The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 by John Dryden
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a nest of unclean birds here.
_Limb._ You had best peach now, and make her house be thought a bawdy-house! _Trick._ No, no: While you are in it, you will secure it from that scandal.--Hark hither, Mrs Saintly. [_Whispers._] _Limb._ Do, tell, tell, no matter for that. _Saint._ Who would have imagined you had been such a kind of man, Mr Limberham! O heaven, O heaven! [_Exit._ _Limb._ So, now you have spit your venom, and the storm's over. _Aldo._ [_Crying._] That I should ever live to see this day! _Trick._ To show I can live honest, in spite of all mankind, I'll go into a nunnery, and that is my resolution. _Limb._ Do not hinder her, good father Aldo; I am sure she will come back from France, before she gets half way over to Calais. _Aldo._ Nay, but son Limberham, this must not be. A word in private;--you will never get such another woman, for love nor money. Do but look upon her; she is a mistress for an emperor. _Limb._ Let her be a mistress for a pope, like a whore of Babylon, as she is. |
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