Be damned.... So, so you are damned enough already by your oaths. Yet take this advice with you, in this plain-dealing age: to leave off forswearing yourself....
OLIVIA.
O hideous, hideous advice! Let us go out of the hearing of it. She will spoil us, Lettice. (Acte V, scène i.)
[54]: Comparez au rôle d'Alceste des tirades comme celle-ci:
Such as you, like common whores and pickpockets, are only dangerous to those you embrace.
Comparez au rôle de Philinte des tirades comme celle-ci:
But, faith, could you think I was a friend to those I hugged, kissed, flattered, bowed to? When their backs were turned, did not I tell you they were rogues, villains, rascals, whom I despised and hated?
[55]: I shall not have again my alcove smell like a cabin, my chamber perfumed with his tarpaulin Brandenburgh, hear vollies of brandy sighs, enough to make a fog in one's room.
[56]: My lord, all that you have made me known by your whispering which I knew not before, is that you have a stinking breath. There is a secret for your heart.
[57]: