Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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HAU: O, Trusty, which was it you said, your father, or your mother,
that was cured with the Sick Man's Salve? TRUS: My mother, madam, with the Salve. TRUE: Then it was the sick woman's salve? TRUS: And my father with the Groat's-worth of Wit. But there was other means used: we had a preacher that would preach folk asleep still; and so they were prescribed to go to church, by an old woman that was their physician, thrice a week-- EPI: To sleep? TRUS: Yes, forsooth: and every night they read themselves asleep on those books. EPI: Good faith, it stands with great reason. I would I knew where to procure those books. MOR: Oh! LA-F: I can help you with one of them, mistress Morose, the Groat's-worth of Wit. EPI: But I shall disfurnish you, sir Amorous: can you spare it? LA-F: O, yes, for a week, or so; I'll read it myself to him. EPI: No, I must do that, sir: that must be my office. |
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