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master!

LAFEW
Are you companion to the Count Rossillion? [190]

PAROLLES
To any Count, to all Counts, to what is man.

LAFEW
To what is Count’s man; Count’s master is of another style.

PAROLLES
You are too old, sir; let it satisfy you, you are too old. [195]

LAFEW
I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man, to which title age cannot bring thee.

PAROLLES
What I dare too well do, I dare not do.

LAFEW
I did think thee for two ordinaries to be a pretty wise fellow. Thou didst make

tolerable vent of thy travel; [200] it might pass. Yet the scarfs and the
bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from believing thee a
vessel of too great a burden. I have now found thee; when I lose thee again I

care not. Yet art thou good for nothing but taking up, and that thou’rt scarce
worth. [205]

PAROLLES
Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee −

LAFEW
Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou hasten thy trial; which if −
Lord have mercy on thee for a hen! So, my good window of lattice, fare thee
well; thy [210] casement I need not open, for I look through thee. Give me

thy hand.