Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
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ESCALUS. What else? CLOWN. Bum, sir. ESCALUS. 'Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about you; so that, in the beastliest sense, you are Pompey the great. Pompey, you are partly a bawd, Pompey, howsoever you colour it in being a tapster. Are you not? come, tell me true; it shall be the better for you. CLOWN. Truly, sir, I am a poor fellow that would live. ESCALUS. How would you live, Pompey? by being a bawd? What do you think of the trade, Pompey? is it a lawful trade? CLOWN. If the law would allow it, sir. ESCALUS. But the law will not allow it, Pompey: nor it shall not be allowed in Vienna. CLOWN. Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the youth of the city? |
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