COUNTESS Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for all
questions?
Clown From below your duke to beneath your constable, it
will fit any question.
COUNTESS It must be an answer of most monstrous size that
must fit all demands.
Clown But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned
should speak truth of it: here it is, and all that
belongs to't. Ask me if I am a courtier: it shall
do you no harm to learn.
COUNTESS To be young again, if we could: I will be a fool in
question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. I
pray you, sir, are you a courtier?
Clown O Lord, sir! There's a simple putting off. More,
more, a hundred of them.
COUNTESS Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves you.
Clown O Lord, sir! Thick, thick, spare not me.
COUNTESS I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely meat.
Clown O Lord, sir! Nay, put me to't, I warrant you.
COUNTESS You were lately whipped, sir, as I think.
Clown O Lord, sir! spare not me.
COUNTESS Do you cry, 'O Lord, sir!' at your whipping, and
'spare not me?' Indeed your 'O Lord, sir!' is very
sequent to your whipping: you would answer very well
to a whipping, if you were but bound to't.
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