The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07 by John Dryden
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are we encompassed? Nay, then, faces this way; we'll sell our skins to
the fairest chapmen. _Enter_ AUMALE _and Soldiers, on the one side, Citizens on the other._ GRILLON, _and his Party, are disarmed._ _1 Cit._ Bear away that bloody-minded colonel, and hang him up at the next sign-post: Nay, when I am in power, I can make examples too. _Omn._ Tear him piece-meal; tear him piece-meal. [_Pull and haul him._ _Gril._ Rogues, villains, rebels, traitors, cuckolds! 'Swounds, what do you make of a man? do you think legs and arms are strung upon a wire, like a jointed baby? carry me off quickly, you were best, and hang me decently, according to my first sentence. _2 Cit._ Look you, colonel; you are too bulky to be carried off all at once; a leg or an arm is one man's burden: give me a little finger for a sample of him, whereby I'll carry it for a token to my sovereign lady. _Gril._ 'Tis too little, in all conscience, for her; take a bigger token, cuckold. _Et tu, Brute,_ whom I saved? O the conscience of a shopkeeper! _2 Cit._ Look you, colonel, for your saving of me, I thank you heartily, whereby that debt's paid; but for speaking treason against my anointed wife, that's a new reckoning between us. _Enter_ GUISE, _with a General's Staff in his Hand;_ MAYENNE, |
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