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PISANIO

Madam, I shall. [40]
[Exeunt.]

Scene V IT

Enter Philario, Iachimo, a Frenchman, a Dutchman, and a Spaniard.

IACHIMO

Believe it sir, I have seen him in Britain; he was then of a crescent note,
expected to prove so worthy as since he hath been allowed the name of. But
I could then have look’d on him without the help of admiration, though the
catalogue of his endowments had been tabled by his side and I to peruse him

by [5] items.

PHILARIO
You speak of him when he was less furnish’d than now he is with that which
makes him both without and within.

FRENCHMAN
I have seen him in France: we had very many there [10] could behold the sun
with as firm eyes as he.

IACHIMO

This matter of marrying his king’s daughter, wherein he must be weighed
rather by her value than his own, words him (I doubt not) a great deal from
the matter. [15]

FRENCHMAN
And then his banishment.

IACHIMO
Ay, and the approbation of those that weep this lamentable divorce under her
colours are wonderfully to extend him; be it but to fortify her judgement,

which else an easy battery might lay flat, for taking a beggar without less
quality. But how [20] comes it he is to sojourn with you? how creeps
acquaintance?