Volpone and Other Plays

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:                                         Ay, or me,
    Or any man. How does his apoplex?
    Is that strong on him still?
    MOSCA :                                   Most violent.
    His speech is broken, and his eyes are set,
    His face drawn longer than ’t was wont –
    CORBACCIO :                                   How? how?
    Stronger than he was wont?
    40     MOSCA :                                                No, sir; his face
    Drawn longer than ’t was wont.
    CORBACCIO :                                               O, good.
    MOSCA :                                                             His mouth
    Is ever gaping, and his eyelids hang.
    CORBACCIO :                                                        Good.
    MOSCA : A freezing numbness stiffens all his joints,
    And makes the colour of his flesh like lead.
    CORBACCIO :                                                ’Tis good.
    MOSCA : His pulse beats slow and dull.
    CORBACCIO :                                   Good symptoms still.
    MOSCA : And from his brain –
    CORBACCIO :                                   Ha! how? not from his brain?
    MOSCA : Yes, sir, and from his brain –
    CORBACCIO :                                                 I conceive you; good.
    MOSCA : Flows a cold sweat, with a continual rheum,
    Forth the resolvèd corners of his eyes.
    50     CORBACCIO : Is’t possible? Yet I am better, ha!
    How does he with the swimming of his head?
    MOSCA : O, sir, ’tis past the scotomy ; he now
    Hath lost his feeling, and hath left to snort ;
    You hardly can perceive him that he breathes.
    CORBACCIO : Excellent, excellent! sure I shall outlast him!
    This makes me young again, a score of years.
    MOSCA : I was a–coming for you, sir.
    CORBACCIO :                                           Has he made his will?
    What has he given me?
    MOSCA :                                             No, sir.
    CORBACCIO :                                              Nothing? ha!
    MOSCA : He has not made his will, sir.
    CORBACCIO

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