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Fellows, stand fast! I see a passenger.
If there be ten, shrink not, but down with 'em.
Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye.
Sir, we are undone; these are the villains
My friends.
That's not so, sir. We are your enemies.
Peace, we'll hear him.
Ay, by my beard will we, for he is a proper man.
Valentine
Whither travel you?
To Verona.
Whence came you?
From Milan.
Have you long sojourned there?
Some sixteen months, and longer might have stayed
What, were you banished thence?
I was.
For what offence?
For that which now torments me to rehearse;
Why ne'er repent it, if it were done so;
I was, and held me glad of such a doom.
Have you the tongues?
My youthful travel therein made me happy,
By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar,
We'll have him. Sirs, a word.
4.1.41[The outlaws talk among themselves.]
Master, be one of them. 1584It's an honorable kind of thievery.
Peace, villain.
Tell us this: have you any thing to take to?
Nothing but my fortune.
Know then that some of us are gentlemen,
And I from Mantua for a gentleman
And I, for such like petty crimes as these.
Indeed because you are a banished man,
What sayst thou? Wilt thou be of our consort?
But if thou scorn our courtesy, thou diest.
Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offered.
I take your offer, and will live with you,
No, we detest such vile base practices.
4.1.79 Exeunt.