Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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CEN: Nay, she has found her tongue since she was married, master Truewit says. HAU: O, master Truewit! 'save you. What kind of creature is your bride here? she speaks, methinks! TRUE: Yes, madam, believe it, she is a gentlewoman of very absolute behaviour, and of a good race. HAU: And Jack Daw told us she could not speak! TRUE: So it was carried in plot, madam, to put her upon this old fellow, by sir Dauphine, his nephew, and one or two more of us: but she is a woman of an excellent assurance, and an extraordinary happy wit and tongue. You shall see her make rare sport with Daw ere night. HAU: And he brought us to laugh at her! TRUE: That falls out often, madam, that he that thinks himself the master-wit, is the master-fool. I assure your ladyship, ye cannot laugh at her. HAU: No, we'll have her to the college: An she have wit, she shall be one of us, shall she not Centaure? we'll make her a collegiate. CEN: Yes faith, madam, and mistress Mavis and she will set up a side. |
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