Page 565 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

And bear the name and port of gentlemen? -

WHIT MORE

Cut both the villains’ throats - for die you shall - [20]
The lives of those which we have lost in fight
Be counterpoised with such a petty sum!

FIRST GENTLEMAN

I’ll give it, sir, and therefore spare my life.

SECOND GENTLEMAN

And so will I, and write home for it straight.

WHIT MORE

I lost mine eye in laying the prize aboard, [25]
[to Suffolk] And therefore, to revenge it, shalt thou die,
And so should these, if I might have my will.

LIEUT ENANT

Be not so rash; take ransom, let him live.

SUFFOLK

Look on my George: I am a gentleman.
Rate me at what thou wilt, thou shalt be paid. [30]

WHIT MORE

And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore.
How now? Why starts thou? What, doth death affright?

SUFFOLK

Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death:
A cunning man did calculate my birth
And told me that by water I should die: [35]
Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded,
Thy name is Gualtier, being rightly sounded.

WHIT MORE

Gualtier or Walter, which it is I care not;
Never yet did base dishonour blur our name
But with our sword we wiped away the blot; [40]