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to a whipping, if you were but bound to’t.

CLOWN
I ne’er had worse luck in my life in my ‘O Lord, sir!’ I see things may serve
long, but not serve ever.

COUNTESS
I play the noble housewife with the time,
To entertain it so merrily with a fool. [55]

CLOWN
O Lord, sir! − Why, there’t serves well again.

COUNTESS
An end, sir! To your business: give Helen this,
And urge her to a present answer back.
Commend me to my kinsmen and my son.
This is not much. [60]

CLOWN

Not much commendation to them?

COUNTESS

Not much employment for you. You understand me?

CLOWN
Most fruitfully. I am there before my legs.

COUNTESS
Haste you again. [65]
Exeunt.

Scene III IT

Enter Bertram, Lafew, and Parolles.