Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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page 106 of 328 (32%)
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TRUE: Yes, make meal of the mill-stones.
MOR: May all the botches and burns that he has cured on others break out upon him. TRUE: And he now forget the cure of them in himself, sir: or, if he do remember it, let him have scraped all his linen into lint for't, and have not a rag left him to set up with. MOR: Let him never set up again, but have the gout in his hands for ever! Now, no more, sir. TRUE: O, that last was too high set; you might go less with him, i'faith, and be revenged enough: as, that he be never able to new-paint his pole-- MOR: Good sir, no more, I forgot myself. TRUE: Or, want credit to take up with a comb-maker-- MOR: No more, sir. TRUE: Or, having broken his glass in a former despair, fall now into a much greater, of ever getting another-- MOR: I beseech you, no more. TRUE: Or, that he never be trusted with trimming of any but chimney-sweepers-- |
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