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
[_Aside._
Don _Guz._ But more; my Passion for this Lady is not hid; all
_Valencia_ is acquainted with my Wishes, and approves my Choice. You
alone, Don _John de Alvarada_, seeming ignorant of my Vows, dare
traverse my Amour.
Don _John._ Go on.
_Lop._ These Words import War; lie close, _Lopez_.
[_Aside._
Don _Guz._ You are the _Argus_ of our Street and the Spy of _Leonora_;
whether _Diana_ by her borrow'd Light supplies the Absence of the
_Astrea_ of Day, or that the Shades of Night cover the Earth with
impenetrable Darkness; you still attend till _Aurora_'s Return, under
the Balcony of that adorable Beauty.
Don _John._ So?
Don _Guz._ Wherever she moves, you still follow as her Shadow,
at Church, at Plays: Be her Business with Heaven or Earth, your
Importunity is such, you'll share it.
_Lop._ He is a forward Fellow, that's the Truth on't.
[_Aside._
Don _Guz._ But what's still farther, you take the Liberty to copy me;
my Words, my Actions, every Motion is no sooner mine, but your's. In
short, you ape me, Don; and to that point, I once design'd to stab
myself, and try if you wou'd follow me in that too.
_Lop._ No, there the Monkey wou'd have left you.
[_Aside._
Don _Guz._ But to conclude.
Don _John._ 'Tis Time.
Don _Guz._ My Patience, Don, is now no more; and I pronounce, that
if henceforth I find you under _Leonora_'s Window, who never wish'd,
fond Man, to see you there; I, by the ways of Honour, shall fix you in
another Station. I leave you to consider on't.----Farewel.
[_Exit ~Don~ Guz._
Don _John._ Hold, Sir, we had e'en as good do this honourable Deed now.
_Re-enter ~Lopez~._
_Lop._ No, pray, Sir, let him go, and maybe you mayn't have Occasion to
do it at all.
Don _John._ I thought at first the Coxcomb came upon another Subject,
which wou'd have embarrassed me much more.
_Lop._ Now this was a Subject wou'd have embarrass'd me enough in all
Conscience.
Don _John._ I was afraid he came to forbid me seeing his Sister,
_Isabella_, with whom I'm upon very good Terms.
_Lop._ Why, now, that's a hard Case, when you have got a Man's Sister,
you can't leave him his Mistress.
Don _John._ No, Changeling, I hate him enough, to love every Woman that
belongs to him: and the Fool has so provok'd me by this Threatning,
that I believe I shall have a Stroke at his Mother, before I think
myself even with him.
_Lop._ A most admirable way to make up Accounts, truly!
Don _John._ A Son of a Whore! s'death, I did not care Sixpence for the
Slut before, but now I'll have her Maidenhead in a Week, for fear the
Rogue shou'd marry her in ten Days.
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