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COUNTESS

It must be an answer of most monstrous size that must fit all demands.

CLOWN
But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned should speak truth of it. Here
it is, and all that belongs to’t. Ask me if I am a courtier; it shall do you no
harm to learn. [35]

COUNTESS

To be young again, if we could! I will be a fool in question, hoping to be the
wiser by your answer. I pray you, sir, are you a courtier?

CLOWN
O Lord, sir! − There’s a simple putting off. More, more, a hundred of them.
[40]

COUNTESS
Sir, I am a poor friend of yours that loves you.

CLOWN
O Lord, sir! − Thick, thick; spare not me.

COUNTESS
I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely meat.

CLOWN

O Lord, sir! − Nay, put me to’t, I warrant you. [45]

COUNTESS

You were lately whipped, sir, as I think.

CLOWN
O Lord, sir! − Spare not me.

COUNTESS
Do you cry ‘O Lord, sir!’ at your whipping, and ‘spare not me’? Indeed your ‘O
Lord, sir!’ is very sequent to your whipping: you would answer very well [50]