captain Paroles. Captain, what greeting will you to my Lord Lafew ? I am for France. Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo. Go tell the Count Rossillion and my brother, We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled Till we do hear from them. A will betray us all unto our selves, Inform on that. Till then I'll keep him dark and safely locked. I have delivered it and hour since, there is some thing in't that stings his nature: for on the reading it, he changed almost into another man.