| Speeches (Lines) for Autolycus | ||
| # | Act, Scene, Line (Click to see in context) | Speech text | 
| 1 | When daffodils begin to peer,
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| 2 | [Aside]
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| 3 | O that ever I was born! | |
| 4 | O, help me, help me! pluck but off these rags; and
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| 5 | O sir, the loathsomeness of them offends me more
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| 6 | I am robbed, sir, and beaten; my money and apparel
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| 7 | A footman, sweet sir, a footman. | |
| 8 | O, good sir, tenderly, O! | |
| 9 | O, good sir, softly, good sir! I fear, sir, my
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| 10 | [Picking his pocket]
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| 11 | No, good sweet sir; no, I beseech you, sir: I have
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| 12 | A fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with
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| 13 | Vices, I would say, sir. I know this man well: he
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| 14 | Very true, sir; he, sir, he; that's the rogue that
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| 15 | I must confess to you, sir, I am no fighter: I am
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| 16 | Sweet sir, much better than I was; I can stand and
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| 17 | No, good-faced sir; no, sweet sir. | |
| 18 | Prosper you, sweet sir!
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| 19 | Lawn as white as driven snow;
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| 20 | And indeed, sir, there are cozeners abroad;
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| 21 | I hope so, sir; for I have about me many parcels of charge. | |
| 22 | Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's
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| 23 | Very true, and but a month old. | |
| 24 | Here's the midwife's name to't, one Mistress
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| 25 | Here's another ballad of a fish, that appeared upon
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| 26 | Five justices' hands at it, and witnesses more than
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| 27 | This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one. | |
| 28 | Why, this is a passing merry one and goes to
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| 29 | I can bear my part; you must know 'tis my
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| 30 | Get you hence, for I must go
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| 31 | Neither. | |
| 32 | Neither. | |
| 33 | And you shall pay well for 'em.
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| 34 | Ha, ha! what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his
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| 35 | If they have overheard me now, why, hanging. | |
| 36 | I am a poor fellow, sir. | |
| 37 | I am a poor fellow, sir.
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| 38 | Are you in earnest, sir?
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| 39 | Indeed, I have had earnest: but I cannot with
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| 40 | Adieu, sir. | |
| 41 | I understand the business, I hear it: to have an
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| 42 | [Aside] Very wisely, puppies! | |
| 43 | [Aside] I know not what impediment this complaint
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| 44 | [Aside] Though I am not naturally honest, I am so
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| 45 | Your affairs there, what, with whom, the condition
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| 46 | A lie; you are rough and hairy. Let me have no
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| 47 | Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Seest
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| 48 | What advocate hast thou to him? | |
| 49 | How blessed are we that are not simple men!
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| 50 | The fardel there? what's i' the fardel?
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| 51 | Age, thou hast lost thy labour. | |
| 52 | The king is not at the palace; he is gone aboard a
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| 53 | If that shepherd be not in hand-fast, let him fly:
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| 54 | Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy
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| 55 | He has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then
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| 56 | After I have done what I promised? | |
| 57 | Well, give me the moiety. Are you a party in this business? | |
| 58 | O, that's the case of the shepherd's son: hang him,
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| 59 | I will trust you. Walk before toward the sea-side;
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| 60 | If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune would
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| 61 | Beseech you, sir, were you present at this relation? | |
| 62 | I would most gladly know the issue of it. | |
| 63 | Now, had I not the dash of my former life in me,
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| 64 | I know you are now, sir, a gentleman born. | |
| 65 | I humbly beseech you, sir, to pardon me all the
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| 66 | Ay, an it like your good worship. | |
| 67 | I will prove so, sir, to my power. | |
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