All's Well, That Ends Well
All's Well, That Ends Well PAROLLES. [Aside.] I’ll no more drumming; a plague of all drums! Only to seem to deserve well, and to beguile the supposition of that lascivious young boy the count, have I run into this danger: yet who would have suspected an ambush where I was taken?
FIRST SOLDIER. There is no remedy, sir, but you must die. The general says you that have so traitorously discovered the secrets of your army, and made such pestiferous reports of men very nobly held, can serve the world for no honest use; therefore you must die. Come, headsman, off with his head.
PAROLLES. O Lord! sir, let me live, or let me see my death.
FIRST SOLDIER. That shall you, and take your leave of all your friends.
[Unmuffling him.]
So, look about you; know you any here?
BERTRAM. Good morrow, noble captain.
SECOND LORD. God bless you, Captain Parolles.
FIRST LORD. God save you, noble captain.
SECOND LORD. Captain, what greeting will you to my Lord Lafew? I am for France.
FIRST LORD. Good Captain, will you give me a copy of the sonnet you writ to Diana in behalf of the Count Rossillon? And I were not a very coward I’d compel it of you; but fare you well.
[Exeunt Bertram, Lords &c.]