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A public Place.
Enter CLOTEN and 1st and 2nd LORD.
1st Lord Sir, I would advise you to shift a shirt; the violence of
action hath make 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?
2nd Lord [Aside.] No, faith; not so much as his patience.
1st 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.
2nd Lord [Aside.] His steel was in debt; it went o'th' backside the
town.
Cloten The villain would not stand me.
2nd Lord [Aside.] No, but he fled forward still, toward your face.
1st Lord Stand you? You have land enough of your own, but he added
to your having; gave you some ground.
2nd Lord [Aside.] As many inches as you have oceans. Puppies!
Cloten I would they had not come between us.
2nd Lord [Aside.] So would I, till you had measured how long a fool
you were upon the ground.
Cloten And that she should love this fellow, and refuse me!
2nd Lord [Aside.] If it be a sin to make a true election, she is
damned.
1st 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.
2nd 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!
2nd Lord [Aside.] I wish not so, unless it had been the fall of an
ass, which is no great hurt.
Cloten You'll go with us?
1st Lord I'll attend your lordship.
Cloten Nay, come, let's go together.
2nd Lord Well, my lord.
[Exeunt.