Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife - Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) by John Fletcher;Francis Beaumont
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Alonzo: There is less danger in't than gunning, _Sanchio_, Though we be shot sometimes, the shot's not mortal, Besides, it breaks no limbs. Sanchio: But it disables 'em, Dost thou see how thou pull'st thy legs after thee, as they Hung by points. Alonzo: Better to pull 'em thus than walk on wooden ones, Serve bravely for a Billet to support me. Sanchio: Fye, fye, 'tis base. Alonzo: Dost thou count it base to suffer? Suffer abundantly? 'tis the Crown of Honour; You think it nothing to lie twenty days Under a Surgeons hands that has no mercy. Sanchio: |
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