All's Well, That Ends Well
All's Well, That Ends Well PAROLLES. Or the baring of my beard, and to say it was in stratagem.
FIRST LORD. [Aside.] ’Twould not do.
PAROLLES. Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped.
FIRST LORD. [Aside.] Hardly serve.
PAROLLES. Though I swore I leap’d from the window of the citadel,—
FIRST LORD. [Aside.] How deep?
PAROLLES. Thirty fathom.
FIRST LORD. [Aside.] Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed.
PAROLLES. I would I had any drum of the enemy’s; I would swear I recover’d it.
FIRST LORD. [Aside.] You shall hear one anon.
PAROLLES. A drum now of the enemy’s!
[Alarum within.]
FIRST LORD. Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo.
ALL. Cargo, cargo, cargo, villianda par corbo, cargo.
[They seize and blindfold him.]
PAROLLES. O, ransom, ransom! Do not hide mine eyes.
FIRST SOLDIER. Boskos thromuldo boskos.