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第3章

A bedchamber in the Lord's house.Enter aloft SLY, with Attendants; some with apparel, others with basin and ewer and appurtenances; and Lord SLY For God's sake, a pot of small ale.First Servant Will't please your lordship drink a cup of sack? Second Servant Will't please your honour taste of these conserves? Third Servant What raiment will your honour wear to-day? SLY I am Christophero Sly; call not me 'honour'

nor 'lordship:' I ne'er drank sack in my life; and if you give me any conserves, give me conserves of beef: ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear; for Ihave no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet; nay, sometimes more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the over-leather.Lord Heaven cease this idle humour in your honour!

O, that a mighty man of such descent, Of such possessions and so high esteem, Should be infused with so foul a spirit! SLY What, would you make me mad? Am not IChristopher Sly, old Sly's son of Burtonheath, by birth a pedlar, by education a cardmaker, by transmutation a bear-herd, and now by present profession a tinker?

Ask Marian Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot, if she know me not: if she say I am not fourteen pence on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the lyingest knave in Christendom.What! I am not bestraught: here's-- Third Servant O, this it is that makes your lady mourn! Second Servant O, this is it that makes your servants droop! Lord Hence comes it that your kindred shuns your house, As beaten hence by your strange lunacy.

O noble lord, bethink thee of thy birth, Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment And banish hence these abject lowly dreams.

Look how thy servants do attend on thee, Each in his office ready at thy beck.

Wilt thou have music? hark! Apollo plays, Music And twenty caged nightingales do sing:

Or wilt thou sleep? we'll have thee to a couch Softer and sweeter than the lustful bed On purpose trimm'd up for Semiramis.

Say thou wilt walk; we will bestrew the ground:

Or wilt thou ride? thy horses shall be trapp'd, Their harness studded all with gold and pearl.

Dost thou love hawking? thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark or wilt thou hunt?

Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth.First Servant Say thou wilt course; thy greyhounds are as swift As breathed stags, ay, fleeter than the roe.Second Servant Dost thou love pictures? we will fetch thee straight Adonis painted by a running brook, And Cytherea all in sedges hid, Which seem to move and wanton with her breath, Even as the waving sedges play with wind.Lord We'll show thee Io as she was a maid, And how she was beguiled and surprised, As lively painted as the deed was done.Third Servant Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood, Scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds, And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep, So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.Lord Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord:

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