A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
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'Mongst hungry bawds, insatiate courtesans?
And can you love that villain, by whose deed Your soul doth sigh, and your distress'd heart bleed? FUL. All this as well as I could wish myself. MRS ART. Sir, I have heard thus long with patience; If it be me you term a villain's wife, In sooth you have mistook me all this while, And neither know my husband nor myself; Or else you know not man and wife is one. If he be call'd a villain, what is she, Whose heart and love, and soul, is one with him? 'Tis pity that so fair a gentleman Should fall into such villains' company. O, sir, take heed, if you regard your life, Meddle not with a villain or his wife. [_Exit_. FUL. O, that same word villain hath marr'd all. ANS. Now where is your instruction? where's the wench? Where are my hopes? where your directions? FUL. Why, man, in that word villain you marr'd all. To come unto an honest wife, and call Her husband villain! were he[10] ne'er so bad, Thou might'st well think she would not brook that name For her own credit, though no love to him. But leave not thus, but try some other mean; Let not one way thy hopes make frustrate clean. |
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