Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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EPI: How do you, sir?
MOR: Did you ever hear a more unnecessary question? as if she did not see! Why, I do as you see, empress, empress. EPI: You are not well, sir; you look very ill; something has distemper'd you. MOR: O horrible, monstrous impertinencies! would not one of these have served, do you think, sir? would not one of these have served? TRUE: Yes, sir, but these are but notes of female kindness, sir; certain tokens that she has a voice, sir. MOR: O, is it so? Come, an't be no otherwise--What say you? EPI: How do you feel yourself, sir? MOR: Again that! TRUE: Nay, look you, sir: you would be friends with your wife upon unconscionable terms; her silence-- EPI: They say you are run mad, sir. MOR: Not for love, I assure you, of you; do you see? EPI: O lord, gentlemen! lay hold on him, for God's sake. What shall I do? who's his physician, can you tell, that knows the |
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