Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson
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THO. By Christ, I would not for a thousand crowns.
BIA. What ail you, sweet-heart? are you not well? speak, good Muss. THO. Troth, my head aches extremely on a sudden. BIA. Oh Jesu! THO. How now! what! BIA. Good Lord, how it burns! Muss, keep you warm; good truth, it is this new disease, there's a number are troubled withall for God's sake, sweet-heart, come in out of the air. THO. How simple, and how subtle are her answers! A new disease, and many troubled with it. Why true, she heard me all the world to nothing. BIA. I pray thee, good sweet-heart, come in; the air will do you harm, in troth. THO. I'll come to you presently, it will away, I hope. BIA. Pray God it do. [EXIT.] THO. A new disease! I know not, new or old, But it may well be call'd poor mortals' Plague; |
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