The Two Noble Kinsmen
Act III, Scene 4
Another part of the forest near Athens.
Daughter
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I am very cold, and all the stars are out too,
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The little stars and all, that look like aglets.
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The sun has seen my folly. Palamon!
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Alas, no; he’s in heaven. Where am I now?
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Yonder’s the sea, and there’s a ship. How’t tumbles!
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And there’s a rock lies watching under water;
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Now, now, it beats upon it—now, now, now!
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There’s a leak sprung, a sound one. How they cry!
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Open her before the wind! You’ll lose all else.
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Up with a course or two, and tack about, boys!
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Good night, good night, y’ are gone. I am very hungry:
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Would I could find a fine frog! He would tell me
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News from all parts o’ th’ world. Then would I make
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A carreck of a cockleshell, and sail
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By east and north-east to the King of Pigmies,
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For he tells fortunes rarely. Now my father,
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Twenty to one, is truss’d up in a trice
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Tomorrow morning; I’ll say never a word.
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Sing.
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“For I’ll cut my green coat a foot above my knee,
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And I’ll clip my yellow locks an inch below mine e’e.
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Hey, nonny, nonny, nonny.
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He s’ buy me a white cut, forth for to ride,
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And I’ll go seek him through the world that is so wide.
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Hey, nonny, nonny, nonny.”
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O for a prick now, like a nightingale,
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To put my breast against! I shall sleep like a top else.