The Fatal Jealousie (1673) by Henry Nevil Payne
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_Jasp._ Prethee, why dost ask me for the Nurse? Dost think
I am so hot to make Love to a Monument? Why, she's Old enough to be Mother of all Mankind; her skin's Turn'd to parchment, he that should enjoy her, had as Good lye with a bundle of Old Records. In truth, she's Fit for nothing now, but to be hang'd up amongst the Monsters in a 'Pothecaries Shop, where, with abuse to The Beast, she would be taken for a large Apes skin stufft With Hay. Ah, _Flora_, if she were as Young as thou art, then't might be likely, I might find her when she was lost. _Flor._ Well, if she be not here now, I'm sure it was not for Nothing you once lost your way into her Chamber, And staid all Night. _Jasp._ Meer Drunkenness, by this Light, _Flora_! Why, if it had Been a Vault full of Dead Carkasses, I should have slipt Into it in the pickle I was in--Nay, for ought I know, With more pleasure too. [Enter Nurse. _Nurse._ Now out upon you for a Rogue, There's no enduring this. _Jasp._ Do but hear me, Nurse. _Flor._ Ay, hear him, Nurse, he'l be sure to recant and Swear you're as sweet as--a--fogh--so sweet-- |
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