The Spanish Curate - A Comedy by Francis Beaumont;John Fletcher
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She kiss'd him drunk in the morning.
_Fam_. We may spare The travel of our tongues in forraign Nations, When in _Corduba_, if you dare give credit To my report (for I have seen her, Gallants) There lives a Woman (of a mean birth too, And meanly match'd) whose all-excelling Form Disdains comparison with any She That puts in for a fair one, and though you borrow From every Country of the Earth the best Of those perfections, which the Climat yields To help to make her up, if put in Ballance, This will weigh down the Scale. _Lean_. You talk of wonders. _Jam_. She is indeed a wonder, and so kept, And, as the world deserv'd not to behold What curious Nature made without a pattern, Whose Copy she hath lost too, she's shut up, Sequestred from the world. _Lean_. |
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