Clo. It is like a barber's chair, that fits all buttocks; the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brownbuttock, or any buttock. Count. Will your answer serve fit to all questions? Clo. As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney, as your French crown for your taffaty punk, as Tib's rush for Tom's fore-finger, as a pancake for Shrove Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding quean to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the friar's mouth; nay, as the pudding to his skin. 252 Count. Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for all questions? Clo. From below your duke, to beneath your constable, it will fit any question. Count. It must be an answer of most monstrous size, that must fit all demands. Clo. But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned should speak truth of it: here it is, and all that belongs to't. Ask me, if I am a courtier ;—it shall do you no harm to learn. 262 Count. To be young again, if we could. I will be a fool in question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. I pray you, sir, are you a courtier ? Clo. O Lord, sir-There's a simple putting off: -more, more, a hundred of them.. Count. Sir, I am a poor friend of your's, that loves you. Clo. O Lord, sir-Thick, thick, spare not me. Count. Count. I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely meat. 272 Clo. O Lord, sir-Nay, put me to't, I warrant you. Count. You were lately whipp'd, sir, as I think. Clo. O Lord, sir- -Spare not me. Count. Do you cry, O Lord, sir, as you are whipping, and spare not me? indeed, your O Lord, sir, is very sequent to your whipping: you would answer very well to a whipping, if you were but bound to't. Clo. I ne'er had worse luck in my life, in my serve ever. O Lord, sir: I see, things may serve long, but not 283 Count. I play the noble housewife with the time, to entertain it so merrily with a fool. Clo. O Lord, sir-why, there't serves well again. Count. An end, sir; to your business: Give Helen this, And urge her to a present answer back : Commend me to my kinsmen, and my son : Clo. Not much commendation to them. 290 Count. Not much employment for you: You understand me. Clo. Most fruitfully; I am there before my legs. Count. Haste you again. [Exeunt. SCENE III. The Court of France. Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES. Laf. They say, miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern, and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors; ensconsing our selves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. 301 Par. Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder, that hath shot out in our later times. Ber. And so 'tis. Laf. To be relinquish'd of the artists Par. So I say; both of Galen and Paracelsus. Laf. Of all the learned and authentic fellows- Laf. That gave him out incurable Par. Why, there 'tis; so say I too. Laf. Not to be help'd Par. Right; as 'twere, a man assur'd of an- 310 Par. Just, you say well; so would I have said. Laf. I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world. Par. It is, indeed: if you will have it in shewing, you shall read it in, what do you call there? Laf. A shewing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor. 319 Par. That's it, I would have said; the very same. Laf. Laf. Why, your dolphin is not lustier: 'fore me I speak in respect Par. Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is the brief and the tedious of it; and he is of a most facinerous spirit, that will not acknowledge it to be the→ Laf. Very hand of heaven. Par. Ay, so I say. Laf. In a most weak Par. And debile minister, great power, great transcendence: which should, indeed, give us a farther use to be made, than alone the recovery of the king; as to be Laf. Generally thankful. Enter King, HELENA, and Attendants. 332 Par. I would have said it; you said well. Here comes the king. Laf. Lustick, as the Dutchman says. I'll like a maid the better, while I have a tooth in my head. Why, he's able to lead her a corranto. Par. Mort du Vinaigre! is not this Helen? Laf. 'Fore God, I think so. King. Go, call before me all the lords in court. Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side; 340 And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense Thou hast repeal'd, a second time receive The confirmation of my promis'd gift; Which but attends thy naming. Enter Enter three or four Lords. Fair maid, send forth thine eye: this youthful parcel O'er whom both sovereign power and father's voice My mouth no more were broken than these boys, Not one of those, but had a noble father. Hel. Gentlemen, [She addresses herself to a Lord. 359 Heaven hath, through me, restor❜d the king to health. Please it your majesty, I have done already : "We blush that thou should choose, but be refus'd; King. Make choice; and see, Who shuns thy love, shuns all his love in me. 370 1 Lord. |