Here come those I have done good to against my will, and already appearing in the blossoms of their fortune.

Shep.

Come, boy, I am past more children; but thy sons and daughters will be all gentlemen born.

&wlquo;Clo.

&wlquo;You are well met, Sir; you denied to fight with me this other day, because I was no gentleman born: see you these cloaths? say, you see them not, and think me still no gentleman born. You were best say, these robes are not gentlemen born. Give me the lie; do, and try whether I am not now a gentleman born.&wrquo;

Aut.

I know you are now, Sir, a gentleman born:

Clo.

Ay, and have been so any time these four hours.

Shep.

And so have I, boy.

Clo.

So you have; but I was a gentleman born before my father; for the King's son took me by the hand, and call'd me brother; and then the two Kings call'd my father brother; and then the Prince my brother, and the Princess my sister, call'd my father, father, and so we wept; &wlquo;and there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed.&wrquo;

Shep.

We may live, son, to shed many more.

Clo.

Ay, or else 'twere hard luck, being in so preposterous estate as we are.

Aut.

I humbly beseech you, Sir, to pardon me all the faults I have committed to your worship, and to give me your good report to the Prince, my master.

Shep.

'Pr'ythee, son, do; for we must be gentle, now we are gentlemen.

Clo.

Thou wilt amend thy life?

Aut.

Ay, an it like your good worship.

Clo.

Give me thy hand; I will swear to the Prince, thou art as honest a true fellow as any is in Bohemia.

Shep.

You may say it, but not swear it.

Clo.

Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? let boors and franklins say it, I'll swear it.

Shep.

How if it be false, son?

Clo.

If it be ne'er so false, a true gentleman may swear it in the behalf of his friend: and I'll swear to the Prince, thou art a tall fellow of thy hands, and that thou wilt not be drunk; but I know, thou art no tall fellow of thy hands; and that thou wilt be drunk; but I'll swear it; and, I would, thou would'st be a tall fellow of thy hands.

Aut.

I will prove so, Sir, to my power.

Clo.

Ay, by any means prove a tall fellow, if I do not wonder how thou dar'st venture to be drunk, not being a tall fellow, trust me not. Hark, the Kings and the Princes, our kindred, are going to see the Queen's picture. Come, follow us: we'll be thy good masters.