Cam. Nay, but my letters by this means being there, So soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt. Flo. And those that you'll procure from king Leontes - Cam. Shall satisfy your father. Per. Happy be you! All, that you speak, shews fair. 920 Cam. Who have we here? [Seeing AUTOLICUS. We'll make an instrument of this; omit Nothing may give us aid. Aut. If they have over-heard me now hanging. why Cam. How now, good fellow? why shak'st thou so? Fear not, man; here's no harm intended to thee. 930 Aut. I am a poor fellow, sir. Cam. Why, be so still; here's nobody will steal that from thee; yet for the outside of thy poverty, we must make an exchange: therefore, discase thee instantly, thou must think, there's necessity in't, and change garments with this gentleman: Though the pennyworth, on his side, be the worst, yet hold thee, there's some boot. Aut. I am a poor fellow, sir :--- -I know ye well enough. [Aside. Cam. Nay, pr'ythee, dispatch: the gentleman is half flead already. 942 Aut. Are you in earnest, sir -I smell the trick of it. Iiij [Aside. Flo. Flo. Dispatch, I pr'ythee. Aut. Indeed, I have had earnest; but I cannot with conscience take it. Cam. Unbuckle, unbuckle. Fortunate mistress-let my prophecy face; Come home to you!-you must retire yourself 950 Per. I see, the play so lies, That I must bear a part. Cam. No remedy Have you done there? Flo. Should I now meet my father, He would not call me son. Cam. Nay, you shall have no hat : Come, lady, come.) Flo. O Perdita, what have we twain forgot? * Cam. What I do next, shall be, to tell the king Of this escape, and whither they are bound: 960 [Aside. 970 Flo. Flo. Fortune speed us! Thus we set on, Camillo, to the sea-side. [Exit FLO. with PER. Cam. The swifter speed, the better. [Exit. Aut. I understand the business, I hear it: To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cut-purse; a good nose is requisite also, to smell out work for the other senses. I see, this is the time that the unjust man doth thrive. What an exchange had this been, without boot? what a boot is here, with this exchange? Sure, the gods do this year connive at us, and we may do any thing extempore. The prince himself is about a piece of iniquity; stealing away from his father, with his clog at his heels. If I thought it were not a piece of honesty to acquaint the king withal, I would do't: I hold it the more knavery to conceal it; and therein am I constant to my profession. Enter Clown, and Shepherd. 990 Aside, aside;-here's more matter for a hot brain: Every lane's end, every shop, church, session, hanging, yields a careful man work. Clo. See, see; what a man you are now there is no other way, but to tell the king she's a changeling, and none of your flesh and blood. Shep. Nay, but hear me. Clo. Nay, but hear me. Shep. Go to then. 999 Clo. She being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh flesh and blood has not offended the king; and, so, your flesh and blood is not to be punish'd by him. Shew those things you found about her; those secret things, all but what she has with her: This being done, let the law go I whistle; warrant you. Shep. I will tell the king all, every word; yea, and his son's pranks too; who, I may say, is no honest man neither to his father, nor to me, to go about to make me the king's brother-in-law. 1009 Clo. Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest off you could have been to him; and then your blood had been the dearer, by I know how much an ounce. Aut. Very wisely; puppies! [Aside. Shep. Well; let us to the king: there is that in this farthel will make him scratch his beard. Aut. I know not, what impediment this complaint may be to the flight of my master. Clo. 'Pray heartily he be at the palace. Aut. Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.-Let me pocket up my pedlar's -How now, rusticks? whither are you excrement. bound ? 1022 Shep. To the palace, an it like your worship. Aut. Your affairs there ? what? with whom? the condition of that farthel? the place of your dwelling your names? your age? of what having, breeding, and any thing that is fitting for to be known discover. Clo. We are but plain fellows, sir. 1029 Aut. Aut. A lie; you are rough and hairy: Let me have no lying; it becomes none but tradesmen, and they often give us soldiers the lie: but we pay them for it with stamped coin, not stabbing steel; therefore they do not give us the lie. Clo. Your worship had like to have given us one, if you had not taken yourself with the manner. Shep. Are you a courtier, an't like you, sir? 1037 Aut. Whether it like me, or no, I am a courtier. See'st thou not the air of the court, in these enfoldings? hath not my gait in it, the measure of the court? receives not thy nose court-odour from me? reflect I not, on thy baseness, court-contempt ? Think'st thou, for that I insinuate, or toze from thee thy business, I am therefore no courtier? I am courtier, Cap-à-pe; and one that will either push on, or pluck back thy business there: whereupon I command thee to open thy affair. Shep. My business, sir, is to the king. 1047 Clo. Advocate's the court-word for a pheasant; say, you have none. Shep. None, sir; I have no pheasant, cock, nor hen. Aut. How bless'd are we, that are not simple men! Yet nature might have made me as these are, Therefore I will not disdain. Clo. This cannot be but a great courtier. Shep. His garments are rich, but he wears them not handsomely, 1959 Clo |