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Lucian, Lexiphanes, 20


nanSop. What is the matter with him, Lycinus?Ly. Why, this is the matter; don’t you hear? He leaves us his contemporaries, and goes a thousand years off to talk to us, which he does by aid of these tongue gymnastics and extraordinary compounds — prides himself upon it, too, as if it were a great thing to disguise yourself, and mutilate the conversational currency.Sop. Well, to be sure, this is a serious case; we must do all we can for him. Providentially, here is an emetic I had just mixed for a bilious patient; here, Lexiphanes, drink it off; the other man can wait; let us purge you of this vocal derangement, and get you a clean bill of health. Come along, down with it; you will feel much easier.Lex. I know not what you would be at, you and Lycinus, with your drenches; I fear me you are more like to end than mend my speech.Ly. Drink, quick; it will make a man of you in thought and word.Lex. Well, if I must. Lord, what is this? How it rumbles! I must have swallowed a ventriloquist.


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