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 Davenant [laughing.] I'd have liked to see The chaplain and duenna joined in wedlock By a moss-trooper! Rochester [in an undertone.] So the thing is done Among us saints. Davenant. Such marriages, I swear, Are well adapted to unite the knots Of a dramatic plot. A corporal The lady and her lover doth unite. Dame Guggligoy [sourly. Of what are you two talking 'neath your breath? He shuns me! Needs must I have fall'n so low, I who am not ill-favoured, and possess Two hundred old jacobuses, all new, In honest gold! Davenant [to. Egad! this spouse of yours Is better worth than many heiresses! Two hundred old jacobuses and three Almost whole teeth! Dame Guggligoy [to .] You who so lavish were Of loving words— Rochester [to. She dreamed it, my good friend.
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Leave us in peace I say. Be damned to you!
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Dame Guggligoy.They're all alike, the wretches! Loving to Their mistresses and harsh to their own wives! Cats before marriage, tigers afterward!
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What! cruel one! our myrtles thou wouldst change To cypresses! abandon thy young wife!