Chapter 42

Aut.If they have overheard me now, why,hanging.Cam.Hownow, good fellow!whyshakest thou so?Fear not, man; here's no harm intended to thee.615Aut.I am a poor fellow, sir.Cam.Why, be so still; here's nobody will steal thatfrom thee: yet for the outside of thy poverty we mustmake an exchange; therefore discase thee instantly,—thoumust think there'sa necessityin't,—and change garments620with this gentleman: though the pennyworth on his side bethe worst, yet hold thee, there's someboot.Aut.I am a poor fellow, sir.[Aside]I know ye wellenough.Cam.Nay, prithee,dispatch: the gentlemanis half625flayedalready.Aut.Are you in earnest, sir?[Aside]I smell thetrick on't.Flo.Dispatch, I prithee.Aut.Indeed, I have had earnest; but I cannot with630conscience take it.Cam.Unbuckle, unbuckle.[Florizeland Autolycus exchange garments.Fortunate mistress,—let my prophecyCome home to ye!—you must retire yourselfInto some covert: take your sweetheart's hat635And pluck it o'eryourbrows, muffle your face,Dismantle you, and, as you can, dislikenThe truth of your own seeming; that you may—For I do fear eyesover—to shipboardGet undescried.Per.I see the play so lies640That 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 haveno hat.[Giving it to Perdita.Come, lady, come. Farewell, my friend.Aut.Adieu, sir.Flo.O Perdita, what have we twain forgot!645Pray you, aword.Cam.[Aside]What I do next, shall be to tell the kingOf this escape and whither they are bound;Wherein my hope is I shall so prevailTo force him after: inwhosecompany650I shall review Sicilia, for whose sightI have a woman's longing.Flo.Fortune speed us!Thus we set on, Camillo, to the sea-side.Cam.The swifter speed the better.[ExeuntFlorizel, Perdita, and Camillo.Aut.I understand the business, Ihearit: to have an655open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for acut-purse; a good nose is requisite also, to smell out workfor the other senses. I see this is the time that the unjustman doth thrive. What an exchange had this been withoutboot! What a boot is here with this exchange! Sure the660gods do this year connive at us, and we may do any thingextempore. The prince himself is about a piece of iniquity,stealing away from his father with his clog at hisheels: if Ithought it werea piece of honesty to acquaint theking withal, I would not do't: I hold it the more knavery665to conceal it; and therein am I constant to my profession.Re-enterClownandShepherd.Aside, aside;here ismore matter for a hot brain: everylane's end, every shop, church, session, hanging, yields acareful man work.Clo.See, see; what a man you are now! There is no670other way but to tell the king she's a changeling and noneof your flesh and blood.Shep.Nay, but hear me.Clo.Nay, but hear me.Shep.Go to, then.675Clo.She being none of your flesh and blood, your fleshand blood has not offended the king; and so your flesh andblood is not to be punished by him. Showthosethingsyou found about her, those secret things, all but what shehas with her: this being done, let the law go whistle: I680warrant you.Shep.I will tell the king all, every word, yea, and hisson's pranks too; who, I may say, is no honest man, neitherto his father nor to me, to go about to make me the king'sbrother-in-law.685Clo.Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest off youcould have been to him and then your blood had been thedearer by Iknowhow much an ounce.Aut.[Aside]Very wisely, puppies!Shep.Well, let us to the king: there is that in this690fardelwill make him scratch his beard.Aut.[Aside]I know not what impediment this complaintmay be to the flight of my master.Clo.Pray heartily he beat palace.Aut.[Aside]Though I am not naturally honest, I am695so sometimes by chance: let me pocket up my pedlar'sexcrement.[Takes offhis false beard.]How now, rustics!whither are you bound?Shep.To the palace,anit like your worship.Aut.Your affairs there, what, with whom, the condition700of that fardel, the place of your dwelling, your names,yourages, of what having, breeding, and any thing that isfittingto beknown, discover.Clo.We are but plain fellows, sir.Aut.A lie; you are rough and hairy. Let me have no705lying: it becomes none but tradesmen, and they often give ussoldiers the lie: but we pay them for it with stamped coin,not stabbingsteel; therefore they donot giveus the lie.Clo.Your worship had like to have given us one, if youhad not taken yourself with themanner.710Shep.Are you a courtier,an'tlike you, sir?Aut.Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Seestthou not the air of the court in these enfoldings? hath notmy gait in it the measure of the court? receives not thynose court-odour from me? reflect I not on thy baseness715court-contempt? Thinkest thou, for that I insinuate,ortoaze from thee thy business, I am therefore no courtier? Iam courtier cap-a-pe; and one that will either push on orpluckback thy business there: whereupon I command theeto open thy affair.720Shep.My business, sir, is to the king.Aut.What advocate hast thou to him?Shep.I know not,an'tlike you.Clo.Advocate's the court-word for apheasant: say youhave none.725Shep.None, sir; I have nopheasant, cocknor hen.Aut.Howblessedare we that are not simple men!Yet nature might have made me as these are,Therefore I will not disdain.Clo.This cannotbe buta great courtier.730Shep.His garments are rich, but he wears them nothandsomely.Clo.He seemsto bethe more noble in being fantastical:a great man, I'll warrant; I know by the pickingon'steeth,Aut.Thefardelthere? what's i' the fardel? Wherefore735that box?Shep.Sir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and box,which none must know but the king; and which he shallknow within this hour, if I may come to the speech of him.Aut.Age, thou hast lost thy labour.740Shep.Why, sir?Aut.The king is not at the palace; he is gone aboard anew ship to purge melancholy and air himself: for, if thoubeest capable of things serious, thou must know the king isfull of grief.745Shep.So 'tis said, sir; about his son, that should havemarried a shepherd's daughter.Aut.If that shepherd be not inhand-fast, let him fly:the curses he shall have, the tortures he shall feel, willbreak the back of man, the heart of monster.750Clo.Think you so, sir?Aut.Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavyand vengeance bitter; but those that aregermaneto him,though removed fifty times, shall all come under the hangman:which though it be great pity, yet it is necessary. An755old sheep-whistling rogue, a ram-tender, to offer to have hisdaughter come into grace! Some say he shall be stoned; butthat death is too soft for him, say I: draw our throne intoa sheep-cote! all deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy.Clo.Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear, an't760like you, sir?Ant.He has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a wasp's nest;then standtill he be three quarters and a dram dead; thenrecovered again with aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion;765then, raw as he is, and in the hottest day prognosticationproclaims, shall he be set against a brick-wall, the sunlooking with a southward eye upon him, where he is tobehold him with flies blown to death. But what talk we ofthese traitorly rascals, whose miseries are to be smiled at,770their offences being so capital? Tell me, for you seem to behonest plain men, what you have to the king: being somethinggently considered, I'll bring you where he is aboard,tender your persons to his presence, whisper him in yourbehalfs;and if it be in man besides the king to effect your775suits, here ismanshall do it.Clo.He seems to be of great authority: close withhim, give him gold; and though authority be a stubbornbear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold: show the insideof your purse to the outside of his hand, and no more780ado. Remember 'stoned,' and 'flayed alive.'Shep.An't please you, sir, to undertake the businessfor us, here is that gold I have: I'll make it as much moreand leave this young man in pawn till I bring it you.Aut.After I have done what I promised?785Shep.Ay, sir.Aut.Well, give me the moiety. Are you a party in thisbusiness?Clo.In some sort, sir: but though my case be a pitifulone, I hope I shall not be flayed out of it.790Aut.O, that's the case of the shepherd's son: hanghim, he'll be made an example.Clo.Comfort, good comfort! We must to the king andshow our strange sights: he must know 'tis none of yourdaughter nor my sister; we are gone else. Sir, I will give795you as much as this old man does when the business isperformed, and remain, as he says, your pawn till it bebrought you.Aut.I will trust you. Walk before toward the sea-side;go on the right hand: I will butlookupon the hedge and800follow you.Clo.We areblestin this man, as I may say, evenblest.Shep.Let's before as he bids us: he was provided todo us good.[Exeunt Shepherd and Clown.805Aut.If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune wouldnot suffer me: she drops booties in my mouth. I am courtednow with a double occasion, gold and a means to do theprince my master good; which who knows how that mayturnbackto my advancement? I will bring these two810moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he think it fit toshore them again and that the complaint they have to theking concerns him nothing, let him call me rogue forbeing so far officious; for I am proof against that title andwhat shame else belongs to't. To him will I present them:815there may be matter in it.[Exit.

Aut.If they have overheard me now, why,hanging.

Cam.Hownow, good fellow!whyshakest thou so?Fear not, man; here's no harm intended to thee.

Cam.Hownow, good fellow!whyshakest thou so?

Fear not, man; here's no harm intended to thee.

615Aut.I am a poor fellow, sir.

Aut.I am a poor fellow, sir.

Cam.Why, be so still; here's nobody will steal thatfrom thee: yet for the outside of thy poverty we mustmake an exchange; therefore discase thee instantly,—thoumust think there'sa necessityin't,—and change garments620with this gentleman: though the pennyworth on his side bethe worst, yet hold thee, there's someboot.

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'sa necessityin't,—and change garments

with this gentleman: though the pennyworth on his side be

the worst, yet hold thee, there's someboot.

Aut.I am a poor fellow, sir.[Aside]I know ye wellenough.

Aut.I am a poor fellow, sir.[Aside]I know ye well

enough.

Cam.Nay, prithee,dispatch: the gentlemanis half625flayedalready.

Cam.Nay, prithee,dispatch: the gentlemanis half

flayedalready.

Aut.Are you in earnest, sir?[Aside]I smell thetrick on't.

Aut.Are you in earnest, sir?[Aside]I smell the

trick on't.

Flo.Dispatch, I prithee.

Aut.Indeed, I have had earnest; but I cannot with630conscience take it.

Aut.Indeed, I have had earnest; but I cannot with

conscience take it.

Cam.Unbuckle, unbuckle.[Florizeland Autolycus exchange garments.Fortunate mistress,—let my prophecyCome home to ye!—you must retire yourselfInto some covert: take your sweetheart's hat635And pluck it o'eryourbrows, muffle your face,Dismantle you, and, as you can, dislikenThe truth of your own seeming; that you may—For I do fear eyesover—to shipboardGet undescried.

Cam.Unbuckle, unbuckle.

[Florizeland Autolycus exchange garments.

Fortunate mistress,—let my prophecy

Come home to ye!—you must retire yourself

Into some covert: take your sweetheart's hat

And pluck it o'eryourbrows, muffle your face,

Dismantle you, and, as you can, disliken

The truth of your own seeming; that you may—

For I do fear eyesover—to shipboard

Get undescried.

Per.I see the play so lies640That I must bear a part.

Per.I see the play so lies

That I must bear a part.

Cam.No remedy.Have you done there?

Cam.No remedy.

Have you done there?

Flo.Should I now meet my father,He would not call me son.

Flo.Should I now meet my father,

He would not call me son.

Cam.Nay, you shall haveno hat.[Giving it to Perdita.Come, lady, come. Farewell, my friend.

Cam.Nay, you shall haveno hat.

[Giving it to Perdita.

Come, lady, come. Farewell, my friend.

Aut.Adieu, sir.

Flo.O Perdita, what have we twain forgot!645Pray you, aword.

Flo.O Perdita, what have we twain forgot!

Pray you, aword.

Cam.[Aside]What I do next, shall be to tell the kingOf this escape and whither they are bound;Wherein my hope is I shall so prevailTo force him after: inwhosecompany650I shall review Sicilia, for whose sightI have a woman's longing.

Cam.[Aside]What I do next, shall be to tell the king

Of this escape and whither they are bound;

Wherein my hope is I shall so prevail

To force him after: inwhosecompany

I shall review Sicilia, for whose sight

I have a woman's longing.

Flo.Fortune speed us!Thus we set on, Camillo, to the sea-side.

Flo.Fortune speed us!

Thus we set on, Camillo, to the sea-side.

Cam.The swifter speed the better.[ExeuntFlorizel, Perdita, and Camillo.

Cam.The swifter speed the better.

[ExeuntFlorizel, Perdita, and Camillo.

Aut.I understand the business, Ihearit: to have an655open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for acut-purse; a good nose is requisite also, to smell out workfor the other senses. I see this is the time that the unjustman doth thrive. What an exchange had this been withoutboot! What a boot is here with this exchange! Sure the660gods do this year connive at us, and we may do any thingextempore. The prince himself is about a piece of iniquity,stealing away from his father with his clog at hisheels: if Ithought it werea piece of honesty to acquaint theking withal, I would not do't: I hold it the more knavery665to conceal it; and therein am I constant to my profession.

Aut.I understand the business, Ihearit: 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 Ithought it werea piece of honesty to acquaint the

king withal, I would not do't: I hold it the more knavery

to conceal it; and therein am I constant to my profession.

Re-enterClownandShepherd.

Aside, aside;here ismore matter for a hot brain: everylane's end, every shop, church, session, hanging, yields acareful man work.

Aside, aside;here ismore 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 no670other way but to tell the king she's a changeling and noneof your flesh and blood.

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.

675Clo.She being none of your flesh and blood, your fleshand blood has not offended the king; and so your flesh andblood is not to be punished by him. Showthosethingsyou found about her, those secret things, all but what shehas with her: this being done, let the law go whistle: I680warrant you.

Clo.She being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh

and blood has not offended the king; and so your flesh and

blood is not to be punished by him. Showthosethings

you found about her, those secret things, all but what she

has with her: this being done, let the law go whistle: I

warrant you.

Shep.I will tell the king all, every word, yea, and hisson's pranks too; who, I may say, is no honest man, neitherto his father nor to me, to go about to make me the king'sbrother-in-law.

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.

685Clo.Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest off youcould have been to him and then your blood had been thedearer by Iknowhow much an ounce.

Clo.Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest off you

could have been to him and then your blood had been the

dearer by Iknowhow much an ounce.

Aut.[Aside]Very wisely, puppies!

Shep.Well, let us to the king: there is that in this690fardelwill make him scratch his beard.

Shep.Well, let us to the king: there is that in this

fardelwill make him scratch his beard.

Aut.[Aside]I know not what impediment this complaintmay be to the flight of my master.

Aut.[Aside]I know not what impediment this complaint

may be to the flight of my master.

Clo.Pray heartily he beat palace.

Aut.[Aside]Though I am not naturally honest, I am695so sometimes by chance: let me pocket up my pedlar'sexcrement.[Takes offhis false beard.]How now, rustics!whither are you bound?

Aut.[Aside]Though I am not naturally honest, I am

so sometimes by chance: let me pocket up my pedlar's

excrement.[Takes offhis false beard.]How now, rustics!

whither are you bound?

Shep.To the palace,anit like your worship.

Aut.Your affairs there, what, with whom, the condition700of that fardel, the place of your dwelling, your names,yourages, of what having, breeding, and any thing that isfittingto beknown, discover.

Aut.Your affairs there, what, with whom, the condition

of that fardel, the place of your dwelling, your names,

yourages, of what having, breeding, and any thing that is

fittingto beknown, discover.

Clo.We are but plain fellows, sir.

Aut.A lie; you are rough and hairy. Let me have no705lying: it becomes none but tradesmen, and they often give ussoldiers the lie: but we pay them for it with stamped coin,not stabbingsteel; therefore they donot giveus the lie.

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 stabbingsteel; therefore they donot giveus the lie.

Clo.Your worship had like to have given us one, if youhad not taken yourself with themanner.

Clo.Your worship had like to have given us one, if you

had not taken yourself with themanner.

710Shep.Are you a courtier,an'tlike you, sir?

Shep.Are you a courtier,an'tlike you, sir?

Aut.Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Seestthou not the air of the court in these enfoldings? hath notmy gait in it the measure of the court? receives not thynose court-odour from me? reflect I not on thy baseness715court-contempt? Thinkest thou, for that I insinuate,ortoaze from thee thy business, I am therefore no courtier? Iam courtier cap-a-pe; and one that will either push on orpluckback thy business there: whereupon I command theeto open thy affair.

Aut.Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Seest

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? Thinkest thou, for that I insinuate,or

toaze from thee thy business, I am therefore no courtier? I

am courtier cap-a-pe; and one that will either push on or

pluckback thy business there: whereupon I command thee

to open thy affair.

720Shep.My business, sir, is to the king.

Shep.My business, sir, is to the king.

Aut.What advocate hast thou to him?

Shep.I know not,an'tlike you.

Clo.Advocate's the court-word for apheasant: say youhave none.

Clo.Advocate's the court-word for apheasant: say you

have none.

725Shep.None, sir; I have nopheasant, cocknor hen.

Shep.None, sir; I have nopheasant, cocknor hen.

Aut.Howblessedare we that are not simple men!Yet nature might have made me as these are,Therefore I will not disdain.

Aut.Howblessedare we that are not simple men!

Yet nature might have made me as these are,

Therefore I will not disdain.

Clo.This cannotbe buta great courtier.

730Shep.His garments are rich, but he wears them nothandsomely.

Shep.His garments are rich, but he wears them not

handsomely.

Clo.He seemsto bethe more noble in being fantastical:a great man, I'll warrant; I know by the pickingon'steeth,

Clo.He seemsto bethe more noble in being fantastical:

a great man, I'll warrant; I know by the pickingon'steeth,

Aut.Thefardelthere? what's i' the fardel? Wherefore735that box?

Aut.Thefardelthere? what's i' the fardel? Wherefore

that box?

Shep.Sir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and box,which none must know but the king; and which he shallknow within this hour, if I may come to the speech of him.

Shep.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.

Aut.Age, thou hast lost thy labour.

740Shep.Why, sir?

Shep.Why, sir?

Aut.The king is not at the palace; he is gone aboard anew ship to purge melancholy and air himself: for, if thoubeest capable of things serious, thou must know the king isfull of grief.

Aut.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.

745Shep.So 'tis said, sir; about his son, that should havemarried a shepherd's daughter.

Shep.So 'tis said, sir; about his son, that should have

married a shepherd's daughter.

Aut.If that shepherd be not inhand-fast, let him fly:the curses he shall have, the tortures he shall feel, willbreak the back of man, the heart of monster.

Aut.If that shepherd be not inhand-fast, let him fly:

the curses he shall have, the tortures he shall feel, will

break the back of man, the heart of monster.

750Clo.Think you so, sir?

Clo.Think you so, sir?

Aut.Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavyand vengeance bitter; but those that aregermaneto him,though removed fifty times, shall all come under the hangman:which though it be great pity, yet it is necessary. An755old sheep-whistling rogue, a ram-tender, to offer to have hisdaughter come into grace! Some say he shall be stoned; butthat death is too soft for him, say I: draw our throne intoa sheep-cote! all deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy.

Aut.Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy

and vengeance bitter; but those that aregermaneto 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.

Clo.Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear, an't760like you, sir?

Clo.Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear, an't

like you, sir?

Ant.He has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a wasp's nest;then standtill he be three quarters and a dram dead; thenrecovered again with aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion;765then, raw as he is, and in the hottest day prognosticationproclaims, shall he be set against a brick-wall, the sunlooking with a southward eye upon him, where he is tobehold him with flies blown to death. But what talk we ofthese traitorly rascals, whose miseries are to be smiled at,770their offences being so capital? Tell me, for you seem to behonest plain men, what you have to the king: being somethinggently considered, I'll bring you where he is aboard,tender your persons to his presence, whisper him in yourbehalfs;and if it be in man besides the king to effect your775suits, here ismanshall do it.

Ant.He has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then

'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a wasp's nest;

then standtill 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 he 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 ismanshall do it.

Clo.He seems to be of great authority: close withhim, give him gold; and though authority be a stubbornbear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold: show the insideof your purse to the outside of his hand, and no more780ado. Remember 'stoned,' and 'flayed alive.'

Clo.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.'

Shep.An't please you, sir, to undertake the businessfor us, here is that gold I have: I'll make it as much moreand leave this young man in pawn till I bring it you.

Shep.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.

Aut.After I have done what I promised?

785Shep.Ay, sir.

Shep.Ay, sir.

Aut.Well, give me the moiety. Are you a party in thisbusiness?

Aut.Well, give me the moiety. Are you a party in this

business?

Clo.In some sort, sir: but though my case be a pitifulone, I hope I shall not be flayed out of it.

Clo.In some sort, sir: but though my case be a pitiful

one, I hope I shall not be flayed out of it.

790Aut.O, that's the case of the shepherd's son: hanghim, he'll be made an example.

Aut.O, that's the case of the shepherd's son: hang

him, he'll be made an example.

Clo.Comfort, good comfort! We must to the king andshow our strange sights: he must know 'tis none of yourdaughter nor my sister; we are gone else. Sir, I will give795you as much as this old man does when the business isperformed, and remain, as he says, your pawn till it bebrought you.

Clo.Comfort, good comfort! We must to the king and

show our strange sights: he must know 'tis none of your

daughter nor my sister; we are gone else. Sir, I will give

you as much as this old man does when the business is

performed, and remain, as he says, your pawn till it be

brought you.

Aut.I will trust you. Walk before toward the sea-side;go on the right hand: I will butlookupon the hedge and800follow you.

Aut.I will trust you. Walk before toward the sea-side;

go on the right hand: I will butlookupon the hedge and

follow you.

Clo.We areblestin this man, as I may say, evenblest.

Clo.We areblestin this man, as I may say, even

blest.

Shep.Let's before as he bids us: he was provided todo us good.[Exeunt Shepherd and Clown.

Shep.Let's before as he bids us: he was provided to

do us good.[Exeunt Shepherd and Clown.

805Aut.If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune wouldnot suffer me: she drops booties in my mouth. I am courtednow with a double occasion, gold and a means to do theprince my master good; which who knows how that mayturnbackto my advancement? I will bring these two810moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he think it fit toshore them again and that the complaint they have to theking concerns him nothing, let him call me rogue forbeing so far officious; for I am proof against that title andwhat shame else belongs to't. To him will I present them:815there may be matter in it.[Exit.

Aut.If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune would

not suffer me: she drops booties in my mouth. I am courted

now with a double occasion, gold and a means to do the

prince my master good; which who knows how that may

turnbackto my advancement? I will bring these two

moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he think it fit to

shore them again and that the complaint they have to the

king concerns him nothing, let him call me rogue for

being so far officious; for I am proof against that title and

what shame else belongs to't. To him will I present them:

there may be matter in it.[Exit.

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