{"id":9,"date":"2017-03-09T03:13:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T03:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seethingbrains.com\/tamingoftheshrew2017\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2017-03-16T01:31:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T01:31:20","slug":"induction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.seethingbrains.com\/tamingoftheshrew2018\/induction\/","title":{"rendered":"Induction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>SCENE I. Before an alehouse on a heath.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><i>Enter Hostess and SLY<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech1\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.1\"><\/a>I&#8217;ll pheeze you, in faith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech2\"><\/a><b>Hostess<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.2\"><\/a>A pair of stocks, you rogue!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech3\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.3\"><\/a>Ye are a baggage: the Slys are no rogues; look in<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.4\"><\/a>the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.5\"><\/a>Therefore paucas pallabris; let the world slide: sessa!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech4\"><\/a><b>Hostess<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.6\"><\/a>You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech5\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.7\"><\/a>No, not a denier. Go by, Jeronimy: go to thy cold<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.8\"><\/a>bed, and warm thee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech6\"><\/a><b>Hostess<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.9\"><\/a>I know my remedy; I must go fetch the<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.10\"><\/a>third&#8211;borough.<\/p>\n<p><i>Exit<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech7\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.11\"><\/a>Third, or fourth, or fifth borough, I&#8217;ll answer him<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.12\"><\/a>by law: I&#8217;ll not budge an inch, boy: let him come,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.13\"><\/a>and kindly.<\/p>\n<p><i>Falls asleep<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Horns winded. Enter a Lord from hunting, with his train<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech8\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.14\"><\/a>Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.15\"><\/a>Brach Merriman, the poor cur is emboss&#8217;d;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.16\"><\/a>And couple Clowder with the deep&#8211;mouth&#8217;d brach.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.17\"><\/a>Saw&#8217;st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.18\"><\/a>At the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault?<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.19\"><\/a>I would not lose the dog for twenty pound.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech9\"><\/a><b>First Huntsman<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.20\"><\/a>Why, Belman is as good as he, my lord;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.21\"><\/a>He cried upon it at the merest loss<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.22\"><\/a>And twice to-day pick&#8217;d out the dullest scent:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.23\"><\/a>Trust me, I take him for the better dog.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech10\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.24\"><\/a>Thou art a fool: if Echo were as fleet,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.25\"><\/a>I would esteem him worth a dozen such.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.26\"><\/a>But sup them well and look unto them all:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.27\"><\/a>To-morrow I intend to hunt again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech11\"><\/a><b>First Huntsman<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.28\"><\/a>I will, my lord.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech12\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.29\"><\/a>What&#8217;s here? one dead, or drunk? See, doth he breathe?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech13\"><\/a><b>Second Huntsman<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.30\"><\/a>He breathes, my lord. Were he not warm&#8217;d with ale,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.31\"><\/a>This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech14\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.32\"><\/a>O monstrous beast! how like a swine he lies!<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.33\"><\/a>Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image!<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.34\"><\/a>Sirs, I will practise on this drunken man.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.35\"><\/a>What think you, if he were convey&#8217;d to bed,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.36\"><\/a>Wrapp&#8217;d in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.37\"><\/a>A most delicious banquet by his bed,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.38\"><\/a>And brave attendants near him when he wakes,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.39\"><\/a>Would not the beggar then forget himself?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech15\"><\/a><b>First Huntsman<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.40\"><\/a>Believe me, lord, I think he cannot choose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech16\"><\/a><b>Second Huntsman<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.41\"><\/a>It would seem strange unto him when he waked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech17\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.42\"><\/a>Even as a flattering dream or worthless fancy.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.43\"><\/a>Then take him up and manage well the jest:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.44\"><\/a>Carry him gently to my fairest chamber<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.45\"><\/a>And hang it round with all my wanton pictures:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.46\"><\/a>Balm his foul head in warm distilled waters<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.47\"><\/a>And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.48\"><\/a>Procure me music ready when he wakes,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.49\"><\/a>To make a dulcet and a heavenly sound;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.50\"><\/a>And if he chance to speak, be ready straight<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.51\"><\/a>And with a low submissive reverence<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.52\"><\/a>Say &#8216;What is it your honour will command?&#8217;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.53\"><\/a>Let one attend him with a silver basin<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.54\"><\/a>Full of rose-water and bestrew&#8217;d with flowers,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.55\"><\/a>Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.56\"><\/a>And say &#8216;Will&#8217;t please your lordship cool your hands?&#8217;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.57\"><\/a>Some one be ready with a costly suit<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.58\"><\/a>And ask him what apparel he will wear;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.59\"><\/a>Another tell him of his hounds and horse,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.60\"><\/a>And that his lady mourns at his disease:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.61\"><\/a>Persuade him that he hath been lunatic;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.62\"><\/a>And when he says he is, say that he dreams,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.63\"><\/a>For he is nothing but a mighty lord.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.64\"><\/a>This do and do it kindly, gentle sirs:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.65\"><\/a>It will be pastime passing excellent,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.66\"><\/a>If it be husbanded with modesty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech18\"><\/a><b>First Huntsman<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.67\"><\/a>My lord, I warrant you we will play our part,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.68\"><\/a>As he shall think by our true diligence<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.69\"><\/a>He is no less than what we say he is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech19\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.70\"><\/a>Take him up gently and to bed with him;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.71\"><\/a>And each one to his office when he wakes.<\/p>\n<p><i>Some bear out SLY. A trumpet sounds<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"0.1.72\"><\/a>Sirrah, go see what trumpet &#8217;tis that sounds:<\/p>\n<p><i>Exit Servingman<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"0.1.73\"><\/a>Belike, some noble gentleman that means,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.74\"><\/a>Travelling some journey, to repose him here.<\/p>\n<p><i>Re-enter Servingman<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"0.1.75\"><\/a>How now! who is it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech20\"><\/a><b>Servant<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.76\"><\/a>An&#8217;t please your honour, players<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.77\"><\/a>That offer service to your lordship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech21\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.78\"><\/a>Bid them come near.<\/p>\n<p><i>Enter Players<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"0.1.79\"><\/a>Now, fellows, you are welcome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech22\"><\/a><b>Players<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.80\"><\/a>We thank your honour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech23\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.81\"><\/a>Do you intend to stay with me tonight?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech24\"><\/a><b>A Player<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.82\"><\/a>So please your lordship to accept our duty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech25\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.83\"><\/a>With all my heart. This fellow I remember,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.84\"><\/a>Since once he play&#8217;d a farmer&#8217;s eldest son:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.85\"><\/a>&#8216;Twas where you woo&#8217;d the gentlewoman so well:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.86\"><\/a>I have forgot your name; but, sure, that part<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.87\"><\/a>Was aptly fitted and naturally perform&#8217;d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech26\"><\/a><b>A Player<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.88\"><\/a>I think &#8217;twas Soto that your honour means.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech27\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.89\"><\/a>&#8216;Tis very true: thou didst it excellent.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.90\"><\/a>Well, you are come to me in a happy time;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.91\"><\/a>The rather for I have some sport in hand<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.92\"><\/a>Wherein your cunning can assist me much.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.93\"><\/a>There is a lord will hear you play to-night:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.94\"><\/a>But I am doubtful of your modesties;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.95\"><\/a>Lest over-eyeing of his odd behavior,&#8211;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.96\"><\/a>For yet his honour never heard a play&#8211;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.97\"><\/a>You break into some merry passion<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.98\"><\/a>And so offend him; for I tell you, sirs,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.99\"><\/a>If you should smile he grows impatient.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech28\"><\/a><b>A Player<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.100\"><\/a>Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.101\"><\/a>Were he the veriest antic in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech29\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.1.102\"><\/a>Go, sirrah, take them to the buttery,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.103\"><\/a>And give them friendly welcome every one:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.104\"><\/a>Let them want nothing that my house affords.<\/p>\n<p><i>Exit one with the Players<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"0.1.105\"><\/a>Sirrah, go you to Barthol&#8217;mew my page,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.106\"><\/a>And see him dress&#8217;d in all suits like a lady:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.107\"><\/a>That done, conduct him to the drunkard&#8217;s chamber;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.108\"><\/a>And call him &#8216;madam,&#8217; do him obeisance.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.109\"><\/a>Tell him from me, as he will win my love,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.110\"><\/a>He bear himself with honourable action,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.111\"><\/a>Such as he hath observed in noble ladies<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.112\"><\/a>Unto their lords, by them accomplished:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.113\"><\/a>Such duty to the drunkard let him do<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.114\"><\/a>With soft low tongue and lowly courtesy,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.115\"><\/a>And say &#8216;What is&#8217;t your honour will command,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.116\"><\/a>Wherein your lady and your humble wife<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.117\"><\/a>May show her duty and make known her love?&#8217;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.118\"><\/a>And then with kind embracements, tempting kisses,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.119\"><\/a>And with declining head into his bosom,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.120\"><\/a>Bid him shed tears, as being overjoy&#8217;d<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.121\"><\/a>To see her noble lord restored to health,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.122\"><\/a>Who for this seven years hath esteem&#8217;d him<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.123\"><\/a>No better than a poor and loathsome beggar:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.124\"><\/a>And if the boy have not a woman&#8217;s gift<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.125\"><\/a>To rain a shower of commanded tears,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.126\"><\/a>An onion will do well for such a shift,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.127\"><\/a>Which in a napkin being close convey&#8217;d<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.128\"><\/a>Shall in despite enforce a watery eye.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.129\"><\/a>See this dispatch&#8217;d with all the haste thou canst:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.130\"><\/a>Anon I&#8217;ll give thee more instructions.<\/p>\n<p><i>Exit a Servingman<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"0.1.131\"><\/a>I know the boy will well usurp the grace,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.132\"><\/a>Voice, gait and action of a gentlewoman:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.133\"><\/a>I long to hear him call the drunkard husband,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.134\"><\/a>And how my men will stay themselves from laughter<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.135\"><\/a>When they do homage to this simple peasant.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.136\"><\/a>I&#8217;ll in to counsel them; haply my presence<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.137\"><\/a>May well abate the over-merry spleen<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.1.138\"><\/a>Which otherwise would grow into extremes.<\/p>\n<p><i>Exeunt<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>SCENE II. A bedchamber in the Lord&#8217;s house.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><i>Enter aloft SLY, with Attendants; some with apparel, others with basin and ewer and appurtenances; and Lord<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech1\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.1\"><\/a>For God&#8217;s sake, a pot of small ale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech2\"><\/a><b>First Servant<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.2\"><\/a>Will&#8217;t please your lordship drink a cup of sack?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech3\"><\/a><b>Second Servant<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.3\"><\/a>Will&#8217;t please your honour taste of these conserves?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech4\"><\/a><b>Third Servant<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.4\"><\/a>What raiment will your honour wear to-day?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech5\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.5\"><\/a>I am Christophero Sly; call not me &#8216;honour&#8217; nor<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.6\"><\/a>&#8216;lordship:&#8217; I ne&#8217;er drank sack in my life; and if<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.7\"><\/a>you give me any conserves, give me conserves of<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.8\"><\/a>beef: ne&#8217;er ask me what raiment I&#8217;ll wear; for I<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.9\"><\/a>have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.10\"><\/a>than legs, nor no more shoes than feet; nay,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.11\"><\/a>sometimes more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.12\"><\/a>toes look through the over-leather.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech6\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.13\"><\/a>Heaven cease this idle humour in your honour!<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.14\"><\/a>O, that a mighty man of such descent,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.15\"><\/a>Of such possessions and so high esteem,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.16\"><\/a>Should be infused with so foul a spirit!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech7\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.17\"><\/a>What, would you make me mad? Am not I Christopher<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.18\"><\/a>Sly, old Sly&#8217;s son of Burtonheath, by birth a<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.19\"><\/a>pedlar, by education a cardmaker, by transmutation a<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.20\"><\/a>bear-herd, and now by present profession a tinker?<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.21\"><\/a>Ask Marian Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot, if<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.22\"><\/a>she know me not: if she say I am not fourteen pence<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.23\"><\/a>on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.24\"><\/a>lyingest knave in Christendom. What! I am not<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.25\"><\/a>bestraught: here&#8217;s&#8211;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech8\"><\/a><b>Third Servant<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.26\"><\/a>O, this it is that makes your lady mourn!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech9\"><\/a><b>Second Servant<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.27\"><\/a>O, this is it that makes your servants droop!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech10\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.28\"><\/a>Hence comes it that your kindred shuns your house,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.29\"><\/a>As beaten hence by your strange lunacy.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.30\"><\/a>O noble lord, bethink thee of thy birth,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.31\"><\/a>Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.32\"><\/a>And banish hence these abject lowly dreams.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.33\"><\/a>Look how thy servants do attend on thee,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.34\"><\/a>Each in his office ready at thy beck.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.35\"><\/a>Wilt thou have music? hark! Apollo plays,<\/p>\n<p><i>Music<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"0.2.36\"><\/a>And twenty caged nightingales do sing:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.37\"><\/a>Or wilt thou sleep? we&#8217;ll have thee to a couch<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.38\"><\/a>Softer and sweeter than the lustful bed<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.39\"><\/a>On purpose trimm&#8217;d up for Semiramis.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.40\"><\/a>Say thou wilt walk; we will bestrew the ground:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.41\"><\/a>Or wilt thou ride? thy horses shall be trapp&#8217;d,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.42\"><\/a>Their harness studded all with gold and pearl.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.43\"><\/a>Dost thou love hawking? thou hast hawks will soar<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.44\"><\/a>Above the morning lark or wilt thou hunt?<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.45\"><\/a>Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.46\"><\/a>And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech11\"><\/a><b>First Servant<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.47\"><\/a>Say thou wilt course; thy greyhounds are as swift<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.48\"><\/a>As breathed stags, ay, fleeter than the roe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech12\"><\/a><b>Second Servant<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.49\"><\/a>Dost thou love pictures? we will fetch thee straight<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.50\"><\/a>Adonis painted by a running brook,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.51\"><\/a>And Cytherea all in sedges hid,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.52\"><\/a>Which seem to move and wanton with her breath,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.53\"><\/a>Even as the waving sedges play with wind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech13\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.54\"><\/a>We&#8217;ll show thee Io as she was a maid,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.55\"><\/a>And how she was beguiled and surprised,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.56\"><\/a>As lively painted as the deed was done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech14\"><\/a><b>Third Servant<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.57\"><\/a>Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.58\"><\/a>Scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.59\"><\/a>And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.60\"><\/a>So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech15\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.61\"><\/a>Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.62\"><\/a>Thou hast a lady far more beautiful<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.63\"><\/a>Than any woman in this waning age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech16\"><\/a><b>First Servant<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.64\"><\/a>And till the tears that she hath shed for thee<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.65\"><\/a>Like envious floods o&#8217;er-run her lovely face,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.66\"><\/a>She was the fairest creature in the world;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.67\"><\/a>And yet she is inferior to none.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech17\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.68\"><\/a>Am I a lord? and have I such a lady?<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.69\"><\/a>Or do I dream? or have I dream&#8217;d till now?<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.70\"><\/a>I do not sleep: I see, I hear, I speak;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.71\"><\/a>I smell sweet savours and I feel soft things:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.72\"><\/a>Upon my life, I am a lord indeed<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.73\"><\/a>And not a tinker nor Christophero Sly.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.74\"><\/a>Well, bring our lady hither to our sight;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.75\"><\/a>And once again, a pot o&#8217; the smallest ale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech18\"><\/a><b>Second Servant<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.76\"><\/a>Will&#8217;t please your mightiness to wash your hands?<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.77\"><\/a>O, how we joy to see your wit restored!<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.78\"><\/a>O, that once more you knew but what you are!<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.79\"><\/a>These fifteen years you have been in a dream;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.80\"><\/a>Or when you waked, so waked as if you slept.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech19\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.81\"><\/a>These fifteen years! by my fay, a goodly nap.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.82\"><\/a>But did I never speak of all that time?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech20\"><\/a><b>First Servant<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.83\"><\/a>O, yes, my lord, but very idle words:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.84\"><\/a>For though you lay here in this goodly chamber,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.85\"><\/a>Yet would you say ye were beaten out of door;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.86\"><\/a>And rail upon the hostess of the house;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.87\"><\/a>And say you would present her at the leet,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.88\"><\/a>Because she brought stone jugs and no seal&#8217;d quarts:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.89\"><\/a>Sometimes you would call out for Cicely Hacket.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech21\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.90\"><\/a>Ay, the woman&#8217;s maid of the house.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech22\"><\/a><b>Third Servant<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.91\"><\/a>Why, sir, you know no house nor no such maid,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.92\"><\/a>Nor no such men as you have reckon&#8217;d up,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.93\"><\/a>As Stephen Sly and did John Naps of Greece<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.94\"><\/a>And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.95\"><\/a>And twenty more such names and men as these<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.96\"><\/a>Which never were nor no man ever saw.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech23\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.97\"><\/a>Now Lord be thanked for my good amends!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech24\"><\/a><b>ALL<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.98\"><\/a>Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech25\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.99\"><\/a>I thank thee: thou shalt not lose by it.<\/p>\n<p><i>Enter the Page as a lady, with attendants<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech26\"><\/a><b>Page<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.100\"><\/a>How fares my noble lord?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech27\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.101\"><\/a>Marry, I fare well for here is cheer enough.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.102\"><\/a>Where is my wife?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech28\"><\/a><b>Page<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.103\"><\/a>Here, noble lord: what is thy will with her?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech29\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.104\"><\/a>Are you my wife and will not call me husband?<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.105\"><\/a>My men should call me &#8216;lord:&#8217; I am your goodman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech30\"><\/a><b>Page<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.106\"><\/a>My husband and my lord, my lord and husband;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.107\"><\/a>I am your wife in all obedience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech31\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.108\"><\/a>I know it well. What must I call her?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech32\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.109\"><\/a>Madam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech33\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.110\"><\/a>Al&#8217;ce madam, or Joan madam?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech34\"><\/a><b>Lord<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.111\"><\/a>&#8216;Madam,&#8217; and nothing else: so lords<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.112\"><\/a>call ladies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech35\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.113\"><\/a>Madam wife, they say that I have dream&#8217;d<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.114\"><\/a>And slept above some fifteen year or more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech36\"><\/a><b>Page<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.115\"><\/a>Ay, and the time seems thirty unto me,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.116\"><\/a>Being all this time abandon&#8217;d from your bed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech37\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.117\"><\/a>&#8216;Tis much. Servants, leave me and her alone.<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.118\"><\/a>Madam, undress you and come now to bed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech38\"><\/a><b>Page<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.119\"><\/a>Thrice noble lord, let me entreat of you<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.120\"><\/a>To pardon me yet for a night or two,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.121\"><\/a>Or, if not so, until the sun be set:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.122\"><\/a>For your physicians have expressly charged,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.123\"><\/a>In peril to incur your former malady,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.124\"><\/a>That I should yet absent me from your bed:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.125\"><\/a>I hope this reason stands for my excuse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech39\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.126\"><\/a>Ay, it stands so that I may hardly<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.127\"><\/a>tarry so long. But I would be loath to fall into<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.128\"><\/a>my dreams again: I will therefore tarry in<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.129\"><\/a>despite of the flesh and the blood.<\/p>\n<p><i>Enter a Messenger<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech40\"><\/a><b>Messenger<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.130\"><\/a>Your honour&#8217;s players, heating your amendment,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.131\"><\/a>Are come to play a pleasant comedy;<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.132\"><\/a>For so your doctors hold it very meet,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.133\"><\/a>Seeing too much sadness hath congeal&#8217;d your blood,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.134\"><\/a>And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy:<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.135\"><\/a>Therefore they thought it good you hear a play<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.136\"><\/a>And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.137\"><\/a>Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech41\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.138\"><\/a>Marry, I will, let them play it. Is not a<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.139\"><\/a>comondy a Christmas gambold or a tumbling-trick?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech42\"><\/a><b>Page<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.140\"><\/a>No, my good lord; it is more pleasing stuff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech43\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.141\"><\/a>What, household stuff?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech44\"><\/a><b>Page<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.142\"><\/a>It is a kind of history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a name=\"speech45\"><\/a><b>SLY<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"0.2.143\"><\/a>Well, well see&#8217;t. Come, madam wife, sit by my side<br \/>\n<a name=\"0.2.144\"><\/a>and let the world slip: we shall ne&#8217;er be younger.<\/p>\n<p><i>Flourish<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE I. Before an alehouse on a heath. Enter Hostess and SLY SLY I&#8217;ll pheeze you, in faith. Hostess A pair of stocks, you rogue! SLY 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! 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