The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 02 by John Dryden
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utterly lost all stomach to my dinner.
_Const_. Robbed! good my lord, how, or of what? _Non_. Two hundred and fifty pounds, in fair gold, out of my study: An hundred of it I was to have paid a courtier this afternoon for a bribe. _Set_. I protest, my lord, I had as much ado to get that parcel of gold for your lordship-- _Non_. You must get me as much more against to-morrow; for then my friend at court is to pay his mercer. _Isa_. Nay, if that be all, there's no such haste: the courtiers are not so forward to pay their debts. _Const_. Has not the monkey been in the study? He may have carried it away, and dropt it under the garden-window: the grass is long enough to hide it. _Non_. I'll go see immediately. _Enter_ FAILER, BURR, TIMOROUS. _Fail_. This is the gentleman, my lord. _Non_. He's welcome. _Fail_. And this the particular of his estate. |
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