The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
page 44 of 372 (11%)
page 44 of 372 (11%)
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For lying too heavy on the basket.
SUB. Cheater! FACE. Bawd! SUB. Cow-herd! FACE. Conjurer! SUB. Cut-purse! FACE. Witch! DOL. O me! We are ruin'd, lost! have you no more regard To your reputations? where's your judgment? 'slight, Have yet some care of me, of your republic -- FACE. Away, this brach! I'll bring thee, rogue, within The statute of sorcery, tricesimo tertio Of Harry the Eighth: ay, and perhaps thy neck Within a noose, for laundring gold and barbing it. DOL [SNATCHES FACE'S SWORD]. You'll bring your head within a cockscomb, will you? And you, sir, with your menstrue -- [DASHES SUBTLE'S VIAL OUT OF HIS HAND.] Gather it up. -- 'Sdeath, you abominable pair of stinkards, |
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