my toes look through the overleather.

Lord. Heaven cease this [idle] humour in your honour!

O, that a mighty man of such descent,

Of such possessions and so high esteem,

Should be infused with so foul a spirit!

Sly. What, would you make me mad? Am not I

[Christopher Sly, old Sly's son of Burton-heath,] by birth a

pedlar, by education a [card-maker,] by transmutation a

bear-herd, and now by present profession a tinker? Ask

Marian Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot, if she know me