Reading The life and death of King Iohn — William Shakespeare

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Bast.

A foot of Honor better then I was,

But many a many foot of Land the worse.

Well, now can I make any Ioane a Lady,

Good den Sir Richard, Godamercy fellow,

And if his name be George, Ile call him Peter;

For new made honor doth forget mens names:

'Tis two respectiue, and too sociable

For your conuersion, now your traueller,

Hee and his tooth‑picke at my worships messe,

And when my knightly stomacke is suffis'd,

Why then I sucke my teeth, and catechize

Thus leaning on mine elbow I begin,

I shall beseech you; that isd question now,

And then comes answer like an Absey booke:

O sir, sayes answer, at your best command,

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