The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 by John Dryden
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_Wood._ You shall find me an apt scholar.
_Saint._ I must go abroad upon some business; but remember your promise, to carry yourself soberly, and without scandal in my family; and so I leave you to this gentleman, who is a member of it. [_Exit_ SAINT. _Aldo._ [_Aside._] Before George, a proper fellow, and a swinger he should be, by his make! the rogue would humble a whore, I warrant him.--You are welcome, sir, amongst us; most heartily welcome, as I may say. _Wood._ All's well: he knows me not.--Sir, your civility is obliging to a stranger, and may befriend me, in the acquaintance of our fellow-lodgers. _Aldo._ Hold you there, sir: I must first understand you a little better; and yet, methinks, you should be true to love. _Wood._ Drinking and wenching are but slips of youth: I had those two good qualities from my father. _Aldo._ Thou, boy! Aha, boy! a true Trojan, I warrant thee! [_Hugging him._] Well, I say no more; but you are lighted into such a family, such food for concupiscence, such _bona roba's_! _Wood._ One I know, indeed; a wife: But _bona roba's_, say you? _Aldo._ I say, _bona roba's_, in the plural number. |
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