Today’s Totally Random
Lines
His
vices, you would say; there’s no virtue whipt out of the court: they cherish
it, to make it say there; and yet it will no more but abide.
Clown
The
Winter’s Tale Act IV Scene ii, Line
91
Autolycus is pretending to have been mugged, and
Clown has stopped to help him. He’s telling Clown that he knows the fellow who
beat him: he was a former servant of the prince, “I cannot tell, good sir, for
which of his virtues it was, but he was certainly whipt out of the court.”
That’s what Clown is responding to; saying that
the court would have kicked this fellow out for his vices, not his virtues. The
court cherishes virtues.
In the meantime Autolycus (who is actually
describing himself when he talks about the mugger) picks the clown’s pocket.
And that’s what Today’s Line is all about.
So this guy picks the other guy’s pocket after the other guy stops to help him. Are you sure this guy’s not still in the court, because he’d fit in perfectly in today’s ruling party.
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