Sir John Oldcastle by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
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to fetch in your Bailiffs' rents, but you must come to a
noble man's house with process? Sblood! if thy seal were as broad as the lead that covers Rochester church, thou shouldst eat it. SUMNER. O, I am almost choked! I am almost choked! HARPOOLE. Who's within there? will you shame my Lord? is there no beer in the house? Butler! I say. [Enter Butler.] BUTLER. Here, here. HARPOOLE. Give him Beer. [He drinks.] There; tough old sheepskin's bare, dry meat. SUMNER. O sir, let me go no further; I'll eat my word. HARPOOLE. Yea, marry, sit! so I mean: you shall eat more than your own word, for I'll make you eat all the words in the process. |
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