The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 by John Dryden
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_Wood._ [_Aside._] Are you gloating already? then there's hopes, i'faith. _Trick._ You seem to know him, father. _Aldo._ Know him! from his cradle--What's your name? _Wood._ Woodall. _Ald._ Woodall of Woodall; I knew his father; we were contemporaries, and fellow-wenchers in our youth. _Wood._ [_Aside._] My honest father stumbles into truth, in spite of lying. _Trick._ I was just coming down to the garden-house, before you came. [TRICKSY _descends._ _Aldo._ I am sorry I cannot stay to present my son, Woodall, to you; but I have set you together, that's enough for me. [_Exit._ _Wood._ [_Alone._] 'Twas my study to avoid my father, and I have run full into his mouth: and yet I have a strong hank upon him too; for I am privy to as many of his virtues, as he is of mine. After all, if I had an ounce of discretion left, I should pursue this business no farther: but two fine women in a house! well, it is resolved, come what will on it, thou art answerable for all my sins, old Aldo-- _Enter_ TRICKSY, _with a box of essences._ |
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