what comes the wool to?
AUTOLYCUS [Aside]
If the springe hold, the cock's mine.
Clown I cannot do't without counters. Let me see; what am
I to buy for our sheep-shearing feast? Three pound
of sugar, five pound of currants, rice,--what will
this sister of mine do with rice? But my father
hath made her mistress of the feast, and she lays it
on. She hath made me four and twenty nose-gays for
the shearers, three-man-song-men all, and very good
ones; but they are most of them means and bases; but
one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to
horn-pipes. I must have saffron to colour the warden
pies; mace; dates?--none, that's out of my note;
nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I
may beg; four pound of prunes, and as many of
raisins o' the sun.
AUTOLYCUS O that ever I was born!
[Grovelling on the ground]
Clown I' the name of me--
AUTOLYCUS O, help me, help me! pluck but off these rags; and
then, death, death!
Clown Alack, poor soul! thou hast need of more rags to lay
on thee, rather than have these off.
AUTOLYCUS O sir, the loathsomeness of them offends me more
than the stripes I have received, which are mighty
ones and millions.
Clown Alas, poor man! a million of beating may come to a
great matter.
AUTOLYCUS I am robbed, sir, and beaten; my money and apparel
ta'en from me, and these detestable things put upon
me.
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