Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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TRUE: Sir John Daw, sir, your wife's servant, this.
MOR: A Daw, and her servant! O, 'tis decreed, 'tis decreed of me, an she have such servants. TRUE: Nay sir, you must kiss the ladies; you must not go away, now: they come toward you to seek you out. HAU: I'faith, master Morose, would you steal a marriage thus, in the midst of so many friends, and not acquaint us? Well, I'll kiss you, notwithstanding the justice of my quarrel: you shall give me leave, mistress, to use a becoming familiarity with your husband. EPI: Your ladyship does me an honour in it, to let me know he is so worthy your favour: as you have done both him and me grace to visit so unprepared a pair to entertain you. MOR: Compliment! compliment! EPI: But I must lay the burden of that upon my servant here. HAU: It shall not need, mistress Morose, we will all bear, rather than one shall be opprest. MOR: I know it: and you will teach her the faculty, if she be to learn it. [WALKS ASIDE WHILE THE REST TALK APART.] HAU: Is this the silent woman? |
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