Volpone; Or, the Fox by Ben Jonson
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Some wench you may command. Have you no kinswoman?
Odso--Think, think, think, think, think, think, think, sir. One o' the doctors offer'd there his daughter. CORV: How! MOS: Yes, signior Lupo, the physician. CORV: His daughter! MOS: And a virgin, sir. Why? alas, He knows the state of's body, what it is; That nought can warm his blood sir, but a fever; Nor any incantation raise his spirit: A long forgetfulness hath seized that part. Besides sir, who shall know it? some one or two-- CORV: I prithee give me leave. [WALKS ASIDE.] If any man But I had had this luck--The thing in't self, I know, is nothing--Wherefore should not I As well command my blood and my affections, As this dull doctor? In the point of honour, The cases are all one of wife and daughter. MOS [ASIDE.]: I hear him coming. CORV: She shall do't: 'tis done. Slight! if this doctor, who is not engaged, |
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