The Poetaster by Ben Jonson
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Tuc. I hear you'll bring me o' the stage there; you'll play me, they say; I shall be presented by a sort of copper-laced scoundrels of you: life of Pluto! an you stage me, stinkard, your mansions shall sweat for't, your tabernacles, varlets, your Globes, and your Triumphs. Hist. Not we, by Phoebus, captain; do not do us imputation without desert. Tuc. I will not, my good twopenny rascal; reach me thy neuf. Dost hear? what wilt thou give me a week for my brace of beagles here, my little point-trussers? you shall have them act among ye.--I Sirrah, you, pronounce.--Thou shalt hear him speak in King Darius' doleful strain. 1 Pyr. O doleful days! O direful deadly dump ! O wicked world, and worldly wickedness ! How can I hold my fist from crying, thump, In rue of this right rascal wretchedness! Tuc. In an amorous vein now, sirrah: peace! 1 Pyr. O, she is wilder, and more hard, withal, Than beast, or bird, or tree, or stony wall. Yet might she love me, to uprear her state: Ay, but perhaps she hopes some nobler mate. |
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