Brewer's: Parolles

(3 syl.). A man of vain words, who dubs himself “captain,” pretends to knowledge which he has not, and to sentiments he never feels. (French, paroles, a creature of empty words.) (Shakespeare: All's Well that Ends Well.)

I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fixed evils sit so fit on him That they take place ...

Act i. 1.

Rust, sword; cool, blushes; and, Parolles, live Safest in shame; being fooled, by fooling thrive; There's place and means for every man alive.

Shakespeare: All's Well that Ends Well, iv. 3.

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