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A Select Collection of Old English Plays Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the A Select Collection of Old English Plays novel. A total of 1049 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : A Select Collection of Old English Plays.by Robert Dodsley.INTRODUCTION.THOMAS RAWLINS,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays.by Robert Dodsley.INTRODUCTION.THOMAS RAWLINS, author of "The Rebellion," was a medallist by profession, and afterwards became an engraver of the Mint, a vocation which, in his preface, he prefers to the threadba
- 1001 TIL. Th' wound's so green, It must admit a cure. Our confidence Prepares us best admittance; go along.[_Exeunt._ SCENE VII._Enter the_ ALIMONY LADIES _at the other door_.FLO. How opportunely doth this season meet To give us freedom in our interc
- 1002 HERALD. Make clear the way; room for his excellence!Never did Seville show more like herself Nor beautifi'd with a more graceful presence Since her foundation.ACT V., SCENE 1._Enter_ DUKE, _trumpets and drums sounding, colours victoriously displayed.
- 1003 HUS. Well, girl, thou shalt find me ready to appear before his grace at any time.WIFE. You'll have a gracious bargain on't then, doubtless. Trust me, Jocelin, you will distemper all our ladies at court, if you push at the gate with your ram-horn
- 1004 [_Aside._ CAR. I relish not th' discourse.[_Aside._ DUKE. Have we not here some ladies o'th' New Dress, So newly styl'd, and in their honour soil'd, Who have deserted whom they ought to love?LADIES. Is this the court masque, and t
- 1005 THE PARSON'S WEDDING._EDITION._ _The Parson's Wedding, A Comedy. The Scene London. Written at Basil in Switzerland: by Thomas Killigrew. Dedicated to the Lady Vrsvla Bartv [Bertie] Widow. London: Printed by J. M.for Henry Herringman...._ 1663.Th
- 1006 WAN. Was the slave so eloquent in his malice?CAPT. Yes, faith, and urged you (for your part) were never particular, and seldom sound.WAN. Not sound! why, he offered to marry me, and swore he thought I was chaste, I was so particular; and proved it, that c
- 1007 WAN. Why, I pray?CAPT. What a miserable condition wilt thou come to? his wife cannot be an honest woman; and if thou shouldst turn honest, would it not vex thee to be chaste and poxed[197]--a saint without a nose? what calendar will admit thee by[198] an
- 1008 PLEA. Faith, mine talks of nothing but how long he has loved me; and those that know me not think I am old, and still finds new causes (as he calls them) for his love. I asked him the other day, if I changed so fast, or no.WID. But what think'st thou
- 1009 JOLLY. You'll be able to say so one day, upon your wife's report.I would he were gelt, and all that hold his opinion: by this good day, they get more souls than they save.SAD. And what think you of the knight's son? I hope he's a fine
- 1010 CARE. Captain, whither in such haste? What, defeated? Call you this a retreat, or a flight from your friends?PLEA. Your nephew, and his governor, and his friend! Here will be a scene! Sit close, and we may know the secret of their hearts.WID. They have no
- 1011 WILD. No more, aunt, we'll come: and if you will give us good meat, we'll bring good humours and good stomachs.[WIDOW _shuts the curtain_.CARE. By this day, I'll not dine there: they take a pleasure to raise a spirit that they will not lay.
- 1012 LOVE. Ah! as I live, I will not, I have sworn. Do not pull me: I will not be d.a.m.ned, I have sworn.[_He pulls her, and says this._ JOLLY. As I live I'll break your bodkin then. A weeping tyrant!Come, by this good day, you shall be merciful.LOVE. Wh
- 1013 [_She's going out, he calls her._ CAPT. Madam, I forgot to ask your ladys.h.i.+p one question.LOVE. What was't?CAPT. There happened a business last night betwixt Master Wild and one Jolly, a courtier, that brags extremely of your favour. I swear
- 1014 FAITH. He finds work enough to correct his dearly-beloved sinners.PAR. And the right wors.h.i.+pful my lady and yourself, they mend at leisure.LOVE. You are a saucy fellow, sirrah, to call me sinner in my own house. Get you gone with your _Madam, I hear_,
- 1015 WILD. When I put off my hat._Enter_ CAPTAIN.CAPT. 'Sblood, I thought you had been sunk: I have been hunting you these four hours. Death! you might ha' left word where you went, and not put me to hunt like Tom Fool. 'Tis well you are at Lond
- 1016 CAPT. Yes, but not earned with a pair of stol'n verses, of, _I was not born till now, This my first night, And so forsooth_; nor given as a charm against l.u.s.t.CARE. What means all this?JOLLY. What! why, 'tis truth, and it means to shame the d
- 1017 [_Exit_ PARSON.WAN. I'll follow you, and do what I can to be merry.BAWD. Why, he stands already.WAN. Peace, let me alone: I'll make him jostle like the miller's mare, and stand like the dun cow, till thou may'st milk him.BAWD. Pray bre
- 1018 JOLLY. Ay, by my faith, continue, Master Sad, [to] give it out you love; and call it a new love, a love never seen before; we'll all come to it as your friends.SAD. Gentlemen, still I love: and if she to whom I thus sacrifice will not reward it, yet
- 1019 CAPT. Yes, till the faithful nurse cries; Alas, madam! he keeps such a one, he has enough at home. Then she swells with envy and rage against us both; calls my mistress ugly, common, unsafe, and me a weak secure fool.JOLLY. These are strange truths, madam
- 1020 JOLLY. Because we want fortunes to buy rich wives or keep poor ones, and be loth to get beggars or wh.o.r.es, as well as I love 'em.PLEA. Why, are all their children so that have no fortune, think you?JOLLY. No, not all: I have heard of Whittington a
- 1021 JOLLY. When did he oversee his drinking so?CAPT. Gentlemen, still it is my fortune to make your wors.h.i.+ps merry.WILD. As I live, captain, I subscribe, and am content to hold my wit as a tenant to thee; and to-night I'll invite you to supper, where
- 1022 CAPT. Go you before to the Devil,[242] and I'll make haste after.CARE. Agreed. We shall be sure of good wine there, and in fresco; for he is never without patent snow.WILD. Patent snow! What, doth that project hold?JOLLY. Yes, faith; and now there�
- 1023 Threaten to arrest him: nothing but a sergeant can touch his conscience.TAI. Truly, gentlemen I have reason to be angry, for he uses me ill when I ask him for my money.JOLLY. [_Speaking within._] Where is Master Wild and Master Careless?TAI. I hear his vo
- 1024 CROP. You did not borrow my money with this language.JOLLY. No, sirrah: then I was fain to flatter you, and endure the familiarity of your family, and hear (nay, fain sometimes to join in) the lying praises of the holy sister that expired at Tyburn.CROP.
- 1025 CAPT. But I hope he had the grace to keep them.JOLLY. No, no; I'm a fool, I!CAPT. Was not my boy here?JOLLY. No, we saw him not.CAPT. A pox of the rogue! he's grown so lazy. WILD. Your boy is come in just now, and called for the key of the back-
- 1026 CARE. Let that consideration, with her condition and her age, move some reverence, at least to what she was. Madam, I am sorry I cannot serve you in this particular.[_Exeunt_ JOLLY _and_ CARELESS.LOVE. I see all your mean baseness: pursue your scorn. Come
- 1027 WAN. Yes, yes, you are fine things: I wonder women can endure you; for me, I expect you worse, and am armed for't.WILD. Faith, let's send and release her; the jest is gone far enough; as I live, I pity her.WAN. Pity her! hang her, and rid the co
- 1028 WAN. Ay, but never to love, seldom enjoy, and always tell--foh!it stinks, and stains worse than Sh.o.r.editch dirt; and women hate and dread men for't. Why, I, that am a wh.o.r.e professed, cannot see youth[258] digest it, though it be my profit and
- 1029 JOLLY. What have we here, adultery? Take them both: here will be new matter.PAR. Master constable, a little argument will persuade you to believe I am grossly abused. Sure, this does not look like a piece that a man would sin to enjoy: let that then move
- 1030 PAR. I am undone.WILD. I can do nothing but justice: you must excuse me. I shall only make it appear how fit it is to punish this kind of sin in that coat in time, and to crush such serpents in the sh.e.l.ls.PAR. Mercy, O, mercy!WILD. Officers, away with
- 1031 WID. Ha! What shall we do, niece?SAD. If you please to command our lodging.PLEA. It will be too much trouble.WID. Let's go to Loveall's.PLEA. Not I, by my faith: it is scarce for our credits to let her come to us. WID. Why, is she naught?CON. Faith, mad
- 1032 WID. Faith, nephew, the truth is, the sickness is in my house, and my coachman died since dinner.WILD. The sickness!PLEA. Ay, as I live: we have been walking since the play; and when we came home, we found the watch at the door, and the house shut up.SAD.
- 1033 WILD. The plague, as I live; and all my relation is truth, every syllable. But, Mistress Wanton, now must you play your masterpiece: be sure to blush, and appear but simple enough, and all is well: thou wilt pa.s.s for as arrant a chambermaid as any in th
- 1034 [_They offer to depart._ WILD. Take a light. Good night, Wanton.CAPT. D'ye hear, d'ye hear? let me speak with you.[_They all come back again._ WILD. What's the business? CAPT. I cannot get hence this night: but your good angels hang at your heels, and
- 1035 PAR. They have slept all night, on purpose to play all day.JOLLY. When the ribands and points come from the Exchange, pray see the fiddlers have some; the rogues will play so out of tune all day else, they will spoil the dancing, if the plot do take._Ente
- 1036 WAN. I hear the captain._Enter the_ CAPTAIN.JOLLY. Have you brought clothes and ribands?CAPT. Yes, yes, all is ready: did you hear them squeak yet?WAN. No, by this light: I think 'tis an appointment, and we have been all abused. CAPT. Give the fiddlers t
- 1037 PLEA. But do they never grow surly, aunt?WID. Not if you keep them from raw flesh; for they are a kind of lion-lovers, and if they once taste the sweet of it, they'll turn to their kind.PLEA. Lord, aunt, there will be no going without one this summer int
- 1038 PLEA. And what will all these do?WILD. Why, the two friends will swear they gave you, the parson will swear he married you, and the wench will swear she put us to bed.WID. Have you men to swear we are married?PLEA. And a parson to swear he did it?BOTH. Ye
- 1039 CAPT. Their jest! what jest?JOLLY. Faith, now you shall know it, and the whole plot. In the first place, your coachman is well, whose death we, by the help of Secret, contrived, thinking by that trick to prevent this danger, and carry you out of town.CAPT
- 1040 PAR. Are not you married too? take care that yours does not wear the breeches, another kind of danger, but as troublesome as that, or sore eyes; and if she get but a trick of taking as readily as she's persuaded to give, you may find a horn at home.
- 1041 WAN. I cannot but laugh, to see how easy it is to lose or win the opinion of the world. A little custom heals all; or else what's the difference betwixt a married widow and one of us? Can any woman be pure, or worth the serious sighing of a generous
- 1042 Was't not kindled _ex voto_? Nay, I will have your cloak.PAR. Take it; would 'twere Nessus's s.h.i.+rt, for you and your poet's sake.[_Exit_ PARSON.CAPT. What, does the rogue wish 'twere made of nettles?[280][CAPTAIN _puts on his
- 1043 [25] [Former edit., _our_.][26] [Former edit., _a.s.sended_.][27] [Former edit., prints this pa.s.sage thus-- "See, how he strugles, as if some visions Had a.s.sum'd a shape fuller of horrour Than his troubled thoughts."][28] [Former edit.,
- 1044 [68] [Hamstring me.] [69] _Under show of shrift_, or, in other words, as coming to hear me confess. [70] Thirty ma.s.ses on the same account. [71] Despatch. [72] Strut. [73] [Edits., give these words to Eleazar.] [74] With force, vigour, energy, vehemen
- 1045 [112] [Query, a page who walks behind a lady in the street.Compare Halliwell in _v._][113] [Sheldrake, or s.h.i.+eldrake.][114] [A play on the similarity of sound between _meddler_ and _medlar_.][115] [Tobacco. Old copy, _mundungo's_.] [116] [Old cop
- 1046 [161] [Old copy, _Sought_.][162] [Old copy, _mine_.][163] [Mares.][164] [The names of rooms in the tavern.][165] [Perhaps a portion of the garden reserved for lady-guests.] [166] [Light skirt. Compare Halliwell in _v._][167] [An indelicate equivoque.][168
- 1047 [201] [Common. See Nares, edit. 1859, in _v._] This epithet of contempt is of frequent occurrence: _provand_, as all the commentators on "Romeo and Juliet," act ii. sc. 1, agree, means _provision_. In Ma.s.singer's "Maid of Honour,&quo
- 1048 [222] See note to "Alb.u.mazar" [xi. 328].[223] [Old copy, _your_.][224] [Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 343, and note to Tomkis's "Alb.u.mazar," xi. 334-5.][225] [Platonic lovers.][226] [A very ancient office at the court; but here, of course, in
- 1049 In _Mercurius Politicus_, No. 168, from Thursday, Aug. 25, to Thursday, Sept. 1, 1653, p. 2700, is the following pa.s.sage:--"At Monmouth a.s.size an old man of _eighty-nine years_ was put to death for adultery, committed with a woman above _sixty_.&