Page 461 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Like a fine bragging youth; and tell quaint lies,
How honourable ladies sought my love, [70]
Which I denying, they fell sick and died −
I could not do withal; then I’ll repent,

And wish, for all that, that I had not killed them.
And twenty of these puny lies I’ll tell,
That men shall swear I have discontinued school [75]
Above a twelve month. I have within my mind

A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks,
Which I will practise.

NERISSA
Why, shall we turn to men?

PORTIA
Fie, what a question’s that,
If thou wert near a lewd interpreter! [80]

But come, I’ll tell thee all my whole device
When I am in my coach, which stays for us
At the park gate, and therefore haste away,
For we must measure twenty miles today.

Exeunt.

Scene V IT

Enter Launcelot the Clown and Jessica.

LAUNCELOT
Yes truly, for look you, the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children,

therefore, I promise you I fear you; I was always plain with you, and so now I
speak my agitation of the matter: therefore be o’good cheer, for truly I think
you are [5] damned. There is but one hope in it that can do you any good,
and that is but a kind of bastard hope neither.

JESSICA
And what hope is that, I pray thee?