1293.1[Scene 17] [Video Sc.17] It is a world to see, now I am flush,
17.21296How many friends I purchase everywhere!
17.31297How many seek to creep into my favor,
17.41298And kiss their hands and bend their knees to me!
17.51299No more, here comes the queen; now shall I know her mind,
17.61300And hope for to derive more crowns from her.
My friend, I see thou mindst thy promise well
17.81302And art before me here, methinks, today.
I am a poor man, an it like your grace,
17.101304But yet I always love to keep my word.
Well, keep thy word with me and thou shalt see
17.121306That of a poor man I will make thee rich.
I long to hear it; it might have been dispatched
17.141308If you had told me of it yesternight.
It is a thing of right strange consequence,
17.161310And well I cannot utter it in words.
It is more strange that I am not by this
17.181312Beside myself with longing for to hear it.
17.191313Were it to meet the devil in his den
17.201314And try a bout with him for a scratched face,
17.211315I'd undertake it if you would but bid me.
Ah, good my friend, that I should have thee do
17.231317Is such a thing as I do shame to speak,
I'll speak it for thee, Queen; shall I kill thy father?
17.261320I know 'tis that, an if it be so, say.
Ay.
Why, that's enough.
And yet that is not all.
What else?
Thou must kill that old man that came with him.
Here are two hands; for each of them is one.
And for each hand here is a recompense.
Oh, that I had ten hands by miracle,
17.351329I could tear ten in pieces with my teeth,
17.361330So in my mouth you'd put a purse of gold.
17.371331But in what manner must it be effected?
Tomorrow morning ere the break of day,
17.391333I by a wile will send them to the thicket
17.401334That is about some two miles from the court,
17.411335And promise them to meet them there myself
17.421336Because I must have private conference
17.431337About some news I have received from Cornwall.
17.441338This is enough, I know, they will not fail,
17.451339And then be ready for to play thy part,
17.461340Which done, thou mayst right easily escape
17.471341And no man once mistrust thee for the fact.
17.481342But yet, before thou prosecute the act,
17.491343Show him the letter which my sister sent;
17.501344There let him read his own indictment first,
17.521346But see thou faint not, for they will speak fair.
Could he speak words as pleasing as the pipe
17.541348Of Mercury, which charmed the hundred eyes
17.551349Of watchful Argos and enforced him sleep,
17.561350Yet here are words so pleasing to my thoughts,
17.571351As quite shall take away the sound of his.
About it then, and when thou hast dispatched,
17.591353I'll find a means to send thee after him.
King Leir