A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Various
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thus it is with your breath, Sir, thus it is with your teeth, Sir, this
is your disease, and this is your medicine. _Goos_. As I am true mortall Knight, it is most superlatively good, this. _Foul_. Why this is courtly now, this is sweete, this plaine, this is familiar, but by the Court of _France_, our peevish dames are so proud, so precise, so coy, so disdainfull, and so subtill, as the _Pomonian_ Serpent, _mort dieu_ the Puncke of _Babylon_ was never so subtill. _Rud_. Nay, doe not chafe so, Captaine. _Foul_. Your _Frenchman_ would ever chafe, sir _Cutt_., being thus movde. _Rud_. What? and play with his beard so? _Foul_. I and brystle, it doth expresse that passion of anger very full, and emphaticall. _Goos_: Nay good Knight if your _French_ wood brystle, let him alone, in troth our Ladies are a little too coy, and subtill, Captaine, indeed. _Foul_. Subtill, sir _Gyles Goosecappe_? I assure your soule, they are as subtill with their suters, or loves, as the latine Dialect, where the nominative Case, and the Verbe, the Substantive, and the Adjective, the Verbe, and the [ad]Verbe, stand as far a sunder, as if they were perfect strangers one to another, and you shall hardly find them out; but then learne to Conster, and perse them, and you shall find them prepared and acquainted, and agree together in Case, gender, and number. |
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