A Select Collection of Old English Plays: Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the year 1744
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays: Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the year 1744
English drama
JACK. It is a razor, and that a very good one;
It came lately from Palermo,[124] it cost me twenty crowns alone.
Your eyes dazzle after your washing, these spectacles put on:
Now view this razor, tell me, is it not a good one?
GRIM. They be gay barnacles, yet I see never the better.
JACK. Indeed they be a young sight, and that is the matter;
But I warrant you this razor is very easy.
GRIM. Go to, then; since you begun, do as [it] please ye.
JACK. Hold up, Father Grim.
GRIM. O, your razor doth hurt my lip.
JACK. No, it scrapeth off a pimple to ease you of the pip.
I have done now, how say you? are you not well?
GRIM. Cham lighter than ich was, the truth to tell.
JACK. Will you sing after your shaving?
GRIM. Mass, content; but chill be poll’d first, ere I sing.
JACK. Nay, that shall not need; you are poll’d near enough for this
time.
GRIM. Go to then lustily, I will sing in my man’s voice:
Chave a troubling base buss.
JACK. You are like to bear the bob, for we will give it:
Set out your bussing base, and we will quiddle upon it.
[GRIM _singeth Buss_.
JACK _sings_. Too nidden and too nidden.
WILL _sings_. Too nidden and toodle toodle doo nidden;
Is not Grim the collier most finely shaven?
GRIM. Why, my fellows, think ich am a cow, that you make such
toying?
JACK. Nay, by ’r Lady, you are no cow, by your singing;
Yet your wife told me you were an ox.
GRIM. Did she so? ’tis a pestens quean,[125] she is full of such
mocks.
But go to, let us sing out our song merrily.
_The Song at the shaving of the Collier._
JACK. _Such barbers God send you at all times of need._
WILL. _That can dress you [so] finely, and make such quick speed;_
JACK. _Your face like an inkhorn now shineth so gay--_
WILL. _That I with your nostrils of force must needs play,
With too nidden and too nidden._
JACK. _With too nidden and todle todle doo nidden.
Is not Grim the collier most finely shaven?_
WILL. _With shaving you shine like a pestle of pork._[126]
JACK. _Here is the trimmest hog’s flesh from London to York._
WILL. _It would be trim bacon to hang up awhile._
JACK. _To play with this hoglin of course I must smile,
With too nidden and too nidden._
WILL. _With too nidden and todle, &c._
GRIM. _Your shaving doth please me, I am now your debtor._
WILL. _Your wife now will buss you, because you are sweeter._
GRIM. _Near would I be polled, as near as cham shaven._
WILL. _Then out of your jerkin needs must you be shaken.
With too nidden and too nidden, &c._
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