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condition of that farthel? the place of your dwelling? your names? your age? of what having, breeding, and every thing that is fitting for to be known, difcover. Clo. We are but plain fellows, Sir.

Aut. A lie; you are rough and hairy; let me have no lying; it becomes none but tradefmen, and they often give us foldiers the lye; but we pay them for it with ftamped coin, not ftabbing steel, therefore they do not give us the lye 5.

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Clo. Your Worship had like to have given us one, you had not taken yourself with the manner. Shep. Are you a Courtier, an like you, Sir?

Aut. Whether it like me or no, I am a Courtier. Seeft thou not the air of the Court in these enfoldings? hath not my gaite in it the measure of the Court? receives not thy nofe court-odour from me? reflect I not on thy baseness?-court contempt. Think'ft thou, for that I infinuate, or toze from thee thy bufinefs, I am therefore no Courtier? I am courtier, Cap-a pè; and one that will either push on, or pluck back thy bufinefs there; whereupon I command thee to open thy affair.

Shep. My business, Sir, is to the King,

Aut. What Advocate haft thou to him?
Shep. I know not, an't like you.

Clo. Advocate's the court word for a pheasant'; say, you have none.

Shep. None, Sir; I have no pheafant cock, nor hen. Aut. How blefs'd are we, that are not fimple men! Yet Nature might have made me as these are, Therefore I will not difdain."

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therefore they do not give us the lie.] Dele the negative: the fenfe requires it. The Joke is this, they have a profit in lying to us, by advancing the price of their commodities; therefore they do lie. WARB.

Advocate's the court word for a pheafant;] This fatire on the bribery of courts, is not unplea fant.

WARBURTON. This fatire, or this pleafantry, I confefs myfelf not well to underftand.

Clo.

Clo. This cannot be but a great Courtier.

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

Clo. He feems to be the more noble in being fantaftical. A great man, I'll warrant; I know, by the picking on's teeth 7.

Aut. The farthel there? what's i'th' farthel? Wherefore that box?

Shep. Sir, there lies fuch fecrets in this farthel and box, which none muft know but the King; and which he fhall know within this hour, if I may come to th' speech of him.

Aut. Age, thou haft loft thy labour.
Shep. Why, Sir?

Aut. The King is not at the Palace: he is gone aboard a new ship, to purge melancholy and air himfelf; for if thou be'st capable of things ferious, thou must know, the King is full of grief.

Shep. So 'tis faid, Sir, about his fon that fhould have married a fhepherd's daughter.

Aut. If that shepherd be not in hand-faft, let him fly; the curfes he fhall have, the tortures he fhall feel, will break the back of man, the heart of monster.

Clo. Think you fo, Sir?

Aut. Not he alone fhall fuffer what wit can make heavy, and vengeance bitter; but those that are germane to him, tho' remov'd fifty times, shall all come under the hangman; which tho' it be great pity, yet it is neceffary. An old fheep-whistling rogue, a ramtender, to offer to have his daughter come into grace! fome fay, he shall be fton'd; but that death is too foft for him, fay I. Draw our throne into a fheep-coat all deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy.

7 A great man-by the picking of his teeth.] It feems, that to pick the teeth was, at this. time, a mark of fome pretenfion to greatness or elegance. So the

baftard in King John, fpeaking of the traveller, fays,

He and his pick-tooth at my worship's mess.

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Clo.

Clo. Has the old man e'er a fon, Sir, do you hear, an't like you, Sir?

Aut. He has a fon, who fhall be flay'd alive, then 'nointed over with honey, fet on the head of a wafp's neft, then stand 'till he be three quarters and a dram dead; then recover'd again with Aqua-vita, or fome other hot infufion; then, raw as he is, and in the hottest day prognoftication proclaims, fhall he be fet against a brick-wall, the Sun looking with a fouthward eye upon him, where he is to behold him, with flies blown to death. But what talk ye of these traitorly rafcals, whofe miferies are to be fmil'd at, their offences being so capital? Tell me, (for you seem to be honeft plain men) what you have to the King; being fomething*gently confidered, I'll bring you where he is abroad, tender your perfons to his prefence, whif per him in your behalf, and if it be in man befides the King to effect your fuits, here is a man shall do it,

Clo. He feems 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; fhew the infide of your purse to the outside of his hand, and no more ado. Remember, fton'd, and flay'd alive.

Shep. An't please you, Sir, to undertake the bu finess 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?

Shep. Ay, Sir.

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

Clo. In fome fort, Sir, but tho' my case be a pitiful one, I hope, I shall not be flay'd out of it.

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the botteft day, &c.] That is, the hottest day foretold in the Almanack.

-gently confider'd] That is, I who am regarded as a gentleman will bring you to the king.

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Aut. Oh, that's the cafe of the fhepherd's fon; —hang him, he'll be made an example,

Clo. Comfort, good comfort; we must to the King, and fhew our strange fights; he must know, 'tis none of your daughter, nor my fifter; we are gone else. Sir, I will give you as much as this old man does, when the business is perform'd: and remain, as he says, your Pawn 'till it be brought you.

Aut. I will truft you, walk before toward the feafide, go on the right hand; I will but look upon the hedge, and follow you.

Cla. We are bleffed in this man, as I may say, even blefs'd.

Shep. Let's before, as he bids us, he was provided to do us good. [Exeunt Shep. and Clown. Aut. If I had a mind to be honest, I see, Fortune would not fuffer me; the drops booties in my mouth. I am courted now with a double occafion: gold, and a means to do the Prince my master good; which, who knows how that they may turn back to my advancement? I will bring thefe two moles, these blind ones, aboard him; if he think it fit to fhore them again, and that the complaint they have to the King concerns him nothing, let him call me rogue, for being fo far officious; for I am proof against that Title, and what shame elfe belongs to't: to him will I present them, there may be matter in it.

[Exit.

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ACT V. SCENE I.

Changes to Sicilia.

Enter Leontes, Cleomines, Dion, Paulina, and Servants.

SIR

CLEOMINES.

IR, you have done enough, and have perform'd A faint-like forrow: no fault could you make, Which you have not redeem'd; indeed, paid down More penitence, than done trespass. At the last, Do as the heav'ns have done, forget your evil; With them, forgive yourself.

Leo. Whilft I remember

Her and her virtues, I cannot forget

My blemishes in them, and fo ftill think of
The wrong I did myfelf; which was fo much,
That heir-lefs it hath made my Kingdom; and
Destroy'd the sweet'ft companion, that e'er man 9
Bred his hopes out of.

Paul. True, too true, my Lord;

If one by one you wedded all the world,

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Or, from the All that are, took fomething good, To make a perfect woman; fhe, you kill'd,

Would be unparallel'd.

Leo. I think fo.

Kill'd?

Kill'd fhe I kill'd? I did fo, but thou ftrik'ft me Sorely to fay I did; it is as bitter

Upon thy tongue, as in my thought. Now, good now, Say fo but feldom.

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Bred his hopes out of, true.

Paul. Too true, my Lord.] A very flight Examination will convince every intelligent Reader,

that true, here, has jumped out of its place in all the Editions.

THEOBALD.

*This is a favourite thought; it was bestowed on Miranda and Rofalind before.

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