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you.

SHEPHERD
I will tell the king all, every word, yea, and his son’s pranks too; who, I may
say, is no honest man, [690] neither to his father nor to me, to go about to
make me the king’s brother-in-law.

CLOWN
Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest off you could have been to him and

then your blood had been the dearer by I know how much an ounce. [695]

AUTOLYCUS
(aside)
Very wisely, puppies!

SHEPHERD
Well, let us to the king: there is that in this fardel will make him scratch his
beard.

AUTOLYCUS

(aside)
I know not what impediment this complaint may be to the flight of my
master. [700]

CLOWN
Pray heartily he be at ’palace.

AUTOLYCUS
(aside)
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance: let me

pocket up my pedlar’s excrement. (Takes off his false beard) How now,
rustics! whither are you bound? [705]

SHEPHERD
To th’ palace, and it like your worship.

AUTOLYCUS