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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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Enter a Servant.

27 lines
Ben Jonson·1572–1637
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:rv. Save you, gentlemen. Step. Nay, we do not stand much on our gentility,friend ; yet, you are welcome ; and I assure voumine uncle here is a man of a thousand a-year, Mid-dlesex land: he has but one son in all the world; Iam his next heir (at the common law) master Stephen,as simple as I stand here: if my cousin die (as there’shope he will). I have a pretty living o’ my own too,beside, hard by here. Serv. In good time, sir. Step. In good time, sir; whv? and ip very goodtime, sir. You do not flout, friend, do you? Serv. Not I, sir. Step. Not you, sir! you were not best, sir; an’ youshould, here be them can perceive it, and that quicklytoo: goto. And they can give it again soundly too,an’ need be. Serv. Why, sir, let this satisfy you : good faith, Ihad no such mtent. Step. Sif, an’ I thought you had, I would talk withyou, and that presently. Serv. Good master Stephen, so you may, sir, atyour pleasure. Step. And so I would, sir, good my saucy compa-nion, an’ you were out o’ my uncle’s ground, I cautell you ; though 1 do not stand upon my gentilityneither in’t.
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