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Touch. Why, do not your courtier's hands

sweat? and is not the grease of a mutton as

wholesome as the sweat of a man? Shallow,

shallow. A better instance, I say; come.

Cor. Besides, our hands are hard.

Touch. Your lips will feel them the sooner:

shallow again. A more sounder instance; come.

Cor. And they are often tarred over with the

surgery of our sheep; and would you have us

kiss tar? The courtier's hands are perfumed

with civet.

Touch. Most shallow man! Thou worms-meat,

in respect of a good piece of flesh, indeed! Learn

of the wise, and perpend: civet is of a baser

birth than tar, the very uncleanly flux of a cat.

Mend the instance, shepherd.

Cor. You have too courtly a wit for me: I'll

rest.

Touch. Wilt thou rest damned? God help

thee, shallow man! God make incision in thee!

thou art raw.

Cor. Sir, I am a true labourer: I earn that I

eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no

man's happiness, glad of other men's good, con-

tent with my harm; and the greatest of my pride

is to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck.

Touch. That is another simple sin in you, to

bring the ewes and the rams together, and to

offer to get your living by the copulation of

cattle; to be bawd to a bell-wether, and to be-

 67 civet: perfume derived from the civet cat

68 worms-meat; cf. n.

69 in respect of: in comparison with

70 perpend: consider

71 flux: discharge

76 incision: i.e., to cure thee of thy simpleness; cf. n.

77 raw: untrained

79 owe hate: have hate toward no man

85 offer: presume

86 bell-wether: leading sheep of a flock on whose neck a bell is hung 