The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 by John Dryden
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_Wood._ Some sprinklings of it, madam: We must not boast. _Saint._ Verily, boasting is of an evil principle. _Wood._ Faith, madam-- _Saint._ No swearing, I beseech you. Of what church are you? _Wood._ Why, of Covent-Garden church, I think. _Gerv._ How lewdly and ignorantly he answers! [_Aside_] She means, of what religion are you? _Wood._ O, does she so?--Why, I am of your religion, be it what it will; I warrant it a right one: I'll not stand with you for a trifle; presbyterian, independent, anabaptist, they are all of them too good for us, unless we had the grace to follow them. _Saint._ I see you are ignorant; but verily, you are a new vessel, and I may season you. I hope you do not use the parish-church. _Wood._ Faith, madam--cry you mercy; (I forgot again) I have been in England but five days. _Saint._ I find a certain motion within me to this young man, and must secure him to myself, ere he see my lodgers. [_Aside._]--O, seriously, I had forgotten; your trunk and portmantua are standing in the hall; your lodgings are ready, and your man may place them, if he please, while you and I confer together. |
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