_Laf._ Whether dost thou profess thyself, a knave or a fool? 20
_Clo._ A fool, sir, at a woman's service, and a knave at a man's.
_Clo._ I would cozen the man of his wife and do his service.
_Laf._ So you were a knave at his service, indeed. 25
_Clo._ And I would give his wife my bauble, sir, to do her service.
_Laf._ I will subscribe for thee, thou art both knave and fool.
_Clo._ Why, sir, if I cannot serve you, I can serve as great a prince as you are.
_Clo._ Faith, sir, a' has an English name; but his fisnomy 35 is more hotter in France than there.
_Clo._ The black prince, sir; alias, the prince of darkness; alias, the devil.
_Laf._ Hold thee, there's my purse: I give thee not this to 40 suggest thee from thy master thou talkest of; serve him still.
_Clo._ I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always loved a great fire; and the master I speak of ever keeps a good fire. But, sure, he is the prince of the world; let his nobility remain in's court. I am for the house with the narrow gate, 45 which I take to be too little for pomp to enter: some that humble themselves may; but the many will be too chill and tender, and they'll be for the flowery way that leads to the broad gate and the great fire.
_Laf._ Go thy ways, I begin to be aweary of thee; and 50 I tell thee so before, because I would not fall out with thee. Go thy ways: let my horses be well looked to, without any tricks.
_Clo._ If I put any tricks upon 'em, sir, they shall be jades' tricks; which are their own right by the law of nature. 55 [_Exit._
_Count._ So he is. My lord that's gone made himself much sport out of him: by his authority he remains here, which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness; and, indeed, he has no pace, but runs where he will. 60
_Laf._ I like him well; 'tis not amiss. And I was about to tell you, since I heard of the good lady's death and that my lord your son was upon his return home, I moved the king my master to speak in the behalf of my daughter; which, in the minority of them both, his majesty, out of a 65 self-gracious remembrance, did first propose: his highness hath promised me to do it: and, to stop up the displeasure he hath conceived against your son, there is no fitter matter. How does your ladyship like it?