Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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MOR: Oh, oh! EPI: Sure he would do well enough, if he could sleep. MOR: No, I should do well enough, if you could sleep. Have I no friend that will make her drunk? or give her a little laudanum? or opium? TRUE: Why, sir, she talks ten times worse in her sleep. MOR: How! CLER: Do you not know that, sir? never ceases all night. TRUE: And snores like a porpoise. MOR: O, redeem me, fate; redeem me, fate! For how many causes may a man be divorced, nephew? DAUP: I know not, truly, sir. TRUE: Some divine must resolve you in that, sir, or canon-lawyer. MOR: I will not rest, I will not think of any other hope or comfort, till I know. [EXIT WITH DAUPHINE.] CLER: Alas, poor man! |
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