I know no more why I came than you do why you called me. But
here I am, and if you don't mean to provide for me, I desire you
would leave me as you found me.
SIR SAMP. With all my heart: come, uncase, strip, and go naked out
of the world as you came into 't.
VAL. My clothes are soon put off. But you must also divest me of
reason, thought, passions, inclinations, affections, appetites,
senses, and the huge train of attendants that you begot along with
me.
SIR SAMP. Body o' me, what a manyheaded monster have I propagated!
VAL. I am of myself, a plain, easy, simple creature, and to be kept
at small expense; but the retinue that you gave me are craving and
invincible; they are so many devils that you have raised, and will
have employment.
SIR SAMP. 'Oons, what had I to do to get children,--can't a private
man be born without all these followers? Why, nothing under an
emperor should be born with appetites. Why, at this rate, a fellow
that has but a groat in his pocket may have a stomach capable of a
ten shilling ordinary.
JERE. Nay, that's as clear as the sun; I'll make oath of it before
any justice in Middlesex.
SIR SAMP. Here's a cormorant too. 'S'heart this fellow was not
born with you? I did not beget him, did I?
JERE. By the provision that's made for me, you might have begot me
too. Nay, and to tell your worship another truth, I believe you
did, for I find I was born with those same whoreson appetites too,
that my master speaks of.
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