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
_Lop._ Mum; here's her Father: I'll warrant this old Spark comes to
correct our Way of living too.
_Enter Don ~Felix~._
Don _Fel._ Don _John!_
Don _John._ Don _Felix!_ do I see you in my poor Dwelling? Pray, to
what lucky Accident do I owe this Honour?
Don _Fel._ That I may speak to you without Constraint, pray send away
your Servant.
_Lop._ What the Pox have I done to 'em, they are all so uneasy at my
Company?
[_Aside._
Don _John._ Give us Chairs, and leave the Room.
_Lop._ If this old Fellow comes to quarrel with us too, he'll at least
do us less harm.
[_Aside._
Don _Fel._ Won't you retire, Friend?
[_Looking behind._
Don _John._ Be gone, Sirrah.
_Lop. aside._] Pox take ye----you old Prig, you: But I shall be even
with you.
[_Lopez hides himself._
Don _Fel._ You know me, Sir?
Don _John._ I do, Sir.
Don _Fel._ That I call myself----
Don _John._ Don Felix.
Don _Fel._ That I am of the House of----
Don _John._ _Cabrera_, one of the first of _Valencia_.
Don _Fel._ That my Estate is----
Don _John._ Great.
Don _Fel._ You know that I have some Reputation in the World?
Don _John._ I know your Reputation equals your Birth.
Don _Fel._ And you are not ignorant, that Heaven, for the Consolation
of my grey Hairs, has given me an only Daughter, who is not deform'd?
Don _John._ Beauteous as Light.
Don _Fel._ Well shap'd, witty, and endow'd with--
Don _John._ All the good Qualities of Mind and Body.
Don _Fel._ Since you are satisfy'd with all this, hearken, I pray, with
Attention, to the Business that brings me hither.
Don _John._ I shall.
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