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
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 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 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 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:
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.
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