A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13Dodsley, Robert
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13
Dodsley, Robert
English drama
+Amb.+ Ay, ay, away with them, away with them!
+Mis. Coote.+ O this rogue Jarvis!
[_Exeunt +Coote+ and +Shortheels+._
+Blood.+ Now, now, you look like a melancholy dog, that had
lost his dinner; where's my hundred marks now, you coxcomb?
+Tim.+ Truly, father, I have paid some sixteen reckonings
since I saw you: I was never sober since you sent me to the
devil yesterday; and for the rest of your money, I sent it to
one Captain Carvegut. He swore to me his father was my Lord
Mayor's cook, and that by Easter next you should have the
principal and eggs for the use, indeed, sir.
+Blood.+ O rogue, rogue! I shall have eggs for my money:[106] I
must hang myself.
+Sim.+ Not before dinner, pray, sir; the pies are almost baked.
_Enter +Randall+._
+Ran.+ _And Maries now was won,
And all her pusiness done,
And Randalls now was run_;
Hur have made all sure, I warrant hur.
+Alex.+ Look, look, yonder's the conceit the mistake happened
upon last night.
+Anc.+ And the very box at's girdle.
+Ran.+ Cot pless hur father Ploothounds, Randalls have robbed
Ancients, hur warrant hur.
+Anc.+ Sir, 'tis known how you came by that box.
+Ran.+ Augh! was hur so?
_Will you hear a noble Pritain,
How her gull an English Flag?_[107]
+Anc.+ And you ought to cry.
+Ran.+ O noble Randalls, as hur meet by Nag's-head, with Maries
plood, prave.
+Blood.+ Here's another madman.
+Anc.+ Harkee in your ear, you must deliver that box to me.
+Ran.+ Harkee in hur t'other ear, hur will not deliver hur, and
hur were nine-and-forty Ancients, and five-and-fourscore Flags.
+Anc.+ Let my foe write mine epitaph if I tear not my
birthright from thy bosom? [_Draws._
+Sim.+ Gentlemen, there's Aligant[108] i' th' house, pray set
no more abroach.
+Ran.+ Nay, let hur come with hur pack of needles, Randalls can
pox and bob as well as hur, hur warrant hur.
+Blood.+ What box is that? I should know that box.
+Alex.+ I will resolve you, sir; keep them asunder.
+Anc.+ You will restore that box?
+Ran.+ Hur will not restore hur: 'twas Mary Ploodhounds gave
hur the box; Randalls have married Mary Ploodhounds, and gulled
Ancient, mark hur now.
+Wid.+ Mark him, good sir; methinks he says he has married Mary
Bloodhound.
+Anc.+ Hang him, he's mad!
+Ran.+ Souns, make tog of Randalls? come out here, Maries.
Look, here was Mary Ploodhounds.
_Enter +Maid+ and +Hugh+._
Now I pray tumble down of hur marrow-pones, and ask hur father
plessing?
+Alex.+ This! why this is your maid, widow.
+Ear.+ This is Mary the widow's maid, man.
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