Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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page 114 of 328 (34%)
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HAU: With the benefit of your company, mistress.
EPI: Servant, pray you perform your duties. DAW: And glad to be commanded, mistress. CEN: How like you her wit, Mavis? MAV: Very prettily, absolutely well. MRS. OTT: 'Tis my place. MAV: You shall pardon me, mistress Otter. MRS. OTT: Why, I am a collegiate. MAV: But not in ordinary. MRS. OTT: But I am. MAV: We'll dispute that within. [EXEUNT LADIES.] CLER: Would this had lasted a little longer. TRUE: And that they had sent for the heralds. [ENTER CAPTAIN OTTER.] --Captain Otter! what news? |
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