Cromwell by Alfred B. Richards
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to do; for she feared thee not.
_Host._ I pity thee, and will say no more. _1st Sold._ Here is a stool, let him mount thereon. _Will._ These be ignorant knaves. I will practice on them. It may come to good. [_Mounts the stool._] The Lord leadeth his people through the wilderness to salvation, crinkeldom cum crankeldom. [_Mutters to himself._] _Soldiers._ Hum! _Will._ Of all thirsts, there be none like that after righteousness.--[_Mutters to himself._] _Soldiers._ Hum! _Will._ [Aside.] For strong ale, which I think hath to do with the conversion of this Gurton. [_Mutters to himself._] _1st Sold._ Lift thy voice higher, that we stumble not in the dark. _Will._ [_Aside._] I would I could remember a text--anything will do--[_Aloud._] The General Cromwell hath, they say, a red nose, and doth never spit white, which I look upon as a great sign, as was the burning bush to Moses! |
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