This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...bully; he will be content with that, or he shall have none: let me alone with him now. Captain, I have dealt with your kinsman in a corner; a good, kind-natured fellow, methinks: go to; you shall not have all your own asking, you shall bate somewhat on't: he is not contented absolutely, as you would say, to steal the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...bully; he will be content with that, or he shall have none: let me alone with him now. Captain, I have dealt with your kinsman in a corner; a good, kind-natured fellow, methinks: go to; you shall not have all your own asking, you shall bate somewhat on't: he is not contented absolutely, as you would say, to steal the chain from him, but to do you a pleasure, he will nym it from him. /. e. an honest man. t The apple of the eye. t To filch t probably from the German nehmen, to take, to appropriate. Nich. Ay( that I will, cousin. Idle. Well, seeing he will do no more, as fax as I see, I must be contented with that. Oath. Here's no notable gullery! Pye. Nay, I'll come nearer to you, gentleman. Because we'll have only but a help and a mirth on't, the knight shall not lose his chain neither, but it shall be only laid out of the way some one or two days. Nich. Ay, that would be good indeed, kinsman. Pye. For I have a farther reach, to profit us better by the missing oft only, than if we had it outright; as my discourse shall make it known to you. When thou hast the chain, do but convey it out at a back-door into the garden, and there hang it close in the rosemary-bank, but for a small season; and by that harmless device I know how to wind Captain Idle out of prison: the knight thy master shall get his pardon, and release him, and he satisfy thy master with his own chain, and wondrous thanks on both hands. Nich. That were rare indeed, la. Pray, let me know how. Pye. Nay, 'tis very necessary thou snouldst know, because thou must be employed as an actor. Nich. An actor? O no; that's a player; and our parson rails against players mightily, I can tell you, because they brought him drunk upon the stage once;--as he will be horribly drunk. Oath. Mass, I cannot blame him ...
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