The Sources of William Cartwright's Comedy The Ordinary: A Complementary Study to the Earlier Stuart-drama ...G. Grunau, 1909 - 82 pages |
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Page 8 - Anything whatever. You cannot think that subtlety but he reads it. He made me a captain. I was a stark pimp, Just o' your standing, 'fore I met with him ; It's not two months since.
Page 32 - Face. Nay, pray you hold : he is her grace's nephew, Ti, ti, ti ? What care you ? good faith, you shall care. — Deal plainly, sir, and shame the fairies.
Page 32 - I have nothing but a half-crown Of gold about my wrist, that my love gave me; And a leaden heart I wore since she forsook me. FACE. I thought 'twas something. And would you incur Your aunt's displeasure for these trifles? Come, I had rather you had thrown away twenty half-crowns. [TAKES IT OFF.] You may wear your leaden heart still.
Page 10 - No, faith; but they say there resorts your most choice gallants. Car. True, and the fashion is, when any stranger comes in amongst "em, they all stand up and stare at him, as he were some unknown beast, brought out of Africk; but that will be helped with a good adventurous face.
Page 31 - FACE. If you have, say. DAP. I have. SUB. Then, to her cuz, Hoping that he hath vinegar'd his senses, As he was bid, the Fairy queen dispenses, By me, this robe, the petticoat of Fortune; Which that he straight put on, she doth importune. And though to Fortune near be her petticoat, Yet nearer is her smock, the queen doth note: And therefore, even of that a piece she hath sent, Which, being a child, to wrap him in was rent; And prays him for a scarf he now will wear it, With as much love as then...
Page 23 - A Warning Piece to England against Pride and Wickedness : Being the Fall of Queen Eleanor, Wife to Edward the First, King of England; who, for her pride, by God's Judgments, sunk into the Ground at Charing-cross and rose at Queenhithe.
Page 14 - Knight is upon his stewed mutton, be presently, though you be but a capten, in the bosome of your goose : and when your Justice of peace is knuckle-deep in goose, you may, without disparagement to your bloud, though you have a Lady to your mother, fall very manfully to your woodcocks.
Page 32 - Ti, ti, ti, ti, to, ta. He does equivocate she says: Ti, ti do ti, ti ti do, ti da; and swears by the light when he is blinded. DAP. By this good dark, I ha' nothing but a half-crown * Uprightly. *A gold coin worth issh. Of gold about my wrist, that my love gave me; And a leaden heart I wore sin
Page 30 - Mam. No, I assure you, I shall employ it all in pious uses, Founding of colleges and grammar schools, Marrying young virgins, building hospitals, And now and then a church.
Page 31 - Her fairies here to search you, therefore deal Directly* with her highness: if they find That you conceal a mite, you are undone. DAP. Truly, there's all. FACE. All what? DAP. My money; truly. FACE. Keep nothing that is transitory about you.