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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