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... father to OCTAVIAN . GRIPE , father to LEANDER . LEANDER , Son to GRIPE , and privately married to LUCIA . OCTAVIAN , son to THRIFTY , and privately mar- ried to CLARA . SCAPIN . SHIFT , servant to OCTAVIAN , SLY , servant to LEANDER ...
... father to OCTAVIAN . GRIPE , father to LEANDER . LEANDER , Son to GRIPE , and privately married to LUCIA . OCTAVIAN , son to THRIFTY , and privately mar- ried to CLARA . SCAPIN . SHIFT , servant to OCTAVIAN , SLY , servant to LEANDER ...
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... father forgive you all ; nay , allow you money for your necessa- ry debauches . I saw him , in three days , make an old cautious lawyer turn chemist and projector ! Oct. He is the fittest person in the world for my business ; the ...
... father forgive you all ; nay , allow you money for your necessa- ry debauches . I saw him , in three days , make an old cautious lawyer turn chemist and projector ! Oct. He is the fittest person in the world for my business ; the ...
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... father : I preached him three or four times asleep ; but all would not do ; till , at last , when I had well examined the business , I found you had not so much wrong done you as you imagine . Thrifty . How ! not wrong done , to have my ...
... father : I preached him three or four times asleep ; but all would not do ; till , at last , when I had well examined the business , I found you had not so much wrong done you as you imagine . Thrifty . How ! not wrong done , to have my ...
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... father , is as great an offence as can be imagined , I take it — make thee . But yonder he comes . Enter LEANDER . Lean . Oh , my dear father , how joyful am I to see you safely returned ! Welcome , as the blessing , which I am now ...
... father , is as great an offence as can be imagined , I take it — make thee . But yonder he comes . Enter LEANDER . Lean . Oh , my dear father , how joyful am I to see you safely returned ! Welcome , as the blessing , which I am now ...
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... father . Sca . To your father ? I have not so much as seen him since his return , and if you would ask him , he'll tell you so himself . Lean . Yes , he told me himself , and told me all that thou hast said to him . Sca . With your good ...
... father . Sca . To your father ? I have not so much as seen him since his return , and if you would ask him , he'll tell you so himself . Lean . Yes , he told me himself , and told me all that thou hast said to him . Sca . With your good ...
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Common terms and phrases
Ęsop better Buck Cape Char Chrononhotonthologos Crab d'ye damned daugh daughter dear devil Dick Dotterel ecod Enter SIR Erit Exeunt Exit father fellow Flint fool fortune Fungus gentleman girl give happy hear heart hold honour hope Jenny King Kitty Lack-a-day Lady Pent Lady Rac look Lord Aim Lucy madam marriage marry master Mech Mechlin Miss Gran Miss Har Miss Lin mistress Neph never night Old Phil Old Wild Papillion passion Polly poor Pr'ythee pray pretty Puff Quid rascal SCENE servant Sir Archy Sir Cha Sir Geo Sir Gre Sir Gregory Sir Jac Sir John Sir Luke Sir Tho Sir Wil Sneak speak Spright suppose sure tell thee there's thing thou Thrifty what's Whit wife woman Young Wild Zounds
Popular passages
Page 2 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Page 1 - We, that are of purer fire, Imitate the starry quire; Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years.
Page 2 - But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now.
Page 25 - But money, wife, is the true fuller's earth for reputations, there is | not a spot or a stain but what it can take out. A rich rogue now-a-days is fit company for any gentleman ; and the world, my dear, hath not such ^ a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
Page 31 - But if I could raise a small Sum Would not twenty Guineas, think you, move him? Of all the Arguments in the way of Business, the Perquisite is the most prevailing. Your Father's Perquisites for the Escape of Prisoners must amount to a considerable Sum in the Year.
Page 30 - A jealous woman believes everything her passion suggests. To convince you of my sincerity, if we can find the ordinary, I shall have no scruples of making you my wife; and I know the consequence of having two at a time. Lucy. That you are only to be hanged, and so get rid of them both.
Page 30 - Married! very good. The wench gives it out only to vex thee, and to ruin me in thy good opinion. 'Tis true I go to the house, I chat with the girl, I kiss her, I say a thousand things to her (as all gentlemen do) that mean nothing, to divert...
Page 229 - When house and land are gone and spent, Then learning is most excellent.
Page 158 - But let concealment like a worm i' th' bud Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a Monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 625 - I say nothing — I take away from no man's merit— am hurt at no man's good fortune — I say nothing. — But this I will say — through all my knowledge of life, I have observed — that there is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.