Love for Love: a Comedy by William Congreve
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can you deny it?
VAL. Sir, I don't deny it. SIR SAMP. Sirrah, you'll be hanged; I shall live to see you go up Holborn Hill. Has he not a rogue's face? Speak brother, you understand physiognomy, a hanging look to me--of all my boys the most unlike me; he has a damned Tyburn face, without the benefit o' the clergy. FORE. Hum--truly I don't care to discourage a young man,--he has a violent death in his face; but I hope no danger of hanging. VAL. Sir, is this usage for your son?--For that old weather-headed fool, I know how to laugh at him; but you, sir - SIR SAMP. You, sir; and you, sir: why, who are you, sir? VAL. Your son, sir. SIR SAMP. That's more than I know, sir, and I believe not. VAL. Faith, I hope not. SIR SAMP. What, would you have your mother a whore? Did you ever hear the like? Did you ever hear the like? Body o' me - VAL. I would have an excuse for your barbarity and unnatural usage. SIR SAMP. Excuse! Impudence! Why, sirrah, mayn't I do what I |
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