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Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson
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3 CHILD. That's all one, if the author think I can speak it
better.

1 CHILD. I plead possession of the cloak: gentles, your suffrages,
I pray you.

[WITHIN.] Why children! are you not ashamed? come in there.

3 CHILD. Slid, I'll play nothing in the play: unless I speak it.

1 CHILD. Why, will you stand to most voices of the gentlemen? let
that decide it.

3 CHILD. O, no, sir gallant; you presume to have the start of us
there, and that makes you offer so prodigally.

1 CHILD. No, would I were whipped if I had any such thought; try
it by lots either.

2 CHILD. Faith, I dare tempt my fortune in a greater venture than
this.

3 CHILD. Well said, resolute Jack! I am content too; so we draw
first. Make the cuts.

1 CHILD. But will you not snatch my cloak while I am stooping?

3 CHILD. No, we scorn treachery.

2 CHILD. Which cut shall speak it?
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