Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT FOURTH Scene I textit{[Without the Florentine camp.] textit{Enter First French Lord, with five or six other Soldiers in ambush. textit{1. Lord. He can come no other way but by this hedge-corner. When you sally upon him, speak what terrible language you will. Though you understand it not yourselves, no matter; for we must not seem to understand 5 him, unless some one among us, whom we must produce for an interpreter. textit{1. Sold. Good captain, let me be the interpreter. textit{1. Lord. Art not acquainted with him ? Knows 10 he not thy voice ? textit{1. Sold. No, sir, I warrant you. textit{1. Lord. But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again ? textit{1. Sold. E'en such as you speak to me. 15 textit{1. Lord. He must think us some band of strangers i' the adversary's entertainment. Now he hath a smack of all neighbouring languages, therefore we must every one be a man of his own fancy; not to know what we speak one to 20 another, so we seem to know, is to know straight our purpose: choughs' language, gabble enough, and good enough. As for you, inter- preter, you must seem very politic. But couch, ho ! here he comes, to beguile two hours in a sleep, 25 and then to return and swear the lies he forges. textit{Enter Parolles. textit{Par. Ten o'clock: within these three hours 'twill be time enough to go home. What shall I say I have done ? It must be a very plausive invention that carries it. They begin to smoke 50 me, and disgraces have of late knock'd too often at my door. I find my tongue is too foolhardy; but my heart hath the fear of Mars before it and of his creatures, not daring the reports of my tongue. textit{1. Lord. [Aside, in ambush.) This is the first 35 truth that e'er thine own tongue was guilty of. te...