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
+Ping.+ Well, and d'ye think it's possible
For me ever to become such a grig
As that measure will meet about me?
Why, to do that you must embowel me, and then
Shave the remaining rolls of fat off from
My melting sides.
+Doctor.+ Here, pray, sir, throw this blanket
About you; you will catch your death.
+Ping.+ Look you,
Unreasonable mistress, thus am I
Fain to do every day, because I would
Melt myself into a husband for you:
You may hear my guts at this time boiling
Within me; I am confident they will
Have the same fat as a kettle full of
Black puddings that are over-boiled, and so
Broken.
+Doctor.+ Come, sir, you must needs go to bed.
+Ping.+ That is to say, I must go swim; for that
I do constantly in a sea of sweat.
+Mir.+ Ay, pray, sir, I wou'd not for all the world
You should miscarry.
+Ping.+ Indeed, I look as
If I were with child. Lady, if you have
Any thoughts of going to heaven, have
Mercy on me.
+Mir.+ Farewell, garbage.
+Ping.+ O heat! O fat! O love! what will you
Do with me? [_Exit with +Doctor+._
+Phil.+ Was there ever such sport as we have seen?
+Mir.+ Heaven send thee and I many a fair
Year to be mad together in.
+Phil.+ Ay, as
You say, give us but time enough, and when
We grow tame, let the bell toll for us.
But stay, let us return
Back to my virgins, that I may
Make my conditions with 'em,
Before they get out of prison.
_Enter all the +Ladies+ and bind them._
S'death! they
Are all got out already.
+1st Lady.+ O, have we
Met with you now, ye pair of devils? we'll lay
You fast enough. So good night to you, lie
There till we come again. [_Exit +Ladies+._
+Phil.+ Pox on't, was there
Ever such luck as this? There was a trap-
Door in the garret, which they found and got
Out at.
+Mir.+ What think ye now of this day's sport
Philidor?
+Phil.+ Plague on it, well enough; if
They had not bound us back to back together,
We might have pass'd away the time.
Malicious jades! no way of bridling us
But this? Pr'ythee turn about thy head, and let
Us try if we can kiss one another
A little.
+Mir.+ No, no, we won't
Try for fear you should put your neck out of
Joint with turning it too much of one side.
+Phil.+ Well, fortune should be more careful
Of accidents of this nature, and not
Contrive them so cross.
_Enter +Boy+._
+Phil.+ O, here comes a boy. Here, sirrah, come hither.
+Boy.+ What say you, master?
+Phil.+ Here, prythee, unbind us, I'll give thee a
Shilling.
+Boy.+ Why, sir, can't you unbind yourselves?
+Phil.+ Simple boy, thou seest we can't.
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