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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
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Ha' you a _Bu? ine? ? e_ about Tooth-picks?
MER. Yes, _Madame_.
Did I ne'r tell't you? I meant to haue offer'd it
Your _Lady-? hip_, on the perfecting the pattent. [145]
TAY. How is't!
MER. For ? eruing the whole ? tate with Tooth-picks;
_The_ Proiect _for_ Tooth-picks.
(Somewhat an intricate _Bu? ine? ? e_ to di? cour? e) but-- 40
I ? hew, how much the Subiect is abus'd,
Fir? t, in that one commodity? then what di? ea? es,
And putrefactions in the gummes are bred,
By tho? e are made of adultrate, and fal? e wood?
My plot, for reformation of the? e, followes. 45
To haue all Tooth-picks, brought vnto an _office_,
There ?
Ha' you a _Bu? ine? ? e_ about Tooth-picks?
MER. Yes, _Madame_.
Did I ne'r tell't you? I meant to haue offer'd it
Your _Lady-? hip_, on the perfecting the pattent. [145]
TAY. How is't!
MER. For ? eruing the whole ? tate with Tooth-picks;
_The_ Proiect _for_ Tooth-picks.
(Somewhat an intricate _Bu? ine? ? e_ to di? cour? e) but-- 40
I ? hew, how much the Subiect is abus'd,
Fir? t, in that one commodity? then what di? ea? es,
And putrefactions in the gummes are bred,
By tho? e are made of adultrate, and fal? e wood?
My plot, for reformation of the? e, followes. 45
To haue all Tooth-picks, brought vnto an _office_,
There ?
