Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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page 88 of 328 (26%)
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[THEY COME FORWARD.] MRS. OTT: O, here are some of the gallants! Go to, behave yourself distinctly, and with good morality: or, I protest, I will take away your exhibition. TRUE: By your leave, fair mistress Otter, I will be bold to enter these gentlemen in your acquaintance. MRS. OTT: It shall not be obnoxious, or difficil, sir. TRUE: How does my noble captain? is the bull, bear, and horse in rerum natura still? OTT: Sir, sic visum superis. MRS. OTT: I would you would but intimate them, do. Go your ways in, and get toasts and butter made for the woodcocks. That's a fit province for you. [DRIVES HIM OFF.] CLER: Alas, what a tyranny is this poor fellow married to! TRUE: O, but the sport will be anon, when we get him loose. DAUP: Dares he ever speak? TRUE: No Anabaptist ever rail'd with the like license: but mark |
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