Enter First Lord, with five or six Soldiers in ambush. 1 LORD. He can come no other way but by this hedge-corner: When you sally upon him, speak what terrible language you will; though you understand it not yourselves, no matter; for we must not seem to understand him; unless some one among us, whom we must produce for an interpreter. 1 SOLD. Good captain, let me be the interpreter. 1 LORD. Art not acquainted with him? knows he not thy voice? 1 SOLD. No, sir, I warrant you. 1 LORD. But what linsy-woolsy hast thou to speak to us again? 1 SOLD. E'en such as you speak to me. 1 LORD. He must think us some band of strangers i' the adversary's entertainment. Now he hath a smack of all neighbouring languages; therefore we must every one be a man of his own fancy, not to know what we speak one to another; so we seem to know, is to know straight our purpose: chough's language, gabble enough, and good enough. As for you, interpreter, you must seem very politic. But couch, hoa! here he comes; to beguile two hours in a sleep, and then to return and swear the lies he forges. Enter PAROLLES. PAR. Ten o'clock: within these three hours 't will be time enough to go home. What shall I say I have done? It must be a very plausive invention that carries it: They begin to smoke me and disgraces have of late knocked too often at my door. I find my tongue is too fool-hardy; but my heart hath the fear of Mars before it, and of his creatures, not daring the reports of my tongue. 1 LORD. This is the first truth that e'er thine own tongue was guilty of. [Aside. PAR. What the devil should move me to undertake the recovery of this drum; being not ignorant of the impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose? I must give myself some hurts, and say I got them in exploit: Yet slight ones will not carry it: They will say, Came you off with so little? and great ones I dare not give. Wherefore? what's the instance? Tongue, I must put you into a butter-woman's mouth, and buy myself another of Bajazet's mulea, if you prattle me into these perils. [Aside. 1 LORD. Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is? PAR. I would the cutting of my garments would serve the turn; or the breaking of my Spanish sword. 1 LORD. We cannot afford you so. PAR. Or the baring of my [Aside. beard; and to say it was in stratagem. 1 LORD. "T would not do. [Aside. PAR. Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped. 1 LORD. Hardly serve. [Aside. PAR. Though I swore I leaped from the window of the citadel— 1 LORD. How deep? [Aside. PAR. Thirty fathom. [Aside. 1 LORD. Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed. PAR. I would I had any drum of the enemy's; I would swear I had recovered it. 1 LORD. You shall hear one anon. PAR. A drum now of the enemy's! 1 LORD. Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo. ALL. Cargo, cargo, cargo, villianda par corbo, cargo. 1 SOLD. Boskos thromuldo boskos. PAR. I know you are the Muskos' regiment, [Aside. [Alarum within. [They seize him and blindfold him. And I shall lose my life for want of language: Mule. So the original. It was proposed by Warburton, with great plausibility, to read "Bajazet's mute." [Exit, with PAROLLES guarded. Come on, thou art granted space. 1 LORD. Go, tell the count Rousillon, and my brother, 2 SOLD. Captain, I will. I LORD. Till then, I'll keep him dark, and safely lock'd. SCENE II.-Florence. A Room in the Widow's House. [Exeunt. Enter BERTRAM and DIANA. BER. They told me that your name was Fontibell. DIA. No, my good lord, Diana. BER. Titled goddess; And worth it, with addition! But, fair soul, • On. So the original. The common reading is "inform 'em that." But the change is scarcely wanted. "Inform on that" is, give information on that point. BER. But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. What is not holy, that we swear not by, But take the Highest to witness: Then, pray you, tell me, If I should swear by Jove's great attributes I lov'd you dearly, would you believe my oaths, When I did love you ill? this has no holding, To swear by him whom I protest to love, That I will work against him: Therefore, your oaths Are words, and poor conditions; but unseal'd; At least, in my opinion. Change it, change it; Be not so holy-cruel: love is holy; And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts That you do charge men with: Stand no more off, But give thyself unto my sick desires, Who then recover: say, thou art mine, and ever My love, as it begins, shall so persever. DIA. I see that men make ropes, in such a scarre, That we 'll forsake, ourselves. Give me that ring. • The reading which we here give, that of the original, is startling and difficult. The common reading, that of Rowe, is, |