Plays, written by Sir John Vanbrugh, volume the firstVanbrugh, John
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Plays, written by Sir John Vanbrugh, volume the first
Vanbrugh, John
Comedy plays; English drama -- 18th century; English drama -- Restoration, 1660-1700
_Lady Brute._ Come, _Belinda_, I'll e'en lie with you to-night; and in
the Morning we'll send for our Gentlemen to set this Matter even.
_Bel._ With all my Heart.
_Lady Brute._ Good Night, my Dear.
[_Making a low Curtsy to Sir ~John~._
[_Both._] Ha, ha, ha!
[_Exeunt._
_Enter ~Rasor~._
_Rasor._ My Lady there's a Wag--My Master there's a Cuckold. Marriage
is a slippery thing--Women have depraved Appetites.--My Lady's a Wag; I
have heard all; I have seen all; I understand all; and I'll tell all;
for my little _French-woman_ loves News dearly. This Story'll gain her
Heart, or nothing will. [_To his Master._] Come, Sir, your Head's too
full of Fumes at present, to make room for your Jealousy; but I reckon
we shall have rare work with you, when your Pate's empty. Come to your
Kennel, you cuckoldly, drunken Sot, you!
[_Carries him out upon his Back._
+SCENE+, _Lady_ Fancyfull's _House_.
_Enter Lady ~Fancyfull~ and ~Madamoiselle~._
_Lady Fan._ But, why did not you tell me before, _Madamoiselle_, that
_Rasor_ and you were fond?
_Madam._ De Modesty hinder me, Matam.
_Lady Fan._ Why, truly, Modesty does often hinder us from doing things
we have an extravagant mind to. But does he love you well enough yet,
to do any thing you bid him? Do you think, to oblige you, he wou'd
speak Scandal?
_Madam._ Matam, to oblige your Ladyship, he shall speak Blasphemy.
_Lady Fan._ Why, then, _Madamoiselle_, I'll tell you what you shall
do. You shall engage him to tell his Master all that past at _Spring
Garden_: I have a mind he shou'd know what a Wife and a Niece he has
got.
Madam. _Il le fera, Madame._
_Enter a Footman, who speaks to ~Madamoiselle~ apart._
_Foot._ _Madamoiselle_, yonder's Mr. _Rasor_ desires to speak with you.
_Madam._ Tell him, I come presently. [_Exit Footman._] _Rasor_ be dare,
Matam.
_Lady Fan._ That's fortunate. Well, I'll leave you together. And if you
find him stubborn, _Madamoiselle_--hark you--don't refuse him a few
little reasonable Liberties to put him into Humour.
Madam. _Laissez moy faire._
[_Exit ~Lady~ Fancyfull._
[_~Rasor~ peeps in; and seeing Lady ~Fancyfull~ gone, runs
to ~Madamoiselle~, takes her about the Neck, and kisses her._
_Madam._ How now, Confidence?
_Rasor._ How now, Modesty!
_Madam._ Who make you so familiar, Sirrah?
_Rasor._ My Impudence, Hussy.
_Madam._ Stand off, Rogue-Face.
_Rasor._ Ah----_Madamoiselle_----great News at our House.
_Madam._ Why, vat be de matter?
_Rasor._ The Matter?--Why, Uptails All's the Matter.
Madam. _Tu te mocque de moy._
_Rasor._ Now do you long to know the Particulars: The Time when--The
Place where--The Manner how. But I don't tell you a Word more.
_Madam._ Nay, den dou kill me, _Rasor_.
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