As for
the vile and slothful, who never affected an act worthy of
celebration, or are so inward with their own vicious natures,
as they worthily fear her, and think it an high point of
policy to keep her in contempt, with their declamatory and
windy invectives; she shall out of just rage incite her
servants (who are genus irritabile) to spout ink in their
faces, that shall eat farther than their marrow into their
fames; and not Cinnamus the barber, with his art, shall be able
to take out the brands; but they shall live, and be read, till
the wretches die, as things worst deserving of themselves in
chief, and then of all mankind.
From my House in the Black-Friars,
this 11th day of February, 1607.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
VOLPONE, a Magnifico.
MOSCA, his Parasite.
VOLTORE, an Advocate.
CORBACCIO, an old Gentleman.
CORVINO, a Merchant.
BONARIO, son to Corbaccio.
SIR POLITICK WOULD-BE, a Knight.
PEREGRINE, a Gentleman Traveller.
NANO, a Dwarf.
CASTRONE, an Eunuch.
ANDROGYNO, an Hermaphrodite.
GREGE (or Mob).
COMMANDADORI, Officers of Justice.
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