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Act I, Scene 2
1The same. A public place.
2Enter Cloten and two Lords.
3First LordSir, 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.
4ClotenIf my shirt were bloody, then to shift it. Have I hurt him?
5Second LordAside. No, ’faith; not so much as his patience.
6First LordHurt him! his body’s a passable carcass, if he be not hurt: it is a thoroughfare for steel, if it be not hurt.
7Second LordAside. His steel was in debt; it went o’ the backside the town.
8ClotenThe villain would not stand me.
9Second LordAside. No; but he fled forward still, toward your face.
10First LordStand you! You have land enough of your own: but he added to your having; gave you some ground.
11Second LordAside. As many inches as you have oceans. Puppies!
12ClotenI would they had not come between us.
13Second LordAside. So would I, till you had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.
14ClotenAnd that she should love this fellow and refuse me!
15Second LordAside. If it be a sin to make a true election, she is damned.
16First LordSir, 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.
17Second LordAside. She shines not upon fools, lest the reflection should hurt her.
18ClotenCome, I’ll to my chamber. Would there had been some hurt done!
19Second LordAside. I wish not so; unless it had been the fall of an ass, which is no great hurt.
20ClotenYou’ll go with us?
21First LordI’ll attend your lordship.
22ClotenNay, come, let’s go together.
23Second LordWell, my lord. Exeunt.