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1

All's Well That Ends Well
[II, 5]

Bertram

1360

Where are my other men, monsieur? Farewell.
[Exit HELENA]
Go thou toward home; where I will never come
Whilst I can shake my sword or hear the drum.
Away, and for our flight.

2

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 3]

(stage directions)

1541

[Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence, BERTRAM,]
PAROLLES, Soldiers, Drum, and Trumpets]

3

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 3]

Bertram

1553

This very day,
Great Mars, I put myself into thy file:
Make me but like my thoughts, and I shall prove
A lover of thy drum, hater of love.

4

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 5]

Widow

1694

So, now they come:
[Drum and Colours]
[Enter BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and the whole army]
That is Antonio, the duke's eldest son;
That, Escalus.

5

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 5]

Parolles

1711

Lose our drum! well.

6

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 6]

First Lord

1745

None better than to let him fetch off his drum,
which you hear him so confidently undertake to do.

7

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 6]

First Lord

1759

O, for the love of laughter, let him fetch his drum;
he says he has a stratagem for't: when your
lordship sees the bottom of his success in't, and to
what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be
melted, if you give him not John Drum's
entertainment, your inclining cannot be removed.
Here he comes.

8

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 6]

Second Lord

1767

[Aside to BERTRAM] O, for the love of laughter,
hinder not the honour of his design: let him fetch
off his drum in any hand.

9

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 6]

Bertram

1770

How now, monsieur! this drum sticks sorely in your
disposition.

10

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 6]

First Lord

1772

A pox on't, let it go; 'tis but a drum.

11

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 6]

Parolles

1773

'But a drum'! is't 'but a drum'? A drum so lost!
There was excellent command,—to charge in with our
horse upon our own wings, and to rend our own soldiers!

12

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 6]

Bertram

1780

Well, we cannot greatly condemn our success: some
dishonour we had in the loss of that drum; but it is
not to be recovered.

13

All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 6]

Parolles

1785

It is to be recovered: but that the merit of
service is seldom attributed to the true and exact
performer, I would have that drum or another, or
'hic jacet.'

14

All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 1]

Parolles

1936

What the devil should move me to undertake the
recovery of this drum, being not ignorant of the
impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose? I
must give myself some hurts, and say I got them in
exploit: yet slight ones will not carry it; they
will say, 'Came you off with so little?' and great
ones I dare not give. Wherefore, what's the
instance? Tongue, I must put you into a
butter-woman's mouth and buy myself another of
Bajazet's mule, if you prattle me into these perils.

15

All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 1]

Parolles

1960

I would I had any drum of the enemy's: I would swear
I recovered it.

16

All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 1]

Parolles

1963

A drum now of the enemy's,—

17

All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 3]

Parolles

2348

Faith, sir, he has led the drum before the English
tragedians; to belie him, I will not, and more of
his soldiership I know not; except, in that country
he had the honour to be the officer at a place there
called Mile-end, to instruct for the doubling of
files: I would do the man what honour I can, but of
this I am not certain.

18

All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 2]

Lafeu

2655

You beg more than 'word,' then. Cox my passion!
give me your hand. How does your drum?

19

All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 3]

Lafeu

2964

He's a good drum, my lord, but a naughty orator.

20

All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 3]

Lafeu

3041

Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon:
[To PAROLLES]
Good Tom Drum, lend me a handkercher: so,
I thank thee: wait on me home, I'll make sport with thee:
Let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones.