Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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page 127 of 328 (38%)
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OTT: O, hold, good princess. TRUE: Sound, sound! [DRUM AND TRUMPETS SOUND.] CLER: A battle, a battle! MRS. OTT: You notorious stinkardly bearward, does my breath smell? OTT: Under correction, dear princess: look to my bear, and my horse, gentlemen. MRS. OTT: Do I want teeth, and eyebrows, thou bull-dog? TRUE: Sound, sound still. [THEY SOUND AGAIN.] OTT: No, I protest, under correction-- MRS. OTT: Ay, now you are under correction, you protest: but you did not protest before correction, sir. Thou Judas, to offer to betray thy princess! I will make thee an example-- [BEATS HIM.] [ENTER MOROSE WITH HIS LONG SWORD.] MOR: I will have no such examples in my house, lady Otter. |
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