PlaysC.G. and J. Robinson, 1795 |
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Page 35 - Ye never faw the face o' her, fin fhe hung a wee giglet at the breaft! Weel, weel ! Nothing comes more furely tul licht than that which is long hidden ! An ill life, an ill end ! [Exit. Mor. WOlves, tigers, - ferpents were firft created, and then man ! Len. You are truly a high fellow, Mordent : you fpend your fortune, wrong your wife, and difown your child ! That is, you inflict mifery and then tell us all are miferable.
Page 45 - Permiffion? Oh, yes— No ! I'll be •wicked but not unprincipled: I won't lie! That is a paltry fcoundrel vice; no foul in it. Look you, if that fum will not content you, tell me •what will ? Mrs. En. Why, fir, you are fuch a handfome, charming, pleafant young gentleman, that — if you could fpare me another fuch — ? Chev. To fettle accounts with your honour. Well, there. Mrs. En. Obferve, fir — it is only a fhort converfation.
Page 71 - Money is a poor vehicle, for the affections of the soul ? a contemptible token of the love I have borne you ! but, such as it is, for that love's sake, give it welcome. A cold adieu I cannot take, it freezes my very heart. From my soul, I ever loved, and ever shall love ! Had I a heaven of happiness to bestow, would you but deign to accept it from me, it should be yours. [Exit. Mor. Why...
Page 11 - Nonr but fools condescend to live. Men exert their whole faculties to torture one another. Animals are the prey of animals. Flowers bloom to be plucked and perish. The very grass grows to be torn and eaten ; trees to be mangled, sawed, rooted up, and burned. The whole is a system of exquisite misery, and I have my full proportion ! — Oh ! this girl ! Why am I thus perturbed concerning her! She can but be wretched; and wretchedness...
Page 61 - Be patient. Mor. Oh, I am delighted, ha ! ha ! ha ! Len. Be calm. You knew yourself to be in the power of a villain, and 'tis little matter whether his name be Grime or Item. Mor. How? Ha! ha! ha! In a world of rascality, ere not two rascals better than one ? Len.
Page 13 - A pretty fashion, truly ! I would tell him I was afraid of ghosts; and so I married, because I could not, nor I would not, lie alone. So let him remember that. Lady A. Why were you so long in bringing the message back ? Mrs.
Page 40 - Twill become his incumbrance, as it has been mine. Clem. Money lenders neglect no advantage. Mor. And as for conscience or honour — Clem. Some of them I am afraid, Sir, have very little of either.
Page 25 - So, making a pretence, I was clofe at his heels. Lady A. At whofe heels ? Mrs. Sar. The footman's, my lady. So while he was brufhing, he had a wranglation with the cook; and turned about to gabble footman's gibberifh with...
Page 27 - I had studied a speech; but, somehow, there was such a sweet severity in her looks — I — I had not the power to utter a word ! Len. Courageous lover ! Chev.
Page 41 - Mor. The nephew and the uncle, poor fools, have the misfortune to be honeft. Grime, fly villain, is more cunning, and will not forfeit his hope of cutting evil fhort at the gallows.