Love for Love: a Comedy by William Congreve
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conjunctions and oppositions in the third house of my nativity;
there the curse of kindred was foretold. But I will have my doors locked up;--I'll punish you: not a man shall enter my house. ANG. Do, uncle, lock 'em up quickly before my aunt come home. You'll have a letter for alimony to-morrow morning. But let me be gone first, and then let no mankind come near the house, but converse with spirits and the celestial signs, the bull and the ram and the goat. Bless me! There are a great many horned beasts among the twelve signs, uncle. But cuckolds go to heaven. FORE. But there's but one virgin among the twelve signs, spitfire, but one virgin. ANG. Nor there had not been that one, if she had had to do with anything but astrologers, uncle. That makes my aunt go abroad. FORE. How, how? Is that the reason? Come, you know something; tell me and I'll forgive you. Do, good niece. Come, you shall have my coach and horses--faith and troth you shall. Does my wife complain? Come, I know women tell one another. She is young and sanguine, has a wanton hazel eye, and was born under Gemini, which may incline her to society. She has a mole upon her lip, with a moist palm, and an open liberality on the mount of Venus. ANG. Ha, ha, ha! FORE. Do you laugh? Well, gentlewoman, I'll--but come, be a good girl, don't perplex your poor uncle, tell me--won't you speak? Odd, I'll - |
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