Love for Love: a Comedy by William Congreve
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VAL. I confess this is something extraordinary. TATT. Not a word, as I hope to be saved; an errant lapsus linguae. Come, let's talk of something else. VAL. Well, but how did you acquit yourself? TATT. Pooh, pooh, nothing at all; I only rallied with you--a woman of ordinary rank was a little jealous of me, and I told her something or other, faith I know not what.--Come, let's talk of something else. [Hums a song.] SCAN. Hang him, let him alone, he has a mind we should enquire. TATT. Valentine, I supped last night with your mistress, and her uncle, old Foresight: I think your father lies at Foresight's. VAL. Yes. TATT. Upon my soul, Angelica's a fine woman. And so is Mrs Foresight, and her sister, Mrs Frail. SCAN. Yes, Mrs Frail is a very fine woman, we all know her. TATT. Oh, that is not fair. SCAN. What? TATT. To tell. |
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