No Fear Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale: Act 4 Scene 4 Page 13

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DORCAS Is it true too, think you?	DORCAS You think it’s true, too?
AUTOLYCUS 305Five justices’ hands at it, and witnesses more than my pack will hold.	AUTOLYCUS Five judges would swear to it, and there are more witnesses’ statements than I could pack along with me.
CLOWN Lay it by too: another.	YOKEL Put that one aside, too, and let’s see another.
AUTOLYCUS This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one.	AUTOLYCUS This is a happy ballad, and very pretty.
MOPSA Let’s have some merry ones.	MOPSA Let’s have some happy ones.
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.	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.
MOPSA We can both sing it: if thou’lt bear a part, thou 315shalt hear; ’tis in three parts.	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.
DORCAS We had the tune on’t a month ago.	DORCAS We learned the tune for it a month ago.
AUTOLYCUS I can bear my part; you must know ’tis my occupation; have at it with you.	AUTOLYCUS I can sing my part. As you know, I’m a singer by trade. Go ahead.
SONG	They sing.
AUTOLYCUS Get you hence, for I must go 320Where it fits not you to know.	AUTOLYCUS Go away, because I must go to a place that you don’t know.
DORCAS Whither?	DORCAS Where?
MOPSA O, whither?	MOPSA Oh, where?
DORCAS Whither?	DORCAS Where?
MOPSA It becomes thy oath full well, 325Thou to me thy secrets tell.	MOPSA It wouldn’t be breaking your promise to tell me your secrets.