Dia. I found it not. King. If it were yours by none of all these ways, How could you give it him? 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. It might be yours, or hers, for aught I know. King. Take her away, I do not like her now; To prison with her and away with him.— : Unless thou tell'st me where thou hadst this ring, Thou diest within this hour. Dia. 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 30 Dia. By Jove, if ever I knew man, 'twas you. King. Wherefore hast thou accused him all this while? Dia. Because he's guilty, and he is not guilty; He knows I am no maid, and he'll swear to't: I'll swear I am a maid, and he knows not. Great King, I am no strumpet, by my life e; I am either maid, or else this old man's wife. [Pointing to LAFEU. King. She does abuse our ears; to prison with her! The jeweller that owes 31 the ring is sent for, 30 Some common customer, i. e. common woman, with whom any one may be familiar. 31 Owes, i. e. owns. And at that time he got his wife with child: King. Re-enter Widow, with HELENA. Is there no exorcist 32 Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes? Is't real that I see? Hel. No, my good lord; 'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see, The name, and not the thing. Ber. Both, both: O, pardon! Hel. O! my good lord, when I was like this maid, I found you wondrous kind. There is your ring, And, look you, here's your letter: This it says, When from my finger you can get this ring, And are by me with child, &c.-This is done : Will you be mine, now you are doubly won? Ber. If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly, I'll love her dearly; ever, ever dearly. Hel. If it Laf. Mine eyes smell onions, I shall weep anon. -Good Tom Drum, [To PAROLLES], lend me a 32 Thus, in Julius Cæsar, Ligarius says: "Thou like an exorcist hast conjur'd up My mortified spirit." Exorcist and conjurer were synonymous in Shakespeare's time. The great poet has been accused of using this word erroneously in a sense peculiar to himself, but the dictionaries of his time show that it was the universal acceptation of the word. Thus Florio in his Italian Dictionary, ed. 1598. "Essorcista, a conjurer, an exorcist."-" Essorcismi, exorcismes, conjurations, incantations, spels;" and so throughout: this definition is not peculiar to Florio, all the dictionaries have it. 344 ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL. ACT V. handkerchief; so, 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 :— [TO DIANA.] If thou be'st yet a fresh uncropped flower, Choose thou thy husband, and I'll pay thy dower; Thou kept'st a wife herself, thyself a maid.— express; Advancing. [Flourish. The King's a beggar, now the play is done: [Exeunt. 33 Give us the benefit of your toleration, take you that of our performance: parts is here used in the sense of "mental and active parts," as in Troilus and Cressida. The next line is a parallel antithesis:-Applaud with your hands the service we have rendered heartily. |