The Maids Tragedy by Francis Beaumont;John Fletcher
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_Amint_. I faith I have not.
_Diph_. You have done better then. _Amint_. We ventured for a Boy; when he is Twelve, He shall command against the foes of _Rhodes_. _Stra_. You cannot, you want sleep. [_Aside_. _Amint_. 'Tis true; but she As if she had drunk _Lethe_, or had made Even with Heaven, did fetch so still a sleep, So sweet and sound. _Diph_. What's that? _Amint_. Your Sister frets this morning, and does turn her eyes upon me, as people on their headsman; she does chafe, and kiss, and chafe again, and clap my cheeks; she's in another world. _Diph_. Then I had lost; I was about to lay, you had not got her Maiden-head to night. _Amint_. Ha! he does not mock me; y'ad lost indeed; I do not use to bungle. _Cleo_. You do deserve her. |
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