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Enter SLY and
HOSTESS
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SLY and HOSTESS
enter.
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SLY I’ll pheeze you, in faith.
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SLY I’ll fix you, I swear.
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HOSTESS A pair of stocks, you rogue!
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HOSTESS You thug! I’ll call for a pair of
stocksThe “stocks” consisted of a wooden frame in which you could lock a criminal’s ankles so that he or she couldn’t move. stocks ! |
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SLY Y'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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SLY There are no thugs in my family, whore! Read your history! We
SlysSly means William the Conqueror; he is saying he can trace his family back to the time of England’s first king, but gets the name wrong. Slys came over with Richard the Conqueror. Oh, the hell with it. I can’t be bothered. Shut up! |
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HOSTESS You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?
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HOSTESS You won’t pay for the glasses you smashed?
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SLY No, not a denier. Go by, Saint Jeronimy. Go to thy cold bed and
warm thee.
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SLY No, not a penny. Get out of my face. Go play with yourself.
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HOSTESS I know my remedy. I must go fetch the thirdborough.
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HOSTESS I know my rights. I’ll call a policeman.
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Exit
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She exits.
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SLY Third, or fourth, or fifth borough, I’ll answer him by
law.
10I’ll not budge an inch, boy. Let him come, and
kindly.
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SLY Call them all! I have a legal right to be here. I’m not
moving an inch, pal. Let them come—I don’t
care.
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Falls asleep
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He falls asleep.
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Wind horns Enter a LORD from hunting,
with his train
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A hunting horn is heard. A LORD who has
been hunting enters with his hunstmen.
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