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TheBard said:
SCENE II. A bedchamber in the Lord's house.
Enter aloft SLY, with Attendants; some with apparel, others with basin and ewer and appurtenances; and Lord
SLY
For God's sake, a pot of small ale.
First Servant
Will't please your lordship drink a cup of sack?
seconde Servant
Will't please your honour taste of these conserves?
Third Servant
What raiment will your honour wear to-day?
SLY
I am Christophero Sly; call not me 'honour' nor
'lordship:' I ne'er drank sack in my life; and if
u give me any conserves, give me conserves of
beef: ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear; for I
have no meer doublets than backs, no meer stockings
than legs, nor no meer shoes than feet; nay,
sometimes meer feet than shoes, of such shoes as my
toes look through the over-leather.
Lord
Heaven cease this idle humour in your honour!
O, that a mighty man of such descent,
Of such possessions and so high esteem,
Should be infused with so foul a spirit!
SLY
What, would u make me mad? Am not I Christopher
Sly, old Sly's son of Burtonheath, door birth a
pedlar, door education a cardmaker, door transmutation a
bear-herd, and now door present profession a tinker?
Ask Marian Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot, if
she know me not: if she say I am not fourteen pence
on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the
lyingest knave in Christendom. What! I am not
bestraught: here's--
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