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His beard so frowsy, his gestures so aukward are, | Both. You will lie till your're mouldy upon the
And his bagpipe has so drowsy a drone,
That if they find you, as I did, no backwarder,
You may count on all the girls as your own.

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Daph. You stump o' th' gutter, you hop o' my thumb,

A husband for you must from Lilliput

come.

Nysa. You stalking steeple, you gawky stag,
Your husband must come from Brobdig-

Daph.

Nysa.

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Both. I'll humble your vanity, Mistress Trapes.

Enter NYSA.

Nysa. Marry come up, forsooth,

Is't me, you forward vixen,

Daph.

You choose to play your tricks on?

Nysa.

And could your liquorish tooth

Daph.

Find none but my sweetheart to fix on?

Nysa.

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Daph. No more of those freedoms, Miss Nysa, I

beg.

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Nysa, Young birds alone are caught with chaff; | SCENE III.—A Lawn before MIDAS's House. At your base scheme I laugh.

Mid.

Yet take my vows

Nysa. I would not take your bond, sir

Mid.

Half my estate

Nysa. No; nor the whole-my fond sir.

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At your command, do but this job for Mysis. Count them-six guineas and an old Jacobus, Keep Pan, and shame that scape-grace coram

nobis.

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Enter SILENO and DAMETAS, in warm
Argument.

Sil. My Daph a wife for thee, the squire's base pandar!

To the plantations sooner would I send her. Dam. Sir, your good wife approved my offers. Sil. Name her not, hag of Eudor,

What knew she of thee but thy coffers?

Dam. And shall this ditch-born whelp, this jack-anapes,

By dint of congees and of scrapes

Sil. These are thy slanders, and that cankered hag's

Dam. A thing made up of pilfered rags-
Sil. Richer than thou, with all thy brags

Of flocks, and herds, and money-bags.

AIR.

If a rival thy character draw, In perfection he'll find out a flaw; With black he will paint, Make a de'il of a saint, And change to an owl a macca. Dam. Can a father pretend to be wise,. Who his friend's good advice would despise?

Sil.

Who, when danger is nigh,

Throws his spectacles by,

And blinks through a green girl's eyes? You're an impudent pimp, and a grub! Dam. You are fooled by a beggarly scrub; Your betters you snub.

Sil.

Who will lend me a club,

This insolent puppy to drub?

You are an impudent pimp, and a grub. Dam. You're cajoled by a beggarly scrub, Sil. Who will rot in a powdering tub. Dam. Whom the prince of impostors I dub; Sil. A guinea for a club,

Dam. Your bald pate you'll rub,

Sil. The muckworm to drub.
Dam. When you find that your cub-
Sil. Rub off, sirrah; rub, sirrah, rub.
Dam. Is debauched by a whip'd syllabub.

SCENE V.

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