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 between the familiar and the vulgar, has translated this in the true dialect of the streets:

"I think there never was such a long night since the beginning of the world, except that night I had the strappado, and rid the wooden horse till morning; and, o' my conscience, that was twice as long . By the mackins, I believe Phœbus has been playing the good-fellow, and 's asleep too. I'll be hang'd if he ben't in for't, and has took a little too much o' the creature."

"Mer. Say ye so, slave? What, treat Gods like yourselves. By Jove, have at your doublet, Rogue, for scandalum