Clown Advocate's the court-word for a pheasant: say you
have none.
Shepherd None, sir; I have no pheasant, cock nor hen.
AUTOLYCUS How blessed are we that are not simple men!
Yet nature might have made me as these are,
Therefore I will not disdain.
Clown This cannot be but a great courtier.
Shepherd His garments are rich, but he wears
them not handsomely.
Clown He seems to be the more noble in being fantastical:
a great man, I'll warrant; I know by the picking
on's teeth.
AUTOLYCUS The fardel there? what's i' the fardel?
Wherefore that box?
Shepherd Sir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and box,
which none must know but the king; and which he
shall know within this hour, if I may come to the
speech of him.
AUTOLYCUS Age, thou hast lost thy labour.
Shepherd Why, sir?
AUTOLYCUS The king is not at the palace; he is gone aboard a
new ship to purge melancholy and air himself: for,
if thou beest capable of things serious, thou must
know the king is full of grief.
Shepard So 'tis said, sir; about his son, that should have
married a shepherd's daughter.
AUTOLYCUS If that shepherd be not in hand-fast, let him fly:
the curses he shall have, the tortures he shall
feel, will break the back of man, the heart of monster.
Clown Think you so, sir?
AUTOLYCUS Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy
and vengeance bitter; but those that are germane to
him, though removed fifty times, shall all come
under the hangman: which though it be great pity,
yet it is necessary.
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