The Poetaster by Ben Jonson
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page 67 of 324 (20%)
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Her. With riding: a plague on all coaches for me!
Chloe. Is that hard-favour'd gentleman a poet too, Cytheris? Cyth. No, this is Hermogenes: as humorous as a poet, though: he is a musician. Chloe. A musician! then he can sing. Cyth. That he can, excellently; did you never hear him? Chloe. O no: will he be entreated, think you? Cyth. I know not.--Friend, mistress Chloe would fain hear Hermogenes sing: are you interested in him? Gal. No doubt, his own humanity will command him so far, to the satisfaction of so fair a beauty; but rather than fail, we'll all be suitors to him. Her. 'Cannot sing. Gal. Prithee, Hermogenes. Her. 'Cannot sing. Gal. For honour of this gentlewoman, to whose house I know thou mayest be ever welcome. Chloe. That he shall, in truth, sir, if he can sing. |
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