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PAROLLES

My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.

LAFEW
Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of it.

PAROLLES
I have not, my lord, deserved it. [215]

LAFEW
Yes, good faith, every dram of it, and I will not bate thee a scruple.

PAROLLES
Well, I shall be wiser.

LAFEW
Even as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at a smack o’th’contrary. If

ever thou beest bound in thy [220] scarf and beaten, thou shall find what it is
to be proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to hold my acquaintance with
thee, or rather my knowledge, that I may say, in the default, ‘He is a man I
know’.

PAROLLES
My lord, you do me most insupportable [225] vexation.

LAFEW

I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my poor doing eternal; for doing I
am past, as I will by thee, in what motion age will give me leave.
Exit.

PAROLLES
Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off [230] me, scurvy, old, filthy,

scurvy lord! Well, I must be patient, there is no fettering of authority. I’ll beat
him, by my life, if I can meet him with any convenience, an he were double
and double a lord. I’ll have no more pity of his age than I would have of − I’ll
beat him an if I [235] could but meet him again.