Volpone; Or, the Fox by Ben Jonson
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MOS [ADVANCING.]: Please you draw near, sir.
CORV: Come on, what-- You will not be rebellious? by that light-- MOS: Sir, Signior Corvino, here, is come to see you. VOLP: Oh! MOS: And hearing of the consultation had, So lately, for your health, is come to offer, Or rather, sir, to prostitute-- CORV: Thanks, sweet Mosca. MOS: Freely, unask'd, or unintreated-- CORV: Well. MOS: As the true fervent instance of his love, His own most fair and proper wife; the beauty, Only of price in Venice-- CORV: 'Tis well urged. MOS: To be your comfortress, and to preserve you. VOLP: Alas, I am past, already! Pray you, thank him For his good care and promptness; but for that, |
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