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" A lazy Dog! When I took him the time before, I told him what he would come to if he did not mend his Hand. This is Death without Reprieve. I may venture to Book him. [writes] For Tom Gagg, forty Pounds. "
Bell's British Theatre,: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays ... - Page 6
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Types of Farce-comedy

Robert Metcalf Smith, Howard Garrett Rhoads - Comedy - 1928 - 616 pages
...you may satisfy her that I'll soften the evidence. FILCH. Tom Gagg, sir, is found guilty. PEACHUM. A lazy dog! When I took him the time before, I told...Tom Gagg, forty pounds. Let Betty Sly know that I'll save her from transportation, for I can get more by her staying in England. FILCH. Betty hath brought...
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Types of Farce-comedy

Robert Metcalf Smith, Howard Garrett Rhoads - Comedy - 1928 - 618 pages
...the wench is very active and industrious, you may satisfy her that I'll soften the evidence. PEACHUM. A lazy dog! When I took him the time before, I told...death without reprieve. I may venture to book him. [JFn'fes], For Tom Gagg, forty pounds. Let Betty Sly know that I'll save her from transportation, for...
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The Beggar's Opera

Edgar V. Roberts - Drama - 1969 - 280 pages
...you may satisfy her that I'll soften the evidence. FILCH. Tom Gagg, sir, is found guilty. PEACHUM. A lazy dog! When I took him the time before, I told...he would come to if he did not mend his hand. This 10 is death without reprieve. I may venture to book him. (Writes.) "For Tom Gagg, forty pounds." —...
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Thief-Taker General: Jonathan Wild and the Emergence of Crime and Corruption ...

Gerald Howson - History - 1985 - 390 pages
...necessary for him'. When Filch comes in and announces that Tom Gagg has been condemned, Peachum says: 'This is Death without Reprieve. I may venture to book him. (Writes) For Tom Gagg, Forty Pounds' Here is an example of a satire which was outstripped by reality. A more telling example, because it...
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The Beggar's Opera

John Gay, John Caird, Ilona Sekacz - Music - 1999 - 116 pages
...satisfy her that I'll soften the evidence. FILCH. Tom Gagg, sir, is found guilty. PEACHUM. A lazy dog! I told him what he would come to if he did not mend...death without reprieve. I may venture to book him. (Peachum opens his ledger, locates the Black List, dips his quill pen and writes with great satisfaction.)...
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The Beggar's Opera

Drama - 1998 - 36 pages
...guilty. (Hides bis bead, thinking be is going to be beaten) MR. PEACHUM. A lazy dog! (Filch is relieved) When I took him the time before. I told him what he should come to if he did not mend his hand. (Hits him) Make hast to Newgate Prison, boy and let my...
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the beggar's opera its predeceffors and succeffors

146 pages
...active and industrious you may satisfy her that I'll soften the evidence.' Tom Gagg is denounced as a 'lazy dog' — 'when I took him the time before,...to book him (writes) "For Tom Gagg forty pounds."' The message sent to Betty Sly is that he will save her from transportation 'for I can get more by her...
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Our Dramatic Heritage: The eighteenth century

Philip George Hill - Drama - 1983 - 330 pages
...you may satisfy her that I'll soften the Evidence. FILCH. Tom Gagg, Sir, is found guilty. PEACHUM. A lazy Dog! When I took him the time before, I told...Death without Reprieve. I may venture to Book him. [Wn'to;.] For Tom Gagg, forty Pounds. Let Betty Sly know that I'll save her from Transportation, for...
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The Beggar's Opera: An Opera in Three Acts

John Gay - 1900 - 238 pages
...guilty. Peach. A lazy dog ! When I took him, the tim» before, I told him what he would come to, if ho did not mend his hand. This is death without reprieve. I may venture to book him (writrs); fur Tom Gag, forty pounds. Let Betty ¡Sly know, that I'll save her from transportation,...
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