Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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Exchange.
CEN: It will open the gate to your fame. HAU: Here's Centaure has immortalised herself, with taming of her wild male. MAV: Ay, she has done the miracle of the kingdom. [ENTER CLERIMONT AND TRUEWIT.] EPI: But, ladies, do you count it lawful to have such plurality of servants, and do them all graces? HAU: Why not? why should women deny their favours to men? are they the poorer or the worse? DAW: Is the Thames the less for the dyer's water, mistress? LA-F: Or a torch for lighting many torches? TRUE: Well said, La-Foole; what a new one he has got! CEN: They are empty losses women fear in this kind. HAU: Besides, ladies should be mindful of the approach of age, and let no time want his due use. The best of our days pass first. MAV: We are rivers, that cannot be call'd back, madam: she that |
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