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WILLIAM CONGREVE
1670–1729
Love for Love
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Miss Prue. But I’m sure it is not so, for I’ll speak sooner than you should
believe that. And I’ll speak truth, though one should always tell a lie to a
man. And I don’t care, let my father do what he will. I’m too big to be
whipped, so I’ll tell you plainly, I don’t like you, nor love you at all, nor never
will, that’s more. So, there’s your answer for you, and don’t trouble me no
more, you ugly thing.
Ben. Look you, young woman. You may learn to give good words, however.
I spoke you fair, d’ye see, and civil. As for your love or your liking, I don’t
value it of a rope’s end. And mayhap I like you as little as you do me. What
I said was in obedience to father. Gad, I fear a whipping no more than you
do. But I tell you one thing, if you should give such language at sea, you’d
have a cat-o’-nine-tails1 laid ’cross your shoulders. Flesh, who are you? You
heard t’other handsome young woman speak civilly to me, of her own
accord. Whatever you think of yourself, Gad I don’t think you are any more
to compare to her than a can of small beer to a bowl of punch.
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A flogging infection is likely to kill you.
Nasty way to die.
You could flog in Australia until 1957.
JMN
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