Sharpe's British Theatre, Volume 10J. Sharpe, 1804 - English drama |
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ALTEA Angelica astrology bleſs Blondel Body o'me brother busineſs Caca CHORUS cuckold Curiatius d'ye dare Duke Enter Epictetus Estif ESTIFANIA Exeunt Exit faith father Flor Florestan fool Foresight Frail gentleman give gone handsome haste hear heart Heaven honour hope Horatia husband Jeremy JOHN SHARPE Juan JUAN DE CASTRO kiſs lady Laur Laurette leave Leon leſs look lord LOVE FOR LOVE lover loving bands madam maid Margaritta marry Matilda mayhap methinks miſs mistreſs ne'er never Old Wom on't paſsion PEREZ poor pray pretty prithee rogue Rome Scand Scandal SCENE Seneschal Servant shew Sir Owen Sir Sampson sirrah sister soldier soul speak sure swear sweet sword talk Tatt Tattle tell thank thee there's thing thou shalt thought Trapl Tullus TULLUS HOSTILIUS Twas Valentine Valeria what's wife woman young
Popular passages
Page 86 - Tatt. Ay, but your Father will tell you that Dreams come by Contraries, Child O fie ; what, we must not love one another now Pshaw, that would be a foolish thing indeed Fie, fie, you're a Woman now, and must think of a new Man every Morning, and forget him every Night No, no, to marry is to be a Child again, and play with the same Rattle always : O fie, marrying is a paw thing.
Page 71 - en : — so faith I told'n in plain terms, if I were minded to marry I'd marry to please myself, not him : and for the young woman that he provided for me, I thought it more fitting for her to learn her sampler and make dirt-pies, than to look after a husband; for my part I was none of her man.
Page 60 - A soldier and a sailor, A tinker and a tailor, Had once a doubtful strife, sir, To make a maid a wife, sir, Whose name was buxom Joan. For now the time was ended, When she no more intended To lick her lips at men, sir, And gnaw the sheets in vain, sir, And lie o
Page 62 - No, sir, not yet ; — he has a mind to try, whether his playing the madman won't make her play the fool, and fall in love with him; or at least own that she has loved him all this while and concealed it.
Page 51 - Bless me, what's the matter, miss ? What, does she cry ? — Mr. Benjamin, what have you done to her? Ben. Let her cry : the more she cries, the less she'll — she has been gathering foul weather in her mouth, and now it rains out at her eyes. Mrs.
Page 7 - Hem ! — Sir, if you please to give me a small certificate of three lines ; — only to certify those whom it may concern, that the bearer hereof, Jeremy Fetch by name, has for the space of seven years, truly and faithfully served Valentine Legend, Esq.
Page 45 - Is Ben come ? Odso, my Son Ben come ? Odd, I'm glad on't : Where is he ? I long to see him. Now, Mrs. Frail, you shall see my Son Ben Body...
Page 88 - What, must I go to bed to nurse again, and be a child as long as she's an old woman ? Indeed but I won't ; for now my mind is set upon a man, I will have a man some way or other. Oh! methinks I'm sick when I think of a man ; and if I can't have one I would...
Page 50 - Nay, you say true in that, it's but a folly to lie. For to speak one thing, and to think just the contrary way, is, as it were, to look one way, and to row another. Now, for my part, d'ye see, I'm for carrying things above board, I'm not for keeping any thing under hatches, — so that if you ben't as willing as I, say so, a God's name, there's no harm done.
Page 50 - Well, and there's a handsome gentleman, and a fine gentleman, and a sweet gentleman, that was here that loves me, and I love him; and if he sees you speak to me any more, he'll thrash your jacket for you, he will, you great sea-calf. BEN What, do you mean that fair-weather spark that was here just now? Will he thrash my jacket? - Let'n, - let'n, - But an he comes near me, mayhap I may giv'na salt eel for's supper, for all that.