All's Well, That Ends Well
All's Well, That Ends Well COUNTESS. He blushes, and ’tis it. Of six preceding ancestors, that gem Conferr’d by testament to th’ sequent issue, Hath it been owed and worn. This is his wife; That ring’s a thousand proofs.
KING. Methought you said You saw one here in court could witness it.
DIANA. I did, my lord, but loath am to produce So bad an instrument; his name’s Parolles.
LAFEW. I saw the man today, if man he be.
KING. Find him, and bring him hither.
[Exit an Attendant.]
BERTRAM. What of him? He’s quoted for a most perfidious slave, With all the spots o’ the world tax’d and debauch’d: Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth. Am I or that or this for what he’ll utter, That will speak anything?
KING. She hath that ring of yours.
BERTRAM. I think she has. Certain it is I lik’d her And boarded her i’ the wanton way of youth. She knew her distance, and did angle for me, Madding my eagerness with her restraint, As all impediments in fancy’s course Are motives of more fancy; and in fine, Her infinite cunning with her modern grace, Subdu’d me to her rate; she got the ring, And I had that which any inferior might At market-price have bought.