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CLOTEN

I am not vex’d more at any thing in th’ earth: a pox on’t! I had rather not be
so noble as I am: they dare not fight with me, because of the queen my
mother: every Jack-slave hath his bellyful of fighting, and I must go up and

down like a cock, that [20] nobody can match.

SECOND LORD

[aside]
You are cock and capon too, and you crow, cock, with your comb on.

CLOTEN
Sayest thou?

SECOND LORD
It is not fit your lordship should undertake every [25] companion that you
give offence to.

CLOTEN
No, I know that: but it is fit I should commit offence to my inferiors.

SECOND LORD

Ay, it is fit for your lordship only.

CLOTEN

Why, so I say. [30]

FIRST LORD
Did you hear of a stranger that’s come to court to-night?

CLOTEN
A stranger, and I know not on’t?

SECOND LORD
[aside]
He’s a strange fellow himself, and knows it not. [35]

FIRST LORD