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All’s Well That Ends Well: Act II, Scene 2

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All’s Well That Ends Well
Act II, Scene 2

Roussillon . The Count’s palace .

  1. Enter Countess and Clown .

Countess

1 - 2
  1. Come on , sir , I shall now put you to the height of your
  2. breeding .

Lavatch

3 - 4
  1. I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught . I know my
  2. business is but to the court .

Countess

5 - 6
  1. To the court ! Why , what place make you special , when you put
  2. off that with such contempt ? But to the court !

Lavatch

7 - 12
  1. Truly , madam , if God have lent a man any manners , he may
  2. easily put it off at court . He that cannot make a leg , put
  3. off ’s cap , kiss his hand , and say nothing , has neither leg ,
  4. hands , lip , nor cap ; and indeed such a fellow , to say
  5. precisely , were not for the court ; but for me , I have an
  6. answer will serve all men .

Countess

13
  1. Marry , that’s a bountiful answer that fits all questions .

Lavatch

14 - 16
  1. It is like a barber’s chair that fits all buttocks : the
  2. pin - buttock , the quatch - buttock , the brawn - buttock , or any
  3. buttock .

Countess

17
  1. Will your answer serve fit to all questions ?

Lavatch

18 - 23
  1. As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney , as your
  2. French crown for your taffety punk , as Tib’s rush for Tom’s
  3. forefinger , as a pancake for Shrove Tuesday , a morris for
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  4. May - day , as the nail to his hole , the cuckold to his horn ,
  5. as a scolding quean to a wrangling knave , as the nun’s lip
  6. to the friar’s mouth , nay , as the pudding to his skin .

Countess

24 - 25
  1. Have you , I say , an answer of such fitness for all
  2. questions ?

Lavatch

26 - 27
  1. From below your duke to beneath your constable , it will fit
  2. any question .

Countess

28 - 29
  1. It must be an answer of most monstrous size that must fit
  2. all demands .

Lavatch

30 - 32
  1. But a trifle neither , in good faith , if the learned should
  2. speak truth of it . Here it is , and all that belongs to’t .
  3. Ask me if I am a courtier : it shall do you no harm to learn .

Countess

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  1. To be young again , if we could , I will be a fool in
  2. question , hoping to be the wiser by your answer . I pray you ,
  3. sir , are you a courtier ?

Lavatch

36 - 37
  1. O Lord , sir !— There’s a simple putting off . More , more , a
  2. hundred of them .

Countess

38
  1. Sir , I am a poor friend of yours that loves you .

Lavatch

39
  1. O Lord , sir !— Thick , thick , spare not me .

Countess

40
  1. I think , sir , you can eat none of this homely meat .

Lavatch

41
  1. O Lord , sir !— Nay , put me to’t , I warrant you .

Countess

42
  1. You were lately whipt , sir , as I think .

Lavatch

43
  1. O Lord , sir !— Spare not me .

Countess

44 - 47
  1. Do you cry , O Lord , sir !” at your whipping , and Spare not
  2. me ”? Indeed your O Lord , sir !” is very sequent to your
  3. whipping ; you would answer very well to a whipping , if you
  4. were but bound to’t .

Lavatch

48 - 49
  1. I ne’er had worse luck in my life in my O Lord , sir !” I see
  2. things may serve long , but not serve ever .

Countess

50 - 51
  1. I play the noble huswife with the time ,
  2. To entertain it so merrily with a fool .

Lavatch

52
  1. O Lord , sir !— Why , there’t serves well again .

Countess

53 - 56
  1. An end , sir ; to your business : give Helen this ,
  2. And urge her to a present answer back .
  3. Commend me to my kinsmen and my son .
  4. This is not much .

Lavatch

57
  1. Not much commendation to them .

Countess

58
  1. Not much employment for you . You understand me ?

Lavatch

59
  1. Most fruitfully , I am there before my legs .

Countess

60
  1. Haste you again .
  1. Exeunt .
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