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.

4.1.61548If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you.

Sir, we are undone; these are the villains

4.1.81550That all the travelers do fear so much.

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.

4.1.131555Then know that I have little wealth to lose;

4.1.141556A man I am, crossed with adversity;

4.1.151557My riches are these poor habiliments,

4.1.161558Of which, if you should here disfurnish me,

4.1.171559You take the sum and substance that I have.

Whither travel you?

To Verona.

Whence came you?

From Milan.

Have you long sojourned there?

Some sixteen months, and longer might have stayed

4.1.241566If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.

What, were you banished thence?

I was.

For what offence?

For that which now torments me to rehearse;

4.1.291571I killed a man, whose death I much repent;

4.1.301572But yet I slew him manfully in fight,

4.1.311573Without false vantage or base treachery.

Why ne'er repent it, if it were done so;

4.1.331575But were you banished for so small a fault?

I was, and held me glad of such a doom.

Have you the tongues?

My youthful travel therein made me happy,

4.1.371579Or else I often had been miserable.

By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar,

4.1.391581This fellow were a king for our wild faction.

We'll have him. Sirs, a word.

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,

4.1.471589Such as the fury of ungoverned youth

4.1.481590Thrust from the company of awful men.

4.1.491591Myself was from Verona banished,

4.1.501592For practising to steal away a lady,

4.1.511593An heir, and near allied unto the Duke.

And I from Mantua for a gentleman

4.1.531595Who, in my mood, I stabbed unto the heart.

And I, for such like petty crimes as these.

4.1.551597But to the purpose, for we cite our faults

4.1.561598That they may hold excused our lawless lives,

4.1.571599And partly, seeing you are beautified

4.1.581600With goodly shape, and by your own report

4.1.591601A linguist, and a man of such perfection

4.1.601602As we do in our quality much want -

Indeed because you are a banished man,

4.1.621604Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you.

4.1.631605Are you content to be our general?

4.1.641606To make a virtue of necessity,

4.1.651607And live as we do in this wilderness?

What sayst thou? Wilt thou be of our consort?

4.1.671609Say "Ay," and be the captain of us all.

4.1.681610We'll do thee homage and be ruled by thee,

4.1.691611Love thee as our commander and our king.

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,

4.1.731615Provided that you do no outrages

4.1.741616On silly women or poor passengers.

No, we detest such vile base practices.

4.1.761618Come, go with us. We'll bring thee to our crews

4.1.771619And show thee all the treasure we have got

4.1.781620Which, with our selves, all rest at thy dispose.