A traitor you do look like; but such traitors 9 His majesty seldom fears: I am Cressid's uncle, ' That dare leave two together: fare you well. [Exit. King. Now, fair one, does your business follow us? Hel. Ay, my good lord. Gerard de Narbon was My father; in what he did profess, well found.' King. I knew him. Hel. The rather will I spare my praises towards him; Knowing him, is enough. On his bed of death Safer than mine own two, more dear; I have so: With all bound humbleness. King. We thank you, maiden; But may not be so credulous of cure,-. When our most learned doctors leave us; and The congregated college have concluded That labouring art can never ransome nature From her inaidable estate,-I say we must not So stain our judgment, or currupt our hope, To prostitute our past-cure malady To empiricks; or to dissever so Our great self and our credit, to esteem A senseless help, when help past sense we deem. Hel. My duty then shall pay me for my pains: I will no more enforce mine office on you; 9 Cressida. Cressid's uncle,] I am like Pandarus. See Troilus and well found.] i. e. of known, acknowledged, excellence. Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts King. I cannot give thee less, to be call'd grateful: Thou thought'st to help me; and such thanks I give, As one near death to those that wish him live: Hel. What I can do, can do no hurt to try, From simple sources; and great seas have dried, Thy pains, not us'd, must by thyself be paid: 2 When miracles have by the greatest been denied.] i. e. disbelieved, or contemned. 3 Myself against the level of mine aim ;] i. e. I am not an im But know I think, and think I know most sure, Hel. Ere twice in murk and occidental damp Hel. Tax of impudence, A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame,- King. Methinks, in thee some blessed spirit doth speak ; His powerful sound, within an organ weak : In common sense, sense saves another way." postor that proclaim one thing and design another, that proclaim a cure and aim at a fraud. no worse of worst extended,] i. e. to be so defamed that nothing severer can be said against those who are most publickly reported to be infamous. 5 And what impossibility would slay In common sense, sense saves another way.] i. e. and that which, if I trusted to my reason, I should think impossible, I yet, perceiving thee to be actuated by some blessed spirit, think thee capable of effecting. MALONE. in thee hath estimate;] May be counted among the gifts enjoyed by thee. JOHNSON. 11 Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, virtue, all And well deserv'd: Not helping, death's my fee; King. Make thy demand. Hel. But will you make it even? King. Ay, by my sceptre, and my hopes of hea ven. Hel. Then shalt thou give me, with thy kingly What husband in thy power I will command: To choose from forth the royal blood of France; King. Here is my hand; the premises observ'd, More should I question thee, and more I must; Though, more to know, could not be more to trust; From whence thou cams't, how tended on,-But rest Unquestion'd welcome, and undoubted blest. 7 prime-] Youth; the sprightly vigour of life. in property-] In property seems to be here used, with much laxity, for-in the due performance. With any branch or image of thy state :] Branch refers to the collateral descendants of the royal blood, and image to the direct and immediate line. HENLEY. Give me some help here, ho!-If thou proceed As high as word, my deed shall match thy deed. [Flourish. Exeunt. SCENE II. Rousillon. A Room in the Countess's Palace. Enter Countess and Clown. Count. Come on, sir; I shall now put you to the height of your breeding. Clo. I will show myself highly fed, and lowly taught: I know my business is but to the court. Čount. To the court! why, what place make you special, when you put off that with such 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, kiss his hand, and say nothing, has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap; and, indeed, such a fellow, to say precisely, were not for the court: but, for me, I have an answer will serve all men. Count. Marry, that's a bountiful answer, 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. 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 taffata 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. |