: I am sure that I've read a poem, or maybe a longer speech
in a play,
: that concluded [yadda yadda] " . . . and besides, the wench
is dead."
Right near the end of _Casino Royale_ James Bond says, "The
bitch is
dead." Or so I recall. Ah, but a search on "the wench is
dead" at
www.google.com leads to a clew, which leads to:
Friar Barnardine: Thou has committed--
Barabas: Fornication; but that was in another country;
And besides, the wench is dead.
That's from _The Jew of Malta_, by Christopher Marlowe (!). A
Gutenberg
e-text is available at the usual archives.
Bill
-- William Denton <URL:http://www.vex.net/~buff/> Toronto, Ontario, Canada Note I'm now at pobox.com. 12:11AM up 15 days, 8:03, 11 users, load averages: 0.76, 0.76, 0.77
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