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
+Lieut.+ The pottle-pots will sleep in peace to-night.
+Capt.+ And the sweet clinks.
+Lieut.+ The clattering of pipes.
+Capt.+ The Spanish fumes.
+Lieut.+ The _More wine, boy_, the nimble _Anon, anon, sir_.[27]
+Capt.+ All to-night will be nothing; come, we must shift.
'Sfoot, what a witty rogue 'twas to leave this fair
thirteenpence halfpenny and this old halter; intimating aptly,
Had the hangman met us there, by these presages,
Here had been his work, and here his wages.[28]
+Lieut.+ Come, come, we must make friends. [_Exeunt._
_Enter +Bloodhound+, +Tim+, and +Sim+._
+Blood.+ There, sirrah, there's his bond: run into the Strand,
'tis six weeks since the tallow-chandler fetched my hundred
marks I lent him to set him up, and to buy grease; this is his
day, I'll have his bones for't else, so pray tell him.
+Tim.+ But are a chandler's bones worth so much, father?
+Blood.+ Out, coxcomb!
+Sim.+ Worth so much! I know my master will make dice of
them; then 'tis but letting Master Alexander carry them next
Christmas to the Temple,[29] he'll make a hundred marks a night
of them.
+Tim.+ Mass, that's true.
+Blood.+ And run to Master Ear-lack's the informer, in Thieving
Lane, and ask him what he has done in my business. He gets
abundance; and if he carry my cause with one false oath, he
shall have Moll; he will take her with a little. Are you gone,
sir?
+Tim.+ No, forsooth.
+Blood.+ As you come by Temple Bar, make a step to th' Devil.
+Tim.+ To the Devil, father?
+Sim.+ My master means the sign of the Devil;[30] and he cannot
hurt you, fool; there's a saint holds him by the nose.
+Tim.+ Sniggers! what does the devil and a saint both in a sign?
+Sim.+ What a question's that? what does my master and his
prayer-book o' Sunday both in a pew?
+Blood.+[31] Well, well, ye gipsy, what do we both in a pew?
+Sim.+ Why, make a fair show; and the devil and the saint does
no more.
+Blood.+ You're witty, you're witty. Call to the man o' th'
house, bid him send in the bottles of wine to-night; they will
be at hand i' th' morning. Will you run, sir?
+Tim.+ To the devil, as fast as I can, sir; the world shall
know whose son I am. [_Exit._
+Blood.+ Let me see now for a poesy for the ring: never an end
of an old saw? 'Tis a quick widow, Sim, and would have a witty
poesy.
+Sim.+ If she be quick, she's with child; whosoever got it, you
must father it; so that
_You come o' th' nick,
For the widow's quick._
There's a witty poesy for your quick widow.
+Blood.+ No, no; I'll have one shall savour of a saw.
+Sim.+ Why then, 'twill smell of the painted cloth.[32]
+Blood.+ Let me see, _a widow witty_----
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