ACT III - Scene V 小说：All's Well That Ends Well     作者：William Shakespeare [ 阅读设置与语言切换 ] 设置背景颜色： 段落首字母是否突出显示： 是 否 段落文本是否两端对齐： 是 否 翻页快捷键：上一章（左箭头：←）下一章（右箭头：→） Without the walls of Florence. A tucket afar off.Enter an old WIDOW OF FLORENCE, her daughter DIANA, VIOLENTA, and MARIANA, with other CITIZENSWIDOWNay, come; for if they do approach the city we shall lose all the sight.DIANAThey say the French count has done most honourable service.WIDOWIt is reported that he has taken their great'st commander; and that with his own hand he slew the Duke's brother. [Tucket] We have lost our labour; they are gone a contrary way. Hark! you may know by their trumpets.MARIANACome, let's return again, and suffice ourselves with the report of it. Well, Diana, take heed of this French earl; the honour of a maid is her name, and no legacy is so rich as honesty.WIDOWI have told my neighbour how you have been solicited by a gentleman his companion.MARIANAI know that knave, hang him! one Parolles; a filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the young earl. Beware of them, Diana: their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust, are not the things they go under; many a maid hath been seduced by them; and the misery is, example, that so terrible shows in the wreck of maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade succession, but that they are limed with the twigs that threatens them. I hope I need not to advise you further; but I hope your own grace will keep you where you are, though there were no further danger known but the modesty which is so lost.DIANAYou shall not need to fear me.Enter HELENA in the dress of a pilgrimWIDOWI hope so. Look, here comes a pilgrim. I know she will lie at my house: thither they send one another. I'll question her. God save you, pilgrim! Whither are bound?HELENATo Saint Jaques le Grand. Where do the palmers lodge, I do beseech you?WIDOWAt the Saint Francis here, beside the port.HELENAIs this the way?[A march afar]WIDOWAy, marry, is't. Hark you! They come this way. If you will tarry, holy pilgrim, But till the troops come by, I will conduct you where you shall be lodg'd; The rather for I think I know your hostess As ample as myself.HELENAIs it yourself?WIDOWIf you shall please so, pilgrim.HELENAI thank you, and will stay upon your leisure.WIDOWYou came, I think, from France?HELENAI did so.WIDOWHere you shall see a countryman of yours That has done worthy service.HELENAHis name, I pray you.DIANAThe Count Rousillon. Know you such a one?HELENABut by the ear, that hears most nobly of him; His face I know not.DIANAWhat some'er he is, He's bravely taken here. He stole from France, As 'tis reported, for the King had married him Against his liking. Think you it is so?HELENAAy, surely, mere the truth; I know his lady.DIANAThere is a gentleman that serves the Count Reports but coarsely of her.HELENAWhat's his name?DIANAMonsieur Parolles.HELENAO, I believe with him, In argument of praise, or to the worth Of the great Count himself, she is too mean To have her name repeated; all her deserving Is a reserved honesty, and that I have not heard examin'd.DIANAAlas, poor lady! 'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife Of a detesting lord.WIDOWI sweet, good creature, wheresoe'er she is Her heart weighs sadly. This young maid might do her A shrewd turn, if she pleas'd.HELENAHow do you mean? May be the amorous Count solicits her In the unlawful purpose.WIDOWHe does, indeed; And brokes with all that can in such a suit Corrupt the tender honour of a maid; But she is arm'd for him, and keeps her guard In honestest defence.Enter, with drum and colours, BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and the whole ARMYMARIANAThe gods forbid else!WIDOWSo, now they come. That is Antonio, the Duke's eldest son; That, Escalus.HELENAWhich is the Frenchman?DIANAHe- That with the plume; 'tis a most gallant fellow. I would he lov'd his wife; if he were honester He were much goodlier. Is't not a handsome gentleman?HELENAI like him well.DIANA'Tis pity he is not honest. Yond's that same knave That leads him to these places; were I his lady I would poison that vile rascal.HELENAWhich is he?DIANAThat jack-an-apes with scarfs. Why is he melancholy?HELENAPerchance he's hurt i' th' battle.PAROLLESLose our drum! well.MARIANAHe's shrewdly vex'd at something. Look, he has spied us.WIDOWMarry, hang you!MARIANAAnd your courtesy, for a ring-carrier!Exeunt BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and ARMYWIDOWThe troop is past. Come, pilgrim, I will bring you Where you shall host. Of enjoin'd penitents There's four or five, to great Saint Jaques bound, Already at my house.HELENAI humbly thank you. Please it this matron and this gentle maid To eat with us to-night; the charge and thanking Shall be for me, and, to requite you further, I will bestow some precepts of this virgin, Worthy the note. BOTH. We'll take your offer kindly.Exeunt Previous Chapter Next Chapter