The Scornful Lady by Francis Beaumont;John Fletcher
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_Lady._ Sir I hope you are the master of your own occasions.
[_Exit Yo. Lo. and Savil._ _El. Lo._ Would I were so. Mistris, for me to praise over again that worth, which all the world, and you your self can see. _Lady._ It's a cold room this, Servant. _El. Lo._ Mistris. _La._ What think you if I have a Chimney for't, out here? _El. Lo._ Mistris, another in my place, that were not tyed to believe all your actions just, would apprehend himself wrong'd: But I whose vertues are constancy and obedience. _La._ _Younglove_, make a good fire above to warm me after my servants _Exordiums_. _El. Lo._ I have heard and seen your affability to be such, that the servants you give wages to may speak. _La._ 'Tis true, 'tis true; but they speak to th' purpose. _El. Lo._ Mistris, your will leads my speeches from the purpose. But as a man-- _La._ A _Simile_ servant? This room was built for honest meaners, that deliver themselves hastily and plainly, and are gone. Is this a time or |
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