Page 1952 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

FIRST OUTLAW

Why, ne’er repent it, if it were done so.
But were you banished for so small a fault? [30]

VALENT INE

I was, and held me glad of such a doom.

SECOND OUTLAW

Have you the tongues?

VALENT INE

My youthful travel therein made me happy,
Or else I often had been miserable.

THIRD OUTLAW

By the bare scalp of Robin Hood’s fat friar, [35]
This fellow were a king for our wild faction!

FIRST OUTLAW

We’ll have him. Sirs, a word.

SPEED

Master, be one of them; it’s an honourable kind of thievery.

VALENT INE

Peace, villain! [40]

SECOND OUTLAW

Tell us this: have you anything to take to?

VALENT INE

Nothing but my fortune.

THIRD OUTLAW

Know then that some of us are gentlemen,
Such as the fury of ungoverned youth [45]
Thrust from the company of awful men;
Myself was from Verona banishèd
For practising to steal away a lady,