Page 1951 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

Then know that I have little wealth to lose;
A man I am crossed with adversity;
My riches are these poor habiliments,
Of which, if you should here disfurnish me,
You take the sum and substance that I have. [15]

SECOND OUTLAW

Whither travel you?

VALENT INE

To Verona.

FIRST OUTLAW

Whence came you?

VALENT INE

From Milan.

THIRD OUTLAW

Have you long sojourned there?

VALENT INE

Some sixteen months, and longer might have stayed, [20]
If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.

FIRST OUTLAW

What, were you banished thence?

VALENT INE

I was.

SECOND OUTLAW

For what offence?

VALENT INE

For that which now torments me to rehearse: [25]
I killed a man, whose death I much repent;
But yet I slew him manfully in fight,
Without false vantage or base treachery.