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CONRADE

Yes, it is apparel.

BORACHIO
I mean, the fashion.

CONRADE
Yes, the fashion is the fashion. [120]

BORACHIO
Tush! I may as well say the fool’s the fool. But seest thou not what a
deformed thief this fashion is?

FIRST WATCHMAN

(aside) I know that Deformed; ’a has been a vile thief this seven year; ’a
goes up and down like a gentleman. I remember his name. [125]

BORACHIO
Didst thou not hear somebody?

CONRADE
No; ’twas the vane on the house.

BORACHIO
Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is, how giddily ’a
turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty,

sometimes [130] fashioning them like Pharaoh’s soldiers in the reechy
painting, sometime like god Bel’s priests in the old church-window, sometime
like the shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry, where his
codpiece seems as massy as his club? [135]

CONRADE

All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the
man. But art not thou thyself out more apparel than the man. But art not
thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale
into telling me of the fashion? [140]