Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 132 pages of information about Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife.

Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 132 pages of information about Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife.

Michael Perez: 

      Ha, ha, ha.

Cacafogo: 

      Dost thou laugh? damnably, I say most damnably.

Michael Perez: 

      By whom, good spirit speak, speak ha, ha, ha.

Cacafogo: 

      I will utter, laugh till thy lungs crack, by a rascal woman,
      A lewd, abominable, and plain woman. 
      Dost thou laugh still?

Michael Perez: 

      I must laugh, prethee pardon me,
      I shall laugh terribly.

Cacafogo: 

I shall be angry, terrible angry, I have cause.
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Michael Perez: 

      That’s it, and ’tis no reason but thou shouldst be angry,
      Angry at heart, yet I must laugh still at thee. 
      By a woman cheated? art’ sure it was a woman?

Cacafogo: 

      I shall break thy head, my valour itches at thee.

Michael Perez: 

      It is no matter, by a woman cozen’d,
      A real woman?

Cacafogo: 

      A real Devil,
      Plague of her Jewels and her copper chains,
      How rank they smell.

Michael Perez: 

      Sweet cozen’d Sir let me see them,
      I have been cheated too, I would have you note that,
      And lewdly cheated, by a woman also,
      A scurvie woman, I am undone sweet Sir,
      Therefore I must have leave to [l]augh.

Cacafogo: 

      Pray ye take it,
      You are the merriest undone man in Europe
      What need we fiddles, bawdy songs and sack,
      When our own miseries can make us merry?

Michael Perez: 

      Ha, ha, ha. 
      I have seen these Jewels, what a notable penniworth
      Have you had next your heart? you will not take Sir
      Some twenty Duckets?

Cacafogo: 

      Thou art deceiv’d, I will take.

Michael Perez: 

      To clear your bargain now.

Cacafogo: 

      I’le take some ten, some any thing, some half ten,
      Half a Ducket.

Michael Perez: 

      An excellent lapidary set these stones sure,
      Do you mark their waters?

Cacafogo: 

      Quick-sand choak their waters,
      And hers that bought ’em too, but I shall find her.

Michael Perez: 

      And so shall I, I hope, but do not hurt her,
      You cannot find in all this Kingdom,
      (If you had need of cozening, as you may have,
      For such gross natures will desire it often,
      ’Tis at some time too a fine variety,)
      A woman that can cozen ye so neatly,
      She has taken half mine anger off with this trick.

[Exit.

Cacafogo: 

      If I were valiant now, I would kill this fellow,
      I have mony enough lies by me at a pinch
      To pay for twenty Rascals lives that vex me,
224] I’le to this Lady, there I shall be satisfied.

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