The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 by John Dryden
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_Aldo._ Then, perhaps, you may have known an ungracious boy of mine there. _Wood._ Like enough: Pray, what's his name? _Aldo._ George Aldo. _Wood._ I must confess I do know the gentleman; satisfy yourself, he's in health, and upon his return. _Aldo._ That's some comfort: But, I hear, a very rogue, a lewd young fellow. _Wood._ The worst I know of him is, that he loves a wench; and that good quality he has not stolen. [_Music at the Balcony over head: Mrs_ TRICKSY _and_ JUDITH _appear._]--Hark! There's music above. _Aldo._ 'Tis at my daughter Tricksy's lodging; the kept mistress I told you of, the lass of mettle. But for all she carries it so high, I know her pedigree; her mother's a sempstress in Dog-and-Bitch yard, and was, in her youth, as right as she is. _Wood._ Then she's a two-piled punk, a punk of two descents. _Aldo._ And her father, the famous cobler, who taught Walsingham to the black-birds. How stand thy affections to her, thou lusty rogue? _Wood._ All on fire: A most urging creature! |
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