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Ye are a baggage: the Slys are no rogues; look in |
the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror. |
Therefore paucas pallabris; let the world slide: sessa! |
Hostess: |
You will not pay for the glasses you have burst? |
SLY: |
No, not a denier. Go by, Jeronimy: go to thy cold |
bed, and warm thee. |
Hostess: |
I know my remedy; I must go fetch the |
third--borough. |
SLY: |
Third, or fourth, or fifth borough, I'll answer him |
by law: I'll not budge an inch, boy: let him come, |
and kindly. |
Lord: |
Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds: |
Brach Merriman, the poor cur is emboss'd; |
And couple Clowder with the deep--mouth'd brach. |
Saw'st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good |
At the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault? |
I would not lose the dog for twenty pound. |
First Huntsman: |
Why, Belman is as good as he, my lord; |
He cried upon it at the merest loss |
And twice to-day pick'd out the dullest scent: |
Trust me, I take him for the better dog. |
Lord: |
Thou art a fool: if Echo were as fleet, |
I would esteem him worth a dozen such. |
But sup them well and look unto them all: |
To-morrow I intend to hunt again. |
First Huntsman: |
I will, my lord. |
Lord: |
What's here? one dead, or drunk? See, doth he breathe? |
Second Huntsman: |
He breathes, my lord. Were he not warm'd with ale, |
This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly. |
Lord: |
O monstrous beast! how like a swine he lies! |
Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image! |
Sirs, I will practise on this drunken man. |
What think you, if he were convey'd to bed, |
Wrapp'd in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, |
A most delicious banquet by his bed, |
And brave attendants near him when he wakes, |
Would not the beggar then forget himself? |
First Huntsman: |
Believe me, lord, I think he cannot choose. |
Second Huntsman: |
It would seem strange unto him when he waked. |
Lord: |
Even as a flattering dream or worthless fancy. |
Then take him up and manage well the jest: |
Carry him gently to my fairest chamber |
And hang it round with all my wanton pictures: |
Balm his foul head in warm distilled waters |
And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet: |
Procure me music ready when he wakes, |
To make a dulcet and a heavenly sound; |
And if he chance to speak, be ready straight |
And with a low submissive reverence |
Say 'What is it your honour will command?' |
Let one attend him with a silver basin |
Full of rose-water and bestrew'd with flowers, |
Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper, |
And say 'Will't please your lordship cool your hands?' |
Some one be ready with a costly suit |
And ask him what apparel he will wear; |
Another tell him of his hounds and horse, |
And that his lady mourns at his disease: |
Persuade him that he hath been lunatic; |
And when he says he is, say that he dreams, |
For he is nothing but a mighty lord. |
This do and do it kindly, gentle sirs: |
It will be pastime passing excellent, |
If it be husbanded with modesty. |
First Huntsman: |
My lord, I warrant you we will play our part, |
As he shall think by our true diligence |
He is no less than what we say he is. |
Lord: |
Take him up gently and to bed with him; |
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