A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various
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And in authority, should call before you
My unthrift son, to give him some advice, Which he will take better from you than me, That am his father. Here's the gentlewoman, Wife to my son, and daughter to this man, Whom I perforce compell'd to live with us. JUS. All this is well; here is your son, you say, But she that is his wife you cannot find. Y. LUS. You do mistake, sir, here's the gentlewoman; It is her husband that will not be found. JUS. Well, all is one, for man and wife are one; But is this all? Y. LUS. Ay, all that you can say, And much more than you can well put off. JUS. Nay, if the case appear thus evident, Give me a cup of wine. What! man and wife To disagree! I prythee, fill my cup; I could say somewhat: tut, tut, by this wine, I promise you 'tis good canary sack. MRS ART. Fathers, you do me open violence, To bring my name in question, and produce This gentleman and others here to witness My husband's shame in open audience. What may my husband think, when he shall know |
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