please? Are not you my slave? Did not I beget you? And might not
I have chosen whether I would have begot you or no? 'Oons, who are
you? Whence came you? What brought you into the world? How came
you here, sir? Here, to stand here, upon those two legs, and look
erect with that audacious face, ha? Answer me that! Did you come a
volunteer into the world? Or did I, with the lawful authority of a
parent, press you to the service?

VAL. I know no more why I came than you do why you called me. But
here I am, and if you don't mean to provide for me, I desire you
would leave me as you found me.

SIR SAMP. With all my heart: come, uncase, strip, and go naked out
of the world as you came into 't.

VAL. My clothes are soon put off. But you must also divest me of
reason, thought, passions, inclinations, affections, appetites,
senses, and the huge train of attendants that you begot along with
me.

SIR SAMP. Body o' me, what a manyheaded monster have I propagated!

VAL. I am of myself, a plain, easy, simple creature, and to be kept
at small expense; but the retinue that you gave me are craving and
invincible; they are so many devils that you have raised, and will
have employment.

SIR SAMP. 'Oons, what had I to do to get children,--can't a private
man be born without all these followers? Why, nothing under an
emperor should be born with appetites. Why, at this rate, a fellow