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2. L. If the businefs be of any difficulty, and this morning your departure hence, it requires hafte of your lordship.

BER. I mean, the business is not ended, as fearing to hear of it hereafter: But fhall we have this dialogue between the fool and the foldier? Come, bring forth this counterfeit medal; - h'as deceiv'd me, like a double-meaning prophefier.

2. L. Bring him forth: [Exeunt Soldiers.] ha's fat i'the ftocks all night, poor gallant knave.

BER. No matter; his heels have deserv'd it, in usurping his fpurs fo long. How does he carry himself?

2. L. I have told your lordship already; the ftocks carry him. But, to anfwer you as you would be underftood; He weeps, like a wench that had fhed her milk: he hath confeff'd himself to Morgan, whom he supposes to be a friar, from the time of his remembrance, to this very inftant disafter of his fetting i' the stocks; And what, think you, he hath confeff'd ?

BER. Nothing of me, has he?

2. L. His confefsion 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.

Re-enter Soldiers, with PAROLLES, and firft Soldier. BER. A plague upon him! muffl'd! he can say nothing of me.

1. L. Hufh! hoodman comes.-Porto tartarofa. 1. S. He calls for the tortures; What will you fay without 'em?

PAR. I will confefs what I know without constraint; if ye pinch me like a pafty, I can fay no more.

1. S. Bofko chimurco.

7 module 27. Note.

1. L. Boblibindo chicurmurco.

1. S. You are a merciful general:

Our general bids

you answer to what I fhall ask you out of a note. PAR. And truly, as I hope to live.

1. S. First demand of him, how many horse the duke is ftrong. What fay you to that?

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PAR. Five or fix thousand; but very weak and unserviceable the troops are all scattered, and the commanders very poor rogues; upon my reputation and credit, and as I hope to live.

1. S. Shall I fet down your anfwer fo?

PAR. DO; I'll take the facrament on't, how and which way you will.

[is this?" BER. “All's one to him: What a past-saving flave 1. L. "You're deceiv'd, my lord; this is monfieur" "Parolles, the gallant militarift, (that was his own phrase)" "that had the whole theorique of war in the knot of" "his fcarf, and the practice in the chape of his dagger."

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2. L. "I will never truft a man again, for keeping ❝his sword clean; nor believe he can have every thing' "in him, by wearing his apparel neatly." 1. S. Well, that's fet down. PAR. Five or fix thousand horfe, I faid, I will fay true, or thereabouts, fet down,- for I'll speak truth. 1. L. "He's very near the truth in this."

BER. "But I con him no thanks for't, in the nature" "he delivers it."

PAR. Poor rogues, I pray you, fay.

1. S. Well, that's fet down.

PAR. I humbly thank you, fir: a truth's a truth, the rogues are marvelous poor.

1. S. Demand of him of what strength they are of foot.

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What fay you to that?

PAR. By my troth, fir, if I were to live but this present hour, I will tell true. Let me fee: Spurio a hundred and fifty, Sebaftian so many, Corambus fo many, Jaques fo many; Guiltian, Cosmo, Lodowick, and Gratii, two hundred fifty each; mine own company, Chitopher, Vaumond, Bentii, two hundred fifty each: fo that the mufter file, rotten and found, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll; half of the which dare not shake the fnow from off their caffocks, left they shake themselves to pieces.

BER. "What fhall be done to him?"

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1. L. "Nothing, but let him have thanks.-Demand' "of him my conditions, and what credit I have with" "the duke."

1. S. Well, that's fet down. You shall demand of him, whether one captain Dumaine be i'the camp, a Frenchman; what his reputation is with the duke, what his valour, honefty, and expertness in wars; or whether he thinks, it were not poffible with well-weighing fums of gold to corrupt him to a revolt. What fay you to this? what do you know of it?

PAR. I befeech you, let me anfwer to the particulars of the interrogatory; demand them fingly.

1. S. Do you know this captain Dumaine?

PAR. I know him: he was a botcher's prentice in Paris, from whence he was whip'd for getting the sheriff's fool with child; a dumb innocent, that could not fay him, nay.

BER. "Nay, by your leave, hold your hands; though" "I know, his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls." 1. S. Well, is this captain in the duke ofFlorence's camp?

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PAR. Upon my knowledge, he is, and lousy.

1. L. "Nay, look not fo upon me; we shall hear of" "your lordship anon.

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1. S. What is his reputation with the duke?

PAR. The duke knows him for no other but a poor officer of mine; and writ to me this other day, to turn him out o'the band: I think, I have his letter in my pocket.

1. S. Marry, we'll fearch.

PAR. In good fadness, I do not know; either it is there, or it is upon a file, with the duke's other letters, in my tent.

1. S. Here 'tis; here's a paper; Shall I read it to you? PAR. I do not know, if it be it, or no.

BER. "Our interpreter does it well."

1. L. "Excellently."

1. S. Dian, the count's a fool, and full of gold,

PAR. That is not the duke's letter, fir; that is an advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one Diana, to take heed of the allurement of one count Rofillion, a foolish idle boy, but, for all that, very ruttifh: I pray you, fir, put it up again.

1. S. Nay, I'll read it firft, by your favour.

PAR. My meaning in't, I proteft, was very honest in the behalf of the maid: for I knew the young count to be a dangerous and lascivious boy; who is a whale to virginity, and devours up all the fry it finds. BER. " Damnable! both fides rogue.

[take it; 1. S. When he fwears oaths, bid him drop gold, and After he fcores, he never pays the score:

Half won, is match well made; match, and well make it ; He ne'er pays after-debts, take it before;

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And fay, a foldier, Dian, told thee this,
Men are to mell with, boys are but to kifs :
For count of this, the count's a fool, I know it,
Who pays before, but not when he does owe it.
Thine, as he vow'd to thee in thine ear,

Parolles. BER. "He fhall be whip'd through the army, with" "this rime in his forehead."

2. L. "This is your devoted friend, fir, the manifold" "linguift, and the armipotent soldier.

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BER. "I could endure any thing before but a cat," "and now he's a cat to me. ""

1. S. I perceive, fir, by our general's looks, we shall be fain to hang you.

PAR. My life, fir, in any case: not that I am afraid to dye; but that, my offences being many, I would repent out the remainder of nature: let me live, fir, in a dungeon, i'the ftocks, or any where, fo I may live.

1. S. We'll fee what may be done, so you confefs freely; therefore, once more to this captain Dumaine : You have anfwer'd to his reputation with the duke, and to his valour; What is his honefty?

PAR. He will fteal, fir, an egg out of a cloister; for rapes and ravishments he parallels Neffus: he profeffes not keeping of oaths; in breaking them, he is ftronger than Hercules: he will lye, fir, with fuch volubility, that you would think truth were a fool: drunkenness is his beft virtue; for he will be swine-drunk; and in his fleep he does little harm, fave to his bed-cloaths about him; but they know his conditions, and lay him in ftraw. I have but little more to fay, fir, of his honefty he has every thing, that an honest man should

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