Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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page 121 of 328 (36%)
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CLER: Out on thee! We'll keep you at home, believe it, in the stable, if you be such a stallion. TRUE: No; I like him well. Men should love wisely, and all women; some one for the face, and let her please the eye; another for the skin, and let her please the touch; a third for the voice, and let her please the ear; and where the objects mix, let the senses so too. Thou would'st think it strange, if I should make them all in love with thee afore night! DAUP: I would say, thou had'st the best philtre in the world, and couldst do more than madam Medea, or doctor Foreman. TRUE: If I do not, let me play the mountebank for my meat, while I live, and the bawd for my drink. DAUP: So be it, I say. [ENTER OTTER, WITH HIS THREE CUPS, DAW, AND LA-FOOLE.] OTT: O Lord, gentlemen, how my knights and I have mist you here! CLER: Why, captain, what service? what service? OTT: To see me bring up my bull, bear, and horse to fight. DAW: Yes, faith, the captain says we shall be his dogs to bait them. |
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