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The Star-Chamber, Volume 1

CHAPTER V
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As I am a true gentleman, it will not hurt you; a singular merit of pure Bordeaux being that you may drink it with impunity; and the like cannot be said of your sophisticated sack.
We will crush another flask.

Ho! drawer--Cyprien, I say! More wine--and of the best Bordeaux.

The best, I say." And for a wonder the order was obeyed, and the flask set before him.
"You have been at the Bankside you say, young Sir?
On my credit, you must cross the river again and visit the theatres--the Globe or the Rose.

Our great actor, Dick Burbadge, plays Othello to-day, and, I warrant me, he will delight you.

A little man is Dick, but he hath a mighty soul.


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