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
_Rasor._ Come, kiss me, then.
[_Clapping his Hands behind him._
_Madam._ Nay, pridee tell me.
_Rasor._ Good by t' ye.
[_Going._
_Madam._ Hold, hold: I will kiss dee.
[_Kissing him._
_Rasor._ So, that's civil: Why, now, my pretty Poll, my Goldfinch, my
little Waterwagtail----you must know, that----Come, kiss me again.
_Madam._ I won't kiss de no more.
_Rasor._ Good by t' ye.
[_Going._
Madam. _Doucement! ~Derre~: es tu content?_
[_Kissing him._
_Rasor._ So: Now I'll tell thee all. Why, the News is, That Cuckoldom
in Folio is newly printed; and Matrimony in Quarto is just going into
the Press. Will you buy any Books, _Madamoiselle_?
Madam. _Tu parle comme un Libraire_; de Devil no understand dee.
_Rasor._ Why, then, that I may make myself intelligible to a
Waiting-Woman, I'll speak like a Valet de Chambre. My Lady has
cuckolded my Master.
Madam. _Bon._
_Rasor._ Which we take very ill from her Hands, I can tell her that. We
can't yet prove Matter of Fact upon her.
Madam. _N'importe._
_Rasor._ But we can prove, that Matter of Fact had like to have been
upon her.
Madam. _Ouy da._
_Rasor._ For we have such bloody Circumstances--
Madam. Sans doute.
_Rasor._ That any Man of Parts may draw tickling Conclusions from 'em.
Madam. _Fort bien._
_Rasor._ We found a couple of tight, well-built Gentlemen stufft into
her Ladyship's Closet.
Madam. _Le Diable!_
_Rasor._ And I, in my particular Person, have discovered a most
damnable Plot, how to persuade my poor Master, that all this Hide and
Seek, this _Will_ in the _Whisp_, has no other meaning than a Christian
Marriage for sweet Mrs. _Belinda_.
Madam. _Une Mariage?----Ah les Droles!_
_Rasor._ Don't you interrupt me, Hussy; 'tis agreed, I say. And my
innocent Lady, to wriggle herself out at the Back-door of the Business,
turns Marriage-Bawd to her Niece, and resolves to deliver up her fair
Body to be tumbled and mumbled by that young liquorish Whipster,
_Heartfree_. Now are you satisfy'd?
_Madam._ No.
_Rasor._ Right Woman; always gaping for more.
_Madam._ Dis be all, den, dat dou know?
_Rasor._ All? Aye, and a great deal, too, I think.
_Madam._ Dou be Fool, dou know noting. _Ecoute, mon pauvre_ Rasor. Dou
sees des two Eyes?--Des two Eyes have see de Devil.
_Rasor._ The Woman's mad.
_Madam._ In _Spring-Garden_, dat Rogue _Constant_ meet dy Lady.
Rasor. _Bon._
_Madam._----I'll tell dee no more.
_Rasor._ Nay, pr'ythee, my Swan.
_Madam._ Come, kiss me den.
[_Clapping her Hands behind her as he did before._
_Rasor._ I won't kiss you, not I.
_Madam._ Adieu.
[_Going._
_Rasor._ Hold----Now proceed.
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