Today’s Totally Random Lines
Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off me; scurvy, old filthy scurvy lord!
Parolles
All’s Well That Ends Well Act II, Scene iii, Line 239
Parolles is alone and talking about Lafeu, who has just walked off. The latter is an old man and a lord, and he’s just spent the last few minutes insulting Parolles, who is a commoner. So Parolles is all worked up, but afraid to do anything about it because 1) Lafeu is an old man and he doesn’t want to fight with an old man, and 2) Lafeu is a lord and he doesn’t want to fight with a lord. Parolles is stuck yelling at the wind, sort of.
I guess he’s saying that he’ll fight Lafeu’s son in order to regain his honor; a son who’s apparently neither old, nor a lord. I’m not sure there even is a son of Lafeu, because he’s not mentioned otherwise in this play, but perhaps Parolles knows more than we do about Lafeu’s family. In any event, beating up on the son because the dad insulted him doesn’t make all that much sense to me, but who am I to say.
Did someone say something about old guys? I've got an old guy too, and he doesn't give me much trouble at all. Maybe I could give Parolles a few tips about how to handle old guys?
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