Towards Florence is he?
Second Gentleman Ay, madam.
COUNTESS And to be a soldier?
Second Gentleman Such is his noble purpose; and believe 't,
The duke will lay upon him all the honour
That good convenience claims.
COUNTESS Return you thither?
First Gentleman Ay, madam, with the swiftest wing of speed.
HELENA [Reads] Till I have no wife I have nothing in France.
'Tis bitter.
COUNTESS Find you that there?
HELENA Ay, madam.
First Gentleman 'Tis but the boldness of his hand, haply, which his
heart was not consenting to.
COUNTESS Nothing in France, until he have no wife!
There's nothing here that is too good for him
But only she; and she deserves a lord
That twenty such rude boys might tend upon
And call her hourly mistress. Who was with him?
First Gentleman A servant only, and a gentleman
Which I have sometime known.
COUNTESS Parolles, was it not?
First Gentleman Ay, my good lady, he.
COUNTESS A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness.
My son corrupts a well-derived nature
With his inducement.
First Gentleman Indeed, good lady,
The fellow has a deal of that too much,
Which holds him much to have.
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