The Poetaster by Ben Jonson
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company; let's avoid him now, he is too well seconded.
[Exeunt. ACT IV SCENE I.-A Room in ALBIUS'S House. enter CHLOE, CYTHERIS, and Attendants. Chloe. But, sweet lady, say; am I well enough attired for the court, in sadness? Cyth. Well enough! excellent well, sweet mistress Chloe; this strait-bodied city attire, I can tell you, will stir a courtier's blood, more than the finest loose sacks the ladies use to be put in; and then you are as well jewell'd as any of them; your ruff and linen about you is much more pure than theirs; and for your beauty, I can tell you, there's many of them would defy the painter, if they could change with you. Marry, the worst is, you must look to be envied, and endure a few court-frumps for it. Chloe. O Jove, madam, I shall buy them too cheap!--Give me my muff, and my dog there.-And will the ladies be any thing familiar with me, think you? Cyth. O Juno! why you shall see them flock about you with their puff-wings, and ask you where you bought your lawn, and what you |
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