Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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TRUE: Ay, and if he would swallow all his balls for pills, let not them purge him. MOR: Let his warming pan be ever cold. TRUE: A perpetual frost underneath it, sir. MOR: Let him never hope to see fire again. TRUE: But in hell, sir. MOR: His chairs be always empty, his scissors rust, and his combs mould in their cases. TRUE: Very dreadful that! And may he lose the invention, sir, of carving lanterns in paper. MOR: Let there be no bawd carted that year, to employ a bason of his: but let him be glad to eat his sponge for bread. TRUE: And drink lotium to it, and much good do him. MOR: Or, for want of bread-- TRUE: Eat ear-wax, sir. I'll help you. Or, draw his own teeth, and add them to the lute-string. MOR: No, beat the old ones to powder, and make bread of them. |
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