Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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TRUE: Nay, mistress Otter, hear him a little first. OTT: She has a breath worse than my grandmother's, profecto. MRS. OTT: O treacherous liar! kiss me, sweet master Truewit, and prove him a slandering knave. TRUE: I will rather believe you, lady. OTT: And she has a peruke that's like a pound of hemp, made up in shoe-threads. MRS. OTT: O viper, mandrake! OTT: A most vile face! and yet she spends me forty pound a year in mercury and hogs-bones. All her teeth were made in the Black-Friars, both her eyebrows in the Strand, and her hair in Silver-street. Every part of the town owns a piece of her. MRS. OTT [COMES FORWARD.]: I cannot hold. OTT: She takes herself asunder still when she goes to bed, into some twenty boxes; and about next day noon is put together again, like a great German clock: and so comes forth, and rings a tedious larum to the whole house, and then is quiet again for an hour, but for her quarters. Have you done me right, gentlemen? MRS. OTT [FALLS UPON HIM, AND BEATS HIM.]: No, sir, I will do you right with my quarters, with my quarters. |
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