Thy will by my performance fhall be ferv'd: of Count. Come on, fir; I fhall now put you to the height your breeding. Clo. I will fhew myself highly fed, and lowly taught: I know my business is but to the court. Count. But to the court! why, what place make you special, when you put off that with fuch contempt? But to the court! Clo. Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any manners, he may easily put it off at court: he that cannot make a leg, put off's cap, kifs his hand, and fay nothing, has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap; and, indeed, such a fellow, to fay precisely, were not for the court; but, for me, I have an answer will ferve all men. Count. Marry, that's a bountiful anfwer, that fits all questions. Clo. It is like a barber's chair, that fits all buttocks; the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn-buttock, or any buttock. Count, 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 Shrovetuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a fcolding quean to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the friar's mouth; nay, as the pudding to his skin. Count. Have you, I fay, an answer of fuch 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 monftrous fize, 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: Afk me, If I am a courtier; it fhall do you no harm to learn. Count. To be young again, if we could:-I will be a fool in question, hoping to be the wifer by your answer. I pray you, fir, are you a courtier ? Clo. O Lord, fir,-There's a fimple putting off :more, more, a hundred of them. Count. Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves you. meat. Clo. O Lord, fir,-Nay, put me to't, I warrant you. brush]-rufh-ring-a ring was formerly prefented by the woman to the man, in return for that received from him, at a wedding. "Strengthen'd by enterchangement of your rings.' TWELFTH NIGHT, Act V, Sc. 1. Prieft. с Skin.]-paunch. To be young again]-This trifling makes me feem fo. Count Count. You were lately whip'd, fir, as I think. Count. Do you cry, O Lord, fir, at your whipping, and Spare not me? Indeed, your O Lord, fir, is very fequent to your whipping; you would answer very well to a whipping, if you were but bound to't. f Clo. I ne'er had worfe luck in my life, in myLord, fir: I fee, things may ferve long but not ferve ever. Count. I play the noble housewife with the time, to entertain it fo merrily with a fool. Clo. O Lord, fir,-why, there't ferves well again. Count. An end, fir, to your business: Give Helen this, And urge her to a prefent answer back : Commend me to my kinfmen, and my fon; Clo. Not much commendation to them. Count. Not much employment for you: You underftand me? Clo. Moft fruitfully; I am there before my legs. g [Exeunt. Laf. They fay, miracles are paft; and we have our philofophical perfons, to make modern and familiar, things' fupernatural and caufelefs. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors; enfconcing ourselves into feeming f bound to't.]-to fay fo. & modern]-cheap. h h caufelefs.]-independent on fecond causes. knowledge, knowledge, when we fhould fubmit ourselves to known fear. i an un Par. Why, 'tis the rareft argument of wonder, that hath fhot out in our later times. Ber. And fo 'tis. Laf. To be relinquifh'd of the artists, Par. So I fay. Laf. Both of Galen and Paracelfus, of all the learned k and authentic fellows, Par. Right, fo I say. Laf. That gave him out incurable, Par. Why, there 'tis ; fo fay I too. Laf. Not to be help'd,— Par. Right; as 'twere, a man affur'd of an Laf. Uncertain life, and fure death. Par. Juft, you say well; fo would I have said. Laf. I may truly fay, it is a novelty to the world. Par. It is, indeed: if you will have it a fhewing-you fhall read it in,-What do you call there?- Laf. A'fhewing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor. Par. That's it I would have faid; the very fame. m Laf. Why, your dolphin is not luftier: 'fore me I fpeak in refpect Par. Nay, 'tis ftrange, 'tis very ftrange, that is the brief and the tedious of it; and he is of a moft " facinorous spirit, that will not acknowledge it to be the Laf. Very hand of heaven. Par. Ay, fo I fay. Laf. In a most weak 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. Par. As to be Laf. Generally thankful. i an unknown fear.]-the object of it. 1 A fhewing of a &c.]-the title of fome pamphlet is here pretended. * authentic]-regular. your dolphin]-the Dauphin. n a facinorous]-wicked. Enter Enter King, Helena, and attendants. Par. I would have faid it; you fay well: Here comes the king. Laf. Luftigh, as the Dutchman fays: 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? King. Go, call before me all the lords in court. Sit, my preferver, by thy patient's fide; And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense The confirmation of my promis'd gift, Which but attends thy naming. Enter feveral Lords. Fair maid, fend forth thine eye: this youthful parcel O'er whom both fovereign power and father's voice Thou haft power to chufe, and they none to forfake. Hel. To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress King. Perufe them well: Not one of thofe, but had a noble father. • Luftigh,]-ftout, lufty. P Mort du Vinaigre !]-an evafive fubftitute for "Mort Dieu." a but one !]-except Bertram; modeftly excluding herself from the title of a fair and virtuous mistress, at the fame time that she hoped to be his. bay curtal]-my dock'd horfe. broken-from loss of teeth. Hel. |