The answer to this question can be found in Induction 2,
when Sly wakes up after the Lord has planned his deception. Although the servants are
completely ready with their "act," and when Sly wakes up are quick to treat him as their
Lord, it is clear that Sly is completely bewildered by what is happening to him and is
baffled by the way in which they address him as "your honour" and "your lordship." His
initial response to such treatment is therefore to protest his true identity, arguing
that he is not a lord and suspecting that he is being made fun
of:
I am
Christopher Sly, call not me "honour" nor "lordship." I ne'er drank sack in my life; and
if you give me any conserves, give me conserves of beef. Ne'er ask me what rainment I'll
wear, for i have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more
shoes than feet--nay, sometimes more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look
through the
overleather.
Thus, initially,
Sly greets his new status as being a "Lord" with started disbelief, trying to maintain
his own sense of self and testifying that he is Sly, not the befuddled Lord that the
servants treat him as being.
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