No Fear Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale: Act 4 Scene 4 Page 34

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SHEPHERD Are you a courtier, an’t like you, sir?	SHEPHERD Are you from the court, if you please, sir?
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.	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.
SHEPHERD My business, sir, is to the king.	SHEPHERD My business, sir, is with the king.
AUTOLYCUS What advocate hast thou to him?	AUTOLYCUS Do you have an advocate with him?
SHEPHERD I know not, an’t like you.	SHEPHERD I don’t know.
CLOWN 835Advocate’s the court-word for a pheasant: say you have none.	YOKEL An advocate means a pheasant at the court The Yokel thinks advocate means bribe, and game birds like pheasants were supposedly given as bribes at local courts. advocate means a pheasant at the court ; say you don’t have one.
SHEPHERD None, sir; I have no pheasant, cock nor hen.	SHEPHERD None, sir. I don’t have a pheasant, either a male or a female one.
AUTOLYCUS How blessed are we that are not simple men! Yet nature might have made me as these are, 840Therefore I will not disdain.	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.
CLOWN This cannot be but a great courtier.	YOKEL He must be a great man at the court.
SHEPHERD His garments are rich, but he wears them not handsomely.	SHEPHERD His garments look expensive, but he doesn’t wear them well.