FIRST LORD
Sir, I would advise you to shift a shirt; the violence
of action hath made you reek as a sacrifice. Where air comes out,
air comes in; there's none abroad so wholesome as that you vent.
CLOTEN
If my shirt were bloody, then to shift it. Have I hurt him?
SECOND LORD [Aside] No, faith; not so much as his patience.
FIRST LORD
Hurt him! His body's a passable carcass if he be not
hurt. It is a throughfare for steel if it be not hurt.
SECOND LORD [Aside] His steel was in debt; it went o' th' back
side the town.
CLOTEN
The villain would not stand me.
SECOND LORD [Aside] No; but he fled forward still, toward your
face.
FIRST LORD
Stand you? You have land enough of your own; but he
added to your having, gave you some ground.
SECOND LORD [Aside] As many inches as you have oceans.
Puppies!
CLOTEN
I would they had not come between us.
SECOND LORD [Aside] So would I, till you had measur'd how long a
fool you were upon the ground.
CLOTEN
And that she should love this fellow, and refuse me!
SECOND LORD [Aside] If it be a sin to make a true election, she is
damn'd.
FIRST LORD
Sir, as I told you always, her beauty and her brain go
not together; she's a good sign, but I have seen small reflection
of her wit.
SECOND LORD [Aside] She shines not upon fools, lest the reflection
should hurt her.
CLOTEN
Come, I'll to my chamber. Would there had been some hurt
done!
SECOND LORD [Aside] I wish not so; unless it had been the fall of
an ass, which is no great hurt.
