Page 2500 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2
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SHALLOW
What, the sword and the word? Do you study [40] them both, Master Parson?
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And youthful still, in your doublet and hose this raw rheumatic day?
EVANS
There is reasons and causes for it.
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We are come to you to do a good office, Master [45] Parson.
EVANS
Fery well: what is it?
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Yonder is a most reverend gentleman, who, belike having received wrong by
some person, is at most odds with his own gravity and patience that ever you
saw. [50]
SHALLOW
I have lived fourscore years and upward; I never heard a man of his place,
gravity, and learning so wide of his own respect.
EVANS
What is he?
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I think you know him: Master Doctor Caius, the [55] renowned French
physician.
EVANS
Got’s will and His passion of my heart, I had as lief you would tell me of a
mess of porridge.
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Why?
