Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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MOR: O, my torment, my torment!
TRUE: Nay, if you endure the first half hour, sir, so tediously, and with this irksomness; what comfort or hope can this fair gentlewoman make to herself hereafter, in the consideration of so many years as are to come-- MOR: Of my affliction. Good sir, depart, and let her do it alone. TRUE: I have done, sir. MOR: That cursed barber. TRUE: Yes, faith, a cursed wretch indeed, sir. MOR: I have married his cittern, that's common to all men. Some plague above the plague-- TRUE: All Egypt's ten plagues. MOR: Revenge me on him! TRUE: 'Tis very well, sir. If you laid on a curse or two more, I'll assure you he'll bear them. As, that he may get the pox with seeking to cure it, sir; or, that while he is curling another man's hair, his own may drop off; or, for burning some male-bawd's lock, he may have his brain beat out with the curling-iron. MOR: No, let the wretch live wretched. May he get the itch, and his shop so lousy, as no man dare come at him, nor he come at no man! |
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