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them not handsomely. |
Clown: |
He seems to be the more noble in being fantastical: |
a great man, I'll warrant; I know by the picking |
on's teeth. |
AUTOLYCUS: |
The fardel there? what's i' the fardel? |
Wherefore that box? |
Shepherd: |
Sir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and box, |
which none must know but the king; and which he |
shall know within this hour, if I may come to the |
speech of him. |
AUTOLYCUS: |
Age, thou hast lost thy labour. |
Shepherd: |
Why, sir? |
AUTOLYCUS: |
The king is not at the palace; he is gone aboard a |
new ship to purge melancholy and air himself: for, |
if thou beest capable of things serious, thou must |
know the king is full of grief. |
Shepard: |
So 'tis said, sir; about his son, that should have |
married a shepherd's daughter. |
AUTOLYCUS: |
If that shepherd be not in hand-fast, let him fly: |
the curses he shall have, the tortures he shall |
feel, will break the back of man, the heart of monster. |
Clown: |
Think you so, sir? |
AUTOLYCUS: |
Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy |
and vengeance bitter; but those that are germane to |
him, though removed fifty times, shall all come |
under the hangman: which though it be great pity, |
yet it is necessary. An old sheep-whistling rogue a |
ram-tender, to offer to have his daughter come into |
grace! Some say he shall be stoned; but that death |
is too soft for him, say I draw our throne into a |
sheep-cote! all deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy. |
Clown: |
Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear. an't |
like you, sir? |
AUTOLYCUS: |
He has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then |
'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a |
wasp's nest; then stand till he be three quarters |
and a dram dead; then recovered again with |
aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion; then, raw as |
he is, and in the hottest day prognostication |
proclaims, shall be be set against a brick-wall, the |
sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where he |
is to behold him with flies blown to death. But what |
talk we of these traitorly rascals, whose miseries |
are to be smiled at, their offences being so |
capital? Tell me, for you seem to be honest plain |
men, what you have to the king: being something |
gently considered, I'll bring you where he is |
aboard, tender your persons to his presence, |
whisper him in your behalfs; and if it be in man |
besides the king to effect your suits, here is man |
shall do it. |
Clown: |
He seems to be of great authority: close with him, |
give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn |
bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold: show |
the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand, |
and no more ado. Remember 'stoned,' and 'flayed alive.' |
Shepherd: |
An't please you, sir, to undertake the business for |
us, here is that gold I have: I'll make it as much |
more and leave this young man in pawn till I bring it you. |
AUTOLYCUS: |
After I have done what I promised? |
Shepherd: |
Ay, sir. |
AUTOLYCUS: |
Well, give me the moiety. Are you a party in this business? |
Clown: |
In some sort, sir: but though my case be a pitiful |
one, I hope I shall not be flayed out of it. |
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