Volpone; Or, the Fox by Ben Jonson
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MOS: Why, sir? VOLP: Oh, Rid me of this my torture, quickly, there; My madam, with the everlasting voice: The bells, in time of pestilence, ne'er made Like noise, or were in that perpetual motion! The Cock-pit comes not near it. All my house, But now, steam'd like a bath with her thick breath. A lawyer could not have been heard; nor scarce Another woman, such a hail of words She has let fall. For hell's sake, rid her hence. MOS: Has she presented? VOLP: O, I do not care; I'll take her absence, upon any price, With any loss. MOS: Madam-- LADY P: I have brought your patron A toy, a cap here, of mine own work. MOS: 'Tis well. I had forgot to tell you, I saw your knight, Where you would little think it.-- LADY P: Where? |
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