The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 by John Dryden
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as no Phillis.
_Brain._ Yet again!--_My Phillis--_ [_Sings._ _Limb._ Pray, for my sake, let it be your Chloris. _Brain._ [_Looking scornfully at him._] _My Phillis--_ [_Sings._ _Limb._ You had as good call her your Succuba. _Brain._ _Morbleu!_ will you not give me leave? I am full of Phillis. [_Sings._] _My Phillis--_ _Limb._ Nay, I confess, Phillis is a very pretty name. _Brain._ _Diable!_ Now I will not sing, to spite you. By the world, you are not worthy of it. Well, I have a gentleman's fortune; I have courage, and make no inconsiderable figure in the world: yet I would quit my pretensions to all these, rather than not be author of this sonnet, which your rudeness has irrevocably lost. _Limb._ Some foolish French _quelque chose_, I warrant you. _Brain._ _Quelque chose!_ O ignorance, in supreme perfection! he means a _kek shose_[9]. _Limb._ Why a _kek shoes_ let it be then! and a _kek shoes_ for your song. _Brain._ I give to the devil such a judge. Well, were I to be born |
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