A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15Dodsley, Robert
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15
Dodsley, Robert
English drama
+5th Lady.+ Slave!
+6th Lady.+ Hell-hound!
+Phil.+ Methinks you represent the hemisphere,
Because you are enthron'd so high; your eyes
Appear like stars to us poor mortals here
Below.
+1st Lady.+ Villain, if we had thee here, thou
Should'st find it hell.
+Mir.+ Pray, ladies, what makes you
So angry? Methinks the gentleman is
Your friend, and has holpt you nearer heaven
Than perhaps e'er a one of you would ever
Have been.
+2d Lady.+ What's that you say, little piss-a-bed?
+Mir.+ Sweet angels, will never a one of you
Please to descend?
+3d Lady.+ Thou little devil,
If we had thee here, we'd throw thee down again
With such a swing, we'd knock that rascal's brains
Out with thy fall.
+Mir.+ Then, angry ladies, I
Shall stay here--see, has not that lady
A very fair nose at this distance?
+Phil.+ Has
Not t'other there a mouth, that when she opens it
To scold, looks like a giant's cave?
+4th Lady.+ S'life, we'll
Not be abus'd thus; here's a Hercules' statue,
Let's throw it down upon their heads.
[_+Mirida+ runs away, and meets +Pinguister+ and stops._
_Enter +Pinguister+ and +Doctor+._
+Mir.+ Hold, Philidor, we shall have some new sport
Of my making now; here comes my fat lover,
Let us stand close and hear a little.
+Ping.+ Doctor,
Pray, how many stools may I happily have
This morning by this purgation, already
Taken by me?
+Doctor.+ Doubtless, one hundred, sir.
+Ping.+ Save me, 'twill swinge my bum-gut then: but how
Much fat may it bring away?
+Doctor.+ Peradventure,
Half-a-dozen pounds.
+Ping.+ Love! what dost thou make
Me do? But, worthy doctor, from what parts of
My continual purg'd body is this store
Of fat extracted?
+Doctor.+ Chiefly from your waist
And calves of your legs.
+Ping.+ And how many purges
May make my waist and legs' calves, alias, calves
Of my legs, delightful to her eye, sir?
+Doctor.+ Sir, some ten purges: that is to say, you
Must have a thousand stools to drain your treasure
Of fat _totaliter_ from ye.
+Ping.+ O love!
O Mirida, for thee I daily purge:
For thee I daily stink. I find
I must keep company with the bears, that I
May be able to endure my own stink the better.
+Doctor.+ Come, sir, I think you had best begin to run
Your heats.
+Ping.+ O me! nothing cou'd e'er a made
A footman of me but love. Well, I must
Put on my pumps.
+Phil.+ By this light, this is the
Pleasantest scene as e'er I saw.
+Ping.+ Nay, doctor,
If you mean I should run, lend me your hand
To help me up. [_Puts on nightcaps._
Now, in the name of love,
I most unwillingly start.
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