Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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state of his body best, that I might send for him? Good sir,
speak; I'll send for one of my doctors else. MOR: What, to poison me, that I might die intestate, and leave you possest of all? EPI: Lord, how idly he talks, and how his eyes sparkle! he looks green about the temples! do you see what blue spots he has? TRUE: Ay, 'tis melancholy. EPI: Gentlemen, for Heaven's sake, counsel me. Ladies;--servant, you have read Pliny and Paracelsus; ne'er a word now to comfort a poor gentlewoman? Ay me, what fortune had I, to marry a distracted man! DAW: I will tell you, mistress-- TRUE: How rarely she holds it up! [ASIDE TO CLER.] MOR: What mean you, gentlemen? EPI: What will you tell me, servant? DAW: The disease in Greek is called mania, in Latin insania, furor, vel ecstasis melancholica, that is, egressio, when a man ex melancholico evadit fanaticus. MOR: Shall I have a lecture read upon me alive? |
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