BERTRAM Damnable both-sides rogue!
First Soldier [Reads] 'When he swears oaths, bid him drop gold, and take it;
After he scores, he never pays the score:
Half won is match well made; match, and well make it;
He ne'er pays after-debts, take it before;
And say a soldier, Dian, told thee this,
Men are to mell with, boys are not to kiss:
For count of this, the count's a fool, I know it,
Who pays before, but not when he does owe it.
Thine, as he vowed to thee in thine ear,
PAROLLES.'
BERTRAM He shall be whipped through the army with this rhyme
in's forehead.
Second Lord This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold
linguist and the armipotent soldier.
BERTRAM I could endure any thing before but a cat, and now
he's a cat to me.
First Soldier I perceive, sir, by the general's looks, we shall be
fain to hang you.
PAROLLES My life, sir, in any case: not that I am afraid to
die; but that, my offences being many, I would
repent out the remainder of nature: let me live,
sir, in a dungeon, i' the stocks, or any where, so I may live.
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