Act 4
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Enter certain OUTLAWS
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Several OUTLAWS enter.
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FIRST OUTLAW Fellows, stand fast. I see a passenger.
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FIRST OUTLAW Men, get ready. I see a traveler.
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SECOND OUTLAW If there be ten, shrink not, but down with ’em.
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SECOND OUTLAW Even if there are ten of them, don’t back down. Take them down.
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Enter VALENTINE and SPEED
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VALENTINE and SPEED enter.
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THIRD OUTLAW Stand, sir! And throw us that you have about ye.
If not, we’ll make you sit, and rifle you.
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THIRD OUTLAW Stop, sir! Give us what you have on you. If you don’t, we’ll make you sit and we’ll search you.
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SPEED
5Sir, we are undone. These are the villains
That all the travelers do fear so much.
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SPEED Sir, we’re ruined. These are the bandits that all the travelers in this area fear so much.
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VALENTINE My friends—
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VALENTINE My friends—
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FIRST OUTLAW That’s not so, sir. We are your enemies.
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FIRST OUTLAW That’s not how it is, sir. We are your enemies.
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SECOND OUTLAW Peace! We’ll hear him.
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SECOND OUTLAW Quiet! Let’s hear him out.
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THIRD OUTLAW
10Ay, by my beard will we, for he is a proper man.
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THIRD OUTLAW Yeah, by the hair on my chin we’ll hear him out, because he is a handsome man.
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VALENTINE Then know that I have little wealth to lose.
A man I am, crossed with adversity;
My riches are these poor habiliments,
Of which if you should here disfurnish me
15You take the sum and substance that I have.
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VALENTINE You should know that I have little wealth to lose. I am a man who’s been struck by hardship. My only riches are these poor clothes I’m wearing, and if you take them then you take the sum total of everything I own.
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SECOND OUTLAW Whither travel you?
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SECOND OUTLAW Where are you going?
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VALENTINE To Verona.
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VALENTINE To Verona.
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FIRST OUTLAW Whence came you?
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FIRST OUTLAW Where did you come from?
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VALENTINE From Milan.
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VALENTINE From Milan.
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THIRD OUTLAW
20Have you long sojourned there?
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THIRD OUTLAW How long were you there?
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VALENTINE Some sixteen months, and longer might have stayed
If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.
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VALENTINE About sixteen months, and I might have stayed longer if bad luck hadn’t thwarted me.
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