The Works of Henry Fielding - Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12 by Henry Fielding
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_Luck_. I love her as my soul. Had I the world I'd give it her
all. _Money_. But, as you happen to have nothing in the world, I desire you would have nothing to say to her. I suppose you would have settled all your castles in the air. Oh! I wish you had lived in one of them, instead of my house. Well, I am resolved, when you have gone away (which I heartily hope will be very soon) I'll hang over my door in great red letters, "No lodgings for poets." Sure never was such a guest as you have been. My floor is all spoiled with ink, my windows with verses, and my door has been almost beat down with duns. _Luck_. Would your house had been beaten down, and everything but my dear Harriot crushed under it! _Money_. Sir, sir---- _Luck_. Madam, madam! I will attack you at your own weapons; I will pay you in your own coin. _Money_. I wish you'd pay me in any coin, sir. _Luck_. Look ye, madam, I'll do as much as a reasonable woman can require; I'll shew you all I have; and give you all I have too, if you please to accept it. [_Turns his pockets Inside out_. _Money_. I will not be used in this manner. No, sir, I will be paid, if there be any such thing as law. _Luck_. By what law you will put money into my pocket I know not; |
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