The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
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page 90 of 372 (24%)
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SUB. Yes, you may bring them too:
We'll change all metals. SUR. I believe you in that. MAM. Then I may send my spits? SUB. Yes, and your racks. SUR. And dripping-pans, and pot-hangers, and hooks? Shall he not? SUB. If he please. SUR. -- To be an ass. SUB. How, sir! MAM. This gentleman you must bear withal: I told you he had no faith. SUR. And little hope, sir; But much less charity, should I gull myself. SUB. Why, what have you observ'd, sir, in our art, Seems so impossible? SUR. But your whole work, no more. That you should hatch gold in a furnace, sir, As they do eggs in Egypt! |
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