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Before an alehouse on a heath.
[Enter Hostess and SLY]
SLY
I'll pheeze you in faith.
HOSTESS
A pair of stocks you rogue.
SLY
You're 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 S. Jeronimy, go to thy cold bed, and warm thee.
HOSTESS
I know my remedy, I must go fetch the Headborough.
[Exit]
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.
[Falls asleep. Horns winded. Enter a Lord from hunting, with his
train]
LORD
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Huntsman | I charge | thee, tend|er well | my
hounds,
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Brach Mer/riman,| the poor | cur is | embossed,
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And coup|le Clow|der with the / deep-mouth|ed
brach,
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Sawst thou | not boy | how silv|er made | it good
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At the / hedge-corn|er, in | the cold|est
fault,
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I would | not lose | the dog | for twen|ty pound.
FIRST HUNTSMAN
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Why Bel|man is | as good | as he | my lord,
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He cried | upon | it at | the mer|est loss,
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And twice | today | picked^out | the dul|lest
scent,
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Trust me,| I take | him for | the bet|ter dog.
LORD
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Thou art | a fool,| if Ech|o were | as fleet,
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I would | esteem | him worth | a doz|en such:
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But sup | them well,| and look | unto | them all,
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Tomor|row I | intend | to hunt | again.
FIRST HUNTSMAN
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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 warmed with ale, this were a | bed but | cold to | sleep so |
soundly.
LORD
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O monst|rous beast,| how like | a swine | he
lies.
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Grim^death,| how foul | and loath|some is thine |
image:
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Sirs, I | will prac|tice on | this drunk|en man.
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What think | you, if | he were | conveyed | to
bed,
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Wrapped in sweet clothes:| rings put^u|pon his
| fingers:
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A most | deli|cious ban|quet by | his bed,
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And brave | attend|ants near | him when | he wakes,
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Would not | the beg|gar then | forget | himself?
FIRST HUNTSMAN
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Believe | me lord,| I think | he can|not choose.
SECOND HUNTSMAN
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It would | seem^strange | unto | him when | he
waked.
LORD
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Even as a | flattering | dream, or | worthless |
fancy.
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Then take | him up,| and man|age well | the jest:
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Carry him | gently | to my | fairest | chamber,
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And hang it | round with | all my | wanton*|
pictures:
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Balm his foul head | in warm | distilled | waters,
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And burn sweet wood | to make | the lod|ging
sweet:
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Procure | me mus|ic rea|dy when | he wakes,
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To make | a dul|cet and | a heav|enly sound:
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And if | he chance | to speak,| be rea|dy
straight
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(And with | a low | submis|sive rev|erence)
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Say, what | is it | your hon|or will | command:
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Let one^at|tend him | with a | silver | basin
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Full of rose-wat|er, and | bestrewed | with
flowers,
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Anoth|er bear | the ewer:| the third | a
diap||er, ??
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And say | will it please | your lord|ship cool |
your hands.
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Someone | be rea|dy with | a cost|ly suit,
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And ask | him what | appar|el he | will wear:
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Anoth|er tell | him of | his hounds | and horse,
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And that | his la|dy mourns | at his | disease,
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Persuade | him that | he hath | been lun|atic,
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And when | he says | he is,| say that | he
dreams,
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For he | is noth|ing but | a migh|ty lord:
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This^do,| and do | it kind|ly, gent|le sirs,
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It will | be past|ime^pas|sing ex|cellent,
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If it | be hus|banded | with mod|esty.
FIRST HUNTSMAN
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My lord | I war|rant you | we will play | our
part
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As he | shall think | by our / true dil|igence
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He is | no less | than what | we say | he is.
LORD
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Take him | up gen|tly, and | to bed | with him,
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And each | one to | his of|fice when | he wakes.
[Some bear out SLY. A trumpet sounds]
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Sirrah,| go see | what trump|et 'tis | that
sounds,
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Belike | some nob|le gent|leman | that means
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(Travelling | some journ|ey) to | repose | him
here.
[Enter Servingman]
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How now? | Who is it?
SERVANT
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And it please | your hon|or, play||ers
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That of|fer serv|ice to | your lord|ship.
LORD
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Bid || them come near: \\
[Enter Players]
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Now fel|lows, you | are wel||come.
PLAYERS
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We thank | your hon||or.
LORD
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Do you | intend | to stay | with me | tonight?
PLAYER
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So please | your lord|ship to ac|cept our | duty.
LORD
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With all | my heart.| This fel/low I re|member,
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Since^once | he played | a farm|er's eld|est son,
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'Twas where | you wooed | the gent|lewoman | so
well:
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I have | forgot | your name:| but sure | that
part
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Was apt|ly fitted,| and nat|urally | performed.
PLAYER
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I think |'twas So|to that | your hon|or means.
LORD
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'Tis ve|ry true,| thou didst | it ex|cellent:
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Well you | are come | to me | in a hap|py time,
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The rath|er for | I have | some sport | in hand,
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Wherein | your cun|ning can | assist | me much.
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There is | a lord | will hear | you play |
tonight;
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But I | am doubt|ful of | your mod|esties,
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Lest^(over-|eyeing | of his | odd be|havior,
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For yet | his hon|or nev|er heard | a play)
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You break | into | some mer|ry pas|sion,
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And so | offend | him: for | I tell | you sirs,
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If you | should smile | he grows | impa|tient.
PLAYER
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Fear* not | my lord,| we can | contain |
ourselves,
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Were he | the ver|iest ant|ic in | the world.
LORD
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Go* sir|rah, take | them to | the but|tery,
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And give | them friend|ly wel|come eve|ry
one.
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Let them | want^noth|ing that | my house |
affords.
[Exit one with the Players]
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Sirrah | go you | to Barthol|omew | my page,
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And see | him dressed | in all suits | like a |
lady:
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That^done,| conduct | him to the | drunkard's |
chamber,
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And call | him mad|am, do | him obe|isance:
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Tell him | from me |(as he | will win | my love)
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He bear | himself | with hono|rable | action,
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Such as he | hath ob|served in | noble | ladies
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Unto | their lords,| by them | accomp|lished,
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Such du/ty to | the drunk|ard let | him do:
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With soft | low tongue, and low|ly court|esy,
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And say:| what is it | your hon|or will |
command,
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Wherein | your la|dy and | your humb|le wife,
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May show | her du|ty, and / make known | her
love.
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And then | with kind | embrace|ments, tempt|ing kis||ses,
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And | with declin|ing head | into his | bosom
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Bid him | shed tears,/ as be|ing ov|erjoyed
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To see | her nob|le lord | restored | to health,
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Who for this | seven | years hath es|teemed him
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No better | than a | poor and | loathsome | beggar:
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And if | the boy | have not | a wom|an's gift
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To rain | a sho|wer of | command|ed tears,
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An on|ion will / do well | for such | a shift,
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Which^in | a nap|kin (be|ing close | conveyed)
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Shall in | despite | enforce | a wat|ery eye:
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See* this | dispatched | with all | the haste |
thou canst,
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Anon | I'll give | thee more | instruc|tions.
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I know | the boy | will well | usurp | the grace,
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Voice, gait, and ac|tion of a | gentle|woman:
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I long | to hear | him call | the drunk|ard hus|band,
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And how | my men | will stay | themselves | from
laugh|ter (hex with prev)
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When they | do hom|age to this | simple |
peasant,
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I'll in to | counsel | them: hap/ly my | presence
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May well | abate | the ov|er-mer|ry spleen,
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Which oth|erwise | would grow | into | extremes.
[Exeunt]