Clo. So you have: but I was a gentleman born before
my father; for the king's son took me by the hand, and
called me brother; and then the two kings called my father
brother; and then the prince my brother and the princess
my sister called my father father; and so we wept, and
there was the first gentleman-like tears that ever we shed.
Shep. We may live, son, to shed many more.
Clo. Ay; or else 'twere hard luck, being in so pre-posterous
estate as we are.
Aut. I humbly beseech you, sir, to pardon me all the