Cymbeline

by William Shakespeare

Act I, Scene II

The same. A public place.

Enter CLOTEN and two Lords

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.

If my shirt were bloody, then to shift it. Have I hurt him?

[Aside] No, 'faith; not so much as his patience.

Hurt him! his body's a passable carcass, if he be
not hurt: it is a thoroughfare for steel, if it be not hurt.

[Aside] His steel was in debt; it went o' the
backside the town.

The villain would not stand me.

[Aside] No; but he fled forward still, toward your face.

Stand you! You have land enough of your own: but
he added to your having; gave you some ground.

[Aside] As many inches as you have oceans. Puppies!

I would they had not come between us.

[Aside] So would I, till you had measured how long
a fool you were upon the ground.

And that she should love this fellow and refuse me!

[Aside] If it be a sin to make a true election, she
is damned.

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.

[Aside] She shines not upon fools, lest the
reflection should hurt her.

Come, I'll to my chamber. Would there had been some
hurt done!

[Aside] I wish not so; unless it had been the fall
of an ass, which is no great hurt.

You'll go with us?

I'll attend your lordship.

Nay, come, let's go together.

Well, my lord.

Exeunt

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