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POLIXENES: |
Pray, good shepherd, what fair swain is this |
Which dances with your daughter? |
Shepherd: |
They call him Doricles; and boasts himself |
To have a worthy feeding: but I have it |
Upon his own report and I believe it; |
He looks like sooth. He says he loves my daughter: |
I think so too; for never gazed the moon |
Upon the water as he'll stand and read |
As 'twere my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain. |
I think there is not half a kiss to choose |
Who loves another best. |
POLIXENES: |
She dances featly. |
Shepherd: |
So she does any thing; though I report it, |
That should be silent: if young Doricles |
Do light upon her, she shall bring him that |
Which he not dreams of. |
Servant: |
O master, if you did but hear the pedlar at the |
door, you would never dance again after a tabour and |
pipe; no, the bagpipe could not move you: he sings |
several tunes faster than you'll tell money; he |
utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men's |
ears grew to his tunes. |
Clown: |
He could never come better; he shall come in. I |
love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful |
matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing |
indeed and sung lamentably. |
Servant: |
He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes; no |
milliner can so fit his customers with gloves: he |
has the prettiest love-songs for maids; so without |
bawdry, which is strange; with such delicate |
burthens of dildos and fadings, 'jump her and thump |
her;' and where some stretch-mouthed rascal would, |
as it were, mean mischief and break a foul gap into |
the matter, he makes the maid to answer 'Whoop, do me |
no harm, good man;' puts him off, slights him, with |
'Whoop, do me no harm, good man.' |
POLIXENES: |
This is a brave fellow. |
Clown: |
Believe me, thou talkest of an admirable conceited |
fellow. Has he any unbraided wares? |
Servant: |
He hath ribbons of an the colours i' the rainbow; |
points more than all the lawyers in Bohemia can |
learnedly handle, though they come to him by the |
gross: inkles, caddisses, cambrics, lawns: why, he |
sings 'em over as they were gods or goddesses; you |
would think a smock were a she-angel, he so chants |
to the sleeve-hand and the work about the square on't. |
Clown: |
Prithee bring him in; and let him approach singing. |
PERDITA: |
Forewarn him that he use no scurrilous words in 's tunes. |
Clown: |
You have of these pedlars, that have more in them |
than you'ld think, sister. |
PERDITA: |
Ay, good brother, or go about to think. |
AUTOLYCUS: |
Lawn as white as driven snow; |
Cyprus black as e'er was crow; |
Gloves as sweet as damask roses; |
Masks for faces and for noses; |
Bugle bracelet, necklace amber, |
Perfume for a lady's chamber; |
Golden quoifs and stomachers, |
For my lads to give their dears: |
Pins and poking-sticks of steel, |
What maids lack from head to heel: |
Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; |
Buy lads, or else your lasses cry: Come buy. |
Clown: |
If I were not in love with Mopsa, thou shouldst take |
no money of me; but being enthralled as I am, it |
will also be the bondage of certain ribbons and gloves. |
MOPSA: |
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