Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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DAW: Tut, he must have Seneca read to him, and Plutarch, and the
ancients; the moderns are not for this disease. CLER: Why, you discommended them too, to-day, sir John. DAW: Ay, in some cases: but in these they are best, and Aristotle's ethics. MAV: Say you so sir John? I think you are decived: you took it upon trust. HAU: Where's Trusty, my woman? I'll end this difference. I prithee, Otter, call her. Her father and mother were both mad, when they put her to me. MOR: I think so. Nay, gentlemen, I am tame. This is but an exercise, I know, a marriage ceremony, which I must endure. HAU: And one of them, I know not which, was cur'd with the Sick Man's Salve; and the other with Green's Groat's-worth of Wit. TRUE: A very cheap cure, madam. [ENTER TRUSTY.] HAU: Ay, 'tis very feasible. MRS. OTT: My lady call'd for you, mistress Trusty: you must decide a controversy. |
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