A Select Collection of Old Plays: Mal-contentJ. Nichols, 1780 - English drama |
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... lord's back , every page fporting himself with delightful laughter , whilst he muit be the last must know it ; piftols and poniards ! pistols and poniards ! Pietro Jacomo . Death and damnation ! Malevole . Light'ning and thunder ...
... lord's back , every page fporting himself with delightful laughter , whilst he muit be the last must know it ; piftols and poniards ! pistols and poniards ! Pietro Jacomo . Death and damnation ! Malevole . Light'ning and thunder ...
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... lord ! Y SCENA IV , Enter Celfo . Celfo Malevole . Peace , fpeak low ; peace , O Celfo ! conftant lord , ( Thou to whose faith I only reft discovered , Thou , one of full ten millions of men , That lovest virtue only for itself ; Thou ...
... lord ! Y SCENA IV , Enter Celfo . Celfo Malevole . Peace , fpeak low ; peace , O Celfo ! conftant lord , ( Thou to whose faith I only reft discovered , Thou , one of full ten millions of men , That lovest virtue only for itself ; Thou ...
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... lord , and love in himself ? why then , behold- Signior ! Biliofo . Malevole . My right worshipful lord , your court night - cap makes you have a paffing high forehead . Biliofo . I can tell you strange news , but I am fure you know ...
... lord , and love in himself ? why then , behold- Signior ! Biliofo . Malevole . My right worshipful lord , your court night - cap makes you have a paffing high forehead . Biliofo . I can tell you strange news , but I am fure you know ...
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... lord about the court : he has as fweet a lady too ; doft know her little bitch ? ' Tis a dog , man . Malevole . Biliofo . Believe me , a fhe bitch : O ' tis a good creature ! thou shalt be her fervant . I'll make thee acquainted with my ...
... lord about the court : he has as fweet a lady too ; doft know her little bitch ? ' Tis a dog , man . Malevole . Biliofo . Believe me , a fhe bitch : O ' tis a good creature ! thou shalt be her fervant . I'll make thee acquainted with my ...
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... lord fo honeft , virtuous , So boundless loving , bounteous , fair - fhap'd , fweet , To be contemn'd , abus'd , defam'd , made cuckold : Heart ! I hate all women for't ! Sweet sheets , wax lights , antique bed - pofts , cambrick fmocks ...
... lord fo honeft , virtuous , So boundless loving , bounteous , fair - fhap'd , fweet , To be contemn'd , abus'd , defam'd , made cuckold : Heart ! I hate all women for't ! Sweet sheets , wax lights , antique bed - pofts , cambrick fmocks ...
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ACTUS Alphonfo Ambitiofo Antonio Aurelia becauſe beſt Bianca Biliofo Bramble brother Caftiza Celfo Collaquintida Cornelio cuckold Cyprus Dariotto defire doth duke duke's dutchefs Eastward hoe Enter Epire Exeunt Exit faid faith father fave Ferneze fhall fhould fifter fince Firft firſt flave Florio fome fool Fortunio foul fpeak ftill ftrange fuch fure fweet gentleman Girtred Goftanzo Golding Gratiana hath heaven Henry Condell here's himſelf Hippolito honeft honour houſe huſband i'faith John Lowin knight lady Lollia lord Lufuriofo madam mafter Malevole Maquerelle Marc Mariana Mechant Mendozo moft moſt mufick muft muſt myſelf ne'er Paffarello Phylocles Pietro Jacomo pleaſe pleaſure Prate pray prefent prifon Queen Quickfilver Rynaldo SCENA ſhall ſhe Sir Petronel Flash ſpeak Spurio ſtand ſtill Supervacuo Syndefy thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou art Touchstone unto Valerio villain Vindici whofe wife William Sly yourſelf
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Page 249 - I'll have thrice the weight in gold. Why, man, all their dripping pans and their chamber pots are pure gold; and all the chains with which they chain up their streets are massy gold; all the prisoners they take are fettered in gold; and for rubies and diamonds, they go forth on holidays and gather 'hem by the seashore to hang on their children's coats.
Page 250 - But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my...
Page 47 - Men say ! let men say what they will : life a' woman ! they are ignorant of our * wants. The more in years, the more in perfection they grow; if they lose youth and beauty, they gain wisdom and discretion : but when our beauty fades, good night with us.
Page 51 - Instantly; before he casts a plot, Or further blaze my honour's much-known blot, Let's murder him. Men. I would do much for you : will ye marry me? Aur.
Page 281 - I. He was a knight, and I was fit to be a lady. 'Tis not lack of liking, but lack of living, that severs us. And you talk like yourself and a cittiner in this, i
Page 212 - I thought you would not ha' been knighted, as I am an honest woman, I would ha' dubbed you myself. I praise God I have wherewithal. But as for your daughter Ge. Ay, mother, I must be a lady to-morrow ; and by your leave, mother (I speak it not without my duty, but only in the right of my husband), I must take place of you, mother.
Page 324 - I'd be revenged and marry her. Lus. Pish ! the dowry of her blood and of her fortunes Are both too mean — good enough to be bad withal.
Page 17 - ... tis his position, whosoever in this earth can be contented is a slave and damned; therefore does he afflict all in that to which they are most affected.
Page 210 - God's making, and mayest peradventure to be saved as soon as I — does he come ? — And ever and anon she doubled in her song.
Page 208 - Moorfields without a cloak, with half a hat, without a band, a doublet with three buttons, without a girdle, a hose with one point, and no garter, with a cudgel under thine arm, borrowing and begging three-pence.