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00:00 [no audio]
00:10 Come, help.
00:12 [grunting]
00:31 Well struck.
00:33 That was blow for blow.
00:35 The baggage let me in.
00:37 Can you tell for a sight?
00:40 [knocking]
00:51 Master, knock the door hard.
00:53 [laughter]
00:55 Let him knock, till it hikes.
00:57 You'll cry for this minion if I beat the door down.
01:00 What needs all that and a pair of stocks in the town?
01:02 Is that the door that keeps all this noise?
01:05 By my troth, your town is troubled with unruly boys.
01:08 Are you there, wife?
01:10 You might have come before.
01:12 Your wife's our name.
01:14 Go, get you from the door.
01:16 [laughter]
01:18 Oh, no.
01:21 [laughter]
01:24 Here's neither cheer, sir, nor welcome.
01:26 We would fain have either.
01:28 In debating which was best, we shall part with neither.
01:31 They stand at the door, master, bid welcome them hither.
01:35 Grr.
01:37 There is something in the wind that we cannot get in.
01:40 You would say so, master, if your garments were thin.
01:44 Your cake here is warm within.
01:46 You stand here in the cold.
01:48 It would make a man mad as a butt to be so bought and sold.
01:50 Go, fetch me something.
01:53 I'll break open the gate.
01:55 Break any breaking here, and I'll break your name's pate.
01:58 [thud]
01:59 Ha!
02:01 A man may break a word with you, sir,
02:05 and words but wind.
02:07 I am breaking in your face, so he break it not behind.
02:11 It seems thou want'st breaking.
02:13 Out upon thee, hide.
02:15 [thud]
02:16 [thud]
02:17 [thud]
02:18 Hey, hey, hey!
02:20 There's too much out upon thee.
02:23 I pray thee, let me in.
02:27 [thud]
02:30 [silence]
02:32 [silence]