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and, having flown over many knavish professions, he |
settled only in rogue: some call him Autolycus. |
Clown: |
Out upon him! prig, for my life, prig: he haunts |
wakes, fairs and bear-baitings. |
AUTOLYCUS: |
Very true, sir; he, sir, he; that's the rogue that |
put me into this apparel. |
Clown: |
Not a more cowardly rogue in all Bohemia: if you had |
but looked big and spit at him, he'ld have run. |
AUTOLYCUS: |
I must confess to you, sir, I am no fighter: I am |
false of heart that way; and that he knew, I warrant |
him. |
Clown: |
How do you now? |
AUTOLYCUS: |
Sweet sir, much better than I was; I can stand and |
walk: I will even take my leave of you, and pace |
softly towards my kinsman's. |
Clown: |
Shall I bring thee on the way? |
AUTOLYCUS: |
No, good-faced sir; no, sweet sir. |
Clown: |
Then fare thee well: I must go buy spices for our |
sheep-shearing. |
AUTOLYCUS: |
Prosper you, sweet sir! |
Your purse is not hot enough to purchase your spice. |
I'll be with you at your sheep-shearing too: if I |
make not this cheat bring out another and the |
shearers prove sheep, let me be unrolled and my name |
put in the book of virtue! |
Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, |
And merrily hent the stile-a: |
A merry heart goes all the day, |
Your sad tires in a mile-a. |
FLORIZEL: |
These your unusual weeds to each part of you |
Do give a life: no shepherdess, but Flora |
Peering in April's front. This your sheep-shearing |
Is as a meeting of the petty gods, |
And you the queen on't. |
PERDITA: |
Sir, my gracious lord, |
To chide at your extremes it not becomes me: |
O, pardon, that I name them! Your high self, |
The gracious mark o' the land, you have obscured |
With a swain's wearing, and me, poor lowly maid, |
Most goddess-like prank'd up: but that our feasts |
In every mess have folly and the feeders |
Digest it with a custom, I should blush |
To see you so attired, sworn, I think, |
To show myself a glass. |
FLORIZEL: |
I bless the time |
When my good falcon made her flight across |
Thy father's ground. |
PERDITA: |
Now Jove afford you cause! |
To me the difference forges dread; your greatness |
Hath not been used to fear. Even now I tremble |
To think your father, by some accident, |
Should pass this way as you did: O, the Fates! |
How would he look, to see his work so noble |
Vilely bound up? What would he say? Or how |
Should I, in these my borrow'd flaunts, behold |
The sternness of his presence? |
FLORIZEL: |
Apprehend |
Nothing but jollity. The gods themselves, |
Humbling their deities to love, have taken |
The shapes of beasts upon them: Jupiter |
Became a bull, and bellow'd; the green Neptune |
A ram, and bleated; and the fire-robed god, |
Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain, |
As I seem now. Their transformations |
Were never for a piece of beauty rarer, |
Nor in a way so chaste, since my desires |
Run not before mine honour, nor my lusts |
Burn hotter than my faith. |
PERDITA: |
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