Page 516 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1
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GLOUCEST ER
What, and wouldst climb a tree?
SIMPCOX
But that in all my life, when I was a youth.
WIFE
Too true, and bought his climbing very dear.
GLOUCEST ER
’Mass, thou lov’dst plums well, that wouldst [105] venture so.
SIMPCOX
Alas, good master, my wife desired some damsons, and made me climb,
with danger of my life.
GLOUCEST ER
A subtle knave, but yet it shall not serve: -
Let me see thine eyes: wink now; now open them. [110]
In my opinion, yet thou seest not well.
SIMPCOX
Yes, master, clear as day, I thank God and Saint Albones.
GLOUCEST ER
Sayst thou me so? What colour is this cloak of? [115]
SIMPCOX
Red, master, red as blood.
GLOUCEST ER
Why that’s well said. What colour is my gown of?
SIMPCOX
Black, forsooth, coal-black as jet.
KING HENRY
Why then, thou know’st what colour jet [120] is of?
