Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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SCENE II.
Changes to the Country.
Enter Autolicus singing.
When daffadils begin to peere,
With, heigh! the doxy over the dale,
3 note
Why, then come in the sweet o'th' year;
'Fore the red blood reins-in the winter pale.
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The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,
With, hey! the sweet birds, O how they sing!
Doth set my (a) noteprogging tooth on edge:
For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
The lark, that tirra-lyra chants,
With, hey! with, hey! the thrush and the jay:
Are summer songs for me and my aunts,
While we lie tumbling in the hay.
I have served Prince Florizel, and in my time wore
three-pile, but now I am out of service.
But shall I go mourn for that, my dear?
The pale moon shines by night:
And when I wander here and there,
I then do go most right.
If tinkers may have leave to live,
And bear the sow-skin budget;
Then my account I well may give,
And in the stocks avouch it.
My traffick is sheets; when the kite builds, look to
lesser linnen. 4 noteMy father nam'd me Autolicus,
being litter'd under Mercury; who, as I am, was likewise
a snapper-up of unconsider'd trifles: with die and
drab, I purchas'd this caparison; and 5 notemy revenue
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is the silly cheat. Gallows, and knock, are too powerful
on the high-way; beating and hanging are terrors
to me: for the life to come, I sleep out the thought
of it.—A prize! a prize!
Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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