Page 832 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3
P. 832
HELENA
If she be very well, what does she ail that she’s not very well?
CLOWN
Truly, she’s very well indeed, but for two things.
HELENA
What two things?
CLOWN
One, that she’s not in heaven, whither God send [10] her quickly! The other,
that she’s in earth, from whence God send her quickly!
Enter Parolles.
PAROLLES
Bless you, my fortunate lady.
HELENA
I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine own good fortune. [15]
PAROLLES
You had my prayers to lead them on, and to keep them on have them still. O,
my knave! How does my old lady?
CLOWN
So that you had her wrinkles and I her money, I would she did as you say.
[20]
PAROLLES
Why, I say nothing.
CLOWN
Marry, you are the wiser man, for many a man’s tongue shakes out his
master’s undoing. To say nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to
have nothing, is to be a great part of your title, which is within a very [25]
little of nothing.
