Page 877 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

FIRST SOLDIER

Shall I set down your answer so?

PAROLLES
Do. I’ll take the sacrament on’t, how and which way you will.

BERTRAM
All’s one to him. What a past saving slave is [135] this!

FIRST LORD
Y’are deceived, my lord; this is Monsieur Parolles, the gallant militarist − that
was his own phrase − that had the whole theoric of war in the knot of his

scarf, and the practice in the chape of his dagger. [140]

SECOND LORD
I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword clean, nor believe he can
have everything in him by wearing his apparel neatly.

FIRST SOLDIER
Well, that’s set down.

PAROLLES
‘Five or six thousand horse’ I said − I will say [145] true − ‘or thereabouts’
set down, for I’ll speak truth.

FIRST LORD

He’s very near the truth in this.

BERTRAM

But I con him no thanks for’t, in the nature he delivers it.

PAROLLES
‘Poor rogues’ I pray you say. [150]

FIRST SOLDIER
Well, that’s set down.