A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
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MRS ART. You are welcome, sir. Come you to speak with me
Or with my husband? pray you, what's your will? FUL. She answers to the purpose; what's your will? O zounds, that I were there to answer her. ANS. Mistress, my will is not so soon express'd Without your special favour, and the promise Of love and pardon, if I speak amiss. FUL. O ass! O dunce! O blockhead! that hath left The plain broad highway and the readiest path, To travel round about by circumstance: He might have told his meaning in a word, And now hath lost his opportunity. Never was such a truant in love's school; I am asham'd that e'er I was his tutor. MRS ART. Sir, you may freely speak, whate'er it be, So that your speech suiteth with modesty. FUL. To this now could I answer passing well. ANS. Mistress, I, pitying that so fair a creature-- FUL. Still fair, and yet I warn'd the contrary. ANS. Should by a villain be so foully us'd, As you have been-- |
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