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O my knave, how does my old lady?

Parolles
O my knave, how does my old lady?
Fool
So that you had her wrinkles and I her money, I
would she did as you say.
Parolles
Why, I say nothing.

To say nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and
to have nothing is to be a great part of your title

Fool
Marry, you are the wiser man, for many a man’s
tongue shakes out his master’s undoing. To say
nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to
have nothing is to be a great part of your title,
which is within a very little of nothing.
Parolles
Away. Thou ’rt a knave.
Fool
You should have said, sir, “Before a knave,
thou ’rt a knave”; that’s “Before me, thou ’rt a
knave.” This had been truth, sir.
Parolles
Go to. Thou art a witty fool. I have found thee.
Fool
Did you find me in yourself, sir, or were you
taught to find me?
Parolles
Fool
The search, sir, was profitable, and much fool
may you find in you, even to the world’s pleasure
and the increase of laughter.

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Act 2
Scene 4
Line 17

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