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Yet stay, he said, as he was preparing to mount, and whilst steadily regarding the youth,
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His eldest son, an it so please ye,
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said Sir Hugh.
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And what, good Philip?--is not thy name Philip?
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William,
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And what good wind, then, good William Shakespeare, hath blown thee so opportunely this morning to our neighbourhood?
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Marry, the same wind, good Sir Hugh, said a tall, dark-looking man, dressed in the habiliments of a forester, and accompanied by a companion quite as ill-favoured as himself, and who at this moment thrust himself into the circle:
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Thou art an insolent caitiff, he said,
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An I know nothing of thee, said the forester contemptuously,
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And I am as like to do the same by thee with the like provocation, returned young Shakespeare.
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Thy comrade laid hands upon me, and dishonoured me by a blow. For the which, he continued, significantly,
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And for which, returned the forester,
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Gramercy, said Sir Hugh, now interrupting the dispute,
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We are outlying keepers of Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, Sir Hugh,
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Outlying, I think, by'r Lady, said Sir Hugh,
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Nay, then our master shall hear of it, said the keeper;
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said Sir Hugh;
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I talk not with such caitiffs.
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And yet dost thou take up with yonder son of a trader in Stratford town, said the fellow, with a sneer.
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Hark ye, sirrah! said young Shakespeare (like lightning seizing the keeper by the green frock, and forcing him up to the dead horse),
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he continued.
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I am alike ready to meet thee on thine own or other grounds, singly or together, with quarter-staff, or rapier and target.