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And go the fools among.
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Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster
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that can teach thy fool to lie.
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An you lie, we'll have you whipped.
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Thy daughters will have me whipped
for speaking true,

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thou'It for lying, and sometimes I'm
whipped for holding my peace.

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I had rather be any kind o'thing
than a fool.

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And yet I would not
be thee, nuncle.

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Thou hast pared thy wit o'both sides,
and left nothing in the middle.

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Here comes one of the parings.
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How now, daughter!
What makes that frontlet on?

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Methinks you are too much
of late in the frown.

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Thou wast a pretty fellow
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when thou hadst no need
to care for her frowning.

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Yes, forsooth, I will hold my tongue.
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So your face bids me...
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though you say nothing.
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Not only, sir, this your
all-licensed fool,

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but other of your insolent retinue
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do hourly carp and quarrel.
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I had thought, by making this
well known unto you,

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to have found a safe redress,
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but now grow fearful
that you protect this course.

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Which if you should,
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the fault would not scape censure,
which might in their working

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do you that offence,
which else were shame,

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that then necessity
will call discreet proceeding.

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For, you trow, nuncle.

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