The Hunchback by James Sheridan Knowles
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Your mate, not he!
Wal. I'm mate for any man! Clif. Draw off your friend, my lord, for your own sake! Wilf. Come, Gaylove! let's have another room. Gay. With all my heart, since 'tis your lordship's will. Wilf. That's right! Put up! Come, friends! [WILFORD and Friends go out.] Wal. I'll follow him! Why do you hold me? 'Tis not courteous of you! Think'st thou I fear them? Fear! I rate them but As dust! dross! offals! Let me at them!--Nay, Call you this kind? then kindness know I not; Nor do I thank you for't! Let go, I say! Clif. Nay, Master Walter, they're not worth your wrath. Wal. How know you me for Master Walter? By My hunchback, eh!--my stilts of legs and arms, The fashion more of ape's than man's? Aha! So you have heard them, too--their savage gibes As I pass on,--"There goes my lord!" aha! God made me, sir, as well as them and you. 'Sdeath! I demand of you, unhand me, sir! |
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