The Double-Dealer, a comedy by William Congreve
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LADY FROTH. Ay, my dear, were you? Oh, filthy Mr. Sneer; he's a nauseous figure, a most fulsamic fop, foh! He spent two days together in going about Covent Garden to suit the lining of his coach with his complexion. LORD FROTH. O silly! yet his aunt is as fond of him as if she had brought the ape into the world herself. BRISK. Who, my Lady Toothless? Oh, she's a mortifying spectacle; she's always chewing the cud like an old ewe. CYNT. Fie, Mr. Brisk, eringo's for her cough. LADY FROTH. I have seen her take 'em half chewed out of her mouth, to laugh, and then put 'em in again. Foh! LORD FROTH. Foh! LADY FROTH. Then she's always ready to laugh when Sneer offers to speak, and sits in expectation of his no jest, with her gums bare, and her mouth open - BRISK. Like an oyster at low ebb, egad. Ha, ha, ha! CYNT. [Aside] Well, I find there are no fools so inconsiderable in themselves but they can render other people contemptible by exposing their infirmities. LADY FROTH. Then that t'other great strapping lady--I can't hit of |
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