A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
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2D BOY. _Vitrum_ glass, _spica_ grass, _tu es asinus_, you are an ass.
_Precor tibi felicem noctem_. AMIN. _Claudite jam libros, pueri: sat, prata, bibistis_, Look, when you come again, you tell me _ubi fuistis_. He that minds trish-trash, and will not have care of his _rodix_. Him I will be-lish-lash, and have a fling at his _podix_. [_Exeunt_ BOYS. _Enter_ YOUNG MASTER ARTHUR. Y. ART. A pretty wench, a passing pretty wench. A sweeter duck all London cannot yield; She cast a glance on me as I pass'd by, Not Helen had so ravishing an eye. Here is the pedant Sir Aminadab; I will inquire of him if he can tell By any circumstance, whose wife she is: Such fellows commonly have intercourse Without suspicion, where we are debarr'd. God save you, gentle Sir Aminadab! AMIN. _Salve tu quoque_! would you speak with me? You are, I take it, and let me not lie, For, as you know, _mentiri non est meum_, Young Master Arthur; _quid vis_--what will you? Y. ART. You are a man I much rely upon; There is a pretty wench dwells in this street |
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