Page 904 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

And was a common gamester to the camp.

DIANA
He does me wrong, my lord; if I were so
He might have bought me at a common price. [190]
Do not believe him. O behold this ring
Whose high respect and rich validity

Did lack a parallel; yet for all that
He gave it to a commoner o’th’camp,
If I be one.

COUNTESS
He blushes and ’tis hit. [195]

Of six preceding ancestors, that gem
Conferred by testament to th’sequent issue,
Hath it been owed and worn. This is his wife:
That ring’s a thousand proofs.

KING
Methought you said

You saw one here in court could witness it. [200]

DIANA
I did, my lord, but loath am to produce
So bad an instrument: his name’s Parolles.

LAFEW
I saw the man today, if man he be.

KING
Find him and bring him hither.

Exit an attendant.

BERTRAM
What of him?
He’s quoted for a most perfidious slave [205]
With all the spots o’th’world taxed and debauched,