Volpone; Or, the Fox by Ben Jonson
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Unless 't be for his counsel, which is nothing,
Offer his daughter, what should I, that am So deeply in? I will prevent him: Wretch! Covetous wretch!--Mosca, I have determined. MOS: How, sir? CORV: We'll make all sure. The party you wot of Shall be mine own wife, Mosca. MOS: Sir, the thing, But that I would not seem to counsel you, I should have motion'd to you, at the first: And make your count, you have cut all their throats. Why! 'tis directly taking a possession! And in his next fit, we may let him go. 'Tis but to pull the pillow from his head, And he is throttled: it had been done before, But for your scrupulous doubts. CORV: Ay, a plague on't, My conscience fools my wit! Well, I'll be brief, And so be thou, lest they should be before us: Go home, prepare him, tell him with what zeal And willingness I do it; swear it was On the first hearing, as thou mayst do, truly, Mine own free motion. MOS: Sir, I warrant you, I'll so possess him with it, that the rest |
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