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ACT II IT

Scene I IT

Enter Cloten and two Lords.

CLOTEN
Was there ever man had such luck? When I kissed the jack upon an upcast, to
be hit away! I had a hundred pound on’t: and then a whoreson jackanapes
must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him, and might

not spend them at my pleasure. [5]

FIRST LORD

What got he by that? You have broke his pate with your bowl.

SECOND LORD
[aside]
If his wit had been like him that broke it, it would have run all out.

CLOTEN
When a gentleman is dispos’d to swear, it is not for any [10] standers-by to
curtail his oaths. Ha?

SECOND LORD
No, my lord; [aside] nor crop the ears of them.

CLOTEN
Whoreson dog! I gave him satisfaction! Would he had been one of my rank!
[15]

SECOND LORD
[aside]
To have smelt like a fool.