Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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weapon in both his hands, and look'd so dreadfully! sure he's
beside himself. HAU: Why, what made you there, mistress Otter? MRS. OTT: Alas, mistress Mavis, I was chastising my subject, and thought nothing of him. DAW: Faith, mistress, you must do so too: learn to chastise. Mistress Otter corrects her husband so, he dares not speak but under correction. LA-F: And with his hat off to her: 'twould do you good to see. HAU: In sadness, 'tis good and mature counsel: practise it, Morose. I'll call you Morose still now, as I call Centaure and Mavis; we four will be all one. CEN: And you will come to the college, and live with us? HAU: Make him give milk and honey. MAV: Look how you manage him at first, you shall have him ever after. CEN: Let him allow you your coach, and four horses, your woman, your chamber-maid, your page, your gentleman-usher, your French cook, and four grooms. HAU: And go with us to Bedlam, to the china-houses, and to the |
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