Thursday, October 18, 2007

The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus
'Tis making a mighty matter indeed, out of a jest; I but plagued the woman for mine amusement."
"Kept you the woman's pig for amusement?"
The man answered sharply:
"Naught else, good sir-I tell thee "twas but a jest."
"I do begin to believe thee," said Hendon, with a perplexing mixture of mockery and half-conviction in his tone; "tarry thou here a moment whilst I run and ask his worship-for nathless, he being a man experienced in law, in jests, in-"
The Birth of Venus
He was moving away, still talking; the constable hesitated, fidgeted, spat an oath or two, then cried out:
"Hold, hold, good sir-prithee, wait a little-the judge! why man, he hath no more sympathy with a jest than hath a dead corpse!-come, and we will speak further. Ods body! I seem to be in evil case-and all for an innocent and thoughtless pleasantry. I am a man of family; and my wife and little ones-List to reason, good your worship; what wouldst thou of me?" The Birth of Venus

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