Comedy plays; Florence (Italy) -- Drama; Married women -- Drama; Runaway husbands -- Drama
PAROLLES. Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off
me:
scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord! Well, I must be patient;
there
is no fettering of authority. I'll beat him, by my life, if I
can
meet him with any convenience, an he were double and double a
lord. I'll have no more pity of his age than I would have of-
I'll beat him, and if I could but meet him again.
Re-enter LAFEU
LAFEU. Sirrah, your lord and master's married; there's news for
you; you have a new mistress.
PAROLLES. I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make some
reservation of your wrongs. He is my good lord: whom I serve
above is my master.
LAFEU. Who? God?
PAROLLES. Ay, sir.
LAFEU. The devil it is that's thy master. Why dost thou garter
up
thy arms o' this fashion? Dost make hose of thy sleeves? Do
other
servants so? Thou wert best set thy lower part where thy nose
stands. By mine honour, if I were but two hours younger, I'd
beat
thee. Methink'st thou art a general offence, and every man
should
beat thee. I think thou wast created for men to breathe
themselves upon thee.
PAROLLES. This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord.
LAFEU. Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a
kernel
out of a pomegranate; you are a vagabond, and no true
traveller;
you are more saucy with lords and honourable personages than
the
commission of your birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You
are
not worth another word, else I'd call you knave. I leave you.
Exit
Enter BERTRAM
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