and returnes_.
_Ri_. Deare hart be patient.
_La_. I, you have your homilies of patience, but if you had my paine
twould make you wild. Oh!
_Ri_. Ile send for the _french_ toothdrawer in the morning.
_La_. Oh, there is no rack nor torture like it. What shall I do? I shall
never sleepe agen.
_Ri_. Which tooth ist?
_Do_.--The sweet one you may be sure which troubles her.
_La_. This, this, O that there.
_Ri_. They are happie that are old and have no teeth.
_La_. Oh, take heed, now it shoots up to my head.
_Ri_. Thou dost make my head ake with the noise.
_La_. If you knew what I suffer your head would ake indeed. I must rise
and walke in the Chamber; there is no remedy.
_Ri_. You will catch more cold.
_La_. Oh, no, no, deere life, do not crosse me; and you were in my
torment you would rise and trie any thing for a little ease. It cannot
be worse; the paine sure came with a cold, and who knowes but an other
cold may cure me.
_Ri_. I prethe come to bed agen.
_La_. So, so, do not troble me; I am now in some little ease; its a
heavenly thing to be goeing.
_Ri_. Dost heare?
_La_. Your noise will bring my paine back agen; if you knew what a
vexation it were for me to speake, You wo'not put me too't so. If you
doe talke I wo'not answere a word more, oh!
_Ri_. Well by this no light ile to _London_ tomorrow.
[_She takes Dorothy by the hand and exit_.
Now do I see it is possible that a womans teeth should be as
troublesome as her tongue.
_Do_. Oh, oh!
_Ri_. I cannot choose but pitty her, that any woman should hold so much
paine in a hollow tooth.
_Do_.--If my Mr. touched with so much compassion should rise and force
me to bed with him, I must not cry out a rape; tis at the worst on my
side but fornication in my owne defence.
_Ri_. I prethe come to Bed.
_Do_. Oh, oh, oh!
_Ri_. The musick at a convocation of Catts upon a witches upsetting is
the spheres to this Catterwalling. I will thrust my head into the
pillow, as _Dametas_[274] did in a bush when the beare was a comeing,
and then I shanot heare her.
_Do_. Oh, this is a kind of Purgatory for sins of the flesh. If she
should fall asleepe with the tother knight it is not possible I should
hold out till morning; that which would fright away an Ague would put me
into a feare, I shall ha the toothache indeed with counterfeiting; I
have knowne some men caught the stammers so; my gums begin to murmure,
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