The Puritaine Widdow by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
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I'll make him do 't.
CAPTAIN. [Aside, to Oath.] Fie, what vain breath you spend! he supply? I'll sooner expect mercy from a Usurer when my bond's Forfeited, sooner kindness from a Layer when my money's spent: Nay, sooner charity from the devil, than good from a Puritan! I'll look for relief from him, when Lucifer is restor'd to his blood, and in Heaven again. NICHOLAS. I warrant, my Kinsman's talking of me, for my left ear burns most tyrannically. PYE. Captain Idle, what's he there? he looks like a Monkey upward, and a Crane down-ward. CAPTAIN. Pshaw, a foolish Cousin of mine; I must thank God for him. PYE. Why, the better subject to work a scape upon; thou shalt o'en change clothes with him, and leave him here, and so-- CAPTAIN. Push, I publish't him e'en now to my Corporal: he will be damned, ere he do me so much good; why, I know a more proper, a more handsome device than that, if the slave would be sociable. Now, goodman Fleer-face. |
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