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uns down again. And Egad this was an Adventure and a bold one-- but since I am come off with a whole Skin, I am flesht for the next onset-- Madam-- has your Greatness any mind to marry? [Goes to her, speaks, and runs back; Blunt claps him on the Back. _Giant._ What if I have? _Feth._ Why then, Madam, without inchanted Sword or Buckler, I'm your Man. _Giant._ My Man? my Mouse. I'll marry none whose Person and Courage shall not bear some Proportion to mine. _Feth._ Your Mightiness I fear will die a Maid then. _Giant._ I doubt you'll scarce secure me from that Fear, who court my Fortune, not my Beauty. _Feth._ Hu, how scornful she is, I'll warrant you-- why I must confess, your Person is something heroical and masculine, but I protest to your Highness, I love and honour ye. _Dwarf._ Prithee, Sister, be not so coy, I like my Lover well enough; and if Seignior Mountebank keep his Word in making us of reasonable Proportions, I think the Gentlemen may serve for Husbands. _Shift._ Dissemble, or you betray your Love for us. [Aside to the Giant. _Giant._ And if he do keep his Word, I should make a better Choice, not that I would change this noble Frame of mine, cou'd I but meet my Match, and keep up the first Race of Man intire: But since this scanty World affords none such, I to be happy, must be new created, and then shall expect a wiser Lover. _Feth._ Why, what a peevish Titt's this; nay, look ye, Madam, as for that matter, your Extraordinariness may do what you please-- but 'tis not done like a Monster of Honour, when a Man has set his Heart upon you, to cast him off-- Therefore I hope you'll pity a despairing Lover, and cast down an Eye of Consolation upon me; for I vow, most Amazonian Princess, I love ye as if Heaven and Earth wou'd come together. _Dwarf._ My Sister will do much, I'm sure, to save the Man that loves her so passionately-- she has a Heart. _Feth._ And a swinger 'tis-- 'Sbud-- she moves like the Royal Sovereign, and is as long a tacking about. [Aside. _Giant._ Then your Religion, Sir. _Feth._ Nay, as for that, Madam, we are _English_, a Nation I thank God, that stand as little upon Religion as any Nation under the Sun, unless it be in Contradiction; and at this time have so many amongst us, a Man knows not which to turn his Hand to-- neither will I stand with your Hugeness for a small matter of Faith or so-- Religion shall shall break no squares. _Dwarf._ I hope
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