The Spanish Curate - A Comedy by Francis Beaumont;John Fletcher
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Be more temperate. _Jam_. I neither can nor will, unless I learn it By his example: let him use his harsh Unsavoury reprehensions upon those That are his Hinds, and not on me. The Land Our Father left to him alone rewards him, For being twelve months elder, let that be Forgotten, and let his Parasites remember One quality of worth or vertue in him That may authorize him, to be a censurer Of me, or my manners, and I will Acknowledge him for a Tutor, till then, never. _Hen_. From whom have you your means Sir? _Jam_. From the will Of my dead Father; I am sure I spend not Nor give't upon your purse. _Hen. |
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