Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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LA-F: And me too.
DAW: Let's be jovial. LA-F: As jovial as you will. OTT: Agreed. Now you shall have the bear, cousin, and sir John Daw the horse, and I will have the bull still. Sound, Tritons of the Thames. [DRUM AND TRUMPETS SOUND AGAIN.] Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero-- MOR [ABOVE]: Villains, murderers, sons of the earth, and traitors, what do you there? CLER: O, now the trumpets have waked him, we shall have his company. OTT: A wife is a scurvy clogdogdo, an unlucky thing, a very foresaid bear-whelp, without any good fashion or breeding: mala bestia. [RE-ENTER TRUEWIT BEHIND, WITH MISTRESS OTTER.] DAUP: Why did you marry one then, captain? OTT: A pox!--I married with six thousand pound, I. I was in love with that. I have not kissed my Fury these forty weeks. CLER: The more to blame you, captain. |
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