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Rh To this supposed, or else let him suffer : What would you 1 Isab. As much for my poor brother, as myself. That is, were I under the terms of death, The impression of keen whips I'd wear as rubies, And strip myself to death, as to a bed That longing I have heen sick for, ere I 'd yield My body up to shame. Aug. Then must your brother die. Isab. And 'twere the cheaper way : Better it were, a brother died at once, Than that a sister, by redeeming him, Should die for ever.

Cost. God dig-you-den all 1 Pray you which is the head lady 1 Prin. Thou shall know her, fellow, by the rest that have no heads. Cost. Which is the greatest lady, the highest? Prin. The thickest and the-tallest. Cost. The thickest, and the tallest ! it is so ; truth is truth. An your waist, mistress, were as slender as my wit, One of these maids' girdles for your waist should be fit. Are not you the chief woman ? you are the thickest here.