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Identifier: comediesofwillia04shak (find matches)
Title: The comedies of William Shakespeare
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911
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Publisher: New York : Harper and brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Say you see them not,and think me still no gentleman born: you were bestsay these robes are not gentlemen born. Give me thelie ; do, and try whether I am not now a gentlemanborn. Aut. I know you are now, sir, a gentleman born. Clown. Ay, and have been so any time these fourhours. Ship. And so have I, boy. Clown. So you have. But I was a gentleman bornbefore my father, for the kings son took me by thehand and called me brother; and then the two kingscalled my father brother; and then the prince, mybrother, and the princess, my sister, called my fatherfather; and so we wept; and there was the first gentle-manlike tears that ever we shed. SJiep. We may live, son, to shed many more. Clown. Ay, or else twere hard luck, being in so pre-posterous estate as we are. A2it. I humbly beseech you, sir, to pardon me all thefaults I have committed to your worship, and to giveme your good report to the prince my master.
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THE WINTERS TALE 249 Skep. Prithee, son, do; for we must be gentle, nowwe are gentlemen. Clown. Thou wilt amend thy life ? Aut. Ay, an it like your good worship. Clown. Give me thy hand; I will swear to theprince thou art as honest a true fellow as any is inBohemia. Skep. You may say it, but not swear it./ Clown. Not swear it, now I am a gentleman ) Letboors and franklins say it, Ill swear it. Shep. How if it be false, son ? Cloivn. If it be neer so false, a true gentleman mayswear it in the behalf of his friend. And Ill swear tothe prince thou art a tall fellow of thy hands, and thatthou wilt not be drunk; but I know thou art no tallfellow of thy hands, and that thou wilt be drunk ; butIll swear it; and I would, and wouldst be a tall fellowof thy hands. Aiit. I will prove so, sir, to my power. Clown. Ay, by any means prove a tall fellow. If I donot wonder how thou darest venture to be drunk, notbeing a tall fellow, trust me not.—Hark ! the kings andthe princes, our kindred, are goi

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