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Love for Love: a Comedy by William Congreve
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Ephemeris.--Ignorant! I tell you, I have travelled old Fircu, and
know the globe. I have seen the antipodes, where the sun rises at
midnight, and sets at noon-day.

FORE. But I tell you, I have travelled, and travelled in the
celestial spheres, know the signs and the planets, and their houses.
Can judge of motions direct and retrograde, of sextiles, quadrates,
trines and oppositions, fiery-trigons and aquatical-trigons. Know
whether life shall be long or short, happy or unhappy, whether
diseases are curable or incurable. If journeys shall be prosperous,
undertakings successful, or goods stolen recovered; I know -

SIR SAMP. I know the length of the Emperor of China's foot; have
kissed the Great Mogul's slippers, and rid a-hunting upon an
elephant with a Cham of Tartary. Body o' me, I have made a cuckold
of a king, and the present majesty of Bantam is the issue of these
loins.

FORE. I know when travellers lie or speak truth, when they don't
know it themselves.

SIR SAMP. I have known an astrologer made a cuckold in the
twinkling of a star; and seen a conjurer that could not keep the
devil out of his wife's circle.

FORE. What, does he twit me with my wife too? I must be better
informed of this. [Aside.] Do you mean my wife, Sir Sampson?
Though you made a cuckold of the king of Bantam, yet by the body of
the sun -

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