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The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness

And time to speak it in; you rub the sore,

When you should bring the plaster.

Seb. Very well.

Ant. And most chirurgeonly.

Gon. It is foul weather in us all, good sir,

When you are cloudy.

Seb. Foul weather?

Ant. Very foul.

Gon. Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,—

Ant. He'd sow 't with nettle-seed.

Seb. Or docks, or mallows.

Gon. And were the king on 't, what would I do?

Seb. 'Scape being drunk for want of wine.

Gon. I' the commonwealth I would by contraries

Execute all things; for no kind of traffic

Would I admit; no name of magistrate;

Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,

And use of service, none; contract, succession,

Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;

No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;

No occupation; all men idle, all;

And women too, but innocent and pure;

No sovereignty,—

Seb. Yet he would be king on 't.

Ant. The latter end of his commonwealth

forgets the beginning.

Gon. All things in common nature should produce

Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony,

Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,

 147 chirurgeonly: like a surgeon

150 plantation: colonization; taken by Antonio as meaning 'planting'

154–174 Cf. Appendix A, p. 91

157 Letters: learning

158 use of service: custom of having servants

succession: tenure of property by right of inheritance

159 Bourn: boundary

tilth: tilled soil

168 engine: instrument of war

