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1511 The Winter's Tale Clown 4.4.162 Come on, ^strike up^! Clo. Come on: strike vp. 1982 4.4.162 4.4.161 4.4.162
1512 The Winter's Tale Clown 4.4.165 Come, | ^strike up^. Clo. Come, strike vp. 1987 4.4.167 4.4.167 4.4.167 Come, strike up!
1513 The Winter's Tale SD 4.4.167 [^Music^] Here a ^dance^ of shepherds and shepherdesses SD Heere a Daunce of Shepheards and Shephearddesses. 1988 4.4.167 4.4.167 Music. Here a ^dance^ of shepherds and shepherdesses 4.4.167.2
1514 The Winter's Tale Polixenes 4.4.167 Pray, good shepherd, what fair swain is this | Which ^dances^ with your daughter? Pol. Pray good Shepheard, what faire Swaine is this, | Which dances with your daughter? 1990 4.4.168 4.4.168 4.4.168
1515 The Winter's Tale Polixenes 4.4.177 She ^dances^ featly. Pol. She dances featly. 2001 4.4.178 4.4.178 4.4.178
1516 The Winter's Tale Servant 4.4.182 O, master, if you did but ^hear^ the pedlar at the door, | you would never ^dance^ again after a ^tabor and pipe^. No, the | ^bagpipe^ could not move you. He ^sings several tunes faster^ than | you’ll tell money. He ^utters^ them as he had eaten ^ballads^, | and all men’s ^ears grew to his tunes^. Ser. O Master: if you did but heare the Pedler at the | doore, you would neuer dance againe after a Tabor and | Pipe: no, the Bag-pipe could not moue you: hee singes | seuerall Tunes, faster then you'l tell money: hee vtters | them as he had eaten ballads, and all mens eares grew to | his Tunes. 2006 4.4.183 4.4.183 4.4.183
1517 The Winter's Tale Clown 4.4.187 He could never come better. He shall come in. I love | a ^ballad^ but even too well, if it be ^doleful matter merrily set | down^, or a very pleasant thing indeed, and ^sung lamentably^. Clo. He could neuer come better: hee shall come in: | I loue a ballad but euen too well, if it be dolefull matter | merrily set downe: or a very pleasant thing indeede, and | sung lamentably. 2012 4.4.189 4.4.189 4.4.188
1518 The Winter's Tale Servant 4.4.190 He hath ^songs^ for man or woman, of all sizes. No milliner | can so fit his customers with gloves. He has the prettiest | ^love songs^ for maids, so without bawdry, which is strange, with | such delicate ^burdens of dildos and fadings^. ‘Jump her, and | thump her’; and where some stretch-mouthed rascal would, | as it were, mean mischief and break a foul gap into the matter, | he makes the maid to answer, ‘Whoop, do me no harm, good | man’; puts him off, slights him, with ‘Whoop, do me no harm, | good man!’ Ser. He hath songs for man, or woman, of all sizes: | No Milliner can so fit his customers with Gloues: he has | the prettiest Loue-songs for Maids, so without bawdrie | (which is strange,) with such delicate burthens of | Dildo's and Fadings: Iump-her, and thump-her; and where | some stretch-mouth'd Rascall, would (as it were) meane | mischeefe, and breake a fowle gap into the Matter, hee | makes the maid to answere, Whoop, doe me no harme good | man: put's him off, slights him, with Whoop, doe mee no | harme good man. 2016 4.4.193 4.4.193 4.4.191
1519 The Winter's Tale Servant 4.4.205 why, he ^sings^ ‘em over as they were gods or goddesses.| You would think a smock were a she-angel, he so | ^chants^ to the sleeve-hand and the work about the square on’t. Ser. why he sings | em ouer, as they were Gods, or Goddesses: you would | thinke a Smocke were a shee-Angell, he so chauntes to | the sleeue-hand, and the worke about the square on't: 2032 4.4.209 4.4.209 4.4.205
1520 The Winter's Tale Clown 4.4.208 Prithee bring him in, and let him approach ^singing^. Clo. Pre'thee bring him in, and let him approach singing. 2036 4.4.214 4.4.213 4.4.208