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._
_Lop._ Shall I venture?
[_Aside._
_Jac._ How severe a Look he has!
[_Aside._
_Lop._ She seems very reserv'd.
[_Aside._
_Jac._ If he shou'd put the Negative upon me.
[_Aside._
_Lop._ She seems a Woman of great Discretion; I tremble.
[_Aside._
_Jac._ Hang it, I must venture.
[_Aside._
_Lop._ Faint Heart never won fair Lady.
[_Aside._
_Jac._ _Lopez_!
_Lop._ _Jacinta_!
_Jac._ O dear Heart! Is't you?
_Lop._ Charming _Jacinta_, fear me not.
_Jac._ O ho! he begins to talk soft----then let us take upon us again.
[_Aside._
_Lop._ Cruel _Jacinta_, whose Mouth (small as it is) has made but one
Morsel of my Heart.
_Jac._ It's well he prevents me. I was going to leap about the Rascal's
Neck.
[_Aside._
_Lop._ Barbare _Jacinta_, cast your Eyes On your poor _Lopez_, ere he
dies.
_Jac._ Poetry too! Nay then I have done his Business.
[_Aside._
_Lop._ Feel how I burn with hot desire, Ah! pity me, and quench my
Fire. Deaf, my fair Tyrant, deaf to my Woes! Nay, then, Barbarian, in
it goes.
[_Drawing a Knife._
_Jac._ Why, how now, Jack Sauce? why, how now, Presumption? What
Encouragement have I given you, Jack-a-lent, to attack me with your
Tenders? I cou'd tear your Eyes out, Sirrah, for thinking I'm such a
one. What Indecency have you seen in my Behaviour, Impudence, that you
shou'd think me for your beastly Turn, you Goat, you?
_Lop._ Patience, my much offended Goddess, 'tis honourably I wou'd
share your Bed.
_Jac._ Peace, I say--Mr. _Liquorish_. I, for whom the most successful
Cavaliers employ their Sighs in vain, shall I look down upon a crawling
Worm? Pha--See that Crop Ear there, that Vermin that wants to eat at a
Table, would set his Master's Mouth a-watering.
_Lop._ May I presume to make an humble Meal upon what savoury Remnants
he may leave?
_Jac._ No.
_Lop._ 'Tis hard! 'tis wondrous hard!
_Jac._ Leave me.
_Lop._ 'Tis pitiful, 'tis wondrous pitiful!
_Jac._ Begone, I say. Thus, Ladies 'tis, perhaps, sometimes with you;
With Scorn you fly the Thing, which you pursue.
[_Exit ~Jac~._
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