The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
[45] _he humbled_] _be-humbled_ Staunton conj.
[47] _demonstrate them now_] _now demonstrate them_ Pope.
[50] _So in approof lives not his_] _Approof so lives not in his_
Johnson conj. _So his approof lives not in_ Capell.
[56] _This_] Ff. _Thus_ Pope.
[58] _it_] _wit_ Staunton conj.
[62] _fathers_] _feathers_ Tyrwhitt conj. _parcels_ Williams conj.
[67] _labourers_] _labourer_ Warburton.
_You are_] Capell. _You'r_ F1 F2. _You're_ F3 F4.
[76] _Thank_] _Thanks to_ Rowe.
[Exeunt.] Exit. Ff.
SCENE III. _Rousillon._ _The_ COUNT'S _palace_.
_Enter_ COUNTESS, Steward, _and_ Clown.
_Count._ I will now hear; what say you of this gentlewoman?
_Stew._ Madam, the care I have had to even your content,
I wish might be found in the calendar of my past
endeavours; for then we wound our modesty and make 5
foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we
publish them.
_Count._ What does this knave here? Get you gone,
sirrah: the complaints I have heard of you I do not all
believe: 'tis my slowness that I do not; for I know you 10
lack not folly to commit them, and have ability enough to
make such knaveries yours.
_Clo._ 'Tis not unknown to you, madam, I am a poor
fellow.
_Count._ Well, sir. 15
_Clo._ No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor,
though many of the rich are damned: but, if I may have
your ladyship's good will to go to the world, Isbel the
woman and I will do as we may.
_Count._ Wilt thou needs be a beggar? 20
_Clo._ I do beg your good will in this case.
_Count._ In what case?
_Clo._ In Isbel's case and mine own. Service is no
heritage: and I think I shall never have the blessing of
God till I have issue o' my body; for they say barnes are 25
blessings.
_Count._ Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry.
_Clo._ My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on
by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives.
_Count._ Is this all your worship's reason? 30
_Clo._ Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons, such as
they are.
_Count._ May the world know them?
_Clo._ I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you
and all flesh and blood are; and, indeed, I do marry that 35
I may repent.
_Count._ Thy marriage, sooner than thy wickedness.
_Clo._ I am out o' friends, madam; and I hope to have
friends for my wife's sake.
_Count._ Such friends are thine enemies, knave. 40
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