By yea and no, sir. I dare say my cousin William is become
a good scholar. He is at Oxford still, is he not?
SHALLOW
By gum, I bet William's become a real scholar. He's still at Oxford, right?
SILENCE
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Indeed, sir, to my cost.
SILENCE
He sure is, and I'm the one who's paying for it.
SHALLOW
He must then to the Inns o' Court shortly. I was once of
Clement's Inn, where I think they will talk of mad Shallow
yet.
SHALLOW
He'll be going to law school soon. I studied law at Clement's Inn
, where I think they still talk about crazy old Shallow.
SILENCE
You were called “Lusty Shallow” then, cousin.
SILENCE
You were known as lusty Shallow back then, cousin.
SHALLOW
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By the Mass, I was called anything, and I would have done
anything indeed too, and roundly too. There was I, and little
John Doit of Staffordshire, and black George Barnes, and
Francis Pickbone, and Will Squele, a Cotswold man. You
had not four such swinge-bucklers in all the Inns o' Court
SHALLOW
I was known as anything, I swear. And I would have done anything too, and all the way, too. I was there, and little John Doit from Staffordshire, and black-haired George Barnes, and Francis Pickbone, and Will Squele, from the Cotswolds. Since then, no law college
