The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07 by John Dryden
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_Gril._ I know not what to say, nor what to think; There's heaven still in thy voice, but that's a sign Virtue's departing; for thy better angel Still makes the woman's tongue his rising ground, Wags there a while, and takes his flight for ever. _Mar._ You must not go. _Gril._ Though I have reason, plain As day, to judge thee false, I think thee true: By heaven, methinks I see a glory round thee! There's something says, thou wilt not lose thy honour:-- Death and the devil! that's my own honesty; My foolish open nature, that would have All like myself;--but off; I'll hence and curse thee! _Mar._ O, stay! _Gril._ I will not. _Mar._ Hark! the king's coming. Let me conjure you, for your own soul's quiet, And for the everlasting rest of mine, Stir not, till you have heard my heart's design. _Gril._ Angel, or devil, I will.--Nay, at this rate, She'll make me shortly bring him to her bed.-- Bawd for him? no, he shall make me run my head Into a cannon, when 'tis firing, first; That's honourable sport. But I'll retire, |
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