Hurlothrumbo : $b or, The super-naturalJohnson, Samuel
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Hurlothrumbo : $b or, The super-natural
Johnson, Samuel
English drama -- 18th century
_Puny._ Oh bless me! Fire and Sword! I shall not live three Minutes! if
my trembling Limbs permit me, I’ll kneel, I’ll pray Heaven preserve my
poor Soul; these Villains will come in a moment, and take every Penny of
my Money; I desire I may be forgiven all my Sins. These Rogues are
coming, they’ll rob me, take my Plate, and break my Windows: O sweet
Heaven forgive me all my ill-dreamt visionary Lewdness! If they come, I
shall never purchase _Kemp_’s Estate, but buy a Coat of Arms, and a
Patent for my Son.
_Enter_ Urlandenny _and_ Temo.
_Urlan._ So old _Gaddecar_, you’re at Prayers, cry aloud, thy Deity is
deaf, with your squinting Soul that kens both Earth and Heaven; fling
your Bags into the Elements, then will you look straight upright: Be
gone, what hast thou to do in this World? What dost thou mean?
_Puny._ I mean to be the Root of a Family.
_Urlan._ If the Root be Avarice, what will the Body, Branches, Leaves
and Fruit be? Twenty Generations must pass away, before thy Seed can be
refined so far, as to produce a Gentleman.
_Puny._ Is not Gold a Gentleman, a Person of Quality? What makes a
Gentleman?
_Urlan._ Education, Honour, and Generosity; add to a fine Gentleman
Love, Resolution, Taste; a Person of Quality has all these Perfections,
and is discerning, with a sublime Thirst in the Soul; a longing to
reward Merit; fervent to serve the meanest, and punctual to his Word;
his Blood is double and treble refin’d; he’s full of Heaven; a Sunfire;
a Light that quenches all the Flame of Nature; he lets himself down to
converse with great Men and Angels, that are in Intellect but three
Inches high.
_Puny._ Cannot a new-born Gentleman have all these Perfections?
_Urlan._ No, your Upstarts are huge, and tall, converse with a Prince of
the Air, and their Nostrils are full of the Devil.
[_Ex._ Pun. _and_ Tem.
_Drums beat. Enter_ Darony.
_Dar._ Now, my dear Friend, all is secured, the King is in Chains.
_Urlan._ What Drums are these?
_Dar._ _Lomperhomock_, the _Dutch_ General.
_Enter_ Lomperhomock.
My Lord _Lomperhomock_, you’re welcome to Court.
_Lom._ I wish you much Happiness of your Crown, when it is secured.
_Dar._ I hope there is no Danger.
_Lom._ ’Tis my earnest Desire that you will instantly execute the King;
for while he’s living, all his Friends will rouse up like Lions, but
when they hear he’s dead, ’twill greatly oppress their Souls.
_Dar._ He shall instantly be executed.
_Lom._ Then I’ll march in Pleasure, and meet his Army.
[_Ex._ Urland. Dar. _and_ Lom.
_The Scene changes to the King in Prison._
_King._ I would ask Relief of Heaven, though ’tis in vain, when all the
eternal Infernals are turn’d out loose upon me, to pour out their
flaming Cataracts of mighty, limited Revenge.
_Enter_ Lomperhomock.
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