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SHEPHERD Are you a courtier, an’t like you, sir?
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SHEPHERD Are you from the court, if you please, sir?
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AUTOLYCUS Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Seest
thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings?
hath not my gait in it the measure of the court?
825receives not thy nose court-odor from me? reflect I
not on thy baseness court-contempt? Thinkest thou,
for that I insinuate, or toaze from thee thy
business, I am therefore no courtier? I am courtier
cap-a-pe; and one that will either push on or pluck
830back thy business there: whereupon I command thee to
open thy affair.
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AUTOLYCUS I am from the court, whether it please me or not. Don’t you see an air of the court in my clothes? Don’t I walk as though I’m from the court? Don’t you smell the odor of the court on me? Don’t I treat your base rank with the contempt of the court? Do you think that because I subtly draw out your business from you, that I’m not from the court? I am a courtier from head to foot. And I’ll either push along or prevent your business there, so I command you to tell me what it’s about.
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SHEPHERD My business, sir, is to the king.
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SHEPHERD My business, sir, is with the king.
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AUTOLYCUS What advocate hast thou to him?
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AUTOLYCUS Do you have an advocate with him?
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SHEPHERD I know not, an’t like you.
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SHEPHERD I don’t know.
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CLOWN
835Advocate’s the court-word for a pheasant: say you
have none.
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YOKEL |
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SHEPHERD None, sir; I have no pheasant, cock nor hen.
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SHEPHERD None, sir. I don’t have a pheasant, either a male or a female one.
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AUTOLYCUS How blessed are we that are not simple men!
Yet nature might have made me as these are,
840Therefore I will not disdain.
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AUTOLYCUS How blessed are we that are smart! Yet nature could have made me just like them, so I won’t treat them with contempt.
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CLOWN This cannot be but a great courtier.
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YOKEL He must be a great man at the court.
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SHEPHERD His garments are rich, but he wears
them not handsomely.
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SHEPHERD His garments look expensive, but he doesn’t wear them well.
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