Love for Love: a Comedy by William Congreve
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SCAN. To tell what? Why, what do you know of Mrs Frail? TATT. Who, I? Upon honour I don't know whether she be man or woman, but by the smoothness of her chin and roundness of her hips. SCAN. No? TATT. No. SCAN. She says otherwise. TATT. Impossible! SCAN. Yes, faith. Ask Valentine else. TATT. Why then, as I hope to be saved, I believe a woman only obliges a man to secrecy that she may have the pleasure of telling herself. SCAN. No doubt on't. Well, but has she done you wrong, or no? You have had her? Ha? TATT. Though I have more honour than to tell first, I have more manners than to contradict what a lady has declared. SCAN. Well, you own it? TATT. I am strangely surprised! Yes, yes, I can't deny't if she taxes me with it. |
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