Page 852 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

Here you shall see a countryman of yours
That has done worthy service.

HELENA
His name, I pray you?

DIANA
The Count Rossillion. Know you such a one?

HELENA
But by the ear, that hears most nobly of him;
His face I know not.

DIANA
Whatsome’er he is, [50]
He’s bravely taken here. He stole from France,
As ’tis reported, for the King had married him
Against his liking. Think you it is so?

HELENA

Ay, surely, mere the truth. I know his lady.

DIANA

There is a gentleman that serves the Count [55]
Reports but coarsely of her.

HELENA
What’s his name?

DIANA
Monsieur Parolles.

HELENA
O, I believe with him,
In argument of praise or to the worth

Of the great Count himself, she is too mean
To have her name repeated; all her deserving [60]