No Fear Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale: Act 4 Scene 4 Page 33

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AUTOLYCUS [Aside] Very wisely, puppies!	AUTOLYCUS (aside) Very wise, gullible men!
SHEPHERD 800Well, let us to the king: there is that in this fardel will make him scratch his beard.	SHEPHERD Well, let’s go to the king. There is something in this bundle that will make him reconsider things.
AUTOLYCUS [Aside] I know not what impediment this complaint may be to the flight of my master.	AUTOLYCUS (aside) I don’t know how this complaint might hinder the flight of Florizel, my master.
CLOWN Pray heartily he be at palace.	YOKEL Let’s hope that he’s at the palace.
AUTOLYCUS 805[Aside] Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance: let me pocket up my pedlar’s excrement.	AUTOLYCUS (aside) Even if I’m not naturally honest, sometimes I happen to be. Let me take off my peddler’s beard.
Takes off his false beard	He takes off his false beard.
How now, rustics! whither are you bound?	Hello, countrymen! Where are you going?
SHEPHERD To the palace, an it like your worship.	SHEPHERD To the palace, if it pleases your worship.
AUTOLYCUS Your affairs there, what, with whom, the condition 810of that fardel, the place of your dwelling, your names, your ages, of what having, breeding, and any thing that is fitting to be known, discover.	AUTOLYCUS Tell me what your business is there, and with whom, what’s in that bundle, where you live, your names, ages, what you own and your parents, or anything else that ought to be known.
CLOWN We are but plain fellows, sir.	YOKEL We’re just ordinary fellows, sir.
AUTOLYCUS A lie; you are rough and hairy. Let me have no 815lying: it becomes none but tradesmen, and they often give us soldiers the lie: but we pay them for it with stamped coin, not stabbing steel; therefore they do not give us the lie.	AUTOLYCUS That’s a lie. You’re ragged-looking and hairy. Don’t lie to me. It only works for tradesmen, and they often call us soldiers liars and cheat us at the same time. But we pay them for it with coins rather than swords, so they’re not really giving us lies since we’re paying.
CLOWN Your worship had like to have given us one, if you 820had not taken yourself with the manner.	YOKEL You would have given us a lie if you hadn’t stopped yourself in the middle.