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DORCAS Is it true too, think you?
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DORCAS You think it’s true, too?
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AUTOLYCUS
305Five justices’ hands at it, and witnesses more than
my pack will hold.
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AUTOLYCUS Five judges would swear to it, and there are more witnesses’ statements than I could pack along with me.
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CLOWN Lay it by too: another.
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YOKEL Put that one aside, too, and let’s see another.
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AUTOLYCUS This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one.
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AUTOLYCUS This is a happy ballad, and very pretty.
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MOPSA Let’s have some merry ones.
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MOPSA Let’s have some happy ones.
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AUTOLYCUS
310Why, this is a passing merry one and goes to
the tune of ‘Two maids wooing a man:’ there’s
scarce a maid westward but she sings it; ’tis in
request, I can tell you.
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AUTOLYCUS Here’s a very merry one, which goes to the tune of “Two Maids Courting a Man.” There’s hardly a woman west of here that doesn’t sing it. It’s in great demand, I can tell you.
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MOPSA We can both sing it: if thou’lt bear a part, thou
315shalt hear; ’tis in three parts.
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MOPSA We can both sing it. If you will sing one part, we can do it, since there are three parts and three of us.
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DORCAS We had the tune on’t a month ago.
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DORCAS We learned the tune for it a month ago.
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AUTOLYCUS I can bear my part; you must know ’tis my
occupation; have at it with you.
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AUTOLYCUS I can sing my part. As you know, I’m a singer by trade. Go ahead.
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SONG
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They sing.
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AUTOLYCUS Get you hence, for I must go
320Where it fits not you to know.
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AUTOLYCUS Go away, because I must go to a place that you don’t know.
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DORCAS Whither?
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DORCAS Where?
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MOPSA O, whither?
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MOPSA Oh, where?
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DORCAS Whither?
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DORCAS Where?
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MOPSA It becomes thy oath full well,
325Thou to me thy secrets tell.
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MOPSA It wouldn’t be breaking your promise to tell me your secrets.
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