Part 15

_Par._ 'But a drum'! is't 'but a drum'? A drum so lost! There was excellent command,--to charge in with our horse upon our own wings, and to rend our own soldiers!

_First Lord._ That was not to be blamed in the command of the service: it was a disaster of war that Cæsar 45 himself could not have prevented, if he had been there to command.

_Ber._ Well, we cannot greatly condemn our success: some dishonour we had in the loss of that drum; but it is not to be recovered. 50

_Par._ It might have been recovered.

_Ber._ It might; but it is not now.

_Par._ It is to be recovered: but that the merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer, I would have that drum or another, or 'hic jacet.' 55

_Ber._ Why, if you have a stomach, to't, monsieur: if you think your mystery in stratagem can bring this instrument of honour again into his native quarter, be magnanimous in the enterprise and go on; I will grace the attempt for a worthy exploit: if you speed well in it, the Duke shall both 60 speak of it, and extend to you what further becomes his greatness, even to the utmost syllable of your worthiness.

_Par._ By the hand of a soldier, I will undertake it.

_Ber._ But you must not now slumber in it.

_Par._ I'll about it this evening: and I will presently 65 pen down my dilemmas, encourage myself in my certainty, put myself into my mortal preparation; and by midnight look to hear further from me.

_Ber._ May I be bold to acquaint his Grace you are gone about it? 70

_Par._ I know not what the success will be, my lord; but the attempt I vow.

_Ber._ I know thou'rt valiant; and, to the possibility of thy soldiership, will subscribe for thee. Farewell.

_Par._ I love not many words. [_Exit._ 75

_Sec. Lord._ No more than 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; damns himself to do and dares better be damned than to do't? 80

_First Lord._ You do not know him, my lord, as we do: certain it is, that he will steal himself into a man's favour and for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but when you find him out, you have him ever after.

_Ber._ Why, do you think he will make no deed at all of 85 this that so seriously he does address himself unto?

_Sec. Lord._ None in the world; but return with an invention and clap upon you two or three probable lies: but we have almost embossed him; you shall see his fall to-night; for indeed he is not for your lordship's respect. 90

_First Lord._ We'll make you some sport with the fox ere we case him. He was first smoked by the old lord Lafeu: when his disguise and he is parted, tell me what a sprat you shall find him; which you shall see this very night.

_Sec. Lord._ I must go look my twigs: he shall be caught. 95

_Ber._ Your brother he shall go along with me.

_Sec. Lord._ As't please your lordship: I'll leave you. [_Exit._

_Ber._ Now will I lead you to the house, and show you The lass I spoke of.

_First Lord._ But you say she's honest.

_Ber._ That's all the fault: I spoke with her but once 100 And found her wondrous cold; but I sent to her, By this same coxcomb that we have i' the wind, Tokens and letters which she did re-send; And this is all I have done. She's a fair creature: Will you go see her?

_First Lord._ With all my heart, my lord. [_Exeunt._ 105

LINENOTES:

## SCENE VI.] SCENE IX. Pope.

Camp before Florence.] Capell.

Enter...] Rowe. Enter Count Rossillion and the Frenchmen, as at first. Ff.

[1] Sec. Lord.] Cap. E. Ff, and] generally throughout the scene, 1. Ld. Rowe. Fr. Env. Collier. See note (VI).

[3] First Lord.] Cap. G. Ff, and throughout the scene. 2. Ld. Rowe. Fr. Gent. Collier. See note (VI).

[18] Sec. Lord.] C. E. F1. G. E. F2. Cap. E. F3 F4. Omitted by Capell, who continues the following speech to _1. L._

[22] _leaguer_] F4. _leager_ F1 F2 F3.

_adversaries_] _adversary_ or _adversary's_ Grant White conj.

[29, 30] _O ... drum_] Omit and lines 35, 36, 37. Capell conj.

[29] _fetch_] _fetch off_ Dyce (Collier MS.).

[31] _his_] Rowe. _this_ Ff.

[32] _ore_] _oar_ Theobald, _ours_ Ff. _ores_ Collier MS.

[33] _John_] _Tom_ Hanmer (Theobald conj.).

_inclining_] _inelining_ F1.

[35] SCENE X. Pope.

Enter P.] Dyce (after line 37).

[35-37] Marked as 'Aside' by Capell.

[36] _honour_] F3 F4. _honor_ F1 F2. _humour_ Theobald.

[42] _in_] F1 F2 F3. _him_ F4.

[44, 45] _command_] _conduct_ Collier conj.

[55] _'hic jacet.'_] _hic jacet_-- Theobald.

[57] _mystery_] _mastery_ Collier conj.

[73, 74] As three lines, ending _valiant ... souldiership ... Farewell_ in Ff.

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

[74] _thy_] om. Warburton.

[76] SCENE XI. Pope.

[79] _do_] _do't_ F4.

[79, 80.] _to do 't_] _do 't_ Rann.

[83] _discoveries_] _discovery_ S. Walker conj.

[88] _probable_] _improbable_ S. Walker conj.

[92] _case_] _uncase_ Hanmer. _uncape_ Anon. conj.

[93] _is parted_] _are parted_ Hanmer.

_tell me_] _you'll tell me_ Rann conj.

[95] _I ... caught_] Continued to the former speaker by Capell.

_go look_] _go and look_ Rowe. _go lime_ Long MS. _go lack_ Jackson conj. _go loop_ Anon. conj.

[97] Sec. Lord.] 2 Lord. Theobald. Cap. G. Ff.

Sec. Lord. _As't ... you_] Fr. Cent. _As't ... lordship._ Fr. En. _I'll leave you._ Collier.

[99, 105] First Lord.] Cap. E. Ff.

[104] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.

## SCENE VII. _Florence. The_ Widow's _house._

_Enter_ HELENA _and_ Widow.

_Hel._ If you misdoubt me that I am not she, I know not how I shall assure you further, But I shall lose the grounds I work upon.

_Wid._ Though my estate be fallen, I was well born, Nothing acquainted with these businesses; 5 And would not put my reputation now In any staining act.

_Hel._ Nor would I wish you. First, give me trust, the count he is my husband, And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken Is so from word to word; and then you cannot, 10 By the good aid that I of you shall borrow, Err in bestowing it.

_Wid._ I should believe you; For you have show'd me that which well approves You're great in fortune.

_Hel._ Take this purse of gold, And let me buy your friendly help thus far, 15 Which I will over-pay and pay again When I have found it. The count he wooes your daughter, Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty, Resolved to carry her: let her in fine consent, As we'll direct her how 'tis best to bear it. 20 Now his important blood will nought deny That she'll demand: a ring the county wears, That downward hath succeeded in his house From son to son, some four or five descents Since the first father wore it: this ring he holds 25 In most rich choice; yet in his idle fire, To buy his will, it would not seem too dear, Howe'er repented after.

_Wid._ Now I see The bottom of your purpose.

_Hel._ You see it lawful, then: it is no more, 30 But that your daughter, ere she seems as won, Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter; In fine, delivers me to fill the time, Herself most chastely absent: after this, To marry her, I'll add three thousand crowns 35 To what is past already.

_Wid._ I have yielded: Instruct my daughter how she shall persever, That time and place with this deceit so lawful May prove coherent. Every night he comes With musics of all sorts and songs composed 40 To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves; for he persists As if his life lay on't.

_Hel._ Why then to-night Let us assay our plot; which, if it speed, Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed, 45 And lawful meaning in a lawful act, Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact: But let's about it. [_Exeunt._

LINENOTES:

## SCENE VII.] SCENE XII. Pope.

[5] _businesses_] _basenesses_ Anon. conj.

[8, 17] _count he_] _county_ Edd. conj.

[8] _is_] _his_ F2

[14] _You're_] Y'are Ff. _You are_ Capell.

[17] _he_] om. Pope.

[19] _Resolved_] Collier (Egerton MS.). _Resolve_ F1. _Resolves_ F2 F3 F4.

_in fine_] om. Rowe (ed. 2).

[20] _how 'tis_] _how, 'tis_ Warburton.

[21] _his important_] F1 F2. _this important_ F3 F4. _this importurate_ Rowe (ed. i). _his importunate_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[22] _county wears_] _countie weares_ F1. _county weares_ F2 F3. _count wears_ F4. _count does wear_ Rowe. See note (XIV).

[28, 29] _Now ... purpose_] As in Capell. As one line in Ff. _Now do I see ... purpose_ (as one line) Hanmer.

[34] _after this_] F2 F3 F4. _after_ F1. _afterwards_ Collier conj.

[36] _past_] _pact_ Anon. conj.

[40] _musics_] _Musickes_ F1 F2. _Musicks_ F3. _Musick_ F4.

[41] _steads_] F4. _steeds_ F1 F2 F3.

[42] _eaves_] Hanmer. _eeves_ Ff.

[46] _And lawful_] _Unlawful_ Hanmer.

_lawful act_] _wicked act_ Warburton. _lawless act_ Anon. conj.

## ACT IV.

## SCENE I. _Without the Florentine camp._

_Enter_ Second French Lord, _with five or six other_ Soldiers _in ambush._

_Sec. Lord._ 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 yourselves, no matter; for we must not seem to understand him, unless some one among us whom we must produce 5 for an interpreter.

_First Sold._ Good captain, let me be the interpreter.

_Sec. Lord._ Art not acquainted with him? knows he not thy voice? 10

_First Sold._ No, sir, I warrant you.

_Sec. Lord._ But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again?

_First Sold._ E'en such as you speak to me.

_Sec. Lord._ He must think us some band of strangers i' the adversary's entertainment. Now he hath a smack of 15 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 20 couch, ho! here he comes, to beguile two hours in a sleep, and then to return and swear the lies he forges.

_Enter_ PAROLLES.

_Par._ Ten o'clock: within these three hours 'twill be time enough to go home. What shall I say I have done? It must be a very plausive invention that carries it: they 25 begin to smoke me; and disgraces have of late knocked too often at my door. I find my tongue is too foolhardy; but my heart hath the fear of Mars before it and of his creatures, not daring the reports of my tongue.

_Sec. Lord._ This is the first truth that e'er thine own 30 tongue was guilty of.

_Par._ What the devil should move me to undertake the recovery of this drum, being not ignorant of the impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose? I must give myself some hurts, and say I got them in exploit: yet 35 slight ones will not carry it; they will say, 'Came you off with so little?' and great ones I dare not give. Wherefore, what's the instance? Tongue, I must put you into a butter-woman's mouth, and buy myself another of Bajazet's mule, if you prattle me into these perils. 40

_Sec. Lord._ Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?

_Par._ I would the cutting of my garments would serve the turn, or the breaking of my Spanish sword.

_Sec. Lord._ We cannot afford you so. 45

_Par._ Or the baring of my beard; and to say it was in stratagem.

_Sec. Lord._ 'Twould not do.

_Par._ Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped.

_Sec. Lord._ Hardly serve. 50

_Par._ Though I swore I leaped from the window of the citadel--

_Sec. Lord._ How deep?

_Par._ Thirty fathom.

_Sec. Lord._ Three great oaths would scarce make that 55 be believed.

_Par._ I would I had any drum of the enemy's: I would swear I recovered it.

_Sec. Lord._ You shall hear one anon.

_Par._ A drum now of the enemy's,-- [_Alarum within._ 60

_Sec. Lord._ Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo.

_All._ Cargo, cargo, cargo, villianda par corbo, cargo.

_Par._ O, ransom, ransom! do not hide mine eyes. [They seize and blindfold him.

_First Sold._ Boskos thromuldo boskos.

_Par._ I know you are the Muskos' regiment; 65 And I shall lose my life for want of language: If there be here German, or Dane, low Dutch, Italian, or French, let him speak to me; I'll Discover that which shall undo the Florentine.

_First Sold._ Boskos vauvado: I understand thee, and 70 can speak thy tongue. Kerelybonto, sir, betake thee to thy faith, for seventeen poniards are at thy bosom.

_Par._ O!

_First Sold._ O, pray, pray, pray! Manka revania dulche. 75

_Sec. Lord._ Oscorbidulchos volivorco.

_First Sold._ The general is content to spare thee yet; And, hoodwink'd as thou art, will lead thee on To gather from thee: haply thou mayst inform Something to save thy life.

_Par._ O, let me live! 80 And all the secrets of our camp I'll show, Their force, their purposes; nay, I'll speak that Which you will wonder at.

_First Sold._ But wilt thou faithfully?

_Par._ If I do not, damn me.

_First Sold._ Acordo linta. 85 Come on; thou art granted space. [_Exit, with Parolles guarded. A short alarum within._

_Sec. Lord._ Go, tell the Count Rousillon, and my brother, We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled Till we do hear from them.

_Sec. Sold._ Captain, I will.

_Sec. Lord._ A' will betray us all unto ourselves: 90 Inform on that.

_Sec. Sold._ So I will, sir.

_Sec. Lord._ Till then I'll keep him dark and safely lock'd. [_Exeunt._

LINENOTES:

## SCENE I. Without....] Capell. Continues in Florence. Pope. Part of the

French camp in Florence. Theobald.

Enter Second French Lord....] Edd. Enter one of the Frenchmen.... Ff. Enter First Lord.... Capell. Enter French Envoy.... Collier. See note (VI).

Sec. Lord.] 1. Lord. E. Ff.

[5] _among_] _amongst_ Rowe.

[7] _captain_] F3 F4. _captaine_ F1. _captaive_ F2.

[15] _adversary's_] Johnson, _adversaries_ Ff. _adversaries'_ Warburton.

[18] _know straight_] _shew straight_ Hanmer. _go straight to_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[19] _choughs'_] _chough's_ F3 F4. _choughs_ F1 F2.

[23] _o'_] Johnson, _a_ Ff.

[29] _my_] _my own_ Mason conj. _mine own_ Rann.

[39 _myself_] om. Steevens.

_Bajazet's_] _Baiazeths_ F1. _Bajazeths_ F2 F3 F4.

[40] _mule_] F1 F2. _Mules_ F3 F4. _mute_ Hanmer (Warburton).

[57] _enemy's_] Malone. _enemies_ Ff. _enemies'_ Capell.

[60] _enemy's_,--] Edd. _enemy's!_ Malone. _enemies!_ Theobald. _enemies._ Ff.

[62] _cargo, cargo_] _cargo_ Hanmer.

[63] [They ... him.] Rowe. om. Ff.

[64] _Boskos ... boskos_] F1. _Baskos ... baskos_ F2 F3 F4.

[65] _Muskos'_] Capell. _Muskos_ Ff.

[68] _or_] om. Capell.

[68, 69] Arranged as in Capell. _Ile ... Florentine_ (in one line) Ff. _I will ... undo The...._ Malone.

[70-74] _Boskos ... pray!_] Printed as verse by Capell.

[73, 74] Par. _O!_ First Sold. _O, pray_] Par. _Oh, oh!_ 1. S. _Pray._ Capell.

[74] _revania_] F1. _revanta_ F2. _revancha_ F3 F4.

[76] _Oscorbidulchos_] F1. _Osceorbidulchos_ F2 F3 F4.

[86] Exit....] Capell. Exit. Ff.

A short alarum within.] Ff. om. Capell.

[88] _We have_] _We've_ Pope.

[90] _A'_] _A_ Ff. _He_ Rowe.

[91] _Inform on that_] _Inform 'em that_ Rowe. _Inform 'em too of that_ Capell.

## SCENE II. _Florence. The_ Widow's _house._

_Enter_ BERTRAM _and_ DIANA.

_Ber._ They told me that your name was Fontibell.

_Dia._ No, my good lord, Diana.

_Ber._ Titled goddess; And worth it, with addition! But, fair soul, In your fine frame hath love no quality? If the quick fire of youth light not your mind, 5 You are no maiden, but a monument: When you are dead, you should be such a one As you are now, for you are cold and stern; And now you should be as your mother was When your sweet self was got. 10

_Dia._ She then was honest.

_Ber._ So should you be.

_Dia._ No: My mother did but duty; such, my lord, As you owe to your wife.

_Ber._ No more o' that; I prithee, do not strive against my vows: I was compell'd to her; but I love thee 15 By love's own sweet constraint, and will for ever Do thee all rights of service.

_Dia._ Ay, so you serve us Till we serve you; but when you have our roses, You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves, And mock us with our bareness.

_Ber._ How have I sworn! 20

_Dia._ 'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth, But the plain single vow that is vow'd true. What is not holy, that we swear not by, But take the High'st to witness: then, pray you, tell me, If I should swear by Jove's great attributes, 25 I loved you dearly, would you believe my oaths, When I did love you ill? This has no holding, To swear by him whom I protest to love, That I will work against him: therefore your oaths Are words and poor conditions, but unseal'd, 30 At least in my opinion.

_Ber._ Change it, change it; Be not so holy-cruel: love is holy; And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts That you do charge men with. Stand no more off, But give thyself unto my sick desires, 35 Who then recover: say thou art mine, and ever My love as it begins shall so persever.

_Dia._ I see that men make rope's in such a scarre That we'll forsake ourselves. Give me that ring.

_Ber._ I'll lend it thee, my dear; but have no power 40 To give it from me.

_Dia._ Will you not, my lord?

_Ber._ It is an honour 'longing to our house, Bequeathed down from many ancestors; Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world In me to lose.

_Dia._ Mine honour's such a ring: 45 My chastity's the jewel of our house, Bequeathed down from many ancestors; Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world In me to lose: thus your own proper wisdom Brings in the champion Honour on my part, 50 Against your vain assault.

_Ber._ Here, take my ring: My house, mine honour, yea, my life, be thine, And I'll be bid by thee.

_Dia._ When midnight comes, knock at my chamber-window: I'll order take my mother shall not hear. 55 Now will I charge you in the band of truth, When you have conquer'd my yet maiden bed, Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me: My reasons are most strong; and you shall know them When back again this ring shall be deliver'd: 60 And on your finger in the night I 'll put Another ring, that what in time proceeds May token to the future our past deeds. Adieu, till then; then, fail not. You have won A wife of me, though there my hope be done. 65

_Ber._ A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee. [_Exit._

_Dia._ For which live long to thank both heaven and me! You may so in the end. My mother told me just how he would woo, As if she sat in's heart; she says all men 70 Have the like oaths: he had sworn to marry me When his wife's dead; therefore I'll lie with him When I am buried. Since Frenchmen are so braid, Marry that will, I live and die a maid: Only in this disguise I think't no sin 75 To cozen him that would unjustly win. [_Exit._

LINENOTES:

Enter....] Enter Bertram and the Maid called Diana. Ff.

[2] _Titled goddess_] _Titl'd, goddess_ Capell.

[8] _stern_] F3 F4. _sterne_ F1 F2. _stone_ Collier (Collier MS.).

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

[14] _strive ... vows:_] _drive against my vows:_ Johnson conj. _shrive--against my voice_ Id. conj.

[19] _barely_] _basely_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[21-31] Dia. _'Tis not ... opinion_] Dia. _'Tis not ... witness._ Ber. _Then ... ill?_ Dia. _This ... opinion_ Staunton conj.

[21] _makes_] F1. _make_ F2 F3 F4.

[23, 24] _What ... me,_] _But ... by?_ Jackson conj. (inverting the lines).

_What ... witness: then, pray_] Bert. _What ... witness._ Diana. _Then, pray_ Johnson conj.

[23-29] _What ... against him_] Erased in Collier MS.

[23] _swear not by,_] _swear, not 'bides,_ Warburton.

[24] _pray you_] _pray_ Pope.

[25] _Jove's_] _Joves_ F3 F4. _Ioues_ F1 F2. _love's_ Grant White (Johnson conj.). _God's_ Edd. conj. See note (xv).

_attributes_] F1. _attribute_ F2 F3 F4.

[28] _by_] _to_ Johnson conj.

_whom_] _when_ Singer.

[28, 29] _whom I ... him_] _and to protest I love Whom I will work against_ Becket conj.

[32] _holy-cruel_] Theobald. _holy cruel_ Ff.

_love_] _my love_ Staunton conj.

[35, 36] _desires, Who then recover_] Rowe (ed. 2). _desires, Who then recovers_ Ff. _desires, Which then recover_ Pope. _desire, Who then recovers_ Capell.

[38] _rope's ... scarre_] F1 F2. _ropes ... scarre_ F3. _ropes ... scar_ F4. _hopes ... affairs_ Rowe. _hopes ... scene_ Malone. _mopes in ... scar_ or _japes of ... scathe_ Becket conj. _hopes ... scare_ Henley conj. _hopes ... cause_ Mitford conj. _hopes ... war_ Singer (ed. 1). _hopes ... scarre_ Singer (Knight conj.). _slopes ... scarre_ Collier conj. _ropes ... staire_ Id. conj. _hopes ... case_ Dyce. _hopes ... snare_ Staunton. _hopes ... suit_ Collier (Collier MS.). _may cope's ... sorte_ Williams conj.

[44] _were_] _'twere_ Collier (Collier MS.).

[53] _And I'll_] _An I_ Collier conj.

[65] _done_] _none_ Collier MS.

[66] _I have_] F1 F2. _I've_ F3 F4.

[71] _had_] _hath_ Capell conj. _has_ Grant White.

[73] _Frenchmen_] _men_ Hanmer.

[74] _Marry_] _Marry 'em_ Theobald (Warburton).

[74] _I_] F1 F2. _I'le_ F3 F4. _I'd_ Theobald (Warburton).

Lords] Captains Ff.

## SCENE III. _The Florentine camp._

_Enter the two French_ Lords _and some two or three_ Soldiers.

_First Lord._ You have not given him his mother's letter?

_Sec. Lord._ I have delivered it an hour since: there is something in't that stings his nature; for on the reading it he changed almost into another man.

_First Lord._ He has much worthy blame laid upon him 5 for shaking off so good a wife and so sweet a lady.

_Sec. 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. 10

_First Lord._ When you have spoken it, 'tis dead, and I am the grave of it.

_Sec. Lord._ He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in Florence, of a most chaste renown; and this night he fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour: he hath given 15 her his monumental ring, and thinks himself made in the unchaste composition.

_First Lord._ Now, God delay our rebellion! as we are ourselves, what things are we!

_Sec. Lord._ Merely our own traitors. And as in the 20 common course of all treasons, we still see them reveal themselves, till they attain to their abhorred ends, so he that in this action contrives against his own nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself.

_First Lord._ Is it not meant damnable in us, to be 25 trumpeters of our unlawful intents? We shall not then have his company to-night?

_Sec. Lord._ Not till after midnight; for he is dieted to his hour.