Volpone and Other Plays by Ben Jonson

Author:Ben Jonson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

IV, V [SCENE THREE]

[A room upstairs in Lovewit’s house.]

[Enter DOL] in her fit of talking [followed by MAMMON.]

[DOL COMMON:] For, after Alexander’s death –

MAMMON: Good lady –

DOL COMMON: That Perdiccas and Antigonus were slain,

The two that stood, seleuc’ and ptolemy –

MAMMON: Madam –

DOL COMMON: Made up the two legs, and the fourth beast,

That was Gog-north and Egypt-south; which after

Was called Gog-iron-leg and South-iron-leg –

MAMMON: Lady–

DOL COMMON: And then Gog-hornèd. So was Egypt, too:

Then Egypt-clay-leg, and Gog-clay-leg –

MAMMON: Sweet madam –

DOL COMMON: And last Gog-dust, and Egypt-dust, which fall

10 In the last link of the fourth chain. And these

Be stars in story, which none see, or look at –

MAMMON: What shall I do?

DOL COMMON: For, as he says, except

We call the rabbins, and the heathen Greeks –

MAMMON: Dear lady –

DOL COMMON: To come from Salem, and from Athens,

And teach the people of Great Britain –

[Enter FACE, in his servant’s costume.]

FACE: What’s the matter, sir?

DOL COMMON: To speak the tongue of Eber and Javan –

MAMMON: O,

She’s in her fit.

DOL COMMON: We shall know nothing –

FACE: Death, sir,

We are undone!

DOL COMMON: Where then a learnèd linguist

Shall see the ancient used communion

20 Of vowels and consonants –

FACE: My master will hear!

DOL COMMON: A wisdom, which Pythagoras held most high –

MAMMON: Sweet honourable lady!

DOL COMMON: To comprise

All sounds of voices, in few marks of letters.

FACE: Nay, you must never hope to lay her now.

They speak together.

DOL: And so we may arrive, by Talmud skill

FACE: How did you put her into’t?

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