Henry IV ii ·II i 16 · Prose
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I am undone by his going; I warrant you, he's an infinitive thing upon my score. Good Master Fang, hold him Good Master Snare, let him not scape. 'A comes continuantly Pie-corner—saving your manhoods—to buy a saddle; and he is indited to dinner to the Lubber's Head in Lumbert Street, to Master Smooth's the silkman. I pray you, since my exion is ent'red, and my case so openly known to the world, let him be brought in to his answer. A hundred mark is a long one for a lone woman to bear; and I have borne, and borne, and borne; have been fubb'd off, and fubb'd off, and fubb'd off, from day to that day, that it is a shame to be thought on. There honesty in such dealing; unless a woman should be made an ass a beast, to bear every knave's wrong.

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