hee can doe
nothing!
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
Do you neuer fall in 'hem?
WIT. Neuer.
EI. I ? weare, I ? hould
Six times an houre.
WIT. But you haue men at hand, ? still,
To helpe you, if you fall?
EIT. Onely one, madame, 76
The _Guardo-duennas_, ? uch a little old man,
As this.
EIT. Alas!
hee can doe nothing! this!
WIT. I'll tell you, madame,
I ? aw i' the _Court_ of _Spaine_ once,
A _Lady_ fall i' the Kings ? ight, along, 80
And there ? hee lay, flat ? pred, as an _Vmbrella_,
Her hoope here crack'd; no man dur? t reach a hand
To helpe her, till the _Guarda-duenn'as_ came,
VVho is the per? on onel' allow'd to touch
A _Lady_ there: and he but by this finger. 85
EIT. Ha' they no ? eruants, _madame_, there? nor friends?
WIT. An _E?
WIT. Neuer.
EI. I ? weare, I ? hould
Six times an houre.
WIT. But you haue men at hand, ? still,
To helpe you, if you fall?
EIT. Onely one, madame, 76
The _Guardo-duennas_, ? uch a little old man,
As this.
EIT. Alas!
hee can doe nothing! this!
WIT. I'll tell you, madame,
I ? aw i' the _Court_ of _Spaine_ once,
A _Lady_ fall i' the Kings ? ight, along, 80
And there ? hee lay, flat ? pred, as an _Vmbrella_,
Her hoope here crack'd; no man dur? t reach a hand
To helpe her, till the _Guarda-duenn'as_ came,
VVho is the per? on onel' allow'd to touch
A _Lady_ there: and he but by this finger. 85
EIT. Ha' they no ? eruants, _madame_, there? nor friends?
WIT. An _E?
