Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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purgatory.
CLER: He may presume it, I think. TRUE: The spitting, the coughing, the laughter, the neezing, the farting, dancing, noise of the music, and her masculine and loud commanding, and urging the whole family, makes him think he has married a fury. CLER: And she carries it up bravely. TRUE: Ay, she takes any occasion to speak: that is the height on't. CLER: And how soberly Dauphine labours to satisfy him, that it was none of his plot! TRUE: And has almost brought him to the faith, in the article. Here he comes. [ENTER SIR DAUPHINE.] --Where is he now? what's become of him, Dauphine? DAUP: O, hold me up a little, I shall go away in the jest else. He has got on his whole nest of night-caps, and lock'd himself up in the top of the house, as high as ever he can climb from the noise. I peep'd in at a cranny, and saw him sitting over a cross-beam of the roof, like him on the sadler's horse in Fleet-street, upright: and he will sleep there. CLER: But where are your collegiates? |
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