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And are you gone now? Surely he is gone. Now have I need of a wise resolution. Both are gone; consider, Gelasimus, what plan you must adopt. What, I? Yes, you. What, for myself? Yes, for yourself. Don’t you see how dear provisions are? Don’t you see how the kindness and the heartiness of men have vanished? Don’t you see how drolls are set at nought, and how they themselves are sponged upon?
GELASIMUS
By my troth, not a person shall ever behold me alive on the morrow; for, this instant, in-doors will I load my throat with a bulrush doseA bulrush dose: He means that he will go and hang himself with a rope made of bulrushes, which he calls a bulrush dose or draught.. And by this I shall not give cause for men to say that I died of hunger.
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