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Par. Do: I'll take the sacrament on 't, how and which

way you will.

[Ber.] [All's one to him]. What a past-saving slave is this!

First Lord. [You're] deceived, my lord: this is Monsieur

Parolles, the gallant militarist,—that was his own phrase,—

that had the whole [theoric] of war in the knot of his scarf,

and the practice in the chape of his dagger.

Sec. Lord. I will never trust a man again for keeping

his sword clean, nor believe he can have every thing in