The Saint's Tragedy by Charles Kingsley
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If he has one. Who comes here?
[A Woodcutter enters with a laden ass.] What art going about? Woodcutter. To warm other folks' backs. Peas. Thou art in the common lot--Jack earns and Gill spends-- therein lies the true division of labour. What's thy name? Woodc. Be'est a keeper, man, or a charmer, that dost so catechise me? Peas. Both--I am a keeper, for I keep all I catch; and a charmer, for I drive bad spirits out of honest men's turnips. Woodc. Mary sain us, what be they like? Peas. Four-legged kitchens of leather, cooking farmers' crops into butcher's meat by night, without leave or licence. Woodc. By token, thou'rt a deer-stealer? Peas. Stealer, quoth he? I have dominion. I do what I like with mine own. Woodc. Thine own? Peas. Yea, marry--for, saith the priest, man has dominion over the |
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