Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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CLER: I thought he would not hear it out, but 'twould take him. DAUP: Well, there be guests and meat now; how shall we do for music? CLER: The smell of the venison, going through the street, will invite one noise of fiddlers or other. DAUP: I would it would call the trumpeters hither! CLER: Faith, there is hope: they have intelligence of all feasts. There's good correspondence betwixt them and the London cooks: 'tis twenty to one but we have them. DAUP: 'Twill be a most solemn day for my uncle, and an excellent fit of mirth for us. CLER: Ay, if we can hold up the emulation betwixt Foole and Daw, and never bring them to expostulate. DAUP: Tut, flatter them both, as Truewit says, and you may take their understandings in a purse-net. They'll believe themselves to be just such men as we make them, neither more nor less. They have nothing, not the use of their senses, but by tradition. [RE-ENTER LA-FOOLE, LIKE A SEWER.] CLER: See! sir Amorous has his towel on already. Have you persuaded your cousin? |
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