Page 843 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

Your affairs there, what, with whom, the condition of that fardel, the place of
your dwelling, your names, your ages, of what having, breeding, and any
thing that is fitting to be known, discover! [710]

CLOWN
We are but plain fellows, sir.

AUTOLYCUS
A lie; you are rough and hairy. Let me have no lying: it becomes none but

tradesmen, and they often give us soldiers the lie; but we pay them for it
with stamped coin, not stabbing steel; therefore they do not give us the lie.
[715]

CLOWN
Your worship had like to have given us one, if you had not taken yourself with

the manner.

SHEPHERD

Are you a courtier, and ’t like you, sir?

AUTOLYCUS
Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Seest thou not the air of the court
in these enfoldings? hath not [720] my gait in it the measure of the court?
receives not thy nose court-odour from me? reflect I not on thy baseness,
court-contempt? Think’st thou, for that I insinuate, or toaze from thee thy

business, I am therefore no courtier? I am courtier cap-a-pe; and one that will
either push on or [725] pluck back thy business there: whereupon I command
thee to open thy affair.

SHEPHERD
My business, sir, is to the king.

AUTOLYCUS

What advocate hast thou to him?

SHEPHERD

I know not, and ’t like you. [730]