All's Well That Ends Well: ACT IV
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV SCENE I. Without the Florentine camp. SCENE II. Florence. The Widow's house. SCENE III. The Florentine camp. SCENE IV. Florence. The Widow's house. SCENE V. Rousillon. The COUNT's palace. ACT V About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE I. Without the Florentine camp. Enter Second French Lord, with five or six other Soldiers in ambush Second 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 5     understand him, unless some one among us whom we       must produce for an interpreter. First Soldier       Good captain, let me be the interpreter. Second Lord       Art not acquainted with him? knows he not thy voice? First Soldier       No, sir, I warrant you. Second Lord 10    But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again? First Soldier       E'en such as you speak to me. Second 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 15    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: choughs' language,       gabble enough, and good enough. As for you,       interpreter, you must seem very politic. But couch, 20    ho! here he comes, to beguile two hours in a sleep,       and then to return and swear the lies he forges. Enter PAROLLES PAROLLES       Ten o'clock: within these three hours 'twill be       time enough to go home. What shall I say I have       done? It must be a very plausive invention that 25    carries it: they begin to smoke me; and disgraces       have of late knocked too often at my door. I find       my tongue is too foolhardy; but my heart hath the       fear of Mars before it and of his creatures, not       daring the reports of my tongue. Second Lord 30    This is the first truth that e'er thine own tongue       was guilty of. PAROLLES       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 35    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 40    butter-woman's mouth and buy myself another of       Bajazet's mule, if you prattle me into these perils. Second Lord       Is it possible he should know what he is, and be       that he is? PAROLLES       I would the cutting of my garments would serve the 45    turn, or the breaking of my Spanish sword. Second Lord       We cannot afford you so. PAROLLES       Or the baring of my beard; and to say it was in       stratagem. Second Lord       'Twould not do. PAROLLES 50    Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped. Second Lord       Hardly serve. PAROLLES       Though I swore I leaped from the window of the citadel. Second Lord       How deep? PAROLLES       Thirty fathom. Second Lord 55    Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed. PAROLLES       I would I had any drum of the enemy's: I would swear       I recovered it. Second Lord       You shall hear one anon. PAROLLES       A drum now of the enemy's,-- Alarum within Second Lord 60    Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo. All       Cargo, cargo, cargo, villiando par corbo, cargo. PAROLLES       O, ransom, ransom! do not hide mine eyes. They seize and blindfold him First Soldier       Boskos thromuldo boskos. PAROLLES       I know you are the Muskos' regiment: 65    And I shall lose my life for want of language;       If there be here German, or Dane, low Dutch,       Italian, or French, let him speak to me; I'll       Discover that which shall undo the Florentine. First Soldier       Boskos vauvado: I understand thee, and can speak 70    thy tongue. Kerely bonto, sir, betake thee to thy       faith, for seventeen poniards are at thy bosom. PAROLLES       O! First Soldier       O, pray, pray, pray! Manka revania dulche. Second Lord       Oscorbidulchos volivorco. First Soldier 75    The general is content to spare thee yet;       And, hoodwink'd as thou art, will lead thee on       To gather from thee: haply thou mayst inform       Something to save thy life. PAROLLES       O, let me live! 80    And all the secrets of our camp I'll show,       Their force, their purposes; nay, I'll speak that       Which you will wonder at. First Soldier       But wilt thou faithfully? PAROLLES       If I do not, damn me. First Soldier 85    Acordo linta.       Come on; thou art granted space. Exit, with PAROLLES guarded. A short alarum within Second Lord       Go, tell the Count Rousillon, and my brother,       We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled       Till we do hear from them. Second Soldier 90    Captain, I will. Second Lord       A' will betray us all unto ourselves:       Inform on that. Second Soldier       So I will, sir. Second Lord       Till then I'll keep him dark and safely lock'd. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene