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"Before supper, excellency, I was ready to eat and then fight my way through an army; now beshrew me, if a sound nap of an hour or so is not much to my taste!"

Is not Eve's flesh upon the bones of the very best jade in Christendom? and this blowzy-bell of thine, beshrew me, has no better a covering than the rest of 'em.

But listen now: I have weightier matters; I have eggs on the spit, beshrew me else!

No, marry, thou sawest me not; for why thou hadst no light; But I felt thee for all the dark, beshrew thy smooth cheeks!

Were it not that I fear the Dane, beshrew me if I would ask aught better than to dwell therein.”