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WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"Honoured sir! I am quite ready to lay down my life and fortune,
and all the rest of me, before that great virgin."
SIR SILAS.
"Thy life and fortune, to wit!
"What are they worth? A June cob-nut, maggot and all."
SIR THOMAS.
"Silas, we will not repudiate nor rebuff his Magdalen, that bringeth
a pot of ointment. Rather let us teach and tutor than twit. It is
a tractable and conducible youth, being in good company."
SIR SILAS.
"Teach and tutor! Hold hard, sir! These base varlets ought to be
taught but two things: to bow as beseemeth them to their betters,
and to hang perpendicular. We have authority for it, that no man
can add an inch to his stature; but by aid of the sheriff I engage
to find a chap who shall add two or three to this whoreson's."
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SIR THOMAS.
"Nay, nay, now, Silas! the lad's mother was always held to be an
honest woman."
SIR SILAS.
"His mother may be an honest woman for me."
WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.
"No small privilege, by my faith! for any woman in the next parish
to thee, Master Silas!"
SIR SILAS.
"There again! out comes the filthy runlet from the quagmire, that
but now lay so quiet with all its own in it.
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