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Florence. Without the walls. A tucket afar off.
[Enter an old Widow of Florence, DIANA, VIOLENTA, and MARIANA, with other
Citizens]
WIDOW
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Nay* come,
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For if they | do
ap|proach the | city,
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We shall | lose all the sight. \\
DIANA
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They say,| the French | count has | done
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Most hon/orable | service.
WIDOW
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It is | report||ed,
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That | he has tak|en their | greatest com|mander,
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And | that | with his / own hand | he slew
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The duke's | brother:| We have | lost our | labor,
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They are | gone a | contrar|y way:| hark,
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You may know | by their trump|ets.
MARIANA
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Come let's return | again,
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And suf|fice our|selves with | the re/port of it.
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Well Di|ana,| take^heed | of this / French earl,
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The hon|or of | a maid | is her name,
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And no | lega|cy is | so | rich
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As hon|esty.
WIDOW
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I have
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How you | have been | soli|cited by | a
gent||leman
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His | compan|ion. \\
MARIANA
I know that knave, hang him, one Parolles, a filthy officer he is in those
suggestions for the young earl, beware of them Diana; their promises,
enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust, are not the
things they go under: many a maid hath been seduced by them, and the misery
is example, that so terrible shows in the wreck of maidenhood, cannot for
all that dissuade succession, but that they are limed with the twigs that
threaten them. I hope I need not to advise you further, but I hope your own
grace will keep you where you are, though there were no further danger
known, but the modesty which is so lost.
DIANA
You shall not need to fear me.
[Enter HELENA]
WIDOW
I hope so: look here comes a pilgrim, I know she will lie at my house,
thither they send one another, I'll question her. God save you pilgrim,
whither are you bound?
HELENA
To Saint Jaques le Grand.
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Where do the | palmers | lodge, I | do be|seech
you?
WIDOW
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At the / Saint Fran|cis here | beside | the port.
HELENA
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Is this | the way? \\
WIDOW
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Aye* mar|ry is it.| Hark you,| they come | this
way:
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If you | will tar|ry ho|ly pil|grim
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But till | the troops | come by, \\
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I will | conduct | you where | you shall | be
lodged,
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The rath|er for | I think | I know | your
host||ess
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As amp|le as | myself.
HELENA
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Is it | yourself?
WIDOW
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If you | shall please | so* pil|grim. \\
HELENA
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I thank | you, and will | stay u|pon your |
leisure.
WIDOW
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You came | I think | from France?
HELENA
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I did so.
WIDOW
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Here you | shall see | a count|ryman | of yours
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That has done | worthy | service.
HELENA
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His name | I pray || you.
DIANA
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The Count | Rousil|lon: know | you such | a one?
HELENA
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But by | the ear | that hears | most nob|ly of
him:
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His face | I know | not.
DIANA
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*What|somere | he is
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He's brave|ly tak|en here.| He stole | from
France
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As 'tis | repor|ted: for | the king | had
mar||ried him
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Against | his lik|ing. Think | you it | is so?
HELENA
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Aye* sure|ly mere | the truth:| I know | his
la||dy.
DIANA
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There | is a gent|leman | that serves | the
count,
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Reports | but coarse|ly of | her.
HELENA
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What's | his name?
DIANA
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Monsieur | Parol|les.
HELENA
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Oh | I believe | with him,
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In arg|ument | of praise,| or to | the worth
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Of the / great count | himself,| she is / too
mean
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To have | her name | repeat|ed, all | her
deser||ving
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Is | a reserv|ed hon|esty,| and that
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I have not | heard ex|amined.
DIANA
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Alas poor la||dy,
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'Tis | a hard | bondage | to become | the wife
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Of a | detes|ting lord. \\
WIDOW
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I war|rant good | creature,| whereso|ere she |
is,
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Her heart | weighs sad/ly: this | young maid
might | do her (hex with prev)
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A shrewd turn if | she pleased.
HELENA
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How do | you mean?
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May be | the am|orous count | solic|its her
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In the un|lawful | purpose.
WIDOW
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He does | indeed,
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And brokes | with all | that can | in such | a
suit
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Corrupt | the tend|er hon|or of | a maid:
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But she | is armed | for him,| and keeps | her
guard
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In hon|estest | defense. \\
[Drum and Colors. Enter BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and the whole army]
MARIANA
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The gods | forbid | else.
WIDOW
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So, now | they come:
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That is | Anton|io the / duke's eld|est son,
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That Es|calus.
HELENA
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Which is | the French|man?
DIANA
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He,
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That with | the plume,| 'tis a most | gallant |
fellow,
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I would | he loved | his wife:| if he were |
honester
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He were much | goodlier.| Is it not | a hand|some
gent||leman?
HELENA
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I like | him well. \\
DIANA
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'Tis pi|ty he is / not hon|est: yond's | that
same knave
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That leads | him to these pla|ces: were | I his |
lady, (hex with prev)
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I would | poison that | vile ras/cal.
HELENA
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Which | is he?
DIANA
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That jack|anapes | with scarfs.| Why is he |
melan|choly? ????
HELENA
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Perchance | he's hurt | in the battle.
PAROLLES
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Lose our drum? Well.
MARIANA
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He's shrewd|ly vexed | at some|thing. Look | he
has spied us.
WIDOW
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Marry | hang you.
MARIANA
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And your | courtesy,| for a ring-|carrier.
[Exeunt BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and army]
WIDOW
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The troop | is past.| Come pil/grim, I will |
bring you,
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Where you | shall host:| of en/joined pen|itents
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There's^four | or five,| to great Saint Jaq|ues
bound,
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Alread|y at | my house.
HELENA
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I humb|ly thank || you:
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Please it | this mat|ron, and | this gent|le maid
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To eat | with us | tonight,| the charge | and
thank||ing
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Shall be | for me,| and to re|quite you |
further,
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I will be|stow some | precepts / of this |
virgin,
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Worthy | the note.
BOTH
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We'll take | your offer | kindly.
[Exeunt]