Rule a Wife and Have a Wife: A Comedy in Five ActsLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1808 - 78 pages |
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... master , sir , Nor talk i'the house as though you wore the breeches , No , nor command in any thing . Leon . I will not . Alas , I am not able ; I've no wit , madam . Mar. Nor do not labour to arrive at any , " Twill spoil your head ...
... master , sir , Nor talk i'the house as though you wore the breeches , No , nor command in any thing . Leon . I will not . Alas , I am not able ; I've no wit , madam . Mar. Nor do not labour to arrive at any , " Twill spoil your head ...
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... master of that ignorance - He outwardly professes , I am happy . Alt . You're a made woman . Mar. But if he shou'd prove now A crafty and dissembling kind of husband , One read in knavery , and brought up in the art Of villainy conceal ...
... master of that ignorance - He outwardly professes , I am happy . Alt . You're a made woman . Mar. But if he shou'd prove now A crafty and dissembling kind of husband , One read in knavery , and brought up in the art Of villainy conceal ...
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... master , she has warn'd me , Nor must not put my hat off to ye . Leon . ' Tis no fashion ; What though I be her husband , I'm your fellow ; I may cut first ? Lor . That's as you shall deserve , sir . Leon . I thank you , sir . Enter ...
... master , she has warn'd me , Nor must not put my hat off to ye . Leon . ' Tis no fashion ; What though I be her husband , I'm your fellow ; I may cut first ? Lor . That's as you shall deserve , sir . Leon . I thank you , sir . Enter ...
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... master of it ; ' Twas built for my bulk , the rooms are wide and spacious , Airy and full of ease , and that I love well . I'll tell you when I taste the wine , my lord , And take the height of her table with my stomach , How my ...
... master of it ; ' Twas built for my bulk , the rooms are wide and spacious , Airy and full of ease , and that I love well . I'll tell you when I taste the wine , my lord , And take the height of her table with my stomach , How my ...
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... master of this little piece of mischief , And I will put a spell about your feet , lady , They shall not wander but where I give way now . Duke . Is this the fellow that the people pointed at , For the mere sign of man , the walking ...
... master of this little piece of mischief , And I will put a spell about your feet , lady , They shall not wander but where I give way now . Duke . Is this the fellow that the people pointed at , For the mere sign of man , the walking ...
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Page 49 - Think thyself me; And when thou speak'st (but let it first be long), Take off the edge from every sharper sound, And let our parting be as gently made, As other loves begin: Wilt thou do this?
Page 34 - tis true, I loved you, And kept you far from an uneasy wife, — Such Fulvia was. Yes, but he'll say, you left Octavia for me;— \ And, can you blame me to receive that love, Which quitted such desert, for worthless me?
Page 39 - For foreign aids? — to hunt my memory, And range all o'er a waste and barren place, To find a friend? The wretched have no friends, Yet I had one, the bravest youth of Rome, Whom...
Page 28 - With ardour too heroic, on his foes, Fall down, as she would do, before his feet; Lie in his way, and stop the paths of death. Tell him, this god is not invulnerable; That absent Cleopatra bleeds in him; And, that you may remember her petition, She begs you wear these trifles, as a pawn, Which, at your wished return, she will redeem [Gives jewels to the Commanders.
Page 7 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
Page 17 - It sits too near you. Ant. Here, here it lies; a lump of lead by day, And, in my short, distracted, nightly slumbers, The hag that rifles my dreams Vent.
Page 47 - Look on these; Are they not yours ? or stand they thus neglected, As they are mine? Go to him, children, go; Kneel to him, take him by the hand, speak to him ; For you may speak, and he may own you too, Without a blush; and so he cannot all His children: go, I say, and pull him to me, And pull him to yourselves, from that bad woman.
Page 58 - em up, but rather set our feet Upon their heads, to press 'em to the bottom; As, I must yield," with you I practis'd it: But, now I see you in a way to rise, I can and will assist you.
Page 15 - tis my birthday, and I'll keep it With double pomp of sadness. Tis what the day deserves, which gave me breath. Why was I raised the meteor of the world, Hung in the skies, and blazing as I travelled, Till all my fires were spent; and then cast downward To be trod out by Caesar?
Page 12 - Whose riots fed and clothed thee? Wert thou not Born on my father's land, and proud to be A drudge in his house? Tap. What I was, sir, it skills not; What you are, is apparent. Now, for a farewell, Since you talk of father, in my hope it will torment you, I'll briefly tell your story. Your dead father, My quondam master, was a man of worship, Old Sir John Wellborn, justice of peace and quorum, And stood fair to be custos rotulorum...