:21:02
Thou hadst little wit
in thy bald crown when thou
gav'st thy golden one away.
:21:07
I prithee, nuncle, keep
a schoolmaster that
can teach thy fool to lie.
:21:10
I would fain
learn to lie.
:21:12
And you lie, sirrah,
we'll have you whipp'd.
:21:14
I marvel what kin
thou and thy
daughters are.
:21:17
They'll have me whipped
for speaking true, for lying,
:21:20
and sometimes
for holding my peace.
:21:22
I'd rather be any kind
of a thing than a fool;
:21:25
yet I would not
be thee, nuncle;
:21:27
for thou hast pared
thy wits o' both sides
and left nothing in the middle.
:21:30
# Mum, mum!
He that keeps nor crust nor crumb #
:21:33
# Weary of all shall want some ##
:21:36
When were you wont
to be so full of songs, sirrah?
:21:39
Ever since thou mad'st
thy daughters thy mothers;
:21:42
for when thou gav'st them
the rod, and pulled
down thine own breeches.
:21:44
# Then they for sudden joy did weep #
:21:46
# And I for sorrow sung #
:21:49
# That such a king
Should play bo-peep #
:21:52
# And go the fools among ##
:21:57
Nay,
:21:59
and thou canst not smile
as the wind sits.
:22:03
Thou'lt catch cold shortly.
:22:05
Yes, forsooth,
:22:07
I will hold my tongue;
so your face bids me,
:22:09
so I'll say nothing.
:22:11
How now, daughter!
:22:15
You are too much
of late i' th' frown.
:22:18
Not only, sir,
this your all-licens'd fool,
:22:20
but other of your insolent retinue
do hourly carp and quarrel,
:22:24
breaking forth in rank
and not-to-be-endur'd riots.
:22:27
I had thought, by making
this well known unto you,
to have found a safe redress;
:22:31
but now grow fearful
by what yourself
too late have spoke and done,
:22:35
that you protect this course
and put it on
by your allowance;
:22:39
which if you should,
the fault would not
'scape censure,
:22:43
nor the redresses sleep.
:22:46
For you know, nuncle,
:22:47
the hedge-sparrow
fed the cuckoo so long,
:22:49
it had its head bit off
by its young.
:22:51
So, out went the candle
and we were left darkling.
:22:55
Are you our daughter?
:22:57
I would you would
make use of your
good wisdom,
:22:59
whereof I know you
are fraught, and put away
these dispositions