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THE PREVIOUS ACTORS, OSMIN,
arriving with his mouth full, a sausage in one hand, a piece of bread in the other.
Come, come quickly
To see this house;
In this happy lodging
Everything is in abundance.
What good cheer!
Come refresh yourselves.
It is a little Palace
For you, at great expense
Furnished just for this.
A number of valets,
Wines exquisite or cool,
Partridge and Woodcock,
Divine fricassee;
Ah! What a good way
To fill your belly.
What! glutton, good-for-nothing!
What! always your belly!
BALKIS. )
OSMIN. )
ALI. I will do nothing of the sort.
BALKIS. Nothing will come of it.
OSMIN. It must be done;
I want him to enter.
ALI. I will do nothing of the sort.
BALKIS. Nothing will come of it.
OSMIN. It must be done;
I want him to enter.
BALKIS. Enter, believe me.