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SCENE I

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      Before an alehouse on a heath.

      [Enter HOSTESS and SLY.]

      SLY.

       I’ll pheeze you, in faith.

      HOSTESS.

       A pair of stocks, you rogue!

      SLY.

       Y’are a baggage; the Slys are no rogues; look in the chronicles: we came in with Richard Conqueror. Therefore, paucas pallabris; let the world slide. Sessa!

      HOSTESS.

       You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?

      SLY.

       No, not a denier. Go by, Saint Jeronimy, go to thy cold bed and warm thee.

      HOSTESS.

       I know my remedy; I must go fetch the third-borough.

       [Exit.]

      SLY.

       Third, or fourth, or fifth borough, I’ll answer him by law.

       I’ll not budge an inch, boy: let him come, and kindly.

       [Lies down on the ground, and falls asleep.]

      [Horns winded. Enter a LORD from hunting, with Huntsmen and

       Servants.]

      LORD.

       Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds;

       Brach Merriman, the poor cur, is emboss’d,

       And couple Clowder with the deep-mouth’d brach.

       Saw’st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good

       At the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault?

       I would not lose the dog for twenty pound.

      FIRST HUNTSMAN.

       Why, Bellman is as good as he, my lord;

       He cried upon it at the merest loss,

       And twice to-day pick’d out the dullest scent;

       Trust me, I take him for the better dog.

      LORD.

       Thou art a fool: if Echo were as fleet,

       I would esteem him worth a dozen such.

       But sup them well, and look unto them all;

       Tomorrow I intend to hunt again.

      FIRST HUNTSMAN.

       I will, my lord.

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