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Osw. Prithee, if thou lovest me, tell me.

Kent. I love thee not.

Osw. Why, then I care not for thee.

Kent. If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I

would make thee care for me.

Osw. Why dost thou use me thus? I know

thee not.

Kent. Fellow, I know thee.

Osw. What dost thou know me for?

Kent. A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken

meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-

suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking

knave; a lily-liver'd, action-taking knave; a

whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical

rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that

wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service,

and art nothing but the composition of a

knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son

and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will

beat into clamorous whining if thou deniest

the least syllable of thy addition.

Osw. Why, what a monstrous fellow art

thou, thus to rail on one that is neither known

of thee nor knows thee!

Kent. What a brazen-faced varlet art thou,

to deny thou knowest me! Is it two days since

I tripped up thy heels and beat thee before

the king? Draw, you rogue; for, though it be

night, yet the moon shines: I'll make a sop o'

the moonshine of you.

 9 Lipsbury pinfold; cf. n.

15 broken meats: scraps

16 three-suited; cf. n.

18 action-taking: given to lawsuits

19 glass-gazing: fond of the mirror

superserviceable: officious

20 one-trunk-inheriting: owning only one trunk

34 sop o' the moonshine: make moonlight shine through him

