The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 by John Dryden
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_Enter_ LIMBERHAM.
_Limb._ Why, how now, Pug? Nay, I must lay you over the lips, to take hansel of them, for my welcome. _Trick._ [_Putting him back._] Foh! how you smell of sweat, dear! _Limb._ I have put myself into this same unsavoury heat, out of my violent affection to see thee, Pug. Before George, as father Aldo says, I could not live without thee; thou art the purest bed-fellow, though I say it, that I did nothing but dream of thee all night; and then I was so troublesome to father Aldo, (for you must know he and I were lodged together) that, in my conscience, I did so kiss him, and so hug him in my sleep! _Trick._ I dare be sworn 'twas in your sleep; for, when you are waking, you are the most honest, quiet bed-fellow, that ever lay by woman. _Limb._ Well, Pug, all shall be amended; I am come home on purpose to pay old debts. But who is that same fellow there? What makes he in our territories? _Trick._ You oaf you, do you not perceive it is the Italian seignior, who is come to sell me essences? _Limb._ Is this the seignior? I warrant you, it is he the lampoon was made on. [_Sings the tune of Seignior, and ends with,_ Ho, ho. _Trick._ Pr'ythee leave thy foppery, that we may have done with him. |
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