ardon,
I kiss your vesture.
DOL. Sir, I were uncivil
If I would suffer that; my lip to you, sir.
MAM. I hope my lord your brother be in health, lady.
DOL. My lord, my brother is, though I no lady, sir.
FACE [ASIDE]. Well said, my Guinea bird.
MAM. Right noble madam--
FACE [ASIDE]. O, we shall have most fierce idolatry.
MAM. 'Tis your prerogative.
DOL. Rather your courtesy.
MAM. Were there nought else to enlarge your virtues to me,
These answers speak your breeding and your blood.
DOL. Blood we boast none, sir, a poor baron's daughter.
MAM. Poor! and gat you? profane not. Had your father
Slept all the happy remnant of his life
After that act, lien but there still, and panted,
He had done enough to make himself, his issue,
And his posterity noble.
DOL. Sir, although
We may be said to want the gilt and trappings,
The dress of honour, yet we strive to keep
The seeds and the materials.
MAM. I do see
The old ingredient, virtue, was not lost,
Nor the drug money used to make your compound.
There is a strange nobility in your eye,
This lip, that chin! methinks you do resemble
One of the Austriac princes.
FACE. Very like!
[ASIDE.]
Her father was an Irish costermonger.
MAM. The house of Valois just had such a nose,
And such a forehead yet the Medici
Of Florence boast.
DOL. Troth, and I have been liken'd
To all these princes.
FACE [ASIDE]. I'll be sworn, I heard it.
MAM. I know not how! it is not any one,
But e'en the very choice of all their features.
FACE [ASIDE]. I'll in, and laugh.
[EXIT.]
MAM. A certain touch, or air,
That sparkles a divinity, beyond
An earthly beauty!
DOL. O, you play the courtier.
MAM. Good lady, give me leave--
DOL. In faith, I may not,
To mock me, sir.
MAM. To burn in this sweet flame;
The phoenix never knew a nobler death.
DOL. Nay, now you court the courtier, and destroy
What you would build. This art, sir, in your words,
Calls your whole faith in question.
MAM. By my soul--
DOL. Nay, oaths are made of the same air, sir.
MAM. Nature
Never bestow'd upon mortality
A more unblamed, a more harmonious feature;
She play'd the step-dame in all faces else:
Sweet Madam, let me be particular--
DOL. Particular, sir! I pray you know your distance.
MAM. In no ill sense, sweet lady; but to ask
How your fair
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